07-02-2024, 02:57 PM
(07-02-2024, 01:50 PM)Dill Wrote: How does one "overstate" an attempted coup, the first in US history?
By overstating it. It being the first does not greaten, or lessen its severity. If you used a scale from 1-100, 1 being no coup attempt at all and 100 being outright civil war then the Trump attempt would possibly break single digits, and not by much. It doesn't make it better, but it doesn't make it as bad as people like you prefer to view it.
Quote:And duped Trump supporters "legitimately" believed the election was stolen?
Of course. Or are you prescient and know that every single one of them didn't actually believe the election was stolen? That would be quite impressive.
Quote:You present yourself as occupying some balanced middle ground, separate from "both sides" who "muddy the waters,"
while yourself consistently "downplay[ing] the events overall," elsewhere regularly comparing the Capitol riot to George Floyd protests in Portland
and Minneapolis, exactly as "one side" does. Imagine a general who cannot see the threat differential between an attack on his own command center
and an attack on an outpost.
Yes, if you are on one side and Luvnit is on the other I am most assuredly the "middle ground" as you chose to put it.
Quote:Seems to me more likely that a large segment of the population then and now has not grasped the implications of an attack on the foundational
legitimizing act of democratic government. Or they do and don't care. They are prepared to put the attacker back in office with greatly enhanced
power, knowing his penchant for criminal, anti-democratic behavior.
Seems to me you're just as hysterical as those you deride. It's not just MAGA types who are ready to reinstall Trump as POTUS. Your complete blindness to that being yet another symptom of your radical leanings.
