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Trespassing and walking around a building taking selfies is insurrection, but burning police stations to the ground and torching federal court houses is justifi

Trespassing and walking around a building taking selfies is insurrection, but burning police stations to the ground and torching federal court houses is justified peaceful protesting. This whole thing is one giant political flame war. There is no logic, only partisanship. Its good that people are realizing how messy politics is, and how it largely comes down to who accepts whose leadership as legitimate.

chillwaves 6y ago
The President called for his supporters to disrupt the election certification process for an election he lost. And they did. You really going to ignore that context? Really? You really going to say that BLM protests against well demonstrated police brutality against minorities is the same? ??
zo1 6y ago
If the comments in this thread are anything to go by, I'd say they are not realizing it and just doubling down. Its downright disturbing to watch the double standards and hypocrisy. We will now watch the full force of social media, traditional media, populist talking heads, CEOs, reporters, activists, group leaders, politicians, etc all jumping on this thing to milk it to it's full extent and amplify its negative aspects and blow it way out of proportion. Just like the same power structures were last year used to amplify the "positive" message of certain other protests.
- sofixa 6y ago
  > jumping on this thing to milk it to it's full extent and amplify its negative aspects and blow it way out of proportion. Just like the same power structures were last year used to amplify the "positive" message of certain other protests. Armed people stormed the US Capitol, after being incited to do so by the current US President, in order to overturn a legal election result. People died as well. You can't "blow this out of proportion" the same way you can't blow something like Chernobyl out of proportion - it was huge, it has huge ramifications, it impacts a lot of people. There are zero positive aspects and there's nothing redeeming in the whole story.

chillwaves 6y ago

The President called for his supporters to disrupt the election certification process for an election he lost. And they did. You really going to ignore that context? Really? You really going to say that BLM protests against well demonstrated police brutality against minorities is the same? ??

zo1 6y ago

If the comments in this thread are anything to go by, I'd say they are not realizing it and just doubling down. Its downright disturbing to watch the double standards and hypocrisy. We will now watch the full force of social media, traditional media, populist talking heads, CEOs, reporters, activists, group leaders, politicians, etc all jumping on this thing to milk it to it's full extent and amplify its negative aspects and blow it way out of proportion. Just like the same power structures were last year used to amplify the "positive" message of certain other protests.

sofixa 6y ago
> jumping on this thing to milk it to it's full extent and amplify its negative aspects and blow it way out of proportion. Just like the same power structures were last year used to amplify the "positive" message of certain other protests. Armed people stormed the US Capitol, after being incited to do so by the current US President, in order to overturn a legal election result. People died as well. You can't "blow this out of proportion" the same way you can't blow something like Chernobyl out of proportion - it was huge, it has huge ramifications, it impacts a lot of people. There are zero positive aspects and there's nothing redeeming in the whole story.