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Strangest 'insurrection' I've ever seen. More like an Instagram photo op. Still, they'll spend the rest of their lives in prison.
by krona 6y ago
Strangest 'insurrection' I've ever seen. More like an Instagram photo op. Still, they'll spend the rest of their lives in prison.
- hn_throwaway_99 6y agoOn what planet do you'll think they'll spend the rest of their lives in prison? They'll get a couple months max.
- favorited 6y agoTrump will pardon them, unfortunately.
- dragontamer 6y agoThey literally killed a cop. This is deadly serious now.
- stale2002 6y agoThe single individual or 2 who killed the cop will likely get decades of prison, yes. But you are living in fantasy land if you think that hundreds or thousands of people who were in any way related to the rioting will get anywhere near the same amount of jail time. So yes, for most of them it will be a couple months max and a felony in their record.
- dragontamer 6y agoOver 50 officers were injured, and one is now dead. You're underestimating the scope of the violence that took place on Wednesday.
- hn_throwaway_99 6y agoThat story was retracted, the officer is still alive: https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/07/politics/capitol-police-officer-dead-after-riot/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/07/politics/capitol-police-offic... But yes, while I agree that those who actively attacked police officers will get more jail time, those who essentially treated it like a mob-tour of the Capitol will not.
- dragontamer 6y agohttps://www.uscp.gov/media-center/press-releases/loss-uscp-colleague-brian-d-sicknick https://www.uscp.gov/media-center/press-releases/loss-uscp-c... The US Capitol Police's website is a primary source that I'll trust over any other source on this matter.
- m8s 6y agoWe can only hope. This was never funny.
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- ehsankia 6y agoJust because they failed doesn't make their goals any less true. There are interviews of them openly saying they want to hang every democrat and undo the stolen election.
- krona 6y agoExactly. I'd put this right up there with the burning of the Reichstag.
- kumarvvr 6y agoWait, you agree what the rioters did? I assumed everyone understood, they are not there to protest anything. They were there to take over the capitol building. I am sure that if they succeeded, trump would have holed himself up inside, taken everyone hostage and grabbed power. Do you even believe in democracy? trump won in 2016 with even less margins in many states. No one complained of voter fraud. Republicans really fucked up America. Its all downhill from here. The only thing I regret is the military power it has. With so much power, and presence across the world, it will be dangerous for everyone. I couldn't care less if America fell into a dictatorship and royally fucked itself. But its too powerful for that. Too big to fail.