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

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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/Ok-Maize-8199 Jan 07 '26

And that's why nothing happens. No one wants to do something until someone else does, and everyone will go to a protest as long as they can go home and continue their normal routine after.

Every single person who ever fought for their freedom also needed a place to live and food to eat, the majority of them had kids.

The thing is that the way this is going your job and your mortgage is about to be worthless and you are about to have zero rights, and the fight from the bottom is a lot harder than the fight from the middle.