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          Sure, the thousands of mostly peaceful protests against police killing people were 100% identical to the attempted overthrow of the American government because a fat orange fascist lost an election.

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        Sure, the rioters shouldn’t have rioted. They should face consequences. Are you willing to say the same when much larger groups participated in the BLM riots?

        Furthermore, are you willing to admit that the left pretended that those riots didn’t happen, even though they were going on for months?

        Jan 6 was one day of riots where one rioter was killed and no policemen died. BLM riots were months of “mostly peaceful” riots where black owned businesses were looted and burned to the ground, and many people died.

        Tell me again how evil Trump supporters are.

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      Getting downvoted, I definitely remember stores burning and people fearing for their lives. Absolutely the few do not represent the views of the overall movement, but I definitely wouldn’t say it’s unfair to watch the extremists in any situation.

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        There sure was a lot of reporting on burning stores and people fearing for their lives…

        The truth is that there were thousands of protests and only something like 3% of them had any violence or property damage. Most of the violence was actually caused by right wing counterprotesters and police. Including the burning of that police station.

        But it was a left leaning protest, so the news tore into it like it was the worst thing ever. Like they always do. News orgs hate the left wing. An example of such is discussed here.

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      “Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.”

      John F. Kennedy