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Re:Desantis signs bill req. FL students, professors to regis... by pvaldes on Tuesday July 05, 2022 @05:33PM (#31994014)
Some people sound more and more desperate each day for provoking people to riot. The more angry, the better. Why do they do this? and why now? This is the good question.

I would assume (I'm just speculating) that the goal is to make the Capitol assault look better by comparison. Or sell the idea that it was antifa, or galvanize their own forces again under the "them or us", "kill or be killed" etc... idea.

If everybody is rioting, nobody is. At some point you can't jail everybody and a general pardon could be proposed as the only realistic solution.

But is just one silly idea.

Maybe to divert the focus from Russia creating mass shootings, stampedes and all kind of problems inside? Another stupid idea.

A very delicate period in the US history, for sure, but if people remains smart and cold can be navigated.

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Re:Desantis signs bill req. FL students, professors to regis... by tablespoon on Tuesday July 05, 2022 @07:03PM (#31994813)
> I would assume (I'm just speculating) that the goal is to make the Capitol assault look better by comparison. Or sell the idea that it was antifa, or galvanize their own forces again under the "them or us", "kill or be killed" etc... idea.

That kind of wild speculation is step 1 in "how to do conspiracy theory."

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Re:Desantis signs bill req. FL students, professors to regis... by pvaldes on Tuesday July 05, 2022 @08:19PM (#31995355)
> That kind of wild speculation is step 1 in "how to do conspiracy theory."

It seems that theory in this particular case was strong enough to became law (or we wouldn't have reached the "trial for conspiracy" phase).

Time will say how it ends but, for the smaller Idus of January at least, doing time is the only future possible.

Politicians are a lazy crew. If they bother to go out of their bath-masses routine to do something really unpopular, you can bet that there is a reward for doing it.

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Re:Desantis signs bill req. FL students, professors to regis... by smegsicle on Tuesday July 05, 2022 @06:14PM (#31994420)
the capitol assault already looks insignificant compared to the blm riots, which seemed to be a successful implementation of "if everybody is rioting, nobody is"

there certainly does seem to be some kind of effort to push the pendulum further and further in both directions

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