What you think of "Stop the steal riots" at the capitol?

[Hispanic-Cool-Guy]

It's crazy how it all went down.

[normalice]

The media has a habit of not showing white people engage in violence if they can avoid it. I think it could have been an immensely valuable learning experience that bit finally happened on live national television where no one could deny it.

But I underestimated the power of denial. Even the replies to this question show how effective brainwashing people with ludicrous conspiracies has been after only 9 months. I fear we have an entire generation lost to misinformation and there is nothing we can do about it besides mitigate the problem they have insisted on becoming.

[Anonymous]

They shouldn't have rioted.

It only gave the media more fuel to make business out of this Donald Trump/right-wing/white supremacy obsession that they have. I hate it.

The media could have called it a riot (which it was), but of course they had to take it a step further by calling it an "insurrection."

F**king please...

What happened in Afghanistan was an insurrection.

What happened in Seattle, WA with the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ/CHOP) was more of an insurrection. They had armed guards! And this was openly enabled by an elected official who is somehow still in power to this day.

What happened in J6 was just a bunch of retards that couldn't help themselves. We saw the footage, the police held their ground for a while, but they ultimately let the rioters enter the capitol building. This was PEANUTS compared to what we've endured for 100+ consecutive days under Black Lives Matter... and everyone knows it.

[t-8900]

It's hilarious how serious some people took this. Acting like it was the freaking Night Of the Long Knives or something. It was disorganized, discombobulated, and mostly full of old, elderly, manbabies, and borderline disabled people. Even had people's grandmas there lmao.

[Exterminatore]

Right? Cause all would be revolutionary’s mill about on the floor of Congress taking pictures and sit at her royal highnesses, Nancy Pilosi’s desk.

Meanwhile rioters declare like 7 square blocks of Seattle a new sovereign nation and held it after burning down the police precinct there…. but those aren’t insurrectionists apparently.

[t-8900]

@Exterminatore there's just no reasoning with some people on it. too much tribalism to admit when they are wrong. happens on the right too. But more prevalent on the left and always has been. One of the major reasons why they lost me back in 2011 and i never looked back. I was born and raised into the hivemind but I was smart and brave enough to leave.

[Exterminatore]

Agreed.

[CamembertAnus]

It was an attempted coup. Some things are serious and should be taken seriously. If democracy goes in the US, the world is fucked.

[t-8900]

@CamembertAnus americans dont have the balls for it anymore. this is just some rich white dudes trying to get clout and be relevant lmfao! I'm not concerned, not even a little. Americans have too much to lose and none of these richies are gonna give up their exuberant cars, fine wines, big pools, expensive homes, and classy girls over this shit! Even the middle class, even though shit has been getting a bit harder and tighter under the shitty Biden economy they still won't risk it. Give them their central heating and air, running water, steaks, and slabs of bacon, and they'll stfu.

[CamembertAnus]

Maybe you're right. I sort of hope you are. I think revolutions tend to look better in the daydream than in reality.

[t-8900]

@CamembertAnus dude trust me. dont listen to the fear mongers. We got it good here and no body wants to screw up a good thing. ONLY thing I could honestly see starting problems is all the illegals coming over. You'll probably start seeing a rise in shootings of pissed off citizens. But not some full scale military conflict or anything. Fearmongers are always trying to see you something. haven't you noticed them all trying to sell you gold, silver, water filters, and MREs because of the "impending doom"? This shit has been going on for decades, it's nothing new. people said this shit about the LA Riots and Rodney King and with BLM and ANTIFA. These people are tiny minorities of segments of the population. When ANTIFA actually went into a regular blue collar neighborhood to start trouble all the dads/husbands came outside and laid the smack down on them and they never went back LOL.

[CamembertAnus]

My concern would be new technologies like AI and social media. Social media is warping everyone's minds. It is making people argue more.

AI is just dangerous, not just in terms of surveillance, but, like some guy said, imagine you have a truck full of autonomous drones with guns fitted, like, thousands of them on a single truck. And you unleash them on a city. And, like, anyone could potentially do that in the not-too-distant future.

Also, climate change will a) make people crankier, and b) mean far more migration, and c) just make everything more difficult.

[t-8900]

@CamembertAnus gonna be completely honest with you here. Climate change is and always has been a thing with Earth and it will always go through cooling and warming periods. I'm not really concerned so much about that. Though it would be nice if we could keep the food, air, and water clean. But I'm not a doomer on that sort of thing. I'm not saying what we should do with the border. But Hungary deployed large maze like walls and fences, and their military with AK-47s and rubber bullets and very swiftly the Migrants stopped coming into the country. As far as AI making everything more difficult the people could always change that if it become a real burden but that's entirely up to them.

[Wester1967]

I lived through the military coup in thailand in 2014 where like 88 people died. What happened in DC was a boy scout parade with floats and big cow balloons. The fact that Rachel Maddow and CNN get outraged, apoplectic and exercised about a boy scout parade while pretending like the massacre in Thailand never happened tells you all you need to know.

[DryGermanGuy]

You should really stop inventing things:

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[CamembertAnus]

An attempted coup doesn't matter because. . . something about Thailand?

[DryGermanGuy]

It's just another case of Whataboutism. Politics 101 at Trump University.

[Wester1967]

Every one of you are smarmy little pansies. Every one of you didn't give two sh*ts about US foreign policy because you were on your knees either for Biden or Trump. Pathetic whiners. Who is the real whataboutist here? Little slugs. I'm glad Biden got his nuts handed to him in VA and NJ. Serves you and him right for being such pathetic Hoers. Will continue apace as long as you all show up so lamely and ridiculously. Quote us some real news instead of fantastical CNN or Fox News BS. Fkn Pig people.

[ObscuredBeyond]

Not related. Whole "riot" was a staged psy-op. FBI investigated themselves, and found they did nothing wrong by staging it. Never mind the uninvolved kidnapped civilians blamed for it, who are STILL in jail, being treated worse than Gitmo prisoners!

[DryGermanGuy]

Yeah! It was totally a psycho-oops! These people were all paid actors, as Prof. Alex Jones so eloquently proved to us.

They all practically look like Bernie Sanders to me!

[007kingifrit]

1. while the votes may or may not have been changed the constant lies of the media and the censoring of footage of hunter biden sleeping with a prostitute days before the election mean the election was rigged even without changing votes

2. like 70 people broke into the capitol (a building they technically own) with none of them having weapons

[CamembertAnus]

Trump got elected despite sleeping with a porn star, so I don't understand why Biden's son sleeping with a prostitute would have thrown the election?

[007kingifrit]

@CamembertAnus trump ran on "here are my policies and i can help the people"

biden ran on "im a good guy and trump is a bad guy"

so it hurts biden, not trump. its not an issue that trump is a perv. his supporters accept everyone is a perv

[CamembertAnus]

I guess

[Dargil]

What do you think of the days of rioting when Trump won in 2016? Burning of cars and structures. a 1 thousand+ law enforcement were injured. Nobody was arrested or prosecuted.

[normalice]

Nothing like that happened.

[Dargil]

@normalice This is just a small example. Trump and his wife had to be taken to a bunker because of the rioting in Washington. It happened all over the USA. You must have been watching CNN.
https://youtu.be/53IXnztz98Y

[normalice]

They hid in a bunker because there were peaceful protests and he is scared to death of anyone who doesn't pretend to believe his bullshit.

I understand why you right wingers keep clinging to false equivalence but the simple fact is not a single BLM protest came a hairs breadth from murdering democratically elected officials and thereby ending democracy in the US. I know all the fake news about BLM being violent has given you permission to pretend to believe it was not only commonplace but also a bigger deal than the attempt to end the country - that is in fact why they spoonfeed you with that fake news - but you are the one choosing to keep believing the nonsense. You could just turn it off and grow up but you are constantly choosing your addiction to hate, instead.

[Dargil]

@normalice Believe what you wish. Burning police cars, dumpsters and buildings is not peaceful. The protest at the capital was.

[normalice]

The capitol riot was not peaceful. Stop letting the far right fake news brainwash you.

[Dargil]

@normalice The 2016 Washington DC post-election riot was not peaceful. Stop letting the far left deceive you.

[normalice]

There was no such riot. I get why the far right fake news needs to brainwash you with false equivalence, and why your addiction to hate makes it so easy to believe, but if you have any interest in ending the division in this country you have to grow up. Because we can't grow down.

[goaded]

@normalice Actually... There is the minor difference that Jan 6th were trying to stop the election of the new president, whereas people in 2017 were protesting the guy getting inaugurated.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmwFNHIG0tQ

[goaded]

And they were smaller, and not organised by a political party and not encouraged by the outgoing president.

[Dargil]

@normalice If course it did. Read the news from that time.

[goaded]

Differences: they were smaller, there were 28,000 security personnel ready and waiting in DC, they were not organised by a major political party, not encouraged by the outgoing president, and not intended to cancel an election (just to protest the result of the last one).

Not to mention that: "A total of 234 people were arrested and charged with rioting", not nobody.

28,000 is about the size of the mob that swarmed the Capitol.

[RationalMale]

Democrats 2020 as rioters try to storm the White House, knock down barriers, burn down courthouses, and blind police with lasers: "That's freedom of speech!"

Democrats 2021 when people storm Congress and take selfies: "OMG THE HORROR HOW CAN THIS HAPPEN!"

The DNC cheers with joy when their enemies are attacked but screams in horror at any resistance to themselves.

[anylolone]

Riots? It was a singular one, and barely a riot at that.
It was just glowies at the front fucking shit up with pedes mostly trying to stop them, while a crowd of people behind wanting to see what was happening just pushed.

[Stoner710]

I think they were a bunch of morons I also think the election was highly suspicious and I really don’t trust it

[FilmGuy93]

It's honestly not that big of a deal. It was horrible that it happened, but it was a total non-event in the grand scheme of things.

[goaded]

It was a very big deal, and would you have said it was a non-event if they'd managed to delay the count long enough that someone could say no candidate had reached 270 votes in the Electoral College? That could have thrown the election to the House of Representatives, where each state would get one vote. Since Republicans controlled 26 state delegations, a majority could vote for Trump to win the election.

[FilmGuy93]

@goaded If the riot was ever going to accomplish anything; sure. The reason I'm saying it was a non-event was because we don't live in an age when the physical presence of officials is required to conduct the business of government. The damage was quite minimal, the election wasn't overturned, and the rioters gave the FBI a paintbrush to put a target on their backs. Jan 6th didn't do anything; it was a truly a non-event.

[goaded]

What would have happened if someone had hanged Mike Pence?

[FilmGuy93]

@goaded then presumably Michael would be dead.

[Snakeyes7]

A bunch of idiots who thought they can get the government to do what they want by directly storming in.

[Hypnos0929]

If they were black there would be tons of treason charges and that says a lot about America

[Twalli]

There are some

[Hypnos0929]

@Twalli
Yeah and there are some white people who were actively seen rioting. Doesn't stop conservatives and Republicans from claiming it's all black people's fault with sly remarks like "It's their culture".
When it comes down to it Republicans only like and protect black people if it means protecting themselves or calling themselves not racist. It's why they love Candace Owens even though she's lied on numerous occasions and has pretty much been hated by even the kindest moderates like Joe Rogan.

[Anonymous]

Narrative weaving, as this media does. And people want to believe that nonsense, so they eat it up.

[DaveToo]

A treasonous act instigated by a traitor.

[Jamie05rhs]

The riots were not part of Stop The Steal.

[WhiteBoyChill]

It was pointless because they were unarmed

[exitseven]

tip of the spear