Just trying to be clear, are you saying these events were justified, or that the attack on the US Capitol was justified?
Last summer was replete with examples of violence from the left. Far more deadly and destructive than seen at the capitol building riot.
Results:
- Worsening of race relations
- Billions of dollars in damage
- Numerous stores and businesses, predominantly owned by black and latino Americans, destroyed. Those people, the very same we were told the riots were for, had their lives ruined in the name of social justice. Or do you think insurance reimburses all the damage and in a timely fashion? Years of hard work ruined. We know from past riots it takes decades for neighborhoods to recover.
- Almost 50 people died, can't recall the exact number. I think 47
- 9 million extra Trump votes and a doubling of his latino and black vote
Where is the proof that damaging riots were deliberately organized. I mostly saw white people looting under the cover of black people marching.
Where is the proof that it was primarily minority owned businesses that were damaged? Why would it take decades for these businesses to file a claim with their insurance and replace their merchandise and windows?
https://acleddata.com/2020/09/03/demonstrations-political-vi... cmd + f 'NATIONWIDE DEMONSTRATIONS'
> Where is the proof that damaging riots were deliberately organized.
You don't sustain riots for months without organizing.
> Why would it take decades for these businesses to file a claim with their insurance and replace their merchandise and windows?
Not their insurance but the economic damage. That's what happened after the 1960s riots. https://www.jstor.org/stable/40056402?seq=1
> Where is the proof that it was primarily minority owned businesses that were damaged?
Because the riots were mostly in low-income neighborhoods.
https://www.startribune.com/riots-arson-leave-minnesota-comm...
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/31/us/minneapolis-protests-b...
https://www.businessinsider.com/black-owned-businesses-put-u...
Here's a pointed question for you: Which was worse and by what measure, the BLM/Antifa riots of last year or the capitol building riot?
I'm gonna say that the mob attack on the United States' entire line of succession over false claims of fraud is worse than overwhelmingly peaceful protests over the murder of an unarmed, compliant man in police custody.
If 15+ million people were rioting, we wouldn't have a single structure left standing in the country. A fraction of a percent of the protesters were bad actors, and nobody is defending them so I will leave you to abuse that strawman in peace.
100% of the people who invaded the US Capitol were rioters.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_George_Floyd_protests_...
Entire books were written in their defense, one infamous title being "In defense of looting".
MSM talking heads were besides themselves defending the rioters. For months!
> 100% of the people who invaded the US Capitol were rioters.
This is so blatantly twisted that I am forced to believe you're being intentionally deceptive. Everyone knows a tiny fraction of the protesters went into the capitol building.
If we look at the potential outcomes of the BLM/Antifa riots, there's no reason to believe that they couldn't have destroyed our democracy.
Or, if we compare the actual outcomes, it's not quite as rosy for your apparently preferred riots: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25706651
I suspect you understand that you are doing this, and that you are comfortable with the charade. More and more people are beginning to see through the kind of spin you and others present, however, and are coming to resent you powerfully for it.