Boss Mog
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I was the first person on GAF to condemn the capitol attack (i made the thread) so don't try to make it look like I'm lessening it in any way and it's not about comparisons, I'm just pointing out the hypocrisy of the democrats and the media who championed terrorists all summer and only now choose to condemn them. Terrorists should ALWAYS be condemned period.How confident are you that the footage you are consuming isn't influenced by a selection bias, either self generated, or generated by others or an internet algorithm designed for emotional engagement?
Yes, in the capitol there was footage of people mostly milling about, but there's also footage of trespassing on restricted land, theft, and murder.
Yes, in the summer riots there is footage of hostile takeovers, theft, vandalism, and murder, but there is also footage of people speaking their mind without violence and just holding up signs and shouting.
Are you getting complete pictures of both scenarios via the pathways in which you consume information, or can they be flawed too?
The overall point I'm trying to make is that you can see these events through the lens of overall damage numbers or deaths, or implications. There's many ways to analyze this. Yes, the summer riots have a higher body count and more monetary damage, but that's because there was more of them. By contrast, the capitol incident was an attack on the fundamental institutions that are the bedrock of our entire country, both in law and in physical space.
If an attack like that was able to fester as much as a whole summer, what would you make of the comparison then?
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