Correct me if I'm wrong, but weren't the rioters intending to prevent the formalization of Joe Biden's election victory? Couldn't the prevention of the enforcement of an election result credibly be called an attempted coup d'état, even if it came from a disorganized and ineffectual mob?
If a protest and whatever they were doing in the Capitol counts as “acting to prevent.” If Joe Bob down the street says he’ll fight the election results, is that an attempted coup? What is he going to do? What were these protesters going to do? Calling it an “attempted coup” just makes it sound more dramatic than it was, and makes whoever is calling it that seem hysterical.Originally Posted by xerxe
I saw the break in in regards to the capital building as more of a "put the fear of God" into them move. It had no real purpose far as I could tell except to be a real life shitpost. If they were intent on actual insurrection or murdering of political adversaries they would have come in with heavier weaponry and would have, one must admit, actually collected a few heads instead of mere hard drives. The memes resulting from the photos of cowering congress creatures is a thing I will forever see as a very good thing that resulted from all that if nothing else.
Governments ought to fear their people, and it's always nice to see concrete proof that Etienne De La Boetie was most correct in his sick burn upon the nature of all tyrants. Look him up, read his "Discourse on Voluntary Servitude" if you are unfamiliar with it. It's one of the works that made me the kind of political animal I am today. You'll know the burn the instant you start to read it and I don't care what side you're on in all this I bet money ye shall repeat it to anyone you seek to burn in turn. It's really pretty damn sick. Well, so long as insults to one's potential masculinity don't make you out to be some kind of istaphobe or some such. Only non-Death Cultists/SJWs are able to truly appreciate that master class in issuing an insult from one man to another.
A fitting song for the new age of censorship:
I'm counting down the days
The future feels so distant
A lot of things have changed
And few have been resistant
Devaluation reigns
And fear of self destruction
Adapt or be replaced
And follow their instructions
So lay waste to all we've made
For your corporate palisade
You won't automate our roles
If we digitize our souls
A new force will intervene
Half human, half machine
And no enterprise on Earth will make us kneel
To your empire of steel
Recoded, we'll reboot
An uprising is moving
And the power you misused
Will soon be your undoing
We'll give you what you need
Though not quite what you were meaning
And we'll reap what you have sown
We are the soul of this new machine
So lay waste to all we've made
For your corporate palisade
You won't automate our roles
If we digitize our souls
A new force will intervene
Half human, half machine
And no enterprise on Earth will make us kneel
To your empire of steel
To your empire of-
To your empire of steel
(And we'll reap what you have sown)
To your empire of-
So lay waste to all we've made
For your corporate palisade
You won't automate our roles
If we digitize our souls
A new force will intervene
Half human, half machine
And no enterprise on Earth will make us kneel
To your empire of steel
To your empire of steel
To your empire of steel
Wonder if those parts are about Elon Musk's vision.
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