The thing history has taught us about this kind of thing.
Sooner or later, you have to confront these people and stamp them out. And the more you put it off, the more damage is caused. Appeasement doesn’t work.
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Can this be correct and would you apply it the other way? I mean, storming the Capitol is a gross action in a democratic country - it wasn’t a coup or terrorism, but it was a really dumb, pushy, mob protest worthy of scorn and contempt. But was it worse than say what BLM did in Portland where they attacked a federal building for days on end in a planned fashion. It really needs to be a plague on both houses or else the resentment is just going to build and it’s only going to get worse. It can’t be yay be a mob when it’s one side and then oh no evil mob when it’s the other. We need to condemn the entire shitshow that is America right now.
Well said, President Biden
You’re doing the “both sides” thing again by ignoring the nuance and context of both happenings. You’ve also excluded that the events at the US capitol building were a textbook case of sedition aided and abetted by the President, many Republican members of congress and law enforcement. Even if you think BLM protests weren’t justified you can’t deny the government response was far harsher than yesterday’s out and out coup attempt.
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Lol I always chuckle when ppl call it a coup attempt. There was no plan it was just a bunch of dumb rednecks breaking in. Once they got there they didn’t know what to do. Trump is too stupid to pull a coup, like I think he’d have to have the military involved at least not a bunch of morons named Cletus running around DC with no plan 
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It was a coup attempt. A really, really shit one.
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So fill me on what the plan was and how this was gonna end in Trump staying in power. Honest question, cuz I don’t see it. To me it was just Trump inciting a bunch of morons into causing some mayhem.
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Insurrection is probably more accurate.
Judging by his comments to pence, it’s quite clear Trump and his supporters thought they could stop the largely ceremonial certification of state’s electors in order to buy Trump and his allies more time to contest.
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They broke into the capitol ffs. On the night they were processing the electoral votes. Some proper Olympus has fallen shit.
That is significant and more than anything BLM or whatever have done.
Also they get called out when they cross a line too (see. Seattle)
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He had spent the week telling them that Pence could change the result. They went there hoping to get Pence to change the result. It was dumb, it could never work but that doesn’t mean it wasn’t a coup attempt. Attempt being the key word there.
Edit: perhaps it is just a wording thing…i dont have any particular issues with coup though.
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Yeh I tend to just hear coup and immediately think how overdramatic that sounds. A coup attempt to me is like a military action and just forcefully taking power. This was like just a bunch of dumb asses grasping at straws.
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Loool there’s all this going on in the US right now but it’s still Black Lives Matter you wanna talk about
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It was just such a shame that this ill thought out and desperate attempt by Trump to hang on to power lead to the deaths of people in the ensuing mayhem.
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I’ve been repeating this all day… Just because you’re a shitty terrorist doesn’t mean you’re not a terrorist.
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Sounds like Arteta’s team talks
(Replacing the word terrorist with footballer)
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No arguments here but again a terrorist attack isn’t a coup attempt either.
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Atleast BLM protests had Antifa imposters doing the damage.
These people are actually conservatives , I mean terrorists.
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Gotta be fake surely
Lots of people have sworn affidavits about this. Doesn’t mean anything.