Well I looked into it, and there were 4 confirmed people who brought guns. I'm certain there were others who were never discovered, but clearly violence was not a serious part of the plan to overthrow the government. I'm certain that some of the more extreme members were capable of violence and even murdering certain politicians, but that has always been true. It has also always been wrong and we should never act like it's ok no matter who is attempting it.

I'm not sure exactly what they were trying to do on Jan 6, but the fact nobody had guns, there was no clear plan, and it didn't even come close to working, makes it significantly less of a problem than straight up murder of the opposition and the entire government. Actually not sure why I'm even having this conversation. You have to be either insane or trolling me.

Lol I can't help myself, especially on lemmy. Some of the takes are so insane I can't help but engage.

January 6 is not even close to the same league as assassination of political rivals and overthrowing the Supreme Court, and if you think it is then you are either insane or are willfully blinded by partisanship.

Yes, and that was insane and unacceptable.

I know tons of people who home school, like a ton actually. Real people and not just internet dwellers. There is a lot of variety in how people do it, some bad, some better than anything you can hope to achieve in public schools. But that isn't my point. My point is only about brainwashing done in public schools, and how that term is relative. What we think is normal and healthy depends on what we are told. Public schools don't have the objective truth, they just provide a consistent message and brainwash kids all in a similar manner. The term brainwashing has a negative connotation, but that's what it is. We were all taught things and taught to see things a certain way and sometimes they are later proven wrong. I can list things I learned in public schools that aren't correct, so was I brainwashed? Well, yeah of course. In general public schools provide a stabilizing effect and a standardized set of brainwashing, which becomes "normal" because most people have that standard set. It's relative and arbitrary, that's my point. Ask indigenous people or other minorities if we get brainwashed in public schools.

Brainwashing is only a term to describe people who weren't taught mainstream views, but those mainstream views are not necessarily correct. What's the difference between mainstream propaganda and brainwashing?

Maybe, but Trump unifies the left just as much. If Trump died, how many on the left would continue to hold their noses and vote Biden?

It's almost as if they are leveraging and exaggerating fear for their own gain.

Lol death camps, you all need to settle down.

Attacking the legitimacy of the supreme court is overthrowing democracy.

It's AOC. She is literally Marjorie Taylor Green, but on blue team. Asking her opinion on something like this, you are going to get a very predictable answer. She is a political zealot.

This isn't really anything new since whenever executive orders became a thing. With executive orders, a president can start a war or force the entire population to stay home or wear masks in public. I think it's way too much power and needs to be scaled back big time. But here we are anyway.

I can't believe people in here openly advocating to assassinate supreme court justices. You all need to step away for a bit, take a few breaths and go talk to some real people.

Good luck

Politician attacks establishment when the establishment doesn't prosecute her political opposition to the extent she wants.

Insurrection is fine when your team does it

It's more about an opportunist taking advantage of an ideological movement. The same thing happened with blm.

Well in any event, the government did not in fact hold people down and vaccinate them like shepherds do with their sheep. They also don't shear us and make clothing from our hair, or butcher us for food. So the shepherd analogy isn't meant to be literal in every sense.

My view states specifically that the government is not the same as God.