Capitol Attack Was Months in the Making on Facebook

Re:Capitol Attack Was Months in the Making on Facebook by Amezarak on Tuesday January 19, 2021 @07:40PM (#25841113)

This is the biggest downer of our time to me. The media/elite control of the narrative is astounding and nearly ironclad - and as best I can tell social media is just being used to reinforce it.

There is absolutely no doubt in my mind that if white supremacists performed those same actions, it would be described as a violent terroristic insurrection.

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Re:Capitol Attack Was Months in the Making on Facebook by selimthegrim on Tuesday January 19, 2021 @08:30PM (#25841481)

None of that was linked to transfer of power or an election

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Re:Capitol Attack Was Months in the Making on Facebook by Amezarak on Tuesday January 19, 2021 @09:08PM (#25841735)

You don’t think attacking the elected head of state is related to a transfer of power? At least 11 Secret Service agents had to be hospitalized after they defended the WH and President from angry rioters...how on earth is that materially different from January 6? Suppose they had succeeded in breaking through the line?

What exactly is so sacrosanct about elections that disputing them is an insurrection, but not storming Senate chambers to stop a Supreme Court confirmation, trying to storm the WH, or literally declaring an autonomous zone not subject to the US government?

It’s hard for me to understand how this is not simply nit picking some insubstantial detail and using it to put the things we like on one side and the things we don’t like on another. Never mind that the election nor the integrity thereof were ever remotely threatened by these riots.

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