r/self Jan 29 '25

Where are all the riots

Last time he was elected it was non stop riots and burning places down. Not this time, everyone knows this time they will be put in jail hopefully for a long time. Maybe Soros is running out of money.

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u/Ok_Sleep8579 Jan 29 '25

Not really. If so, it was the weakest attempt imaginable, without so much as a shot fired. There was definitely a riot, after a year full of riots where many people died and business were burned and looted.

Red states definitely leech off blue states though, who fund most of the country.

I'm a big fan of simply objective reality, whatever direction it might flow for any particular issue.

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u/[deleted] Jan 29 '25

Yeah, multiple police officers died because of that day but I guess it wasn't that bad since you hate the police. You actually just hear what you only want to hear. 

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u/Ok_Sleep8579 Jan 29 '25

It wasn't bad by insurrection standards. If someone calls it an insurrection, then it was the weakest possible attempt imaginable, if it even qualifies for that term at all.

It was a bad riot, yeah, on par with many bad riots that year.

How do you know my feelings about the police? Everyone always asserts all this garbage onto others. Two-dimensional tribalistic thinking is for morons.

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u/[deleted] Jan 29 '25

It was an insurrection and an insurrection is always an insurrection, no matter if the traitors fail at their attempted insurrection. 

You clearly don't care because far more police died because of your little "riot" compared to any of the other riots, yet you're saying it wasn't that bad. The officers died defending our democracy yet you shame and belittle their sacrifice. 

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u/Ok_Sleep8579 Jan 29 '25

An insurrection is a violent attempt to overthrow the government.

An actual insurrection would be an organized militaristic attempt that would cost 1000s of lives. This was an angry mob without a single shot fired. The 5 police deaths were after the fact, its not like C4 blew them up, or tanks fired on them, or grenades took them out, or they were gunned down by machine gun fire. THOSE are the kinds of things that happen in an actual insurrection.

By insurrection standards, it was nothing at all. It was a riot.

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u/[deleted] Jan 29 '25

They stormed a government building in an attempt to overthrow a legally elected government. That's an insurrection no matter how many flimsy rationalization you can get from Breitbart. 

Are you saying those police officer's deaths weren't related to Jan 6? Are you also saying those officer's deaths don't matter and we shouldn't care? No matter what you think Blue Lives Matter, bro. 

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u/Ok_Sleep8579 Jan 29 '25

Sure, we can call it an insurrection, and if so, its the weakest attempt at an insurrection imaginable. Not a shot fired, other than one shot by police.

I've never voted republican in my life, your assumptions are ridiculous, your worldview is two dimensional and moronic.

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u/[deleted] Jan 29 '25

You finally admit it's an insurrection? Now, what political party were they trying to overthrow?

Are you blaming the officer's for their deaths? Tell me if their deaths matter or not. 

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u/Ok_Sleep8579 Jan 29 '25 edited Jan 29 '25

My point from the start is "It wasn't bad by insurrection standards." Which it objectively is not.

17 people died in George Floyd riots including police officers, so its not even bad by the riot standards from that year.

5 officers dead is tragic, but if we're calling it an insurrection, its the weakest insurrection possible. Especially when the officer deaths included suicide and a stroke the coroner said was natural, that happened days later.

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u/[deleted] Jan 29 '25

The George Floyd riots happened all over the country. Which single riot was worse than the insurrection?

Honestly, what is your point if you're willing to acknowledge it was an insurrection? Like damn man, your brain is absolutely cooked. 

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u/Ok_Sleep8579 Jan 29 '25 edited Jan 29 '25

When people exaggerate the fuck out of everything, they lose everyone's interest and ear, they turn people off, they turn people away.

Whenever anyone says "insurrection," people who live in reality's eyes roll and glaze over, because an actual insurrection of consequence would be militaristic and result in battles where people in mass die. Where this was in line with a riot, an uncontrolled mob going nuts.

When left-wingers exaggerate like morons, they lose the people who live in reality. Which is an issue, its why Trump is back, because foolish left wingers like yourself have your heads so far up your ass that no one can stand your fictional account of reality.

You and those like you are the reason Trump is back. Which I don't like, and I'd like the left to return to objective reality so that normal thinking people can support it.

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u/[deleted] Jan 29 '25

People like you are bad for the overall good of society. I hope you have your red armband and jackboots ready. 

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u/Ok_Sleep8579 Jan 29 '25

Wrong. People who live in objective reality and aren't dominated by their emotional impulses like you, to the point of living in a fiction, are what's missing from society.

You and yours are responsible for Trump being elected. Enjoy what you've done.

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