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In reply to the discussion: Some Capitol riot suspects apologize as consequences sink in [View all]Rabrrrrrr
(58,349 posts)"Ooooh, I wouldn't have stormed the capitol and participated in an insurrection if I knew I'd get caught! Oh, boo hoo, how can I be treated this way? I didn't expect consequences. Oh, boo hoo. Woe is me. This is all very unfair for me. I had no idea. Boo hoo."
Fuck you. Fuck you a million times. Enjoy prison.
I have no compassion for these violent stains, and the law should show no compassion on them.
It's weird, I was never particularly patriotic - not in a jingoistic, flag-waving rah rah way, anyway, and never to the extent that I thought the US was God's greatest nation ever, though I always thought we had a pretty damn good system of laws and freedoms (however imperfectly we live them out) - but misuse of the US flag has always pissed me off; and the insurrection has **really** pissed me off. My anger toward these anti-patriotics has been at a level that I didn't think I achieve in terms of relating to patriotism. And quite honestly, as much as I abhor the death penalty, there's a part of me that's perfectly fine with executing traitors. I wish I knew where that came from - I've been meditating on it for two months, and still am not really sure.
But maybe forty years of seeing Christianity used for such evil intent via the Republican party, and then four years of Trump and the Christian Right so blatantly showing the world that they actually have no values at all except power for the sake of power and have absolutely no scruples in still claiming to be Christian, and then all of it naturally turning into a violent insurrection... perhaps that was the straw on the camel's back for me. They aren't entertaining any more; they aren't just outsiders dilly dallying and being weird but harmless; they aren't just a small group of nothings that mean nothing - they're now a nation-wide wide movement and dangerous as hell, so maybe lopping off a few heads (metaphorically) is what's needed.