(June 16, 2022 at 9:36 am)Mister Agenda Wrote:(June 14, 2022 at 3:03 pm)Irreligious Atheist Wrote: No.
Then your point in response to my comment was what?
I read back your post and you did say pull a stunt, which I'm assuming is referring to breaking into the Capitol building, so yeah, Dems didn't do that, so apologies if you thought I was making a one to one exact comparison, but Hillary, the face of the party just 6 years ago, was preparing people for a stolen election narrative if Trump had been the one to come out on top in 2020. So yes, I'm aware that's it's not a one to one comparison, but the temperature in the country and the idea of rejecting election results was already happening in 2016. This temperature in the country didn't just pop up out of nowhere in 2020. Like I posted before, the media questioned Trump's legitimacy as President for years based on so called pee tapes and Vladamir Putin making the election illegitimate, somehow. Thousands were chanting not my President on the streets, and talking heads on the news and Hollywood celebs were making PSAs asking the EC to vote against Trump even though he was the choice of the people. Trump took it even further, of course, but he did decide against calling for that state of emergency or he was talked out of it at least, so thank goodness for that.
And again, as far as me bringing up other riots in the country around that time and other government buildings coming under attack, it's not for a whataboutism. It's just to point out that this was the temperature in the country at the time, and this type of behaviour was kind of being normalized and excused by activists on tv at the time. We were living under a special set of circumstances. Lockdowns were causing everyone to get stir crazy, and this has led to riots all around the world. In normal times, we're not being locked down. People's businesses were going under and their dreams were being lost due to lockdowns. People were pissed about how these lockdowns were impacting their children's development. Depression off the charts. People were losing their jobs because they refused a work mandated medical procedure that they weren't comfortable undergoing, and I know no one here cares about that, but these types of decisions over ones own bodily autonomy with a brand new vaccine do matter to many people. Governor Whitmer and others even went as far as disallowing the sale of gardening supplies, which is just bonkers, and people were wondering what the hell happened to their country. With all of this going on, in hindsight it kind of makes sense that something like J6 was eventually going to happen with all of these special circumstances being met at the same time. The temperature was just red hot.
Once we forget about covid, I think people are going to cool down a bit. Security around the Capitol was just insane after J6 for months on end, and a waste of many tens of millions of dollars, but yeah, I'm pretty sure security is going to be a lot more funded and ready in the future and learn from this. And if it does happen again in 20 years, and one more police officer dies and the vote is delayed again for a few hours, that's not the end of the world either. Life goes on.
