Re:I ran a crawler to collect posts and comments on Parler
by roenxi on Wednesday January 13, 2021 @03:24AM
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Although a short phrase, "armed Trumpist militias" is doing a lot of work in that sentence. Even with hindsight, he is still technically wrong. An armed militia is a very different beast from a unarmed but violent right-wing protestor.
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Re:I ran a crawler to collect posts and comments on Parler
by dragonwriter on Wednesday January 13, 2021 @03:45AM
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> Although a short phrase, "armed Trumpist militias" is doing a lot of work in that sentence. Even with hindsight, he is still technically wrong.
No, he's not.
> An armed militia is a very different beast from a unarmed but violent right-wing protestor.
The groups that attacked the Capitol were armed with a variety of weapons.