(06-14-2022, 09:16 AM)flsprtsgod Wrote:

(06-14-2022, 09:02 AM)mikesez Wrote: How could any mentally competent person be sure that these people wanted to do no more than occupy the building for a few hours?
You and I both know they built a gallows with Mike Pence's name on it.
You and I both know they chanted Pelosi's name, demanding that she be brought out to them.
Yet you are positive that this was just bluster and posturing, that they didn't really mean to harm or threaten a single soul. Yet they say I'm gullible.  Seems to me that you are the gullible one.

How many bullets were exchanged in this violent insurrection? What you're talking about was just performance art, there was no attempt to capture or hang anyone. You really want me to believe that this protest was a credible insurrection when the most heavily armed civilian population on Earth showed up to overthrow their government and didn't bring their guns, mush less use them? Balderdash, you've fallen for the Kayfabe my man. It was an almost entirely peaceful protest sullied by a few bad actors and several federal instigators. Meanwhile, the left is protesting the USSC by shutting down all access to their building and attempting to assassinate Justices. Of course the media isn't telling you that the left is "attempting to destroy our DEMOCRACY!!!!" because it's their team doing the disrupting. I also don't expect to see the Congressional Players lining up to play their drama games with them, again because it's their team so they have to support by obfuscation...kinda like you continue to do.

"A few bad actors".
Charges of seditious conspiracy have been brought. True, only about 10 people have been charged so far. Do you think these charges are false? Do you think they crime they are accused of is not serious?
I also disagree with blocking access to the Supreme Court, thats also not a good thing to do, but, there's no allegation that anyone there attacked any police.  And we already know the Supreme Court can work remotely.  Broader picture, one guy is charged with planning to assassinate Kavanaugh, but he never attacked his target and didn't attack the cops protecting the target either.
So how can you draw any equivalence? Ethically they are both wrong, but one is much much more serious than the other.

Not attacking cops vs. attacking them
Lone wolf vs. conspiracy
Packing a couple of guns vs. creating multiple armories around town
Deciding abortion law vs deciding who the next CoC of the world's largest military is

This is sawdust vs. planks, man.

I would never call it kayfabe but for the sake of argument.. can't you agree that this type of play acting is extremely inadvisable? That it attracts many people, on both sides, who don't think it's play acting?

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