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How convenient that you ignore what was happening the day of the coup: the confirmation of a new President. There was literally a mass rally, hours before the
by ramphastidae 6y ago
How convenient that you ignore what was happening the day of the coup: the confirmation of a new President.
There was literally a mass rally, hours before the event, where the President and his cronies whipped a mob into a frenzy with lies about fraudulent voting systems and conspiracies to steal the election as the culmination of MONTHS of similar disinformation. They encouraged supporters to take Congress via “trial by combat” in order to prevent the legally elected President from being confirmed.
An attempt to block the legal transfer of power in order to illegally maintain your own is clearly an attempt to overthrow a legitimate government: a coup.
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- leereeves 6y agoThey clearly meant to disrupt that confirmation in an act of protest, but here's how we know it was not a coup: They left their weapons outside the Capitol. People planning to overthrow a government do not leave their weapons at the door. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26602074 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26602074
- loopz 6y agoPeople were clearly misled. So intention is on the leadership that misled them. That intent was to change the election outcome by means outside the constitution and Law, under coercion and threat of violence.
- ramphastidae 6y agoSo because two rioters left their guns at home, it wasn’t a coup? Keep moving those goalposts, buddy.
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