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It's almost like they are not insurrectionists.

Whoops, now I'm the insurrectionist. Or is it terrorist? I lose track of what to think, it changes everyday, this stuff is hard.

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Boys will be boys. Shucks they didn't mean nothing by it. Just blowing off steam. Don't blow it out of proportion....

Did I miss any?

"Some people are saying" it wasn't even really people. It was a performance art piece to get "real Americans" in trouble.

Give me a break. The people that participated in this are deplorable.

You make it hard on yourself because you picked a team and want it to win.

Yes - this is the root of most evil. It's perfectly possible to be far from center on most topics and still not "pick a side", but this is lost on more and more people.

No, taking the US Capitol by force is insurrection.

And yet the people that work there every day do far worse on a regular basis.

Amazing how quickly the narrative was set and the media picked it up right?

Laying siege to a federal courthouse in Portland and attack police with weapons for months on end? “Mostly peaceful protests”

A bunch of wacko Q-anons force their way into the Capitol building and take selfies? “Insurrection!”

I’m waiting for the mainstream media to start calling for “insurrectionists” to be held at gitmo without trial.

Also, no outrage in the MSM about police shooting and killing an unarmed female protester. This summer I was told that this was a very bad thing indeed.

I guess the situation here is different than what happened in Minneapolis because...well...its different.

The circumstances were completely different. I feel quite bad for the lady that died yesterday, but she put herself in a dangerous situation. That pig shouldn't have shot her in the neck.

Thanks for at least being consistent. I see way too many people criticize the police then immediately back the police shooting an unarmed woman.

Either shooting unarmed people is wrong or it’s not. It shouldnt be dependent on whether they’re on your side or not.

If you want to make the argument it was an unjustified shooting, go ahead.

I'll be ready to link some videos that say otherwise.

Unless you have video of this woman posing a lethal threat to another human, it won’t be very convincing.

Armed security officers were defending congressmen in a secure area, she tried climbing through a broken side window and they killed her.

This is nothing but a play stupid games win stupid prizes situation.

An unarmed woman was climbing through a window and you feel lethal force was warranted?

A potentially armed woman was leading a mob through a window.

Everybody is "potentially armed".

You mean how quickly the right wing media made up some completely made up narrative with altered and misleading photos trying to rebrand known white supremacists and QAnoon followers as antifa and BLM protesters? And how quick these people who constantly complain about "MSM fake news" were to spread it all over the internet without any fact checking on their end?

It wasn't even a mistake, it was clearly intentional. The photo of Q Shaman was intentionally cropped to remove the QAnon sign, and the phillyantifa website was clearly listing white supremacists. The people spreading that knew all this, yet they still decided to spread it.

You should stay away from the fringe right-wing websites.

I wasn't, all of them were spamming the "they were antifa and blm" on every single platform yesterday. Youtube, reddit, tiktok, etc. You couldn't go to any discussion about the events without seeing hundreds of them spreading this exact debunked talking point above.

The ideas they propagate have been nowhere near fringe for the last 4 years.

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