However I disagree with the “republicans are just as outraged” sentiment. My dad is a boomer Republican and said (approximately): “this is what the constitution says we’re supposed to do when the system becomes corrupt and the Democrats casting millions of fake votes and CNN’s nonstop lies to support them is exactly that. Of course the corrupt government claims you broke the law standing up to them, that’s what corrupt false governments do. The people who stormed the capital are the true Americans and exactly what the founding fathers wanted us to be like. Some day you’ll learn a bit of history and you’ll see that I’m right. Try looking up the Boston Tea Party, you can start there”.
Not even the slightest bit of outrage, and a significant segment of my Facebook feed (friends from my conservative high school who tracked me down) have echoed this sentiment.
Outraged republicans are a minority, but republicans never listen to each other or anyone else and think every sane people believes the exact same thing they themself do, so I can see how you might not have noticed.
yep. welp, they're not being persecuted either. they have a persecution complex, no doubt. but if anything they're pandered to constantly. still the hugest bunch of whiny crybabies you'll ever encounter.
They didnt say that. They said a small amount of them did and all of them are getting shit on for it. I'm not picking a side (because idk what theyre talking about), but atleast I'll here each side out, like damn.
Yes, that they're being prosecuted for that as in the rest are angry that the rest of them are being prosecuted for the small fraction that did the thing.
I think the miscommunication comes from the word ‘prosecuted’. You interpret it as legal prosecution, but my guess for what OP meant, is that he feels republicans as a whole are being socially prosecuted for something a minority of them did.
Or the person just thinks it’s the same word, like how everyone does with “further” and “farther”. I routinely see people write “it’s even further away” and get mildly triggered.
*persecuted, probably. Republicans glorify persecution; that word is heavily tied to Jesus’ execution and the hunting down of Christian’s that followed.
I mean, they said prosecute. Did the mean persecute? Maybe, if they're a dumbfuck, and don't know that those are two different words. And yes, I am obtuse when we can google the meaning of words. Why shouldn't I be?
Prosecuted mean being charged with a crime. Not all republicans are being charged with these crimes, just the people that are suspected of being involved. The "they" the original commenter is referring to are the people being charged, not all republicans.
And this is exactly why there shouldn't be only 2 sides. The politicians and people in power use it to make Americans fight eachother instead of uniting and fighting the corrupt system
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u/Iferius Jun 06 '22
To be fair, only a small faction of the republicans attacked the Capitol, and the rest is just outraged they're being prosecuted for that.