On 11/6/21 06:56, poindexter FORTRAN wrote:
Over in the fido politics forum, the difference is usually explained
by "the summer riots didn't target the capital or federal buildings."
When you point out that the rioters in the Pacific NW often targeted
a federal building, it is again defended by "but they didn't manage
to get in."
So it is more OK if you want to storm a federal building but don't
actually make it in I guess.
Considering the attempts at blocking off exits and burning a police
station, that was pretty bad... As was launching commercial fireworks
into said federal courthouse in an effort to burn it down. I seem to
recall a federal detention facility was also attacked, one of the
attackers shot/killed though.
Of course that doesn't include hundreds of police injuries, iirc over a
dozen police deaths, hundreds of civilian deaths, some brutal, over ten thousand citizen victims, hundreds held captive in chaz/chop, thousands
of rape incidents (who knew blm were rapist incels), billions in
property damage, and so much more.
There were a handful of violent actors in the capitol riots (during
daylight), I wouldn't exactly call it an insurrection though.
As to not getting in... maybe because one was proactively defended, and
the other, they opened the damned doors for.
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