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~oracle

I've been watching the news coverage tonight as they try and get Biden formally over the last hurdle despite the five hour delay brought on by the coup attempt.

On the one hand, I suppose it's for the best that they not let the violence we saw earlier disrupt the proceedings. There's something to that. A show of strength, of refusal to be cowed.

It is also incredibly disorienting to see them go about business as usual with no nod at all to the fact that our sitting president is very much still trying to unmoor our democracy.

There's no telling what the next few days will bring, but I fear if we don't address this head on we'll have hell to pay sooner rather than later.

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~zampano wrote (thread):

I think that's still the best response to terrorism: deny the attention that the terrorist crave as much as possible.