Current Events > If it had been left-wing rioters/Antifa who had stormed the capitol...

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Do you think the media/government would act differently? What about the average people?

It sure would confuse a lot of people if left wing rioters attacked left wing politicians.

Not that "antifa" makes up a fraction of the 100,000 idiots who actually did attack.

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Guide posted...

It sure would confuse a lot of people if left wing rioters attacked left wing politicians.

The ones who would storm the capitol would be actual leftists, the kind who fantasize about socialist revolution.

There'd have been bodies outside the entrance as Trump would have called in the national guard much earlier

BlackOmnimon posted...

The ones who would storm the capitol would be actual leftists, the kind who fantasize about socialist revolution.

"actual leftists"

"actual scottsmen"

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If those had attack the capitol, police would have shot like they were playing Contra.


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there would most likely be overwhelmingly larger crackdowns from the government

there would also be a lot of "those guys arent like us" from libs

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Guide posted...

"actual leftists"

"actual scottsmen"

I mean there's a difference between Nancy Pelosi fanboys and people who ideolize Che Guevara and Mao Zedong.

BlackOmnimon posted...

"actual leftists"

"actual scottsmen"

I mean there's a difference between Nancy Pelosi fanboys and people who ideolize Che Guevara and Mao Zedong.

sure, but "leftist" is a term fox news made up to sound as bad as "racist" or "fascist", and it got so saturated that now anyone left of center feels fine using it without any sort of negative connotation.

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Spooking posted...

XD CNN considers the whole place on fire mostly peaceful??

-Protestors would be gunned down.
-Media will rail on about leftist extremism and push a right wing narrative as they always do.
-Trump calls national emergency and gets emergency powers. Elections are postponed indefinitely.
-Anything seen as "left wing" is shut down. Liberals/leftists start getting rounded up and arrested.

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Southernfatman posted...

-Protestors would be gunned down.
-Media will rail on about leftist extremism and push a right wing narrative as they always do.
-Trump calls national emergency and gets emergency powers. Elections are postponed indefinitely.
-Anything seen as "left wing" is shut down. Liberals/leftists start getting rounded up and arrested.

Would Russia/China be blamed too?

False equivalency, what an intellectually dishonest thing to do.

That said... They would have never been able to get that close. There'd have been a larger police and national guard presence. And they'd have been firing tear gas cannistets, rubber bullets, and flash bangs as soon as the crowd started getting close.

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The BLM protests over the summer basically showed what would happen.

Particularly in Seattle and Portland. Very left leaning city government having to deal with even further left protest movements.

Ruvan22 posted...

There'd have been bodies outside the entrance as Trump would have called in the national guard much earlier

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The Republicans would want to know why terrorists descended upon the Captiol to overturn Trump's democratic victory. They'd be building effigies of left-wing Ashli Babbit just to burn and literally shit on.

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hockeybub89 posted...

The Republicans would want to know why terrorists descended upon the Captiol to overturn Trump's democratic victory. They'd be building effigies of left-wing Ashli Babbit just to burn and literally shit on.

Maybe Trump won the election in this alternate timeline, which prompted the far left to do this.

Interesting comments so far. Assuming all this happens and there's bloodshed, would people who condemned the rioters in our reality, condemn the left-wing rioters in this other reality?

Atralis posted...

The BLM protests over the summer basically showed what would happen.

Particularly in Seattle and Portland. Very left leaning city government having to deal with even further left protest movements.

Wouldn't the actual BLM protest in DC be a better comparison? Armed forces, barricades?

BlackOmnimon posted...

Would Russia/China be blamed too?

Russia no, China yes.

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BlackOmnimon posted...

Maybe Trump won the election in this alternate timeline, which prompted the far left to do this.

Interesting comments so far. Assuming all this happens and there's bloodshed, would people who condemned the rioters in our reality, condemn the left-wing rioters in this other reality?

You realize the answer to your question depends on a lot of unknowns right?

But for the sake of argument if conditions were EXACTLY the same (a demagogue and others repeat lies for months, incite the mob, the mob gets inside with chants of execution etc.) I would definitely condemn them. I can't speak for others on this board though.

BlackOmnimon posted...

Maybe Trump won the election in this alternate timeline, which prompted the far left to do this.

Interesting comments so far. Assuming all this happens and there's bloodshed, would people who condemned the rioters in our reality, condemn the left-wing rioters in this other reality?

Absolutely.

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They would have peacefully protested outside of the capital and the barriers on public ground and been gunned down in the streets en masse.

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I think the far-left and entire right would've acted differently. The moderate-left and centrists would have reacted more or less the same.

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