A lot of DC and Charlottesville-area people DID see it coming. Despite what you hear a lot from people about what's posted on the Internet being just talk, nowadays, and especially in extreme political spaces, that rhetoric is a warm-up to actual action.
I don't say this because I want someone to go censor them, or preemptively arrest the…
A lot of DC and Charlottesville-area people DID see it coming. Despite what you hear a lot from people about what's posted on the Internet being just talk, nowadays, and especially in extreme political spaces, that rhetoric is a warm-up to actual action.
I don't say this because I want someone to go censor them, or preemptively arrest them, but more a plea to take this seriously. Living in Virginia, and having lived through August 17th, Lobby Day, and now January 6th there seems to be too many "it could never happen here" or "it could only happen once" attitudes kicking around.
Don't believe that this sort of violence couldn't come to your city, town, or county. It's that exact level of complacency that allows it to. And the elected officials who downplay these events are precisely the sort that will let them happen again.
Nice shot! Bullseye, in fact. Far, far too much "Yeah, that is kinda' bad. But as long as it's in someone else's backyard and not in mine, it's not really that bad, and not really my concern."
And it's ALWAYS in someone else's backyard. Until it isn't.
But as to those elected officials, surely you jest. No one with the responsibilities of an elected office would ever downplay anything really serious, would they? Especially if assuming that office involved taking an oath to do something like, say, support and defend the Constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic, and to bear true faith and allegiance to the same?
They wouldn't describe something like an insurrection and acts of terrorism on the steps and in the halls of our nation's Capital Building as being anything other than what they were. I mean, they took that oath, right?
Why, this thing we're all talking about here today was just a little dust up by a few overenthusiastic...uh... patriots. Or was it Antifa? No, wait, it was the FBI, wasn't it? Anyway, it's not worthy of all the attention it's gotten for the past year.
I know this because all those Republican elected officials told me so. And like I said, they did take that oath, didn't they?
For those still having the "backyard" outlook, it's time to WTFU. What happened in D.C. a year ago happened in all our backyards.
A lot of DC and Charlottesville-area people DID see it coming. Despite what you hear a lot from people about what's posted on the Internet being just talk, nowadays, and especially in extreme political spaces, that rhetoric is a warm-up to actual action.
I don't say this because I want someone to go censor them, or preemptively arrest them, but more a plea to take this seriously. Living in Virginia, and having lived through August 17th, Lobby Day, and now January 6th there seems to be too many "it could never happen here" or "it could only happen once" attitudes kicking around.
Don't believe that this sort of violence couldn't come to your city, town, or county. It's that exact level of complacency that allows it to. And the elected officials who downplay these events are precisely the sort that will let them happen again.
Nice shot! Bullseye, in fact. Far, far too much "Yeah, that is kinda' bad. But as long as it's in someone else's backyard and not in mine, it's not really that bad, and not really my concern."
And it's ALWAYS in someone else's backyard. Until it isn't.
But as to those elected officials, surely you jest. No one with the responsibilities of an elected office would ever downplay anything really serious, would they? Especially if assuming that office involved taking an oath to do something like, say, support and defend the Constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic, and to bear true faith and allegiance to the same?
They wouldn't describe something like an insurrection and acts of terrorism on the steps and in the halls of our nation's Capital Building as being anything other than what they were. I mean, they took that oath, right?
Why, this thing we're all talking about here today was just a little dust up by a few overenthusiastic...uh... patriots. Or was it Antifa? No, wait, it was the FBI, wasn't it? Anyway, it's not worthy of all the attention it's gotten for the past year.
I know this because all those Republican elected officials told me so. And like I said, they did take that oath, didn't they?
For those still having the "backyard" outlook, it's time to WTFU. What happened in D.C. a year ago happened in all our backyards.
Props for having such good aim!