don't you get it? Things are only 'bad' when the other guys do them!

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today's insurrection was 93% peaceful

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Last year's riots were for "a good cause" and started by "good people" and this one is for "a bad cause" and started by "bad people," therefore those were good but this is bad. Like how Antifa is good and Proud Boys are bad even though they're both loser thugs Darwin'ing each other because one is racist or whatever.

It's funny because normally redditors have a really reductionist and utilitarian way of viewing the world, but they go full Kant when it comes to their pet political issues.

If you really wrote this pile of idiocy multiple times I’ll do it too

Yeah protesting police brutality is the same as descending on your capitol city to deny the democratic process of the most powerful nation on earth because you are part of a cult of personality

You guys deserved every bit of European smugness that you received throughout the years.

Because it’s not the same. this is a cult of personality attacking the check and balances of a democracy and it’s being treated like a sports riot.

As retarded and misguided as “defund the police” is, it does not deny the democratic process of the United States

I cannot make it cleared than that. If the military was on the MAGA side what would have happened?

I know the military wasn’t there, I have eyes.

Now stop doubling down and use your brain to process what I wrote in the previous comment.

My only solace in your replies is the confirmation of my above statement

You guys deserved every bit of European smugness that you received throughout the years

No you don’t understand. A group of fentanyl addicted rural retards flying in from across the country storming the legislature because a billionaire from new york who doesn’t give a damn about anyone but himself didn’t win is the exact same as anti police brutality protesters because some of them sprayed graffiti and burned cars. These are definitely equivalent things and I am definitely not a rightoid coping at the fact that my fellow rightoids took the larp too far.

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I really hope that everyone that disagrees with me is right and I’m an idiot for taking this seriously.

Because the alternative is the reality that the US has a fascist opposition during a weak lefty presidency in the midst a pandemic while China is growing militarily.

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I literally wrote that Biden’s a weak president.

Shit gimmick

Most of the people disagreeing with you are “centrists” who are actually just rightoids larping as centrists and need to cope with their more active brethren going full retard and do so by desperately trying to come up with an equivalency between them and the blm protesters. I don’t know if the sub opened back up or what but the influx of these types makes it seem like it has.

I do. That’s what you don’t get.

This is not the same thing.

I will not, not even on arrDrama. Have fun.

MAGAtards really did the most haram thing and made SRDines right to be smug. I hadn’t thought of that.

Settle down friend

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It's not literally the same, and I sympathized with the protestors especially at the beginning, but the fruit it has borne is so similar that it's really difficult not to point out just how fucking bad it looks from an optics standpoint

The BLM martyrs like George Floyd, Breanna Taylor and Jacob Blake have pretty much a cult of personality unto themselves. George Floyd was high to borderline OD levels on fent and was saying "I can't breathe" way before Chauvin's boot was even on his neck, and had covid and heart problems. Did that make it ok for Chauvin to kneel on his neck? No. Is Chauvin a criminal? Yes. But I don't think a guy who participated in an armed robbery was the best guy to literally make murals out of when it turns out the cop wasn't even what killed him. And Jacob Blake was literally a convicted rapist, and the same people who salivate over the idea of torturing rapists (real or alleged) and make a show over that decided to beatify him because his death injury served a narrative.

Breanna Taylor didn't do anything wrong, but her boyfriend was a fucking moron who shot at a cop and the cop shot back and accidentally got her. It was a tragedy, but the boyfriend was more at fault than the cop. I get that at the beginning we didn't know all this detail, but now we do and BLM supporters pointedly ignore it to chase their lost cause the same way trump supporters chase the idea of "stopping the steal" because Qanon told them to. Systematically speaking, a 2019 empirical study failed to show that police officers show more deadly force to black men than white men, not sure if the methodology was sound on that but the point is people are really stuck on the narrative because it's taboo to even mention this. Automod deleted the comment because it had a link but it should be easy to google.

Regardless, mutual tension and distrust between LEOs and black Americans had been simmering for a while and it was a big problem; even if there was merely the perception of mistreatment and I'm not saying there wasn't any, there are plenty of racist cops like any other profession, the feelings and anxiety of black Americans are certainly real. But however well-intentioned the protests were, they've accomplished absolutely nothing of value and probably made things even worse. Making cities remove their Robert E Lee statues doesn't count. Three black teens were murdered in CHAZ within the span of like two fucking weeks. That blood is on Seattle's hands. And for people so concerned about covid transmission, lots of people were in huge protest gatherings while not wearing masks. Police departments' budgets in major cities are cut by half or more so they have less incentive to give a shit and cops can't do choke holds anymore so they're going straight from tazing to shooting now. And the PR of black Americans is in the shitter because to half of the country, the behavior of rioters has only reinforced the stereotype of blacks as violent thugs who will take any opportunity to steal whatever they can. But the left can't really get themselves to admit that they got ahead of themselves and made a mistake the way they've gone about this, so they pretend they've succeeded when they have not.

Like to this day on my main I cannot suggest that trump jumped 20 points with black women because urban black women were fed up with the looting and rioting in their neighborhoods, and while Trump was clamping down with a law and order approach, Biden offered only a very weak condemnation because anything more would upset the Democratic base. People don't want to hear it. The misleading slogan "defund the police" has been a nice scapegoat for the moderate left for all BLM's faults, but it is disingenuous to claim that is the only problem.

WORDS WORDS WORDS 😂😂

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But since you took an effort to write all that, I’ll read it.

I read it.

You really wrote all that and said nothing on the protest of today?

I could pick your comment apart but I would need to write 2x what you wrote and fuck that so:

BLM is misguided and retarded, but at least they don’t attack the core democratic principle of the US. Equating the two is misguided at best and snowflake coping at worst.

I hope that’s pasta from December from some .win site and not your brain vomit from today.

So in other words, they're different because yesterday's riot had a bad cause? 🤔 And I agree this is a horrible cause. I already said BLM and this aren't literally the same. It's humorous hyperbole.

They aren't repudiating democracy in their minds. Qanon and Trump have convinced these people despite all evidence that they are the ones protecting democracy because they really believe that millions of Biden votes were fabricated and Trump won in a landslide and the democratic process was subverted by the deep state, and they believe this religiously. The lawsuits like the one the Texas AG was behind were more cynically motivated because Paxton and Powell were in on it and knew what they were doing, and they were actually rejecting democracy, but the foot soldiers aren't in on it. It's Trump's fault for leading these useful idiots on so he can bilk them.

They're different because

1) they are backed by the outgoing president in an effort to stay in power

2) they have the outspoken objective of overturning a democratic election

3) they hit the chamber of Congress and had it evacuated.

4) They interrupted the democratic process to have the next president elect succeed like normal.

How people around here are all about "who cares" and "what about BLM" is beyond me. What if one of those idiots had a bomb? or a gun?

What if someone that wasn't a reality tv that spends his day screeching on Twitter is able to tap into that base?

Those are the question you should be asking yourself. But sure, go back and tell me that Breonna Taylor's boyfriends is an idiot, or how BLM broke windows. That'll show me.

One of them already had a bomb lol.

I dunno what to say dude. I basically agree with you 100%, and you're entitled to feel mad or scared about world events, but the rest of reddit is literally for being mad. Go be mad with other mad people on arpolitics. That's not what arrdrama is for.

If we decided to become mad whenever we thought an issue was worthy enough to be mad about, we'd become SRD.

I'll be mad wherever I fucking want, tyvm. Go be wrong in another thread.

I expected some ironic rightoid and leftoid egging on the protests, you know, centrism.

Certainly not this unironic stream of "what about BLM" while Congress was evacuated less than 24 hours ago.

Since you edited your post, I'll add this comment.

I'm not really scared or mad, I'm not even from the US and in the end we're talking about Donald fucking Trump.

I unironically don't like this version of Drama is all. But I went and got myself seriousposting all day, so I guess I spent so much time around here that I became the lolcow in the end.

Imagine if these QAnon boomers teamed up with BLM/Antifa for today, I think there literally would have been a slaughter that would start a war. Instead, rightoids just got a pretty nice unguided tour of the capitol before being peacefully evacuated.

That was actually a brilliant tactic on the police's part. Let the little scuzzes tire themselves out and then pick them off one by one.