> No one sheds a tear for Parlor, but lets also be clear about this, the social media companies just showed a token of conscience and it doesn't mean anything. They still didn't boot people like Cruz, Hawley and Gaetz and the numerous others still inciting the insurrection.
If following a constitutional process for protesting a State's results in a presidential election is "inciting the insurrection", somebody better start fitting Nancy Pelosi for an orange jumpsuit: https://www.c-span.org/video/?185005-2/debate-ohio-electoral...
> Didn’t realize people on HN rationalize sedition and insurrection too.
It's not sedition or insurrection to wait your turn and speak out in Congress that the results for a State are invalid. That's exactly what the Constitution stipulates you should do. It wasn't a crime or an insurrection when Pelosi did it and it's not a crime now.
If you want a word to describe then versus now I'd go with hypocrisy.
On the wider topic, it's sad that people's biases have become so blatant against others with different political views that they interpret every comment in the most disingenuous light, with the dumbest of assumptions. One does not have to call out "Violence is bad!" in every comment or statement that they make for it to be true. It should be assumed as that's the default for any sane individual in modern society.
So, yes violence is bad. We all know that. But unless you can show me where Cruz or Hawley actually committed acts of violence or directly instructed people to do the same, talk of them being guilty of insurrection is totally out of line. If telling your supporters to "March to the capital and make your voices heard!" is an insurrection we're not going to have room in our prisons.
I am going to take your argument in good faith. People form their beliefs thinking its the right thing.
So, this is exactly how leaders want you to think. I suggest reading up on how coups happen and how the leaders in those situations use the media and exactly what they say and how they say it. We have a lot of examples in this world and they have been very well documented too. Also in these cases its irrefutable evidence once the coup has happened who the bad guys are, so the books will not be controversial.
Here is a book to look at if you want - Strongmen: From Mussolini to the Present.
If following a constitutional process for protesting a State's results in a presidential election is "inciting the insurrection", somebody better start fitting Nancy Pelosi for an orange jumpsuit: https://www.c-span.org/video/?185005-2/debate-ohio-electoral...