• grue@lemmy.world
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    20 hours ago

    The media is complicit every time they use “riot,” instead of “coup attempt.”

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      12 hours ago

      Right after Jan 6, I started posting how important it was to not refer to the incident as a ”riot," or a “coup,” or anything other than an “Insurrection.” That’s the word used in the 14th Amendment, Section 3, which prohibits those participating in an Insurrection from holding elected office. It was important then to characterize it as an Insurrection (which it was) then, and it’s important now.

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      18 hours ago

      LOL it wasn’t even a riot.
      They entered a building with little to no resistance.
      Americans are feeble and weak, incapable of a coup attempt.
      You would give up immediate when it gets tough.

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          15 hours ago

          I literally saw the cops gesturing to those losers and letting them in to the capitol.
          I didn’t care to watch much more of this cringe spectacle, just laughed at the pathetic clownshow that is your banana republic.
          Couldn’t care less about it, it only provides entertainment and a source of ridicule.

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            so you didn’t watch much of it, but have an opinion on it, but you couldn’t care less, but it’s entertaining, but you didn’t watch it.

            as someone who shits on the US here every chance i get, please leave our side, you’re making us look stupid and incoherent.

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            12 hours ago

            So there were some sympathetic, complicit cops, that doesn’t negate the breathtaking violence that was happening everywhere else.

            All you know about it is the very selective coverage by the Conservative Propaganda Machine, which edited tens of thousands of hours of footage down to a few minutes. If you watched the actual Insurrection, which I did from start to finish, you saw plenty of vicious violence against the cops.

            Just because you have decided to voluntarily remain ignorant of the truth and embrace treason, doesn’t mean intelligent, patriotic people have to go along with it.