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Alucard_Emordnilap t1_j6bd5e2 wrote

I agree that Brazil is doing this faster and in the swift manner that it deserves, however we have to acknowledge the major important difference here, the Jan 6 insurrection happened during the Trump presidency, and at the time the head of the DOJ was a republican who wanted to bury this, so they did a few arrests and then started playing dumb about finding all the offenders, not until way after Biden was sworn in, did the DOJ even start investigating the people who were there, as in the real culprits like the oath keepers and the proud boys, and finally finding each individual that was documented to have assaulted or broken into the capital, In Brazil they did the insurrection after Lula was already president, so when he came out and vowed a swift response, he was in charge already and his orders were right away effective.

What pisses me off about the American response us that they didn’t charge them with terrorism, all these people who attacked the capital were terrorists who were trying to use violence to intimidate and take power, I know if these people were Black, Arabs, or Muslims who did this , they would all have been shot down before stepping a foot on the steps of the capital let alone breaking into it and jumping over barricades only to nicely begin asked to leave.

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