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2021: Coup Harder
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Streetwise HerculesRegistered User, Moderator mod
Talk about the coup and the special people that staged it here, and also the general rising tide of shit that Trump's last week (or less) in office has delivered to our shores.
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Luxembourg and Brussels took the chance to unvite Pompeo for a visit due to the Capitol storming. The trip was completely pointless anyway.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-pompeo-europe-exclusive/luxembourg-eu-snub-pompeo-in-final-europe-trip-diplomats-say-idUSKBN29H2MM
"Appalled by the violence, Luxembourg’s [minister of foreign affairs] had called Trump a “criminal” and a “political pyromaniac” on RTL Radio the next day."
There's also an interactive map of the data out.
Is that okay to link?
Edit: it's not, I think.
Edit2: Tweeter are a data artist, and a rando
But very useful to look at. One of the Trump flagpole guys in my neighborhood 100% shows up on there.
Strikes me as a list of low population areas with Washington DC on there just because that's where the chucklewits were livestreaming their crimes.
I'm proud to say no one in my neighborhood is on that map. Of course, I also live in a city and neighborhood with a significant non-white population. In my city suburb, most of the dots are around houses with lake views, ie rich people.
Please don't do that, coup-folk.
Coup no more.
Edit - Just not as much as the red, obviously.
a good one though
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If they're smart enough to do that they're probably smart enough to not do this.
this was a planned coup attempt
Tweeter is an Op-eds writer for @washingtonpost and @guardian
"we need to gonna coordinate together, if we're gonna take this building"
to be fair, accommodating dietary restrictions has been around quite a while at this point
entirely arguable whether kosher, halal, or vegetarian is more valid than organic, but it's not some special accommodation they're giving him
Yup. I don't have an issue with people getting special dietary requirements while in jail - it does, however, stick in the craw that a white right-wing terrorist is getting that treatment, when a very large number of people who aren't white right-wing terrorists get treated absolutely despicably.
i wouldn't consider these exactly the same thing
Well yeah. On one hand you have an insurrectionist and on the other you have impoverished migrants who haven't been charged with a crime.
Also, it floors me that these people believed they could descend on the Capitol, overturn the legislature and then like, go home and back to work. Like you can overthrow a government in a tight 8 hrs if you really hustle, like seeing every attraction at Disney or something.
i am not debating that the concentration camps don't violate international law, but they are entirely unrelated to the topic of dietary accommodation in the legal prison system
Yeah that's what sticks out to me. These people had their return flights from the revolution booked for the next day. We've talked about it here but a lot of them were retired or well to do professionals and executives (the ones that weren't insane criminals). Who did they expect to stay in DC and follow through with the revolution? The guy in the buffalo headdress? The cops & military themselves?
There's also the likelihood that 90+% of the people involved in storming the Capitol, would be of the "Fuck em, feed em ham" when it comes to Muslim/Jewish inmates.
Bet none of them were interested in rehabilitative/anti-recidivism prison reforms until they realized there's a chance they're going in the pokey.
Now it's "I need organic food, phone calls, better conditions!". Yeah, you didn't care until it affected you personally.
I'm all for prison reform, but these fuckers deserve no special treatment that isn't also afforded to every other inmate in the correctional system regardless of socioeconomic position or skin color.
I'm expecting to be disappointed.
It's very similar to the plot against Whitmer in Michigan. There's this innate assumption that they just need to "apply violence" to the people in charge of government and they'll just wave a wand and fix everything instantly and then you win and get to go home.
These chucklefucks getting a hold of congresspeople would have been a tragedy and a disaster but it would not have actually changed the results of th election.
White privilege got those people into the capitol to do whatever they wanted and it's coddling them in the prison system and it will likely let them off the hook relatively easy when sentencing starts happening.