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U.S. Capitol Locked Down Amid Escalating Protests
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#162I 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
I think the people there are looking for a grand narrative with the feeling of a struggle between two sides. My guess is that Washington is attempting to avoid creating that environment to minimize conflict. That's why we see the burglars strolling like tourists guided by red velvet. [1] As a disclaimer, I'm not American, so take my feelings with a grain of salt. [1] https://twitter.com/JenniferJJacobs/status/1346902…
I’m American and that possibility has occurred to me too. The police are trying to manage the situation without inflaming it, and especially without creating some Tienenmann-lite incident of violence.
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#163How 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?
Social media.
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#164This is a tinderbox. If one person on either side fires a bullet, the ripple effects could be unbelievable
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#165I'm sad and disappointed at the response.
This further increases the divide and makes it harder for us to have any non-extremist (whether left or right) and nuanced discussions.
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#166What do these protestors hope to accomplish?
According to some of the more conspiratorial comments in this thread, a coup.
The actual answer is probably that they do not believe the claims of election fraud have been sufficiently investigated. I'm sure they want a more thorough investigation to be held before the election results are officially recognized by congress.
That and they're just angry people who have resorted to rioting - like how a toddler resorts to a tantrum when it doesn't get its way. This appears to be an increasingly common theme with modern US politics.
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#167The difference between the police/military presence when people are protesting the death of unarmed civilians and this nonsense is glaring and very telling.
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#168This 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…
So you're saying this isn't anything like Seattle's 'Summer of Love'?
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#169What do these protestors hope to accomplish?
Well, they halted the certification process, didn't they?
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#170Boy 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.