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Nonsense. There are tons of video compilations showing Democrat leaders using the exact same turns of phrase that Trump did, talking about "fighting" for their political beliefs.

Further, the Democrats were urging violence throughout Trump's presidency, but the default US media never claimed that they were "attempting a coup". Democrats were attacking federal buildings with fireworks, arson, shooting high-powered lasers into the eyes of the police, and on and on. But those were "mostly peaceful protests".

https://thefederalist.com/2021/01/08/10-times-democrats-urge...

This is really why we can't have nice things.

Claims that 1/6 was an attempted coup are just so far beyond the pale of honest discourse.

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He literally psyched a crowd up into a fervor after months of lying and then they marched on the Capitol. His own people were sickened by his giddiness during the event. He was telling his VP to install him as POTUS and tweeted as much. The same guy has been telling folks he plans to be reinstated in August.

You can lie to yourself about it but you're not going to get far lying to others.

Might get far enough: this entire thread is flagged.

Well, that's frustrating.

Once you only care about silencing those who would point out fascism, it becomes easy enough. Watchful moderation willing to act is necessary.

I'm unsurprised that HN is being exploited this way, but I am pleasantly surprised that there are people seeing them in operation like yourself and the others speaking up.

The truth gets buried, ultimately, not by these bad-faith arguments, but by the giant thread above consisting of those who prefer to live in the world of the 90s where Republicans and Democrats worked to further their specific interests collectively in an organized fashion, and listening to both sides made sense.

I don't know if the memo is going to get out: those Republicans are gone. Those days are gone. Once the party has turned fascist I don't think there's going back, it's not like they can turn away from their deceived or delusional voters.

HN isn't a politics forum, its only function is to provide value for YCombinator. It can't address these foundational failures in human thinking.

But it's informative to see it struggle and fail.

Please keep political flamewars off HN. This whole subthread is wretched and the sort of thing we're trying to avoid here. You guys have the rest of the internet if that's what you want.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Edit: it turns out that your account has been using HN primarily for political battle. That's not allowed, and I've banned the account. We do that regardless of what politics you're battling for, because it destroys this place for its intended purpose. Please don't create accounts to do that with.

If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll use HN as intended in the future.

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