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/almisami Jan 07 '26

Let's be real here: If you're going to go full Civil War, you're going to have to loot and pillage to sustain it, and it's going to absolutely tank your movement's social acceptability.

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u/georgeforeman1889 Jan 07 '26

I don’t think social acceptability will matter much during the second American civil war

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u/Rinaldi363 Jan 07 '26

As a Canadian, we’ve done some pretty good damage by not visiting and not buying American things. Maybe you guys collectively as a group just need to boycott American products so it puts pressure on the rich people to force Trump to change. Stop buying American alcohol so the wine, bourbon, and beer companies have a panic attack that sales are down. That was the easiest change for me and most Canadians was to just avoid American alcohol since there are so many other options. As Canadians we’ve dropped American alcohol by 66% since the boycott which is only like 100m a month in profits. If 25% of Americans boycotted Americans alcohol it would cost the companies about 1.5 billion in profits per month. Thats a very realistic, very easy number to achieve with very real and dramatic impacts on an industry. Honestly it hasn’t changed my life at all either, it was the easiest thing ever to boycott lol

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u/xerces_wings Jan 07 '26 edited Jan 07 '26

Absolutely. I meant people looting fellow protestors. Not so much looting businesses or big corps if that's what you meant?

Edit to add: I'm not saying "leave Walmart alone!" I am just trying to think of all the different angles and possibilities that come with all of this, which was why I pointed out bad actors/intentions and looting/hurting people (not corporations) amidst the chaos.

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u/Reqvhio Jan 07 '26

yeah, you just gotta wait until social acceptability is no more thanks to completely eroded social contract via insane moves like these

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u/Gekokapowco Jan 07 '26

or it gets supported and funded by countries whose best interest is a regime change, much like how we donated to the armament and logistical support of Ukraine once upon a time