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submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net

i-think-that

I saw the whole thing as an absolute joke, but they're treating it like it was an actual terrorist strike or something. "An AtTaCk On DeMoCrAcY", fuck off, it was some people wandering inside the Capitol because the cops let them in. I think like two people died and one of them was a cop, one of them was the taser balls guy.

Remember when they wanted to make some cop Time's person of the year for being there on Jan 6th? lol.

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[-] dkr567@hexbear.net 13 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

If January 6th protestors had backings from either the DHS (it seems to be the closest to the ministry of interior over there from looking up) or US military, sure I'd understand them pearl clutching but they had none of that and also it was hilarious and looked like tailgating gone wrong after too much booze.

[-] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 49 points 1 day ago

There was also the lady with the Gadsen flag who was trampled to death

[-] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 43 points 1 day ago

Genuinely one of the funniest deaths I've ever heard of

[-] AernaLingus@hexbear.net 8 points 1 day ago

Holy crap it's real, how have I never heard of this

[-] Parsani@hexbear.net 19 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

The greatest artwork of the 21st century

[-] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 47 points 1 day ago

January 6th was one the best days of my life. It was really really funny. My enemies fought my enemies, people wore silly costumes. As far as I'm concerned corned the worst part about it is once again liberals not knowing a good time when they see one. I was a covid welfare queen at the time and it kinda kicked ass to be Canadian, i had also found out anyone on covid assistance who started a 'small business' could also get like ten grand in grant money so I started an easy store literally selling twigs and rocks I found in the woods, faked some sales by having friends 'buy' this bullshit and give em the money back later. I was having an amazing day. My roommate even scored genuinely good crack a travelling kid from out west had brought as a bargaining chip to crash on our coach. Getting ripped and seeing the funniest thing ever happen on the news ever being taken as serious was just awesome.

[-] theturtlemoves@hexbear.net 12 points 1 day ago
[-] Beetle_O_Rourke@hexbear.net 25 points 1 day ago

The coup is not when you go on TV to declare yourself president for life.

The coup is when you get the army and industry onboard to the point you aren't arrested as soon as you go to bed after making that speech.

Even if frothingfash had showed up with technicals, mortars and IEDs, amd gone on to execute every sitting member of congress, it's not like Goldman Sachs and Microsoft would have started to take orders from them. It never had the potential to last longer than mobilization of the National Guard would have taken, because there was no movment or actual power behind it.

[-] SoJB@lemmy.ml 16 points 1 day ago

In retrospect, seeing SS and senators run around the capitol terrified for their lives when one bullet was all it took to send the cowards home was the funniest thing in a while

Mfs on either side wouldn’t have lasted even one km of the long march

[-] theturtlemoves@hexbear.net 7 points 1 day ago

The coup is when you get the army and industry onboard to the point you aren't arrested as soon as you go to bed after making that speech.

That's a successful coup. But even an unsuccessful coup can get a lot of people killed. That's my concern. I'm not American; I don't care who sits in the White House.

[-] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 15 points 1 day ago

Like anything to do with Trump that liberals have an undying hysteria for, it wasn't really a big deal when you consider the status quo. These people are so fucking cooked when climate crisis starts being theor problem. You can't be so weak willed and delicate. It's a pathetic affectation for a warlord first of all, and also for the radlibs who've taken up being pathetic as political virtue, that's passing the buck. Your a boomer but worse cause it's your own future. I'm begging for anything left of literal nazis to show any spine at all. It's sad. We've got the worst example of capitalist democracy right in front of us and there somehow isn't a single person who isn't too needle dicked to st least be what Bernie pretended to be? If that's what's on the bus I'd rather fucking walk.

[-] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 50 points 1 day ago

I hate being redundant on a two comment thread, but I've genuinely had liberals (on lemmy) say to me "and they almost succeeded" and I am just baffled people can think that. Like, it's not just a matter of defining what "close" is. They had not engaged in even the first step of any actionable plan to control the country, barely any shots were even fired the whole thing was so unserious, and they say it was "close." The only thing they got "close" to was having a nice vacation.

[-] WeedReference420@hexbear.net 35 points 1 day ago

Terrorism is when a bunch of Conner O'Malley characters and their mothers walk around the Capitol in a daze pissing in Nancy Pelosi's bonsai plant pot

[-] Parsani@hexbear.net 14 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Someone in the crowd smoking 500 cigs for 5g

[-] WeedReference420@hexbear.net 12 points 1 day ago

Then going back to their tent to eat canned peaches and cream and watch The Matrix on a portable DVD player

[-] Justice@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 1 day ago

Tbf, they did get very close to offing the less-protected members in congress that the hogs fixate on (Omar and Tlaib for example). And when I say close I mean like they entered rooms right as congress was evacuating. They were physically close. And I have no doubt some of those guys, given a chance, would've done it.

Now whether or not I actually care about them doing it to all the unmentioned members... well... who knows

[-] Xiisadaddy@lemmygrad.ml 64 points 1 day ago

Liberals act like if those chuds had successfully taken control of the capitol they woulda just been in charge all of a sudden of the whole country. Like we all woulda gone omg ok i guess u guys are congress now.

It's video game brain. If red-team stands on the control point and pushes blu-team out, red-team wins the match and takes power

[-] stigsbandit34z@hexbear.net 19 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Congress just would’ve gone remote, further illustrating that we’ve already lost no matter what happens

[-] electric_nan@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 day ago
[-] Weedian@hexbear.net 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

??

what do you mean you didnt say anything after. you think the hogs would have an actual effect on US policies if they occupied the building for longer?

[-] electric_nan@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 day ago

It's (kind of) a joke, but I meant to imply that liberals would just roll over and accept the new de facto government. How exactly would liberals react to a coup?

[-] barrbaric@hexbear.net 2 points 19 hours ago

They'd vote so hard to overturn the coup, and when that didn't work they'd do nothing.

[-] Weedian@hexbear.net 17 points 1 day ago

it is very funny they sent some proud boys to prison for 18 years and after sentencing they got mad at trump for not caring about them

[-] BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net 22 points 1 day ago

Trump consistently giving the cold shoulder to his most ardent fans is possibly the funniest thing about him.

[-] Justice@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 1 day ago

The leader was like literally a fed cooperator and still got blasted. I suspect he won't be doing his full sentence, but I'm honestly surprised he went at all. Libs must've been big mad

[-] OprahsedCreature@lemmy.ml 37 points 1 day ago

I remember when Jan 6 happened and then nothing fundamentally changed. If they don't take it seriously then why should I? Why should anyone? The primary showed that it didn't make Democrats care more about democracy or anything.

And that's what I tell anyone who whinges about Jan 6 to me.

[-] Torenico@hexbear.net 23 points 1 day ago

If their reaction to Jan 6 is to beg people to vote blue, then Jan 6 was a complete circus and a massive nothingburger.

Wake me up when there are elements of the pro-Trump National Guard engaging the Bidenite National Guard in the streets of fucking Denver of something like that.

[-] The_Jewish_Cuban@hexbear.net 16 points 1 day ago

Bide-Knights kelly

[-] Frogmanfromlake@hexbear.net 13 points 1 day ago

They talk about it as seriously as they do 9/11. I was baffled the first time I saw this irl but yeah they get very emotional about it lol

[-] Parsani@hexbear.net 21 points 1 day ago

Jan 6 is a holiday remembering the funniest day in American history

[-] grandepequeno@hexbear.net 12 points 1 day ago

I hope it happens again

[-] Sulvor@hexbear.net 22 points 1 day ago
[-] Parsani@hexbear.net 9 points 1 day ago

The Deluge, Stephen Markley. But it doesn't really end well

[-] Sulvor@hexbear.net 6 points 1 day ago

Did it get used as an excuse for a red purge?

Unlike what happened to the chuds, outside of a few perpetrators they're still just living life getting more radical.

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