March for Trump (1/6) - (1/5-1/6), 18 NAKED PROUD BOYS IN THE SHOWER AT RAM RANCH

Was this a terrorist incident?

  • Yes

    Votes: 514 24.4%
  • No

    Votes: 543 25.8%
  • There were bad people(terrorists) involved, but that shouldn't reflect on everybody else

    Votes: 260 12.4%
  • It was the state who created terror

    Votes: 788 37.4%

  • Total voters
    2,105
How far will this shit spread? Like I said before, things are only going to escalate as time goes on.

Keep in mind: the United States of America was founded by a revolution, and it's laws (at least originally) are fundamentally based "on the consent of the governed". Let's see how far those ideals will go in 2021.
Dude, this is nothing like the Revolutionary War. Don't even start.
 
This is why they need to stop playing respectability politics and just fucking own it.

>"You took over the Capitol Building and terrorized Congress!"
>"I know, it was awesome. Fight the power. The actual power. Where did you Antifags take over again? A food district in Seattle? And the mayor gave you permission? Okay bootlicker."

The right storms congress, the left storms Target
 
I take the contrary opinion: these concerns are now almost entirely too easy to sweep under the rug, this is used as a pretense for a massive crackback from the government figures, hopes of reform and devolution are scattered, and beyond a handful of small insurgents most of these people have no stomach to keep momentum going.
Yeah, there will be crackdowns. I expect stricter gun laws, more surveillance and so on... you know, the usual. However I do expect some pushback from paranoid Qtards and loonies, growing ever more twitchy, which will in turn feed back into the government cracking down even more.
A similar feedback-loop caused the Sarin Gas Attack in Toyko in '95.
A reality TV star convinced a massive portion of the population that all of the country's systems and processes and politicians were corrupt and bad, and the capitol building was stormed with extreme ease by a relatively small crowd for our population. Had the police been able to hold the line or had the protesters not stormed the building, then this would be a different equation; other countries would see us mostly how they've -been- seeing us, fairly unstable but not terribly unreliable. This is a national embarrassment whose only positive spin is if you truly believe it will be the opening salvo of a revolution, for which I am rather obviously skeptical. I see this moreso as the parties fundamentally realigning and the emergence of a third faction.
From a foreign perspective, my biggest fear is that assholes in my nation use this as a blueprint and getting emboldened to storm our Parliament.
You're right, it makes the USA look like shit to have the Capitol stormed by raging lunatics, but I wouldn't assume it makes you look unreliable, more torn apart internally... not like that's any better, it's just a different flavour of bad.
 
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