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>terrorist attack on January 6th

Are you seriously comparing what happened on January 6th to 9/11? How about the Oklahoma City bombing? Lockerbie bombing? Get some perspective dude.



Yes, whenever people storm the Capital, calling for the VP's head - that's totally not a big deal. Maybe in the 3rd world that's just another Wednesday, but in the U.S. it was a very big fucking deal.


3,000 people died in 9/11 + countless long term deaths from asbestos, 2 wars that lasted around 20 years with what, 500K - 1M civilian deaths in Iraq and Afga? 168 deaths in OK City bombing including women and children, 270 deaths in the Lockerbie bombing including women and children. What are the long term affects of January 6th? Oh absolutely nothing? Get off the propaganda.


In the US it was made into a very big deal,

A coup is not as simple as getting a bunch of armed people into a building, you need widespread support from powerful agents to have any chance at all and I frankly find it funny that anyone in the US loses his head over this since the US has promoted coups through the world as if it was a sport, you would expect for people to at least understand how it works.

It provided an excellent opportunity to display Trump supporters as awful and it was used as such, but to call it an act of terrorism is absurd.


Off topic, but I'm curious, how do you feel about the death of Secoriea Turner?




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