• OhWell [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Wow.

    This is what we mean when we tell people that BLM protesters are treated on a different scale. The cops let them storm a fucking government capitol and continue to play nice with them.

    Had that been BLM protesters, they would've been teargassed, flash-banged, brutalized and some killed before it even got to this point.

    Fascists armed to the teeth are treated on a completely different scale.

    • Infamousblt [any]
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      4 years ago

      Problem is even libs think these protestors are "fighting for America" and BLM isn't. So the double standard is there and libs will support it.

      Libs are genuinely non functional as human beings.

      • NephewAlphaBravo [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        Problem is even libs think these protestors are “fighting for America” and BLM isn’t

        I mean, I'd argue that's 100% true. The country demanded by BLM would not be america as we know it, the difference is libs think that's a bad thing.

    • ChapoBapo [he/him]
      hexagon
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      4 years ago

      All that is fine, but I'm still mad that our comrades were brutalized while the chuds are being treated with kid gloves.

    • RowPin [they/them]
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      4 years ago

      I feel bad for the PBS journalists, I guess, but MAGATs vs cops is very :sicko-yes:

  • maverick [they/them]
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    4 years ago

    Not even tear gas or rubber bullets being used. The difference between police reponse to BLM protests and lockdown protests was shocking but the fact that this is happening at the Capitol building makes it all the more stark.

    • NPa [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      To be fair, if a fascist is fascist enough, they're going to start killing other fascists, thereby making them anti-fascist.

  • Kissmydadonthelips [any,undecided]
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    4 years ago

    Remember when they flew a helicopter over people protesting this summer? Now they're letting people in the building? Lmao all the extra cops must be in the chud crowd if they don't have enough people to keep them out

  • Koa_lala [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    "police can't stop them" no they just didn't. There's a difference.

  • viva_la_juche [they/them, any]
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    4 years ago

    they would have droned the whole area smh. it's infuriating seeing them just hold up their shields and do fuck all else here but last year they were perpetually trigger happy.

  • RowPin [they/them]
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    4 years ago

    https://twitter.com/ElijahSchaffer/status/1346905425543917573

    BREAKING: I am inside Nancy Pelosi’s office with the thousands of revolutionaries who have stormed the building

    To put into perspective how quickly staff evacuated, emails are still on the screen along side a federal alert warning members of the current revolution

    • happybadger [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Nathanial Holmes, what the fuck. If I left my nursing station to get a drink of water I signed out. You work for the majority leader and can't hit a button to protect office emails from random terrorists or whatever they are? Ones specifically related to them and your plan to deal with them?

  • discopolo [none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    Gonna say controversial take on here, but people here must be seething that a bunch of boomers have accomplished more direct action and a threat to how the system operates then they did during a whole year of protests.

      • discopolo [none/use name]
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        4 years ago

        A lot of the protesters in the capital hill have guns as well and there are already reports of gunfire exchange, armed standoff, and they have started pumping tear gas into the building. Gee who would have thunk people with guns would get cops scared. It's almost like every revolution started that way

        Edit: someone got shot, there goes your theory

        • disco [any]
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          4 years ago

          I also saw a cop in full riot gear hugging one of the demonstrators, it was capitol security rather than a regular cop that did the shooting.

          • gammison [none/use name]
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            4 years ago

            yeah the only cops actually brawling with the protestors are like capital security and FBI.

        • QuillQuote [they/them]
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          4 years ago

          That someone who was shot was fairly likely to have been shot by one of their own

        • D61 [any]
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          4 years ago

          Only thing I've heard about so far is that it was a woman.

          • discopolo [none/use name]
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            4 years ago

            There is a video floating about showing the moment she got shot and she was for sure one of the protesters.

    • ChapoBapo [he/him]
      hexagon
      ·
      4 years ago

      Yeah cuz the cops don't actually want to stop them lol

    • OhWell [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Sure helps that the cops don't do anything to stop them. If BLM protesters showed up armed and open carrying firearms, the National Guard and DHS would be called and the situation would quickly escalate into a stand off with law enforcement and military.

        • OhWell [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          It's almost like this is a right wing coup and they have the police to protect them. 🤷‍♂️

          • discopolo [none/use name]
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            4 years ago

            COPE, a bunch of idiot Qanon people and a guy literally half naked with a wolf skin on his head have more balls then people on here.

            • ChapoBapo [he/him]
              hexagon
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              4 years ago

              Your position is there was no bravery exhibited at the summer's protests?

            • fuckwit [none/use name]
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              4 years ago

              Did you riot? If not shut the fuck up. The entire fucking government caters to fash, they stormed their own building and suddenly we accomplished nothing over the summer? They're white, they're pro law enforcement probably fucking related to half the cops, they own businesses, yeah big shit they've accomplished.

                • fuckwit [none/use name]
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                  4 years ago

                  God damn, that's perfect. Pray tell, which Euro shithole is this and what did you riot about, the packaging on kindereggs?

            • OhWell [he/him]
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              4 years ago

              Fuck you. Get off your ass and lead a revolution then, if you literally think this is possible. Police helped them, along with half of the GOP.

              • discopolo [none/use name]
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                4 years ago

                Not American, and I was already part of one, we stormed the parliament and deposed the old leader. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhlMCPb4ZM8&ab_channel=VOANews

                Americans are cucked. Let me destroy a fucking Starbucks or Shoe store. LOL That shit is a insurance write off for multi-million/billion companies.

    • TheBroodian [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      I mean, they haven't accomplished anything other than having a game of patty-cake with the cops without retaliation. So they get past the cops, then what? They aren't actually doing anything, and don't seem to have any real goal

        • TheBroodian [none/use name]
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          4 years ago

          I mean, I wouldn't call that an accomplishment, that seems like incompetence to me, she's just a bystander with bad luck so far as I can tell, not any target of value for them

    • ProfessionalSlacker
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      4 years ago

      This isn't in any way a threat to how the system operates because this is who the system represents. This is as disconnected from reality as "progressives" talking about making a left wing Tea Party

  • Goatfucker99 [fae/faer]
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    4 years ago

    Do a coup, but make it funny. Honestly this shit has been hilarious and I'm loving it. Death to America!

  • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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    4 years ago

    At this rate, the cops might be shot to death. I'm certainly hearing something that sounds like gunfire.

  • ComradeShankly [she/her]
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    4 years ago

    It's so demoralizing that any sort of left wing attempt at this would have been slaughtered at the doorstep. We knew this, but it's so disgusting to see these braindead chuds just walk into the Capitol unchallenged