Vanilla ISIS takes the Capitol
Jan. 6th, 2021 03:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sabotabby I'm only reading text, not watching things, but...wow America. Holy shit. That's some photogenic battshittery going on.
In 2001, in 2016 when I was counterprotesting Nazis, I got told off for doing so because they're just fringe, tiny, no one pays attention to them, you just make them look sympathetic by drawing attention to them. I don't like to say I told you so, but this is what happens when you let the far-right get out of control.
As everyone else has pointed out, the DC police absolutely had the means of dealing with this, as we can see when it comes to BLM and any random Black person they decide to use as target practice. They decided to use kid gloves to deal with fascists, and so the fascists were able to get in. They didn't think the Trumpists would score an own goal, but guess what?
Liberal democracies always think they have a better handle on fascism than they actually do. They use it to repress the left, and think for some reason that it won't turn on them. America's been on the very thin edge of being a liberal democracy for quite some time, and Americans are typically poor students of history, but there's a certain amount of schadenfreude watching the scorpion sink frogs like Pence and McConnell into the mires of the swamp they crawled out of. Just hoping they don't kill anyone innocent along the way.
Anyway, I think this particular coup attempt will end up being overreach. Right-wing Americans of the more ordinary sort generally aren't fans of seeing cops get injured, and if the cops or the National Guard are genuinely threatened, they'll just shoot these dickweeds. But it's a bad sign of things to come.
In 2001, in 2016 when I was counterprotesting Nazis, I got told off for doing so because they're just fringe, tiny, no one pays attention to them, you just make them look sympathetic by drawing attention to them. I don't like to say I told you so, but this is what happens when you let the far-right get out of control.
As everyone else has pointed out, the DC police absolutely had the means of dealing with this, as we can see when it comes to BLM and any random Black person they decide to use as target practice. They decided to use kid gloves to deal with fascists, and so the fascists were able to get in. They didn't think the Trumpists would score an own goal, but guess what?
Liberal democracies always think they have a better handle on fascism than they actually do. They use it to repress the left, and think for some reason that it won't turn on them. America's been on the very thin edge of being a liberal democracy for quite some time, and Americans are typically poor students of history, but there's a certain amount of schadenfreude watching the scorpion sink frogs like Pence and McConnell into the mires of the swamp they crawled out of. Just hoping they don't kill anyone innocent along the way.
Anyway, I think this particular coup attempt will end up being overreach. Right-wing Americans of the more ordinary sort generally aren't fans of seeing cops get injured, and if the cops or the National Guard are genuinely threatened, they'll just shoot these dickweeds. But it's a bad sign of things to come.
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Date: 2021-01-07 12:06 am (UTC)ME TOO I WANT TO BE BORED FOR A BIT THANK YOU
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Date: 2021-01-07 01:21 am (UTC)I'm probably gonna do that anyway because all of the activism I know how to do involves a dangerous amount of contact during a pandemic.