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Originally Posted by unsunghero
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The riot happened easily
The overturning the government wouldn’t. Especially considering the rioters weren’t armed. Maybe I just suck at insurrection but I can’t figure out how unarmed rioters permanently change government function
Part of the reason things got so out of control was incredible mismanagement by police administration or city management, I forget which, may have been both, people were fired for this. There normally should have been enough of a police presence to control the crowd but there wasn’t then
But back to the original point, I can’t connect the dots as to how it overthrows a government, especially one as powerful as ours. We ain’t talking Afghanistan here. How I imagine it would play out is riot police would fairly easy put down the riot. Then there would have to be many more armed riots all over the country and even then the answer could be to declare martial law. The government would for sure win in the end, the only question would be how much force they would have to use and how that might reflect on their image
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This just reeks of alt right downplaying talking points (no offense). The fact of the matter is you have a serious issue in this country where suddenly one guy can just make things up and convince people without evidence to try to stop the certification of an election. This is a serious issue that does not bode well for the future.
Give me a break with the mismanagement/lack of police presence. There wasn’t a lack of police presence in context, because no one thought Trump would actually instigate people to go try and overturn the election as a mob lol. That’s like blaming a guy who got robbed for not carrying a weapon to defend himself with “well if you’d had a weapon you wouldn’t have been robbed so we really should t blame the robber that much” smh