I saw the whole thing as an absolute joke, but they're treating it like it was an actual terrorist strike or something. "An AtTaCk On DeMoCrAcY", fuck off, it was some people wandering inside the Capitol because the cops let them in. I think like two people died and one of them was a cop, one of them was the taser balls guy.
Remember when they wanted to make some cop Time's person of the year for being there on Jan 6th? lol.
If January 6th protestors had backings from either the DHS (it seems to be the closest to the ministry of interior over there from looking up) or US military, sure I'd understand them pearl clutching but they had none of that and also it was hilarious and looked like tailgating gone wrong after too much booze.
There was also the lady with the Gadsen flag who was trampled to death
I hate being redundant on a two comment thread, but I've genuinely had liberals (on lemmy) say to me "and they almost succeeded" and I am just baffled people can think that. Like, it's not just a matter of defining what "close" is. They had not engaged in even the first step of any actionable plan to control the country, barely any shots were even fired the whole thing was so unserious, and they say it was "close." The only thing they got "close" to was having a nice vacation.
Tbf, they did get very close to offing the less-protected members in congress that the hogs fixate on (Omar and Tlaib for example). And when I say close I mean like they entered rooms right as congress was evacuating. They were physically close. And I have no doubt some of those guys, given a chance, would've done it.
Now whether or not I actually care about them doing it to all the unmentioned members... well... who knows
January 6th was one the best days of my life. It was really really funny. My enemies fought my enemies, people wore silly costumes. As far as I'm concerned corned the worst part about it is once again liberals not knowing a good time when they see one. I was a covid welfare queen at the time and it kinda kicked ass to be Canadian, i had also found out anyone on covid assistance who started a 'small business' could also get like ten grand in grant money so I started an easy store literally selling twigs and rocks I found in the woods, faked some sales by having friends 'buy' this bullshit and give em the money back later. I was having an amazing day. My roommate even scored genuinely good crack a travelling kid from out west had brought as a bargaining chip to crash on our coach. Getting ripped and seeing the funniest thing ever happen on the news ever being taken as serious was just awesome.
The coup is not when you go on TV to declare yourself president for life.
The coup is when you get the army and industry onboard to the point you aren't arrested as soon as you go to bed after making that speech.
Even if
had showed up with technicals, mortars and IEDs, amd gone on to execute every sitting member of congress, it's not like Goldman Sachs and Microsoft would have started to take orders from them. It never had the potential to last longer than mobilization of the National Guard would have taken, because there was no movment or actual power behind it.In retrospect, seeing SS and senators run around the capitol terrified for their lives when one bullet was all it took to send the cowards home was the funniest thing in a while
Mfs on either side wouldn’t have lasted even one km of the long march
The coup is when you get the army and industry onboard to the point you aren't arrested as soon as you go to bed after making that speech.
That's a successful coup. But even an unsuccessful coup can get a lot of people killed. That's my concern. I'm not American; I don't care who sits in the White House.
Like anything to do with Trump that liberals have an undying hysteria for, it wasn't really a big deal when you consider the status quo. These people are so fucking cooked when climate crisis starts being theor problem. You can't be so weak willed and delicate. It's a pathetic affectation for a warlord first of all, and also for the radlibs who've taken up being pathetic as political virtue, that's passing the buck. Your a boomer but worse cause it's your own future. I'm begging for anything left of literal nazis to show any spine at all. It's sad. We've got the worst example of capitalist democracy right in front of us and there somehow isn't a single person who isn't too needle dicked to st least be what Bernie pretended to be? If that's what's on the bus I'd rather fucking walk.
Terrorism is when a bunch of Conner O'Malley characters and their mothers walk around the Capitol in a daze pissing in Nancy Pelosi's bonsai plant pot
Then going back to their tent to eat canned peaches and cream and watch The Matrix on a portable DVD player
Liberals act like if those chuds had successfully taken control of the capitol they woulda just been in charge all of a sudden of the whole country. Like we all woulda gone omg ok i guess u guys are congress now.
It's video game brain. If
stands on the control point and pushes 
out, wins the match and takes powerCongress just would’ve gone remote, further illustrating that we’ve already lost no matter what happens
??
what do you mean you didnt say anything after. you think the hogs would have an actual effect on US policies if they occupied the building for longer?
It's (kind of) a joke, but I meant to imply that liberals would just roll over and accept the new de facto government. How exactly would liberals react to a coup?
They'd vote so hard to overturn the coup, and when that didn't work they'd do nothing.
it is very funny they sent some proud boys to prison for 18 years and after sentencing they got mad at trump for not caring about them
Trump consistently giving the cold shoulder to his most ardent fans is possibly the funniest thing about him.
The leader was like literally a fed cooperator and still got blasted. I suspect he won't be doing his full sentence, but I'm honestly surprised he went at all. Libs must've been big mad
I remember when Jan 6 happened and then nothing fundamentally changed. If they don't take it seriously then why should I? Why should anyone? The primary showed that it didn't make Democrats care more about democracy or anything.
And that's what I tell anyone who whinges about Jan 6 to me.
If their reaction to Jan 6 is to beg people to vote blue, then Jan 6 was a complete circus and a massive nothingburger.
Wake me up when there are elements of the pro-Trump National Guard engaging the Bidenite National Guard in the streets of fucking Denver of something like that.
They talk about it as seriously as they do 9/11. I was baffled the first time I saw this irl but yeah they get very emotional about it lol
Jan 6 is a holiday remembering the funniest day in American history
The Deluge, Stephen Markley. But it doesn't really end well
Did it get used as an excuse for a red purge?
Unlike what happened to the chuds, outside of a few perpetrators they're still just living life getting more radical.
how many of the bathrooms in the Capitol do you have to control to unlock the magic government bonus
I what material way? It all seemed like surface-level larping to me. I'll believe they wanted it, but it didn't seem like there was any planning or substance.
Genuinely curious to know if there was actually some deeper conspiracy, but all the coverage I've seen has painted it as little more than playing.
Who cares? This is the ridiculous part of American politics. There's all this rage and emotion put into these elections when either way the outcome is unnecessary death, false scarcity, and a bunch of racist violence meant to divide and distract workers.
You really believe it was Pence who stopped this shit? Gtfoh. The most propagandized people to ever walk this earth.
Mike pence welcome to the resistance
So republican congressmen were an inch away from getting the Army, Navy, Air Force, National Guard, state police, FBI, CIA, DIA, ATF, OICI, INR, NSA, CSS, NGA, I&A, ONSI, wallstreet and Federal Reserve from officially backing a localized riot made up of off duty cops, drunk proud boys and car dealership owners?
What, did the republicans and national security forces decided "you know what, let's help our fellow
fascistspatriots" until Pelosi scolded them not to, and then democracy went back to normal?
