General Politics Discussion VIII [ARCHIVED] • Page 1376

That's what is sooooooo stupid about the Antifa shit, you saw near unanimous masks at BLM rallies over the summer and the still subsequent protests in Portland, and yesterday there was probably one mask for every 100 rioter

Absolute brain worms these people have buying into this shit

 

I literally saw a post from a Trumper I know who went down there and posted pictures today of the protest from the night before yesterday, and said "see none of them are wearing masks, but all those trouble makers yeterday were wearing masks, clearly ANTIFA" or some shit like that.

These people are completely detached from reality.

 

Bill Barr needs to shut the fuck up and also preferably-

 

Are there any numbers on how many were actually arrested?

 

It’s too bad someone had to die, she was a victim of her own insidious world view. Trump and QAnon killed her well before she was shot. That movement is very new but how many people have successfully come back from it? Very few, I would imagine.

That isn’t to say, however, that these people shouldn’t take personal responsibility for their beliefs and actions.

 

nobody is talking about the fact that MSNBC cut the "fuck" from Joe Scarborough's speech from the YouTube version :(

 

I give this cop so much fucking credit. He probably should have shot this guy. Black cop shooting a white guy would have given the crowd the fire they needed to burn the place down.

 

i couldnt give a shit about the place being burned down. but man, even if its a cop, seeing that black man confronted by all those white nationalists. scary. feared for him.

 

how many of those were journalists just covering the event

 

14 cops injured and only 52 arrests. There would have been hundreds if it was a peaceful BLM protest.

 

I am not happy that anyone got shot in the neck like that and died - but watching that video it is actually remarkable that more people weren't shot before that point in time. They are legitimately storming the Chamber and it is that guy with the gun's job to make sure they don't get inside. It is such an incredibly fucked up situation, but by all rights more of those people should have been shot before that point given what was going on there.

The mob is banging on the door and breaking the windows trying to enter the room/hallway, and the guy with the suit on inside the room/hallway only shoots her in the neck when she physically climbs up onto the door and tries to get into the room/hallway through the broken window.

What was more upsetting was seeing how the Capitol Police handled these types of people versus BLM protesters, or Iraq War vets protesting the war, or handicapped people protesting to not have their health insurance and lives taken away. These people were largely just allowed to walk right in after a little bit of superficial physical pushback. There was no deadly force until very late in the game, and even then only a tiny little bit that fortunately or unfortunately hit that lady right in the neck.

The guy walking around holding the confederate flag didn't face any deadly force. The guy scratching his balls with his feet up on pelosi's desk didn't face any deadly force. The weird shirtless guy with the furry hat didn't face any deadly force. They all just kinda walked around for a while before getting scolded and told to leave like kids misbehaving at the mall.

 

100%. My girlfriend was reacting to it like it was a horror movie. Its even worse than that.

 

I mean, what's the closest thing to which we can compare the Trump/QAnon cult? Charles Manson, maybe? He obviously didn't have a wide range of influence, but the power over those he influenced was incredible.

 

Probably the biggest reason why he didn't shoot tbh. Thought if he killed one of them, the KKK behind him was going to charge

 

I've been (trolling) talking to a person that was there yesterday trying to get into the capitol. They just said they want to get a tattoo sleeve of "we the people" and the statue of liberty with WWG1WGA and 2020 all mixed in like a collage.

 

That's an embarrassing number. Horrible.

 

Every single person who breached the doors of the Capitol should have been arrested. It's insane that they were able to just walk out. Zero repercussions.