Still totally struck by sense of non-reality of the mob in the Capitol — no idea at all what they have just done.
As I mentioned earlier, after the one participant is shot, you see police trying to help but the livestreamers initially get in the way. /1
As I mentioned earlier, after the one participant is shot, you see police trying to help but the livestreamers initially get in the way. /1
The priority is to feedback into the online loop.
In one video, this extraordinary moment, where a young man initially goes to check the woman who is shot, backs off for police, realizes “oh I should record this,” gets out his phone — and realizes he has blood on his hand. /2
In one video, this extraordinary moment, where a young man initially goes to check the woman who is shot, backs off for police, realizes “oh I should record this,” gets out his phone — and realizes he has blood on his hand. /2
It’s just extraordinary. Everyone coming out of the Capitol is dazed. Why weren’t the cops on our side. Something big was supposed to happen. In the universe we live in, we just saved America.
No idea what they’ve done. /3
No idea what they’ve done. /3
Is this the wake up? Is there anyway out of the accelerating radicalization feedback loop these people have chosen to live inside?
Are we going to talk about this as a national crisis — or play another four years of “oh but there’s no proof that it changes any minds”? /4
Are we going to talk about this as a national crisis — or play another four years of “oh but there’s no proof that it changes any minds”? /4
Awww geez just realized this kid is the same kid from this interview. No idea why he is there, what’s the enemy, what’s the objective. Just remarkable documentation of this non-reality.
https://twitter.com/mollymckew/status/1346994245320790016?s=21
https://twitter.com/mollymckew/status/1346994245320790016
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