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  1. COTO

    To Liberals About Jan 6th

    Not to sedition. To crimes related to trespass, assault, vandalism, and the whole spectrum of crimes associated with a riot. I agree that Jan. 6 is certainly significant. It just doesn't rise to the scale of an insurrection. Like it or not, the J6 committee hearings can't and won't be the...
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    To Liberals About Jan 6th

    Whether Pres. Trump's legal challenges and maneuvering re electors, etc. constitutes an attempted soft coup is a reasonable debate to have. Having said this, a soft coup isn't an insurrection, and regardless, that debate stands independently of the Jan. 6 riot, which definitely wasn't an...
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    To Liberals About Jan 6th

    And anyone who provably stated this and who also perpetrated violence at the capitol ought to be charged with sedition. But again, just because a handful of individuals plotted in vain to disrupt proceedings doesn't make the crowd of tens of thousands (a group large enough to potentially rise to...
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    To Liberals About Jan 6th

    I can buy the argument that, had legal challenges to the election been successful, Pres. Trump would have succeeded in retaining power (for a while, at least). However, legal challenges had nothing to do with the riots. (That is, the legal challenges would have failed or succeeded independently...
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    To Liberals About Jan 6th

    Again, I'm not disputing the characterization of the violence as a "riot". It was a riot. But to be an insurrection, the riot has to have the purpose of overthrowing a government, and this one just... didn't. No one in their right mind can conclude that rowdy people trashing the capitol...
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    To Liberals About Jan 6th

    Fair enough. So let's take a look at your definitions. These comport with my sense of an insurrection. And, unless we assume that the rioters intended to take control of the US by kicking in some doors and trashing some rooms in the Capitol Building, January 6th clearly doesn't meet them...
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    To Liberals About Jan 6th

    More the opposite. That footage of Nazis walking peacefully around Paris won't undo footage of Nazis raping Parisian women. That is, there's no "context" that can explain away rape. In the case of the J6 footage just released, there's no context I can think of (maybe I just lack imagination)...
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    To Liberals About Jan 6th

    Agreed. Suffice it to say that--at this point--none of the footage released by Fox to the public constitutes a threat to anyone's security. And it does cast the events of that day in a very different light than has been portrayed by the other media outlets for the past two years. Hence, perhaps...
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    To Liberals About Jan 6th

    Oh, give it up, sir. :rolleyes: The horse is beaten. The fat lady has sung. The coffin is nailed shut. The horse is a mile away from the barn. There was no insurrection. A riot, yes. It would certainly be fair to call J6 that. Accept it, take it as a win, move on.
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    To Liberals About Jan 6th

    Mr. Carlson does point out that he consulted with the capitol police before releasing the footage, and that, with the exception of blurring the name of one door out, they had no issue with its release. I'll add that, seeing the footage itself, the claim of it being a "security threat" strains...
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    To Liberals About Jan 6th

    In the segment leading up to the broadcast of the video, he claims that the protestors had marched to the capitol upset about irregularities in the election. I can't recall his exact words, but he strongly and expressly agrees that they had good reason to be upset. Over the past two years, he's...
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    To Liberals About Jan 6th

    He obviously didn't. But if you show, e.g., video of protestors being escorted through the building, more footage isn't going to "undo" that footage. Furthermore, I would have to think (and if you disagree, say so) that the committee will have already found and broadcast the most damning...
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    To Liberals About Jan 6th

    All of them? In just the footage of the shaman, he's escorted by two and passes by another nine. There's another group of five chatting with protestors in the lobby. If we're to believe the insurrection theory, then we would have to conclude that, at the very least, sixteen of the officers...
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    To Liberals About Jan 6th

    The video of the "shaman" being escorted by police into the Senate chamber (and offering them a prayer of thanks) does immediately demolish some of the more incendiary claims made by the committee. It will be interesting to see in coming weeks/months whether anything comes of Mr. Carlson's...
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    Parents push back on allegations against St. Louis transgender center. ‘I’m baffled.’

    I want to erase transgenderism. Specifically, I want to ease/eliminate body dysmorphia by helping sufferers to be at peace with biological reality, as opposed to affirming the dysmorphia using dangerous, irreversible, and ultimately futile drugs and surgery.
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