Breaking News January 6th Stop the Steal Rally & Capitol Breaching/Storming

[Lord Sovereign]

Ah yes, the abolitionists being overzealous and the intransigence of the slave owners was clearly worth Ted from the arse end of Virginia lying dead on the field of Gettysburg. A man who is likely only there because "them yankees" are trying to invade what he sees as his country.

Then again, I'm deeply oversimplifying the American Civil War. Slavery was important, but as I understand it there was a fair bit more behind it.

 

[Cherico]

The democrats really shouldnt have spent the last 4 months legitimizing political violence.

 

[The Phule]

The thing is that there already was a recount that affirmed Miller-Meeks as the winner

I did not know that. But I somehow feel like I should have expected it.

 

[Largo]

The police are to put it bluntly, cowards. There is only one proper response to the people storming the Capitol like that.

And afterwards, their families can be mailed afterwards to pay for the cost of the bullet.

 

[absenceofmalice]

Ah yes, the abolitionists being overzealous and the intransigence of the slave owners was clearly worth Ted from the arse end of Virginia lying dead on the field of Gettysburg. A man who is likely only there because "them yankees" are trying to invade what he sees as his country.

Unironically yes.

 

[Rocinante]

The police are to put it bluntly, cowards. There is only one proper response to the people storming the Capitol like that.

And afterwards, their families can be mailed afterwards to pay for the cost of the bullet.

So you support killing protesters now?

Come on, man!

They're mostly peaceful

 

[Largo]

So you support killing protesters now?

Come on, man!

They're mostly peaceful

If all you can do is play political games at a moment like this, then fuck off. And nothing antifa or BLM did approaches anything like this. Terrorists deserve a terrorist's response.

 

[Doomsought]

If anyone actually dies, they'll be used to tar the enter party as dangerous and the left will never, ever, ever shut up about it, and their media allies will support that effort instead of downplaying or memory holing it like they do leftist violence.

If anyone important dies, then congrats, you've just handed the left an excuse to do something to "crack down on these dangerous right wing extremists" that will probably end up, by sheer coincidence, doing crippling damage to anyone to the right of chairmen Mao, and the left will never, never, ever, ever shut about it.

The left has already done that with blatant lies. The right has been lied about so much that it is nearly liable-proof.

 

[Terthna]

Are we allowed by the rules to have any opinion on this other than it's bad?

It's going to get so much worse.

 

[absenceofmalice]

If all you can do is play political games at a moment like this, then fuck off. And nothing antifa or BLM did approaches anything like this. Terrorists deserve a terrorist's response.

BLM and Antifa burn buildings and beat innocent people till their skulls are broken.

 

[Abhishekm]

This is all going to end in tears.

 

[Rocinante]

If all you can do is play political games at a moment like this, then fuck off. And nothing antifa or BLM did approaches anything like this. Terrorists deserve a terrorist's response.

You just said you wanted to shoot protestors.

How about you fuck off?

Blm/antifa murdered people and destroyed buildings.

So again: fuck off.

 

[absenceofmalice]

This is all going to end in tears.

Lord of the Rings ended in tears and that was pretty cool.

 

[Battlegrinder]

If all you can do is play political games at a moment like this, then fuck off. And nothing antifa or BLM did approaches anything like this. Terrorists deserve a terrorist's response.

That's not quite the case, BLM and antifa actually caused a ton of property damage and helpped kickstart a crime wave that left dozens and dozens of people dead, whereas the worst this crowd has caused is maybe wreaking some security barriers.

I'd also hesitate to call either BLM or these idiots terrorists, that generally requires actively malicious, murderous actions or intent, and an idealogy more developped than "things didn't go my way and I'm made about it".

The left has already done that with blatant lies. The right has been lied about so much that it is nearly liable-proof.

It's libel proof to people that are politically engaged enough to see past the lies, not to the average Joe, and being libel proof politically doesn't help because the other side still won't support you.

Maybe if the money uselessly given to Trump post-election had been given to the Georgia senate races instead, things would have turned out differently.

Probably not, money spent on campaigning's hits a point of diminishing returns really quickly.

 

[Tiamat]

Gentle reminder to anyone who cares.

As I said before, I work in a major hospital in a significant urban area.

if both sides are all for going to war? Me and the personnel I work with get the fun job of picking up the pieces and trying to stitch together what’s left of the wounded.

So yes, I have quite a vested interest in not seeing this go right over the damn cliff. Thank you.

 

[Lord Sovereign]

Jesus Christ...

 

[absenceofmalice]

Gentle reminder to anyone who cares.

As I said before, I work in a major hospital in a significant urban area.

if both sides are all for going to war? Me and the personnel I work with get the fun job of picking up the pieces and trying to stitch together what’s left of the wounded.

So yes, I have quite a vested interest in not seeing this go right over the damn cliff. Thank you.

Under what circumstances would you want to see it go over the damn cliff?

 

[Val the Moofia Boss]

 

[Rocinante]

Jesus Christ...

Oh....fuck.

 

[Duke Nukem]

Holy fuck