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In a bizarre way what has happened this past year with all the rioting, violence, looting, destruction all over the country with basically very little done about has emboldened dissenters to the point they think they can do anything anywhere now with very little repercussion.
I'm guessing they're just "so over" the racism.
The skinny guys with black coats and black backpacks and never worn before maga hats are Antifa. Watch the big guy in camo try to stop the aggressive one at 0:45 in the video.The moment it all began
Crikey!
Aside from the #######s - someone at Capitol Police has to lose a job over leaving their personnel exposed like this.
You are right, and this is because of how social media works. Compare our discussion here on a forum to how Facebook works for example. On this forum, you see all posts. You see all opinions. You see the "group mentality" even though it is mixed with many different thoughts. You could filter some of it out by using the ignore feature, but you have to manually chose that. On facebook, that filtering is done for you. It automatically presents you with things it has learned you like. It does that because it wants you to come back as much as possible, and they know you will come back the more you see stuff you like, and less of the stuff you don't. So all these QAnon people are seeing their social media feeds filled with positive opinions about what happened yesterday and are completely isolated from the massive outrage the country is having as a whole. They are literally in their own little world right now, and have been for years for some of them. Which is a big factor in what led up to this happening. Many of the people there yesterday experience a social media world where everyone wants Trump to be president, because that's all they see in their social media feed. The election had to be stolen, because they don't see anyone wanting Biden.
I agree FB and Twitter are waaaay better at it. But the mods here have drove the narrative too.
I did a little pruning of so-called "friends" last night after promises of "enjoy the peace now, it won't last" and "funny if you think this is over".
If we are going to compare what happened yesterday to the riots of the summer of 2020, was there any riot in the summer of 2020 where 14 officers were injured?
If Trump had won, there likely would have been more widespread BLM style protesting, but a doubt a riot at the Capitol would have occurred.
Are you saying that the people yesterday were "peaceful protesters" and there should have been less police violence towards them?
I know this will come out poorly, but I'm not sure this is a bad thing if you walk through what actually would happen. There would be a small amount of bad actors (they exist on all sides BTW) who would declare a Civil War and they would be identified and dealt with. I think the benefit to the country in this scenario is we would see how few radicals there really are. I believe the reality is there are few radicals but a ton of trolls, bots, Russian bad actors, etc on social media who make it seem like there are a ton of radicals where there arent.
Correct on both quotes above. I had a longstanding policy that I didn't unfriend anyone on FB, until last night. Just don't need that nonsense in my life anymore.
I agree that there would have been a lot of outrage had Trump won, but I believe it would have been directed at those who voted for him, and not at a delusion conspiracy that it was stolen from Biden by election fraud.
Which black person involved in a protest was shot this year by law enforcement?
While I think the officers would have been well within policy and protocol to use much more force there, I find it tough to blame them given how outnumbered they were.
You said there is "zero evidence." That's a pretty bold statement to make given the decades of data and footage of numerous instances whereby black suspects received disparate treatment by law enforcement in situations similar to white suspects. That is evidence. The prior display of force from the NG on the capitol steps this summer is evidence. Whether it's enough evidence to definitively say that had the protestors/looters/trespassers yesterday been black that they would have received disparate treatment is debatable. But no evidence? There is at least some evidence and a blanket statement like the one you made suggests either that you've chosen to ignore the decades of disparate treatment or you don't understand what "evidence" means.
Treated differently? I saw a lot of people getting away with some serious property damage. Portland was basically allowed to have a "lawless zone" for months. All in the name of BLM.
Think of every evil atrocity in history by a ruler or government official, and you'll find a plethora of people who supported it.
GTFO with this. This is another example of the right using no evidence and running with a narrative
HE HAS BEEN INSTRUCTING THEM TO DO THIS SINCE 2015
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/media/capitol-takeover-media-coverage-fox-cnn-msnbc/2021/01/06/b2fc474a-5068-11eb-bda4-615aaefd0555_story.html
He practically instructed them to do it. WTF
Hopefully everyone of the people they can clearly identify spends a long time in jail. And just to make sure I’m doing it right - if there’s a similar video of left leaning people rioting please lock them up too.The moment it all began
Crikey!
Aside from the #######s - someone at Capitol Police has to lose a job over leaving their personnel exposed like this.
I don't use this phrase often, but THIS is what's wrong with America. Thanks to social media, so many of us really do live in our own echo chambers. It's the main reason why I stopped going on FB and the only people I follow on Twitter are sports related.
Ashli Babbitt was not Antifa.
I said where people were armed. I wasnt even talking about the one near stone mountain that would be considered wholly armed.
If we are limiting it to just being shot by LE, then I can only think of rubber bullet examples. But, there was still significant unnecessary violence against actual peaceful protests by law enforcement. All of that still counts.
Thanks for posting. I disagree that the others pushing back the fence and trying to hold position, and also trying to detain one of the guys who got through the fence until they were overrun and one woman was pushed down and looked to be hurt, is "letting it happen." But I think we're on the same page that these guys were way outnumbered and didn't have a lot of options. Total failure of leadership.
And this is the comparison and response a BLM march / protest that was closer to the Lincoln Memorial which I guessing we would all agree needs less security than the freaking Capitol building. This was not some accidental lack of preparation or whoops, we screwed up.
