• zangorn [none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    There were a lot of people at that stupid thing. I don’t want to even call it a coup attempt, because they didn’t even have a plan for that. Technically, it was probably just a riot. Anyways with all of those people surely some are in a situation like that.

    Are the airlines preventing suspects from flying home? That would be cool!

        • Nothing44 [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          Hadn't thought about that. But it'd make sense. If they hadn't been seen explicitly letting people in, they could have gone on about how they had been mistreated, and forbidden to use their toys, and that's why they were powerless to stop the big bad riot people. Might also explain the pitiful line they had to stop them.

          But when the trumplies were too chicken to actually break through, they had to straight up invite them.

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

            It was the perfect meeting of two forces who, really didn't want to get violent with each other. (I WONDER WHY?)

        • LeninsRage [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          It was a SPORTS RIOT, they were an angry mob of white people mad their team took a fucking L

          • kilternkafuffle [any]
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            4 years ago

            Sports riots happen even when they win though. Though I guess we'd be at the Kristallnacht level if they had won and were rioting.

      • KoeRhee [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        Yeah. Look at the 1968 DNC convention. The cops were almost entirely responsible for the riot in that one.

    • LeninsRage [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      They literally did idealism so hard they genuinely thought that if they believed hard enough in the right location they could will a second term for Trump into existence.

      Thats it. That was the entire plan.

      • femboi [they/them, she/her]
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        4 years ago

        The plan was to break in, have Trump declare them heroes who saved democracy, then have the military and police protect them as they dissolved congress. Trump’s a dumbass though so none of that happened and they look like morons

        • zangorn [none/use name]
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          4 years ago

          The missing element would have been a loyal military. He had loyal police, apparently. But there is a reason they call it “military coup”. You need the most powerful force backing the new leadership.

        • ant9 [he/him,comrade/them]
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          4 years ago

          Yeah I mean the dozens of hardcore white supremacists was meaningless. The Capitol police effectively standing down was meaningless. The guard being purposely sabotaged to delay response was meaningless. 5 people dead, 2 of them from deliberate acts of violence.

          These are all things that happen in normal riots inside the capitol building (and at capitol buildings all over the country).

          Or not even riots I guess. Dozens injured, several dead, congress shutdown and evacuated. Not a riot.

          I really wish people would just take the L on this.

    • ScreamoCMO [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      It was a coup attempt. They just had no idea what they were doing. The protestors themselves couldn’t do shit but if Trump had had military support things could have been different

      • Ewball_Oust [comrade/them]
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        4 years ago

        Imagine Trump shelling the capitol like Yeltsin in '93
        (except the protestors then were on the side of the parliament, but Yeltsin was backed by the US)