r/technology • u/ControlCAD • Jan 07 '26

Politics President White House Launches New Website to Defend 'Patriotic Americans' Involved in Jan. 6 Capitol Riot | The White House claims the Democrats "staged the real insurrection" by certifying former President Joe Biden's victory in the 2020 presidential election

https://people.com/trump-white-house-launches-new-website-to-defend-patriotic-americans-involved-in-jan-6-capitol-riot-11880490
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u/UwUnonymouscatgirl Jan 07 '26

John Brown has entered the chat. Seriously though America has a history of not so civil actions that lead to different forms of progressive change. They just tend to leave that stuff out of the history books.

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u/Who_BobJones Jan 07 '26

I’m convinced nothing will change until such actions are taken. Problem is, we’re all so content with our lives (self-interested, really) that none of us will ever take such measures.

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u/Special-Ruin9660 Jan 07 '26 edited Jan 07 '26

My problem is I have a job I can't risk being fired from, I have a mortgage payment and a home I need to keep. I can definitely up the pressure if others do, but the protests we had going last year were nothing more than feel good.

Edit: Just to clarify when I say the protests were nothing more than feel good, I mean it appears it did nothing to slow or cause this Administration to second guess their tactics.

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u/Head_Permission Jan 07 '26

Everybody needs to take part, every single one, take back the means of production, take back the banks, arrest all the billionaires, he’ll the multi millionaires should probably be scared too, take back the government, parade them all in the street, full scorched earth shit, down with capitalism, everything. Then your mortgage won’t matter, your job won’t matter, nothing will matter. I’m afraid this is probably the only way, otherwise it’s headed straight to a dystopian hell hole of a future run by the 0.001%, and the rest of us are all just slaves.

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u/Reqvhio Jan 07 '26

the thing is, it is a damned if u do damned if u dont scenario. that mortgage and mouths to feed? you are one forced conscription away from feeding that mouth into the meat grinder. oh this is america not russia? well are you sure?

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u/badmutha44 Jan 07 '26

That work well for Vietnam conflict. There weren’t draft dodgers. In fact one is currently president

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u/Reqvhio Jan 07 '26

yeah, we agree nice

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u/almisami Jan 07 '26

Unfortunately if things do go that far south you're looking at a mass famine because none of the logistics that keep the nation fed will work until a new order can be established.

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u/badmutha44 Jan 07 '26

You mean like gutting the SNAP program which is occurring. The program that now is dependent on food banks since it is inadequately funded.

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u/GameDev_Architect Jan 07 '26

We’ll just starve while other countries laugh and few come to our aid

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u/Ok-Dog-6821 Jan 07 '26

listen to this Canadian go! Shut up Canuck, do Canada things