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I don't know how many of you realize this, but QAnon Shaman and his band of weirdos were 100% a distraction from the trained militia terrorists, who were not in costume. Please stop letting this furry neo-Nazi make you take what's happening less seriously. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/emmanuelfelton/black-capitol-police-racism-mob
Fast forward to 20 seconds of this @NewYorker video. Check out the photographer fixating on Furry Neo-Nazi (I like this name better than QAnon Shaman), while the cosplayers yell out their strategy and take pics of documents. Very effective technique. https://twitter.com/SawyerHackett/status/1350843696930025480?s=20
The real terrorists were much less visible, obviously, but still--everyone was looking at the kooks and missing the danger. Shows how these people understand and effectively manipulate the media. Please, journos, don't fall for this shit again.
Again, just because I am still seeing folks do this after the @NewYorker video. These are the people who were not braying like donkeys and screaming about OI. They were there, and almost succeeded in pulling off the most dramatic terror attack since 9/11. https://apnews.com/article/ex-military-cops-us-capitol-riot-a1cb17201dfddc98291edead5badc257
This too. They don't put people on the terrorism watchlist just for being racist goobers. Enough playing into their hands. We have to start covering this for what it is. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/terror-watchlist-capitol-riot-fbi/2021/01/14/07412814-55f7-11eb-a931-5b162d0d033d_story.html
