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Does it matter? There will people raiding through the Capitol with slip knots and plastic binders, ready to have a kangaroo court. I don't know how much of th

Does it matter? There will people raiding through the Capitol with slip knots and plastic binders, ready to have a kangaroo court. I don't know how much of the footage you've watched, but it was anything but a peaceful protest. It was a violent uprising. It's just that the mob was mostly comprised of a bunch of fuckups, so they were fortunately unsuccessful in their attempt at insurrection.

noxer 5y ago
>Does it matter? Yes it does, it makes the difference between journalism and propaganda. If you dont care about the truth I cant help you.
iammisc 5y ago
Yes the truth matters. Why is this even a question?
helloworld11 5y ago
And how would you define the months, literally months of BLM and etc protests in which many, many people participated in the burning of buildings, mass looting and other random destruction across a number of American cities before the Capitol uprising as you call it?
- malermeister 5y ago
  I would define them as whataboutism.
  - helloworld11 5y ago
    Possibly there is a bit of that, but on your part as well (and from the numerous people who view this all the same as you). Because your answer also implicitly says "I'd rather ignore these much larger, very serious and fundamentally serious things completely because they don't fit with my need to hysterically focus on Trump and any example of similar violence from any supporters of the right. Much of the rhetoric from the left-led violence that stemmed from the BLM protests prior to the one single Capitol riot was also rife with calls for radical overthrows of established power. Personally, I sympathize with much of that anger, much more than I do with the people who supported Trump during the much smaller Jan 6th riot, but it's a good idea to at least keep the ideological blinders off when analyzing either..
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noxer 5y ago

>Does it matter? Yes it does, it makes the difference between journalism and propaganda. If you dont care about the truth I cant help you.

iammisc 5y ago

Yes the truth matters. Why is this even a question?

helloworld11 5y ago

And how would you define the months, literally months of BLM and etc protests in which many, many people participated in the burning of buildings, mass looting and other random destruction across a number of American cities before the Capitol uprising as you call it?

malermeister 5y ago
I would define them as whataboutism.
- helloworld11 5y ago
  Possibly there is a bit of that, but on your part as well (and from the numerous people who view this all the same as you). Because your answer also implicitly says "I'd rather ignore these much larger, very serious and fundamentally serious things completely because they don't fit with my need to hysterically focus on Trump and any example of similar violence from any supporters of the right. Much of the rhetoric from the left-led violence that stemmed from the BLM protests prior to the one single Capitol riot was also rife with calls for radical overthrows of established power. Personally, I sympathize with much of that anger, much more than I do with the people who supported Trump during the much smaller Jan 6th riot, but it's a good idea to at least keep the ideological blinders off when analyzing either..
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