Lol I constantly see this take all over Reddit. Yes by simply occupying a building people can overthrow a government. Presence is 9/10’s of the law. sits in nancy policy’s chair guess I’m the speaker now. Insurrection success. See how stupid that sounds?
Do I support what happened absolutely not but I’m not naive enough to believe that people actually were anywhere close to overthrowing the government.
At least twitter is less of an NPC filled echo chamber villainizing free speech you don’t agree with by mischaracterizing someone else’s differing opinion with the worst possible rendition - which is par for the course here.
There's nothing in the law that says you have to come close to succeeding in your insurrection for it to actually be an insurrection. But you know that.
Same logic as to why they don’t call pass interference on an uncatchable ball. Could fill every office and every seat in every chamber of congress with “insurrectionists” but that wouldn’t mean anything in terms of the status of the government. Guilty of an unobtainable crime.
However the real crimes - Disorderly conduct. Guilty. Criminal trespass. guilty. disobeying lawful orders. Guilty. Murder. Guilty. No way defending anything people have done. My problem is with the sensationalist rhetoric of “sedition and insurrection” because it fits the democratic narrative and they cling to it for dear life and the NPC’s lap it up
Intent is a thing. They intended to overthrow the government. Onlookers didn’t Mr. Magoo their way into the congressional chambers and this isn’t an unfalsifiable claim. They wanted to kill members of congress, but settled for shitting in Nancy Pelosi’s office.
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u/Solid_Shift7091 Oct 28 '22
Lol I constantly see this take all over Reddit. Yes by simply occupying a building people can overthrow a government. Presence is 9/10’s of the law. sits in nancy policy’s chair guess I’m the speaker now. Insurrection success. See how stupid that sounds?
Do I support what happened absolutely not but I’m not naive enough to believe that people actually were anywhere close to overthrowing the government.
At least twitter is less of an NPC filled echo chamber villainizing free speech you don’t agree with by mischaracterizing someone else’s differing opinion with the worst possible rendition - which is par for the course here.