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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]People were posting on the Capitol Hill NextDoor page with information about detailed plans they found online to take over the Capitol.  My freakin' cousin in Nashville was posting things he found on Parler about people coming to storm the Capitol on Facebook.  This information was EVERYWHERE. The only reason it was not taken seriously was a) if someone didn't want to take it seriously or b) if someone simply didn't believe white people pose a threat. [/quote]

I saw it on facebook too. Don't know how they could have -not- seen it.

Assume they thought white people wouldn't do this? 
Or, that white right wingers would behave as well as the left wing protestors and just allow themselves to be arrested?[/quote]

Giving them some benefit of the doubt, maybe they did assume it would be like the (completely peaceful) women’s march, or the well-mannered left winf civil disobedience where people announce their intent to sit in and be arrested peacefully. but time and time again, the far right has shown they will go much further than the left. [/quote]

Then they are idiots.  People were posting, publicly, about their intention to bring weapons; they were calling for "civil war," they were using all kinds of violent and extremist language.  If you thought they were announcing an intent to sit in and be arrested peacefully, you were high or delusional.  [/quote]

+1.  What "benefit of the doubt?" The women's march was a bunch of girls running around with pink hats on their heads. It was nothing like this.[/quote]

+1 and the social media chatter before hand was about how to knit a pink hat and NOT to bring a sign on a stick, just the sign. Unlike the chatter before the insurrection, which was about how to smuggle guns into DC.[/quote]

Yeah, no benefit of the doubt to be given.  If they thought this would be like the women's march, they were deliberately closing their eyes to the evidence.  And then the question is, why?  And the answers aren't pretty.  [/quote]

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