When does it stop being"protests" in the reporting?
When the protesters have darker skin.
In fairness, the 100 days of riots in Portland were also described as peaceful protets
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#172This is a failure of leadership by the republicans - plain and simple. I don't care if this comment is perceived as partisan, it's a statement of fact. If the republican leadership had unequivocally come out against the narrative that the election was stolen, this wouldn't be happening. Edit: Yes, it's true that the top leader and his acolytes have engineered this outcome, but the majority of the republican leadershi…
They had their chance to do the right thing last January. Instead of holding a fair impeachment trial in the Senate, with witnesses, they chose to let this clown show go on. They are complicit.
"Impeachment trials" are not really designed to be fair in the way actual trials are. They are legally designed to be a popularity contest among the legislature; hence why the Republican party was able to block it, and also why they would have been able to vote no if they had decided not to block it. Honestly, letting the term run out and having the president lose in a typical election is probably the least debatable way to change the president. There is some historical precedent for impeachments being used as political tools, while elections are wreathed in tradition and legitimacy.
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#173History in the making right here. This[1] might be an early contender for image of the year [1] https://twitter.com/igorbobic/status/1346906369232920576/pho...
Here is a guy occupying the senate chair: https://twitter.com/TheRachLindsay/status/134691299372915916...
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#174I don't understand how the same people who said we should defund the police are forcefully suggesting that we need a strong police response here? I'm not going to take any sides. All sides are so rife with hypocrisy that I just don't know what to say.
> But all sides are so rife with hypocrisy that I just don't know what to say.
You apparently know how to both-sides insurgents invading the capitol so you’ve got that going for you.
But here’s a hint: “defund” and “abolish” are different words with different meanings, and using one rather than the other is purposeful.
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#175This is an outrage, and an embarrassment. The world is watching. They need to stop this, now.
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#176Tocqville observed that US elections are a time of extraordinary stress on the system that nonetheless eventually subsides. This last ditch effort is a little more than this.
Yes, the ones currently storming the capitol are, likely, deluded they are fighting the good fight, but their stand at this point is little more than symbolic at this point.
My beef, though not a surprised beef, is with the commander in chief, who sees it as a way to stay in the hearts and minds of the his base. In some ways, the guy is very smart. It just scary when he is playing with fire like that.
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#177America continues to be number one -- COVID, racists, hypocrisy, gun deaths, etc.
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#179How did we arrive to this point where a huge chunk of the population is in one reality and another huge chunk of the population is in another reality? Segregation of information sources? Politicization of media outlets? Self-reinforcing social bubbles? A combination of all of them and more?
Hmmm idk... anyway, time to get back to grinding leetcode so I can go work at Facebook and make 200k instead of a paltry 150k somewhere else!!
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#180This is a failure of leadership by the republicans - plain and simple. I don't care if this comment is perceived as partisan, it's a statement of fact. If the republican leadership had unequivocally come out against the narrative that the election was stolen, this wouldn't be happening. Edit: Yes, it's true that the top leader and his acolytes have engineered this outcome, but the majority of the republican leadershi…
This is terrorism, plain and simple. Donald Trump is the leader of a terrorist cult.
I think that the republicans have benefitted a lot from hyperbole and insults. People need to tone down their language