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We're going to have a year of journalist being shocked every time a capitol rioter gets arrested and they turn out to be a lawyer/engineer/doctor/business owner/VP/college graduate.

So many members of legacy media cannot wrap their heads around the fact that the far right is primarily a cadre of well off professionals and prosperous businessmen who are animated by a perceived lose of racial and gender based power.
I used to work with two engineering managers that were big Trump supporters. And also giant pieces of ****.
 
guy was really great at being really awful on twitter though. gotta give him that

It's good that it's banned but I hope they have been archived for posterity. When my kids are teenagers, I don't want them to think I'm BSing them when I say that he wished a happy new year to his "haters" and called Bette Middler a "washed up psycho."
 


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It's going to be interesting to see the law develop on whether the reach of the first amendment should expand to certain social media giants
 
We're going to have a year of journalist being shocked every time a capitol rioter gets arrested and they turn out to be a lawyer/engineer/doctor/business owner/VP/college graduate.

So many members of legacy media cannot wrap their heads around the fact that the far right is primarily a cadre of well off professionals and prosperous businessmen who are animated by a perceived lose of racial and gender based power.
Things black folks already know and have been screaming forever. They are right here!
 
I used to work with two engineering managers that were big Trump supporters. And also giant pieces of ****.

A lot of lawyers, engineers, economists, managers, finance guys, are good at abstracting what they are working with and then they go on to imagine the whole world as an internally consistent, logical and well ordered place. They see the world as a giant MMORPG game and the only "correct" way to better your life is to do so within the system like getting promoted or getting a fancy professional degree or flipping assets for a profit. They think that any group that uses solidarity and direct action to improve their lives as cheaters, hackers. That's how they see BLM or immigrants' rights groups or fight for $15 or labor unions or those who support equal pay for equal work.
 
Some among America's military allies believe Trump deliberately attempted a coup and may have had help from federal law-enforcement officials

  • Multiple European security officials told Insider that President Donald Trump appeared to have tacit support among US federal agencies responsible for securing the Capitol complex in Wednesday's coup attempt.
  • Insider is reporting this information because it illustrates the serious repercussions of Wednesday's events: Even if they are mistaken, some among America's international military allies are now willing to give credence to the idea that Trump deliberately tried to violently overturn an election and had help from some federal law-enforcement agents.
  • "We train alongside the US federal law enforcement to handle these very matters, and it's obvious that large parts of any successful plan were just ignored," one source told us.
 
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