Comment on Why does it feel like protesting isn't as "extreme" as it used to be?

Fleur_@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Jmsnwbrd@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  That wasn’t a fucking protest. Give me a break. There’s a difference between a riot, an insurrection and a protest.

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  • Fleur_@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That was literally a right wing protest about an election result. Protests aren’t always good. All those words you used have broad overlap and generally things escalate from protest to riot to insurrection.

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    • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Coup attempts aren’t protests.

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      • Fleur_@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Gaslighting isn’t real and you’re fucking crazy

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    • Jmsnwbrd@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Your logic is misaligned in this comment itself. In your comment you state that “generally things escalate from” and then list three different things . . . A protest, a riot, and an insurrection. This is because they are all different and your logical brain knows it. Your illogical brain uses them as an excuse for the right wing extreme behavior that occured during the god-damned insurrection. How any true patriot could be okay with what happened on the 6th is beyond me. We are supposed to be bonded as Americans. We are supposed to understand that we might not agree on everything, but we are in this together. We are supposed to agree that voting is sacred and that the results are the results.

      Protest - a statement or action expressing disapproval of or objection to something.

      Riot - a violent disturbance of the peace by a crowd.

      Insurrection - a violent uprising against an authority or government.

      The insurrectionists held an uprising against the government, stormed the capital, and threatened to take over and change the election results. This is fact neither born from one media outlet or another. It had witnesses and is a part of this countries history now.

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      • Fleur_@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Right. So using your definitions of protest, riot and insurrection and using your statement that protests, riots and insurrections are mutually exclusive; How would you describe a situation where a crowd is demonstrating their objection to the government with a violent uprising?

        Every use of language is contextual and by forcing yourself into an absolutist understanding you’ll lose nuance in your interpretation.

        That said. Idgaf loser keep coping

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  • chunes@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Really? Because it seems to me the only difference is what your preferred media decide to call it.

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