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ent. The party as a whole as been trending way to extreme for comfort, and it scares me. I really wished the Republicans held the senate to keep some form of balance, but I REALLLLY wish the protests hadn't gone the way it had. It's similar to BLM

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What made me most mad was how brazen the mob members were - like they were entitled to storm the U.S. Capitol and endanger members of Congress and our democracy

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What made me most mad was how brazen the mob members were - like they were entitled to storm the U.S. Capitol and endanger members of Congress and our democracy

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this was planned for weeks and we didnt even know

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https://www.businessinsider.com/q-shaman-qanon-influencer-capitol-siege-washington-dc-protest-riot-2021-1

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I've seen lots of loaded analogies that do fit this situation:
- Banana republic
- Sacking of Rome
- Beer Hall Putsch

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The image of protesters scaling the Capitol wall stuck with me the most.

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If the Capitol is the "People's House," then the people have shown their true selves. Some of us are ready to literally wreck the foundations of our government. Our society and political system is rotten to the core.

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I get that this is a significant, unexpected event that has great importance to many people, but this event just seems like a small patch in the vast ocean of unexpected events that have taken place recently.

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A powerful image I saw was the security yesterday vs the security in June in front of the Lincoln memorial

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I myself am VERY concerned with the full Democratic government. The party as a whole as been trending way to extreme for comfort, and it scares me. I really wished the Republicans held the senate to keep some form of balance, but I REALLLLY wish the protests hadn't gone the way it had. It's similar to BLM, I agree with the general premise, but certain examples very much taint the general concern

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a picture that really stuck with me is the image of how the national guard was fully deployed during the blm protests and in comparison there was almost no protection at the capitol yesterday

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a picture that really stuck with me is the image of how the national guard was fully deployed during the blm protests and in comparison there was almost no protection at the capitol yesterday

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I think it's sad that of course this event is surprising, but also to some degree I almost expected it since our leaders don't seem to explicitly speak against these actions

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cops that were taking pictures with the terrorists

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Some police were letting people in and taking selfies with the protestors - ????

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Honestly, the whole ordeal was so absurd, I felt like laughing at times

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I was frustrated with the newspeople saying that this was unimaginable. It feels like this was fully expected. Also, I kept thinking, "Imagine being a Black person in DC right now..." with the white supremacists marching in the streets. The image that sticks in my mind is the armed standoff at the Capitol building. Also, a woman was shot and died during a riot.

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The image that sticks with me is the man holding the confederate flag. I can't believe that in 2021 people still hold onto such a hateful symbol.

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The one black cop who was holding back an entire crowd of trump supporters

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It was terrible, but it was also almost comic. Why did he take the podium of all things? What was his purpose with it?
Just for the whole thing, my immigrant parents were saying that if they heard something like this happening when they were back in India, they wouldn't have believed it. But given recent events, we all expected something, just not that it would be this big.

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I've seen my share of protests around the world. Including the Gillets Jeunes in Paris when I lived there with cars burning in front of my apartment building. I also was in Romania when there were massive riots very close to the parliament but never inside. I was also here this year of course with the BLM protests. This one seemed to hit different though even though it was as close to home, even though it was quite close. For me the problem is more a symbolic attack towards the democracy of our country and its pretty scary

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Never though this could happen in the US

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I wasn't born in the U.S, but I have always thought of America as my home. It's essentially the only one I've ever known. When I saw what happened yesterday, I felt an overwhelming amount of anxiety and shame. Unfortunately that pang of anxiety and shame is still here. I don't know why, but I feel so anxious. I wasn't there. I didn't have family there. But for some reason, the fact that these white supremacists were able to breach the Capitol without much police resistance does not make me feel safe. I'm scared and I don't know how to stop it. I'm 18 now. Yet I feel unprepared for the world I have to face.

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where to begin...
- neonazi sweatshirts with "camp auschwitz" on the front and "staff" on the back
- the confederate flag entering the capitol building for the first time EVER
- them entering with pipe bombs, matches, zip ties to hold people hostage and harm them
- stealing mail or podiums??
- seeing the members of congress huddled over like our lockdown drills
- the fact that police took selfies and let them in
- the fact that "terrorism" has been swapped with "protesting"
- the way a Black woman was killed by police earlier by dc police for making a wrong turn but now they simply detain :|

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The thought of lawmakers being attacked in a nation as democratic as the united states is terrifying.
If the mob got these boxes (where the actual electoral votes are) then the actual vote would be ruined. The Senate luckily salvaged the boxes and saved the votes before anything bad happened.

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The image that sticks with me is the trump supporter on the Senate dais shouting that "trump won." It reminds me of scenes in movies when the revolution is over -- a symbolic loss. Article 25!

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Over the past few months, I have grown very apathetic towards crisis. For the DC riots, I just feel tired like "alright, here we go again" and despite it being so close to me, I really cant bring myself to care all that much. The social media backlash and things just make me annoyed and I'm somewhat concerned about my lack of caring in such monumental times