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Re:FBI warns of plans for nationwide armed protests next week by jfengel on Monday January 11, 2021 @06:07PM (#25739243)
I certainly agree that it's disappointing that people will so readily believe false and humiliating stories about somebody they don't like.

But describing it as "a new low" against the background of a violent disruption of Congress, with the intent of interfering with the peaceful transition of power... that's not a phrase I'd have thought to use. The mockery is disgusting and disappointing, as is the gullibility of its spread, but both are very common. The violence, by contrast, is genuinely novel.

Re:FBI warns of plans for nationwide armed protests next week by jelliclesfarm on Monday January 11, 2021 @06:10PM (#25739305)
> The violence, by contrast, is genuinely novel.

The violence is not ‘genuinely novel’. We certainly saw many instances of creative ways of violent destruction in protests by the other side in 2020.

Anyways...my 2c. Ymmv.

Re:FBI warns of plans for nationwide armed protests next week by likeclockwork on Monday January 11, 2021 @07:58PM (#25740819)
If they weren't carrying Biden flags then they're not "the other side".