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[Poopadoop]

I realise this. But there is a huge difference between the kinds of protest we have seen in the last year. You guys were cheerleading the looting of shops because you agreed with their ideology.

No, we were not. No-one said looting is an acceptable thing to do. We objected to the use of deadly force against them because you, as I recall, thought the police should shoot the looters.

But when a group of people who protest an election result on the basis of perceived fraud

There isn't even any perceived fraud. There's fabricated allegations of fraud. If you're stupid enough to believe everything a serial liar like Trump says, then you're either delusional or an idiot, sorry.

So there's that.

storm an actual government building, for some reason this isn't cool.

I'll just let these words sit here and speak for themselves.

Setting shops on fire... cool.

No.

Storming the Capitol... not cool.

Correct.

Like I say, funny. You're blind to your own hypocrisy.

Because you just made it up right now, by claiming we were ok with people doing property damage. No-one here said that was an acceptable form of protest. We only said it did not justify a summary execution.

Let's just make one thing clear... from my pov, it doesn't matter if fraud was committed, what matters is if the people who are protesting believe fraud to have happened.

That's not how it works. If you forget to take your meds for a week and so start to believe the Queen is an alien lizard who needs to be stopped, that doesn't make it ok to try to bump her off.

Let's give them the benefit of the doubt and assume they do genuinely think so. In that event, they have every right to protest.

No-one ITT has said they don't have a right to protest.

And I would say, in my humble opinion, that storming Capitol is a better form of protest that looting and setting fire to peoples' businesses.

So if BLM supporters stormed the Houses of Parliament while it was in session to vote in the Brexit bill and all the MPs had to run for cover, you'd be ok with that as long as they didn't burn down any grocery stores on the way there. Gotcha.