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If saying you are against something is all that is required, then sure, nobody condoned it. All wrapped up with a neat little bow, yay.
I see your point...and that said I think the "but they are insured" lines may come when comparing violence towards people vs breaking a window or looting even.
A man was burned to death when one of the buildings was lit on fire in MN.
And I don't think anyone here would ever do anything by condemn burning anyone.
Link to story?
Wait, are you saying that it's ok to steal as long as a store has insurance? Or it's less bad to steal if it has insurance?
Ariel Atkins says its perfectly OK to loot, the insurance will cover it.
That’s almost an impossible task to prove beyond doubt, but the group that stormed the Capitol was recorded shouting “Hang Mike Pence,” who is a republican, and several have been documented with zip ties, which would serve no other purpose during an insurrection than to subdue someone the carrier didn’t like. It does not take a great leap in logic to surmise that if the insurrectionists had managed to actually kidnap a politician, any politician, that person’s safety would be in danger, especially so if they were of a different party.
All of the above doesn’t come close to standing up in the court of law. So you’re saying aoc has no proof. She is just crying wolf and her followers.
:crowd surrounds person chanting "kill, kill, kill":
Do I sound like a judge or lawyer? I’m not trying to prove a court case, I’m using logic that says if a group of violent criminals break into the Capitol with the intent of disrupting an election confirmation, the thought of a political opponent being in particular danger is not a serious stretch. They murdered a police officer, who they claim to support, so why would they stop at someone who they believe is actively trying to destroy the country(which she wasn’t doing, by the way)?
Huh? The person she thought was after her, that was knocking on her bathroom door, was Capitol Hill Police.
Yes that is true the person who made death threats towards AOC only posted them after Jan 6 and that does not prove he wished AOC harm before Jan 6.
Oh now it is threats? As in more than one?
Clearly most of the Representatives were scared; we've seen the videos. There's no way you believe she wasn't scared. She is being an attention you know what. If that triggers you, that's too bad.
She has stated she feared for her life. As have others who were in the building. How it is in any way a stretch to imagine being fearful of your life as an angry mob is overrunning police and have taken control of the building? They evacuated the members of Congress for a reason, right?
Clearly she's refering to Greene and Boebert, possibly others. McConnell is making negative comments towards Greene, and even she is walking back some of the theories she got elected on. We don't know anything definitive yet. It's certainly possible AOC overreacted, but we don't know.
She said she almost died. That not true. Then add on all the melodramatircs than comes along with everything she does.
This a fair take. I do imagine that any democrat, and perhaps even some republicans not name Mike Pence, were fearful. I mean, #### was crazy. Nobody knew if the people storming the Capitol had guns or not. And novody knew what their end game was.
She said she narrowly escaped death. She said was nearly assassinated. She said was afraid GOP lawmakers would lead rioters to her.
The people that lived through the BLM/Antifa riots are laughing at her.
I was sitting in my house doing absolutely nothing. Every single person who was at the Capitol (rioters, police, congress people, etc.) were all closer to death than either you and me. Don't be silly
not really. By sitting at home you actually were closer to death by the mere fact that you were sitting. Sitting is the new cancer.
Her second tweet on the matter stated "Cruz amplified known lies about our election that fueled an insurrection that cost ppl’s lives." The original tweet was harsh. The second tweet was factual. Cruz deserves no apologies IMO.
No that's not true at all. How long did you guys go on about the Russian collusion and how the election was stolen in 2016 by Russia?
And to add, of course people at summer protests were closer to death than you or me. Nor sure how you can agree with that, yet dismiss Jan 6
If death is 10 and not death is 1 AOC was at about 2.
I am not sure why you need to keep bring the BLM thing up. AOC wasn't there, nor were you, or me.
Every death is tragic. The deaths in summer were due to troublemakers trying to use protests as an excuse to destroy. The deaths in January were due to insurrectionists trying to overturn a proper election because they didn’t like the result.
Not saying that at all. All the deaths were terrible. But if there are a million people protesting and 25 deaths, or a few thousand and 4 deaths, which one would you guess would have put you in more harms way?
I think when we start getting into arguments about how many deaths are acceptable, we've kind of lost the way.
Isn't she from the Bronx? I don't know, I've felt pretty close to being killed in the Bronx more than a few times.
Oh, cool. He tweeted "assassinate AOC" after the riots. No big deal. Happens all the time. Nothing to see here.
For the purposes of this thread discussion it literally means nothing. Since it happened after the fact.
