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Yup. It was just a bunch of people who just wanted to show up and say they were there and basically just pushed their luck with how far they could get into the Capitol building. There was little if any organization to it all. It was not the murderous democracy-threatening insurrection as the Democrats have repeatedly said it was. And as another poster said further up, their years of overblown fearmongering is what led to what happened today.


That's not true; there was a great deal of planning by the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planning_of_the_January_6_Unit...


They were in the minority of the crowd, and I think this is supported by how many people were charged with conspiracy (not to mention how many were charged with anything other than trespassing).


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There are no conspiracies. None. Everything comes out to daylight. Ever faster. What you see, is what you got. There is no backroom plot. Just bumbling idiots and "great-man" captains in operetta uniforms, singing arias on how they control the world, while there steering wheels are attached to nothing. All you have, is the species as is, as it becomes when exposed to a environment that is hostile to the basic things holding society together. Slurped for the nutrients by meta-organisms, the great stomach of society heaves as the still alive things inside, fight the lining and each other to get out of the acid.




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