[xienze]

> Compare that to the BLM protests on the west coast where unmarked vans of feds were literally rolling up and black bagging people off the street.

Boy, I wonder if the fact that these guys basically just goofed around and took pictures instead of burning down the capitol (like what happened in the Portland courthouse) had any bearing on that.

[dang]

Please don't take HN threads further into flamewar. We're trying to avoid the hell we're all sinking into. Comments like this are a sharp push hellward, so please don't.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

[maybe_]

Four people died today, I'm not sure if I would classify that as "goofing around".

[neartheplain]

One was an unarmed woman shot by law enforcement, as police have confirmed [0]. The other 3 died near the riot due to separate medical emergencies [1].

[0] https://www.fox5dc.com/news/woman-shot-killed-after-pro-trum...

[1] https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/live-blog/electora...

[Shared404]

That appears to be related to competency, not intentions.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/06/us/politics/pipe-bomb-rnc...

[altdatathrow]

Please stop defending an attempt to overthrow a lawful election as goofing around.