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I must have missed the part where they beat a Capitol Police officer to death on their way into the building.

He got hit with a fire extinguisher which is awful. It's still not an insurrection though. There was no attempt to over throw the US Government. Calling this an insurrection is like calling everyone that ways "All Lives Matter" a nazi and cheapens debate.

Just because they failed doesn’t mean they didn’t try to do so.

You think they seriously, seriously wanted to take over the US Government? 200 or so protestors that made it in? If you think that I don't know what to tell you.

//Unfortunately I've hit the "You're posting too fast and you're not a democrat" limit so I can't reply further.

Did those people, specifically, somehow want to take over the government for themselves? no.

Were they merely "protesting?" Obviously not.

Did they want to somehow force the government to overturn or undo what they believed was a stolen election and install Trump into a second term? Quite likely.

They were clearly trying to kidnap elected officials.

Does the rate limit only apply to non-Democrats?

I don’t think they were trying to take over the government themselves, but they clearly wanted to disrupt and interfere with the election process and keep their regime in power, despite losing the election.

I'm sure the rate limit is applied in the even handed way that Silicon Valley is known for.

And they wanted a fair election process.

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