Screwdriver wrote: ↑Tue Apr 11, 2023 9:02 amYes a window was broken. I have seen that 1000 times, it crops up multiple times in every video.Bwana wrote: ↑Mon Apr 10, 2023 11:15 pm You manage to create meaning where there is none. There was violent intent and there was violence. It's evident in the video and the number of police officers that needed medical treatment as a result of the violence. I still find it rather intriguing that you can watch video that shows throngs of mongs forcing their way past barriers, forcing their way into a building by bashing in windows, climbing through and overpowering security by virtue of sheer numbers and still insist this was some sort of peaceful protest.
Now you're bringing in Antifa/BLM with a bit more disinformation. In spite of what you've been reading off the innertube, people were held accountable during those protests/riots. Here's a side by side comparison, prepared special like, just for you.
BLM protests/riots at more than 10,600 locations for the year 2020 resulted in $2 billion USD worth of insurance claims and had at least 14,000 arrests. An estimated 15 to 26 million people are estimated to have participated in protests and riots over the period between 26 May and 22 August, 2020. 98% of those protests were deemed peaceful with no property destruction. According to several studies and analyses, protests were overwhelmingly peaceful. The claimed impetus for those protests and riots included police brutality, lack of police accountability, racial inequality, and racism. The death of George Floyd sparked it all off. Property was destroyed or damaged, and rioters were held accountable.
January 6, peaceful demonstration show your legislator some love dinner party, 1 event, a few leisurely hours one afternoon. Around 1000 arrests. According to Forbes, federal authorities have raised their estimates to $2.73 million USD. The impetus for this was some orange bloke pissing and moaning about election fraud that didn't actually occur. There've been around 60 court cases that all determined nothing of the sort happened during the last presidential election. If Trump hadn't been spreading the big lie, would we be having this discussion? Nope!
TDS, that syndrome where uninformed idiots believe every utterance that spills out of Donald Trump's gob.
Yes there was violence, the majority of which I concur after watching too much of this nonsense, was violence directed at officers beating the crap out of protesters. Is that justification? No. It is human nature. If an officer of the law is beating you with a baton, you should really just fuck off. Instead. there are multiple examples of "resisting arrest". That in itself is of course a crime.
However, it's not "worse than the civil war" ffs.
The only part of your mainstream media inspired propaganda I can begin to agree with is "overpowering security by virtue of sheer numbers". That is of course an accurate précis of what happened. The reality is, apart from a broken window and a handful of occasions where sheer weight of numbers became a violent incident in and of itself, there was no "violent insurrection, worse than the civil war".
But then we get to the part where you accept the mainstream media propaganda to such an extreme degree, it is clear there is no rational discussion to be had. For example the "98% of those protests were deemed peaceful with no property destruction." If you believe that nonsense, there is no hope for you.
"98% of those protests" is the sort of rhetoric the media loves. It's not "untrue" because it says nothing. Which 98% of protests do they refer to? Presumably the ones where shops were not looted and burned out. While absence of evidence is not evidence of absence, I have not seen a single one of those "peaceful protests" the mainstream media invent to produce such an obviously false statistic.
The Jan 6th protest cannot be compared to the nationwide organised crime wave perpetrated by the Antifa/BLM mobs in the name of St. George. It's not in the same ballpark, it's not even the same sport (to coin a phrase /Pulp Fiction).
I do not need to believe anything the msm tell me to believe, especially when my one overriding memory of those events was a reporter standing in front of what looked like a war zone telling me the protests were "mostly peaceful". I can't believe anyone could be so blinkered as to believe such mindless nonsense. If nothing else, your diatribe has shown me to be wrong on that score.
You've reduced the J6 destruction to "a broken window." That's quite precious. I do love your insinuation that the protesters were being beaten by police. If you actually watch the video and take in what was happening, those protesters barged over barriers and took cops down with them. The cops were well outnumbered by the mob and the mob put that numerical advantage to good use.
Yes, I do agree with you that the Antifa/BLM protests and J6 not comparable. J6 was based entirely on a lie pushed by Fox News and Donald Trump. The Antifa/BLM protests were based on police brutality. It is rather amusing that you miss out on the police brutality for them yet insist that was the was a factor in J6.
