https://edition.cnn.com/2021/01/06/politics/gallery/electora...
There are two ways forward: We make a really big deal out of this and therefore implicitly demand that protests should be suppressed with massive force. Alternatively, we can admit that this is about as peaceful an outcome as we could have possibly hoped for, all things considered.
They pushed past armed guards, broke barriers, entered the chambers of an active joint session of congress forcing the entirety of the USA legislative branch and its Vice President at the very moment they were certifying a presidential election into a secure bunker.
... and you think that's "about as peaceful an outcome as we could possibly have hoped for"?
I genuinely don't understand. This is the kind of operation of government that is supposed to never be disruptible. If past mobs knew it was this easy then we could have had a zillion coups by now.
You're saying they weren't murderers I guess? That they didn't blow up the building or take hostages (though there is footage of a guy with zip ties that looks like he wanted to)? I mean, yeah, that would be worse. This is still unimaginably bad.
https://twitter.com/kristin__wilson/status/13473283250191646...
I'll go with this one, from Cambridge Dictionary:
"an attack on a building or town in which a lot of destruction is caused and many valuable things are stolen"
> ... and you think that's "about as peaceful an outcome as we could possibly have hoped for"?
Yes, as peaceful as we could have hoped for, considering that many of these people believe a satanic cult has undermined the US government and defrauded their rightful president out of a second term.
> I genuinely don't understand. This is the kind of operation of government that is supposed to never be disruptible. If past mobs knew it was this easy then we could have had a zillion coups by now.
You don't automatically achieve a coup by entering some building and interrupting some bureaucratic process, no matter how symbolic it may be. Biden got elected.
> This is still unimaginably bad.
You must lack imagination.
