What do these protestors hope to accomplish?
Terrorism is the unlawful use of force or violence against persons or property to intimidate or coerce a government or its citizens to further certain political or social objectives.
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I'm seeing plenty of pepper spray on tv at the moment.
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#183I am shocked and horrified that it is taking so long to clear those who have breached the Capitol. There is more police efficiency and aggression in a run of the mill BLM protest. Edit: for example: https://twitter.com/RedR1dngHood/status/1346908557560537091
BLM took over an entire section of Seattle for weeks.
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#185Boy do I wish there was a place to discuss politics in a dispassionate way. I find these events fascinating from a historical and sociological point of view. It really is history in the making. HN is pretty good at this when it comes to other topics, when when it turns political, everyone pulls out their partisan membership card.
For those of us who have to live in a nation that used to be solidly small-d democratic and seems to be trending in a different direction, it can be hard to be dispassionate about these issues. If you want a forum in which to dryly discuss momentous events, you might be looking for one that contains no one affected by those events.
I am American, but thanks for your sanctimonious dismissal.
Discussing political events in a rational manner will never be a bad thing.
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#186I am shocked and horrified that it is taking so long to clear those who have breached the Capitol. There is more police efficiency and aggression in a run of the mill BLM protest. Edit: for example: https://twitter.com/RedR1dngHood/status/1346908557560537091
They are armed. You can't use tear gas against weapons but guns. Using guns will lead to deaths either way, so I think they are taking the correct stance.
Several people have claimed this, but none of the news sources mention it
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#187When does it stop being"protests" in the reporting?
When windows start getting broken, buildings set on fire, etc. From what I can gather thus far, it seems like it's people being where they're not supposed to be and refusing to leave. edit from downthread And there we go, they're breaking in now. Time to clean house.
Windows were broken, that's how the inurectionists entered the capitol.
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#188How 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?
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#189Where are the police? Is the police force and now the national guard not controlled by the DC Mayor's office? I don't understand how they weather 1000 protests a year in the capitol and weren't prepared for this.
> Is the police force and now the national guard not controlled by the DC Mayor's office?
No. National Guard units are normally controlled by state governors, but since DC is not a state and has no governor, the DC National Guard is the only guard unit that reports directly to the president [1].
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/District_of_Columbia_National_...
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#190How 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?
The US’ ruling entity (in the collective egregore sense) would cease to exist and would be replaced by another if all of us regular humans weren’t fed constant new ways to divide and hate each other.