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I think this is debatable, and we won't know the answer for a while. There are two possible trajectories here. 1/x


Trajectory 1: The attack becomes a signal event like Ruby Ridge or Waco, and extremists use it as a rallying point going forward. They will certainly try to do this, but there are some key differences.

Primarily, the tepid federal response (which is bad on most levels) doesn't compare to those events, where LE screwed up and people died as an unambiguous result of questionable or straight bad LE action rather than the melee situation here.

Also those cases were the result of proactive federal enforcement, as opposed to a clearly defense posture here.

Trajectory 2 is backlash. There's some growing evidence for that in the snap polls from the last couple days. See:

https://t.co/lOi6DCZ9CK

https://t.co/lOi6DCZ9CK

This won't affect the diehards, but it might suggest the event won't bring a lot new blood into the movement.
The United States has an active faction of political leaders whose fidelity to democratic elections is 100% contingent on whether they win. This is an intolerable threat that must be squarely faced.


The people who raided the capitol last night ought to be punished. But they are foot soldiers. The real threat to the republic is an axis of political leaders (Trump, Cruz, Hawley etc) and right wing media outlets (Fox, OANN on down the line) who have whipped up the storm.

The thing, for me, that is crucial to understand about this moment in American history is how much it is powered by lying. Non-stop lying. The lying, misinformation, and disinformation is *the* salient point.

Because let's do a reverse thought experiment. Let's say, for example, Trump and Co. straight up stole the election. Losing on election night, he makes phone calls to several allied secretaries of state who suddenly announce a bunch of new votes for Trump and he's won GA/PA...

...let's further stipulate these calls get leaked. It leads to more hard evidence. Witnesses, data trail, video etc. It is clearly established the election results are fraudulent. But Trump and the GOP push ahead with Electoral College certification...
@IndLeftNews @BenSpielberg @jimmy_dore (1) The #ReplacePelosiJan3 & negotiate w/other Speaker candidates 2 THEN #ForceTheVote + get more changes campaign was drowned out by the FTV movement. Today, the FTV ppl on the ground in DC r condemning Squad votes 4 Pelosi. Way too little & way 2 late.

@BenSpielberg @jimmy_dore (2) But, a more important 1, is that the Squad felt free 2 decide how 2 vote on Pelosi w/o consulting the ppl's movement. These advocates of bottom-up democracy did not practice it all when it came 2 the most important decision they would make during the next 2 years.

@BenSpielberg @jimmy_dore (3) They're not the only ones of course. Bernie Sanders did the same thing when he dropped out of the pressidential race. His "Not me. Us!" movement suddenly turned into an "it's my decision alone", affair. That enraged me at the time. It still does. After extracting all that ...

@BenSpielberg @jimmy_dore (4) work & money, often from poor ppl, he didn't feel he had to consult w/anyone else but, at most, his inner circle about whether it was time to support Biden or not. Going beyond progressive "leaders" however, I think all our politicians in our "democracy" feel free 2 take ...

@BenSpielberg @jimmy_dore (5) support of all sorts from us w/out involving us in decisions they are taking that are critical to our lives. Very few of them talk bottom-up democracy, but even those who do, practice top-down democracy, in which they mobilize us for fundraising & 4 coming out to vote 4...
Citing unfounded claims of voting irregularities, at least 140 Republican House members and 13 senators have said they will vote to object – not enough to toss out a state’s electoral votes.

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Rampage? They literally committed sedition & insurrection..it’s amazing to me the mass media’s strategic use of rhetoric to demonize the left & justify the right. This government & those who truly possesses the power in this country know exactly


what they do when they call us rioters and looters (unarmed protestors asking for police brutality to be held accountable) and them mobs and protestors (heavily armed and refusing to accept the election results of a “democratic” process) We need to stop asking why they do this

And understand that it’s a tool. Propaganda and misinformation and rhetoric. They program us to be outraged and stay exhausted and fighting the seemingly arbitrary and “insignificant” uses of words. The media is the picture painter, the visuals released with a single if you will

They are all owned by the same people and then they slightly sqew the POV of their proposed audiences. So something like Fox knows that their main audience (viewer count=profit) is alt-right “conservatives” and CNN knows that it’s main audience is more liberal. All of these news

Sources will give out the same exact messaging with different angles so as to keep their viewers watching as long as possible. THEY MAKE MONEY OFF OF SENSATIONALIZING, CENSORING, SKEWING the truth and making it more entertaining. If y’all look at Ancient Rome and their tactics