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I asked, "What happened on January 6, 2021?" and its answer is, I think, telling: https://imgur.com/a/e1H8NvK

Seems very factual and unbiased, I think you're showing everyone else more about yourself. It's not a "Heroic attempt to save democracy" or an "Large scale Insurrection and attempt to instill Fascism".

Before they were pardoned, the rioters were indicted by grand juries and convicted by juries of their peers. It was an insurrection, not just a "large crowd".

The media wave made it a kangaroo court worse than OJ Simpson's trial. My only point was that there is a lot of bias in it, and right in the same politiosphere that those juries are in. Gives a lot of "police have investigated themselves and found no problems"

You're entitled to your opinion, but neither what you said nor Trump's pardon can change history. What's done is done.

January 6 was an insurrection incited by the sitting President against his own country. Any attempt to water this down is dishonest.

Hey now, you’re getting dangerously close to implying the king did something wrong

Ah, like the following "very factual and unbiased" summary of November 9th, 1923 in Munich:

"The Defense Ministry and its exterior plaza were closed to the public. A large crowd gathered outside. Before 11:00AM, people attempted to breach security and enter the building without authorization, and force was used. Normal government operations resumed the following day, and some members of the crowd were arrested."

Perhaps missing “the first attempt to stop the peaceful transfer of power in the nations history at the behest of a sitting President”?

> "Large scale Insurrection and attempt to instill Fascism".

interesting because this is exactly what it was, and it isn't really a debate

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