(08-12-2021, 01:47 PM)Dartz Wrote: I got the impression that a lot of those who showed up didn't particularly realise the gravitas of the endeavour they embarked upon. They literally had no idea they were starting a rebellion - it was a complete coup d'etat of the yahoos.
When yer wan Babbit got shot for her trouble you can just feel the change in mood wash over the crowd. From someone in the back still egging on with 'Its just a flashbang' to someone yelling 'Shots fired' like a Cop Cosplay --- then you have the riot police show up and step over her bleeding body. Any impetus the crowd had to keep trying just sort of died about ten seconds after she did.
There's just that sense of 'Oh Shit', this isn't fun anymore, they're really going to shoot us. They were all for stringing up congress and having a great laugh while senators twitched from the trees but the moment it became 'real' with 'real' consequences that included dying, they just sort of deflated and gave up and realised that whatever the hell they were doing wasn't worth dying for. There was zero fucking mettle in them --- the moment it stopped being fun, they fucked off.
It was the most pathetic rebellion in history. And this from a country with a history of defeated rebellions.
In all likelyhood, if the army had showed up fully armed -- - there'd be nothing but surrender after the first shot.
In the end, their sentence will account for whatever the fuck they thought they were doing at the time, what they actually did, and the ultimate consequences of their actions. The ones who went in full-tactical gear, with zip-cuffs and knew exactly what they were doing need to spend a long time in a dark cell. The idiots need a fine and felony conviction --- it's the felony that'll sting hard with the whole No-Gun and No-Vote thing.
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Meanwhile, the real rebellion is happening in the judicial bench, or in the State houses.
Amen. Those who were idiot LARPers, it's basically just a mirror image of those ANTIFA "All Cops are Bastards" types who immediately wimp out when they realize the cops and community are not having their crap at all, and whatever they earn for their idiocy is for them to live down. For those who went in there to seriously commit to doing actual treason and insurrection with malice aforethought, they can fry for it and I will not shed a tear.