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Rioter who stormed Capitol while on bail on an attempted murder charge gets 3 years (www.nbcnews.com)

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Matthew Beddingfield, 22, who pleaded guilty to assaulting or impeding officers on Jan. 6, was identified by online sleuths who got a lead with facial recognition.

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[-] [email protected] 44 points 2 years ago

Three years? This is ridiculous. These people tried to overthrow the government. This one tried to do it while on bail.

[-] [email protected] 26 points 2 years ago

I love how people bend over backwards to describe white people as something that doesn't sound too bad. Insurrectionist? Motherfuckers if they were even sun tanned you would call them terrorists.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

hE’s JuSt a miSUnDersTOoD guY WhO mADe A mIstAKe, hE DOeSn’T deSeRVe tO haVe HIs LifE RuiNEd

[-] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago

But also, if a black guy is caught with 2oz of weed send him to prison for life!

[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

1.5oz...

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I feel like Reason.com is always filled with the most rational, level-headed version of libertarianism.

No selective, Mises Institute, Dave-Rubin-style "if we just get rid of all the regulations, all the new houses will stand up on their own!" nonsense that has taken over the actual libertarian party.

None of that. Reason is a down-to-earth, truth-to-power, news outlet accurately documenting government excesses.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

They have their share of batshit crazy articles too. But for libertarians, they're relatively not insane.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

This one tried to do it while on bail.

For shooting someone.

[-] [email protected] 32 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

who pleaded guilty to assaulting or impeding officers

and how many PoC, who, while doing nothing wrong, got charged with “resisting arrest” got sentenced to 5-10 years while not committing treason...

[+] [email protected] -27 points 2 years ago

Get that race-baited bullshit out of here. There were a shockingly large number of non white folks involved in this attack on the capital as well as Trump supporters in general. Always blindly falling back to the simple-minded bullshit of race is one of the reasons why so many people support that traitor.

[-] [email protected] 24 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Those protesters who did enough to get arrested and charged with crimes came from counties that both were carried by Biden, and, while still majority white, have recently experienced a significant increase in non-whites in their populations.

To restate that for emphasis or clarity: Those protesters who did enough to get arrested and charged with crimes came from counties that both were carried by Biden, and, while still majority white, have recently experienced a significant increase in non-whites in their populations.

A look at demographics of the Jan. 6 insurrectionists

“We’re finding evidence that the key driver is fear that rights of Hispanic people and Black people are outpacing the rights of white people,” Pape said.

Who Stormed the US Capitol? New Report Digs Into Demographics of Those Arrested

Facts, not your feelings, are what matter here-- and discussions about racism are only uncomfortable for racists

[-] [email protected] 19 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

There were a shockingly large number of non white folks involved in this attack on the capital as well as Trump supporters in general.

Not according to, ya know, the facts...

White, employed and mainstream: What we know about the Jan. 6 rioters one year later

We Know Exactly Who the Capitol Rioters Were

[-] [email protected] -4 points 2 years ago

Keep on focusing on meaningless things such as race and missing the forest for the trees. Then wonder why with nearly every election, Democrats are just barely scraping a win even though their opponents are goddamn fascists. You shouldn't ever lose to a fascist in America, and just barely squeezing out a win is nothing to be proud of.

There are very real voters who are drawn to Trump and thinking that all of them are old, white people is ignorant and dangerous.

https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-political-scene/the-deep-origins-of-latino-support-for-trump

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/11/racism-isnt-everyones-priority/617108/

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/06/briefing/asian-americans-conservative-republican.html

And go Google Image Search Proud Boys and tell me those people are old. Because that is another endlessly overuse cliche that all these right wing lunatics are senior citizens and supposedly once they die off, we won't have much to worry about. That is incredibly wrong.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Keep on focusing on meaningless things such as race

wow, that's some real white privilege you got there to think race is meaningless

oh, and you can stow the rest of your whining, as any rational person can see it as the straw man deflection it really is.

[-] [email protected] -3 points 2 years ago

Oh look a shiny ball! Go focus on the shiny ball all while the ruling class fuck everyone over. Simpletons are the ruling class' wet dream.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

is repeating the same tired talking point while hurling insults supposed to make you sound clever?

[-] [email protected] -4 points 2 years ago

It is supposed to highlight how utterly clueless some people are. Tools of the bourgeois. Tools, indeed.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

for someone who fails to grasp the intersection of race and class dynamics to call others "simpletons" and "tools" only makes a joke of themselves. thanks for the laugh.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Please try to phrase your arguments in a less aggressive and intentionally inflammatory way. You weren't insulting anyone directly but it was on the line, and just encourages a culture or toxicity and ragebaiting.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Do you really think he would have only gotten three years if he was black? Because data shows otherwise. Systemic racism is real and it is a problem. Especially when it comes to putting people in prison, the slavery system which is still legal in this country.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Bringing up racial inequity isn't "race -baiting." What you are doing is attempting to shut down any discussion of a major systemic problem.

That shit doesn't work anymore. You're like 10+ years late with that attempt. If even seeing other people talk about racism upsets you so much, that's on you.

[-] [email protected] -5 points 2 years ago

Yeah nice try into race-baiting people simply because you are such a simpleton who can't see we have a major class war brewing, but you are blindly hung up on pointless race wars. Good job! You're the perfect tool for the the 1%'ers who are trying to keep the people down by dividing us over meaningless things.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

it's been my experience that the only people uncomfortable discussing racism are racists.

[-] [email protected] -4 points 2 years ago

It is my experience that people who love to be race baited are people too mentally deficient to process anything more complicated than black or white, up or down, or in or out.

The ruling class love those people because they help divide regular folks and distract them from the class war happening.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

considering your takes on race, class, and politics, i doubt many people would take your "experience" very seriously. the community here certainly doesn't seem to.

[-] [email protected] 23 points 2 years ago

Might as well be encouraging these fucks to try again.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago

Oh, they will.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Coup attempt participant who stormed Capitol while on bail on an attempted murder charge gets 3 years

Fixed your headline, NBC!

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