(01-12-2021 07:43 AM)Redwingtom Wrote:  

(01-11-2021 03:46 PM)Jugnaut Wrote:  

(01-11-2021 12:00 PM)Redwingtom Wrote:  It's quite telling that several members of the GOP appear to be more concerned about losing some followers on twitter than an armed, seditious, insurrection of congress that resulted in 6 lives lost so far.

This is a ridiculous statement. Just like calling the capitol protestors "terrorists." It's insanely over the top. It's not sedition or an insurrection. It was a non-violent protest featuring trespassing. A form of civil disobedience. It is incredibly mild in nature when compared to the sustained violence from the left in major cities all summer which included arson of police vehicles and precincts, attacks with weapons and resulted in dozens of deaths.

The reason why the MSM and politicians are calling it "terrorism" because they want to use the name as a weapon against the capitol protestors. Get ready for Biden to roll out a Patriot Act 2.0, but this time targeting domestic dissent.

Non-violent? 5 people are dead and another committed suicide a couple days later. There were a couple dozen police officers hurt IIRC. Did you not see the video of one of them clubbing a cop over the head with a metal pole...or the guy who threw a fire extinguisher that hit a cop in the head? Or the cop, with the bloody face that was caught in that door and screaming as the "civil" protesters pushed forward?

Dude, you do know there were armed people right? They found 2 pipe bombs. They found a stash of Molotov cocktails nearby. There was at least one guy with zip tie handcuffs. There's several active FBI investigations into planned conspiracies. They erected a noose and gallows on the Capitol grounds, and they stopped our democracy from certifying the next president of the united states for several hours.

STOP DISMISSING THIS BY ******* COMPARING IT TO BLM PROTESTS!!! They're both wrong.

THEN (politicians) START TREATING THE BLM/ANTIFA PROTESTS WITH THE SAME LEVEL OF DISGUST AND IMPORTANCE.

You are correct, they are both wrong, but they are not being treated even remotely the same - and they should be.