Yeah, if they were truly all about unity and healing not punishing people for rioting and addressing their concerns would be what you would do.
That is not what the Dems are doing.
I’m not seeing any Dems talking about unity and healing in regards to the Capitol boomerwaffen riot, but that’s all the republicans keep harping on about. Dems are doing the “accountability” chant.
You do realize there's a difference between some retards breaking shit in Portland and an attempted coup against the US government right?
And even then as Taco has repeatedly pointed out it's not like BLM and Antifa got off scot free ether.
Yes, this “but whatta bout” shit is so fucking stupid. They are not comparable.
Even in the late 1960’s during the peak of Vietnam war protests, burning multiple cities to the ground and calling out tanks due to race riots, dude literally barbecuing himself alive in front of the Pentagon, assassinations of major political figures on the left, the Weathermen and regular marches on the mall x10 larger than that crowd on Jan 6...nobody stormed the fucking Capitol, made Congress flee the Senate and House floors and killed a police office in the Capitol and battered a bunch more.
I can’t understand how anyone genuinely equates looting Targets, fucking up shit downtown and burning strip mall stores to violently invading the Capitol and calling for Pence to hang as a traitor. I can only believe they are covering their own asses and trying to distract.
America has had riots in cities hundreds of times since its inception. The draft riots of 1860 in NY made the BLM shit this summer look like preschool classes. The race riots of 1968 or LA in 1992, were far more destructive and deadly than summer 2020.
Fuck the Bonus Army of WW1 combat veterans and their families, who marched on Washington because they were starving and jobless didn’t bust into the Capitol- even after they were shot at, beaten and driven off the mall with extreme violence and told to fuck off forever.
Yet it’s people who claim to be American patriots, who think a bunch of assholes storming the Capitol, busting into offices, pissing on floors and getting people killed while a presidential election is being certified is really no biggie and just like any other common street riots or protests.
Trump supporters would have shit bricks, declared martial law and had 10,000 heads on pikes had even a handful of BLM protesters barged into the Capitol with stun guns, started fighting with cops and caused Congress to flee. Yet BLM protests in DC all summer resulted in no violence at the Capitol or any deaths. I’m sure Trump was disappointed because he really wanted to crack some BLM skulls in.
It’s really amazing to watch the extreme right try to justify pillaging the US Capitol because some lefties looted stores and burned shit in some cities this summer. Even in the 1960’s the John Birch Society or Goldwater fans didnt decide it was their turn to burn shit down and storm the Capitol because Goldwater lost and blacks were protesting.
To be clear I think violent protests on either side are fucking stupid. Boring non-violent civil disobedience has always been the most effective method for real political change in the USA.
But only retards can’t see how violently storming the US Capitol, resulting in deaths, during a session of Congress isn’t a completely different animal than common street riots and looting.