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This is just... Surreal fionwe1987 Send a noteboard - 15/01/2021 09:44:49 PM

Maybe maybe maybe you meant what you said about killing members of Congress to get the changes you want in society as a joke. If so, it was incredibly poorly timed, and tone deaf.

But if not, I guess this is what it must feel like to go read an ISIS message board, full of self pity and justification for actual and planned for violence.

You keep saying Trump is the match that lit the fire, and that you don't get why people don't blame him. I fail to see how you can be confused. The specific grievance the mob was responding to was made up, whole cloth, by Trump and his enablers. If you've invested your last few months imagining that there was massive election fraud that denied your preferred candidate his victory, what has happened to change your mind?

You can keep trying to excise Trump from the movement. But there just isn't any way to. The mob that attacked the Capitol is not some group of heroic citizens fighting a real injustice whom Trump just happened to incite. Their perceived injustice is the specific creation of Donald Trump, and his inability to comprehend that the majority of this country has had it with him and his polarizing, law breaking presidency. And that delusion seems alive and well in the discussion above, and so he'll continue to be the martyr this movement will continue to be beholden to.

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