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Surely the biggest difference between successful breach of the Capitol and an unsuccessful attack on the White House is the defence? Clearly the attackers/riote
by tomp 6y ago
Surely the biggest difference between successful breach of the Capitol and an unsuccessful attack on the White House is the defence? Clearly the attackers/rioters had malicious intent both times, clearly they very extremely violent. The only real difference is the success/failure of the security forces.
- BoorishBears 6y agoThat's one of the biggest differences, yes... did I imply otherwise? The other two are the trigger and the timing. The trigger being the President, and the timing, while Congress was in session trying to confirm the next President were what took it even further into the public consciousness.
- BoorishBears 6y agoYou can downvote all you want folks, Biden's being sworn in, your "revolution" died as a woman drowned in her own blood wrapped in a campaign flag as her own "compatriots" recorded the spectacle and blocked medical attention, Parler was gutted like a fish, Twitter censors alt-right garbage and the sky is still blue sometimes :)
- meowster 6y agoI don't read the news much, so this is the first I'm hearing of people attacking the White House. These supposedly Trump-supporters... were attacking Trump?
- meowster 6y agoWhat am I doing wrong?
- tomp 6y agoYou’re being lazy and/or arguing in bad faith. There’s a few links to a few sources a couple of comments above. It was a BLM/Antifa attack/riot in May 2020.
- meowster 6y ago> It was a BLM/Antifa attack/riot in May 2020. I'm sorry I missed that, thank you.
- BoorishBears 6y agoThe Secret Service referred to it as a demonstration, but people who are upset that the alt-right invading Capitol is a big deal, so they want to retroactively create equivalency to everything that happened over the summer... so this HN reader overruled the Secret Service and labeled it an attack