As unpopular as this post will be to some, and as much as Jan. 6 was a treasonous act, Americans should be thankful the rioters had no idea how to riot. The rioters were mostly sheeple, nothing but gun fodder! Even as the events unfolded that day, as I watched it on TV, I thougnt how lucky Americans were the people rampaging in the Congress building had no idea what to do with themselves. Lives were lost, I know, but mostly through bad luck. If the rioters had been real rioters, there would have been hundreds dead, and the building would have been destroyed, as would have all the surrounding buildings. The riot would have lasted days, not 4 hours!
And anywhere else in the world retaliation for this event would have been swift and meaningful. Not just the rioters, but everyone involved in the riots from Trump through Bannon on down to Greene and Gaetz would have been immediately imprisoned without trial, and possibly executed in some jurisdictions.
For all the white terrorists and gun-toting racists America has, this event was sheepish in the riot and sheepish in the response to the riot.
And this has carried right on through to the world’s response to Putin’s War on Ukraine. One hundred years ago Putin would have been spanked and sent home to cry. But the war has been allowed to drag on for almost a year and the only ones dieing are Ukrainian civilians (their army is made up of ciivilians!) and Russian soldiers, all because of one man’s ego.
I am a declared pacifist and have been for 70 odd years now, but to see the world sit like an audience in a theater watching a snuff film, knowing that already wealthy people are profiting from allowing this murder to go on at the cost of innocent lives burns me up. Sacrificing Ukrainian citizens and Russian youth to bring home astronomical profits is wrong in every way, as are allowing known traitors into government positions. I am glad I have so few years left on this earth. Money reigns over humanity, and everyone is suffering for it except the wealthy. If this is what it means to be human, I want no more part of it!
rawgod has ranted!
This rant was originally written as a comment on Claytoonz, Jan. 19, 2023.
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