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    10 months ago

    No, I don’t think it’s a good thing that traitors got less than they deserved

    The vast majority of people on J6 were idiots in a mob situation, not traitors.

    As OP said, fuck all of them, but aggressive prosecution here is not the way you want the law to work, the same way there’s no gain for imprisoning everyone who acted out of pocket during the Floyd protests.

    You throw the book at the worst offenders, and you let people caught up in mob mentality off with a lesser sentence. That is justice working.

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      10 months ago

      They were armed traitors looking to take control of the capitol in an organized way, cause the disruption of government, with the aim to capture and harm government officials. That’s literally the definition of a revolt against authority. It was done in their own stupid way but they tried it and failed because they were stupid. Aggressive prosecution is the precisely how you don’t let it happen again.

      during the Floyd protests

      Are you for real.

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        10 months ago

        Aggressive prosecution is the precisely how you don’t let it happen again.

        This has literally never been true about any crime

        Are you for real.

        Yes, Republicans notably used those riots to demand harsher penalties. You don’t remember the mythical burning cities?

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          10 months ago

          This is not a regular crime and it isn’t fueled by an actual need that leads to any sort of direct personal gain, like drug trafficking or even murder. It’s the literal destabilization of a country. Republicans have learned that there are no real consequences to bad behavior, but that their role model Trump can behave badly and get preferential treatment which in my opinion fuels their belief that they have done nothing wrong.

          I’m saying, are you for real invoking the Floyd Protests to gain some sort of reaction out of commenters? It’s quite the hot button issue to just casually name-drop without elaborating your point. People can get the wrong idea.