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Can we stop calling insurrectionists “rioters”?
Would you like it more if you knew that they're the ones who used the term because it's a fascist dogwhistle?
Can we stop calling overfenders "wide body".
Sorry, unrelated.
How about "peaceful protestors" like the year long riots from the left?
Fuck off fascist.
The protests for racial justice had literally no chance of toppling the government. Whereas the coup attempt was the closest our democracy has come to destruction since the civil war (I’m sure you were cool with the slavers in that one, eh?).
The insurrectionists are an antidemocratic force that go against everything this country stands for whereas the George Floyd protests were demand our government live up to its ideals that “all men are created equal” and deserve full rights under the constitution.
They were kind of pretty lame as insurrectionists, I mean they were let in, they had inside tours and were given specific instructions.
God's gracious their two neurons didn't meet each other on that day.
Being an idiot doesn't make you any less of an insurrectionist. Also all released footage shows otherwise.
And I love how the fact that they weren't immediately mowed down with gunfire somehow implies they were permitted to be there. No they weren't, it wasn't a tour, it was an armed insurrection. Cops showing restraint doesn't make you any less culpable for the crime.
Yeah, it usually just means you're white.
And boy howdy..
Not exactly what happened in Occupy WS...
The tours I'm referring to were given to some of them weeks prior to the event.
lol “god,” as if the invisible sky myth favors people based on political party.
You seem disappointed that they failed.
I'm rather grateful. Oddly thinking they resemble the baddies in 80s Saturday morning cartoons.
That said, this year I'm loosing sleep over the thought that someone competent might give it a try.