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by tgb 1993 days ago
This is a great example of gaslighting. The speaker of the house calls for national guard deployment while rioters are literally in the House chamber. Yet we're the crazy ones for suggesting that they get involved? This is what the National Guard does, it's not begging for a military coup.
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0x1F8B 1993 days ago
The history of any military interceding in election issues is not a good one. There are police for this and this is incident is developing. Give it time before you call in the guns. I'm not gaslighting anyone -- I'm saying this needs to be handled delicately.
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tgb 1993 days ago
Where have you been this election? There were National Guard stationed outside my state's capitol building for days while votes were being counted.
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0x1F8B 1993 days ago
Sure, with a clear mission planned and dictated by the state you were in. They didn't just send in the troops right away in reaction to an ongoing situation that also happens to be the certification of the election of the president.
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0x1F8B 1993 days ago
In any case, it looks like you got what you wanted.

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/06/pentagon-has-not-approved-re...

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bobbean 1993 days ago
This has been talked about on social media for weeks. People have been planning on doing this shit for a while now. Maybe, I don't know, the government could have prepared better? It's not "oh my god this protest came out of nowhere, what's going on".

When there was a small protest for BLM in my city, there were almost more cops than protestors, and all the buildings had been boarded up. You'd think DC would have a bit more resources than my city.

This was allowed to happen. If they didn't want the Capitol to be broken into, it wouldn't have been.

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SpicyLemonZest 1993 days ago
The history of violent mobs interceding in election issues is not a good one! If the incident is allowed to develop any further, we'll end up in a situation with competing claims of legitimacy and the military will have to intervene anyway.
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0x1F8B 1993 days ago
By all accounts the people in power were committed to certifying the election. We've got no reason to think they have changed their minds on this. The police were underprepared and overwhelmed by protesters (terrorist, coupists, whatever), they also chose not to fire on these protesters, so this happened. Let the police get it under control, let the election get certified (whenever and where that happens), and then we can begin to sort this mess out. That process may yet involve the National Guard, but their role and objective should be crystal clear.
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SpicyLemonZest 1993 days ago
Why should we be confident that the police will be able to get it under control?
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