[coldtea]

>hyperbolically bad thing

You mean like that these group was "violently and undemocratically install an authoritarian government"? Did you feel much scared of the possibility of some dictatorship (as opposed to an act of protest in the congress)?

Second, even if they did seriously try to do that, heck, even if they succeeded in establishing an "authoritarian government", that wouldn't be enough to qualify them as "literally nazis".

We don't call all authoritarian government nazis. Just the ones that actually are nazist.

In fact, the most succesful ones we call "business as usual", with the Patriot Act, surveillance, several global wars, torture, etc...

[IfOnlyYouKnew]

Do you, like, not get the “6 million...” reference?

They also had functioning gallows, and a guy with a taser and zip ties running around in the Senate chamber just minutes after it was evacuated, and lots of “kill Mike Pence” shouting.

Some people were there to take selfies. Others were there to take hostages.

[FireBeyond]

> that wouldn't be enough to qualify them as "literally nazis"

How about SS tattoos?

"6MWE" - "6 Million Wasn't Enough"

"1488"

"Camp Auschwitz"

All things seen in the group.

But I get it, still not nazis, neonazi, or other. I guess unless they were card-carrying, dues-paying members of Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei?

[coldtea]

>All things seen in the group.

Yeah, so? If a group of "neo-nazi" tags along, that makes everybody a neo-nazi (much less so, a nazi danger, as neonazi is more like a kind of "edgelord" archetype for far-right leaning people).

If a group had the hammer and sickle or Mao or whatever on their t-shirts on a democratic side protest would it make the people there "communists"?

Or would mean anything about some "danger" to the US of communism becoming installed?

US was, is, and will remain corporatist and capitalist. Democrats, Republicans, and Liberalists all agree on that, and even if they didn't, tough luck, it's not them that have the power, the corporatist elites do.

There is as much "danger" of a fascist coup as there is of a communist overtaking, or as there was of Obama being a radical pro-Black president or Trump "draining the swamp": zero.

The rest are talking points for masses with nothing better to do (and pundits that make money of it) to hit each other with.

My european 2 cents.

[cactus2093]

> that wouldn't be enough to qualify them as "literally nazis"

Yes but the whole wishing to extend the holocaust and kill more jews thing makes them nazis

> Did you feel much scared of the possibility of some dictatorship

Why are you pretending this about some abstract threat of some vague unspecified dictatorship? If Trump had succeeded in his attempts at gaining a second term, when he lost by a landslide in the democratic and fair election, that would make him a dictator. And it was their goal to try to make that happen.

Peacefully assembling outside the capital with signs would be a protest. Breaking into the capital armed with guns and pipe bombs and zipties looking to take members of congress hostage, killing police that stood in the way, bringing a working gallows and chanting to hang the VP who presides over the senate, during the vote in which they are certifying the election, is an insurrection attempt.