Some people are a lot more comfortable calling these protestors "seditionists" than they ever were calling the people who claimed literal governmental autonomy of actual city blocks

The lack of self-awareness here is actually impressive

It's a little annoying to have people think I'm playing this stupid "whatabout" game when what I'm doing is looking for an underlying principle against which I can see people are weighing their moral decisions

I can tell when people have no principles when they point to any surface level distinction between two scenarios that gets their team off the hook.

The ones with principles say "Actually my team did this thing here and that was bad but did this other thing & that was ok"

Most people just engage in pure tribal emotionalism. Every bad thing their team does has an extenuating circumstance and cannot be tied to their group or their leaders while every bad thing the other team does is b/c that team is evil and their leaders are monsters.

Here's a thing I'm curious about: During the Kavanaugh hearings, the Capitol was filled with activists screaming, yelling, threatening people, occupying offices, causing disruption.

Was that ok b/c they walked through a metal detector? I think it probably was.

OK, so why was the Capitol *not* open yesterday? Or was it open but it was full? What was happening?

Why not let peaceful, unarmed protesters do what we have previously allowed peaceful, unarmed protesters to do?

People are saying the Capitol was closed due to COVID... OK.

Maybe it's a bad idea to close a legitimate peaceful avenue of protest at a time when people want to make their voices heard.