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b_b  ·  409 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Cult of the January 6 Martyrs

    There's a real desire to find the empathetic qualities in her subjects, and then pretend that our ability to empathize with them somehow exonerates them.

I didn't read it quite like that, though I see your point. My reading of what she's saying is that the average terrorist at Guantanamo means fuckall next to Bin Laden. Seems like her real confusion is that we haven't tried to hunt down the Bin Ladens of the J6 movement, which I guess she thinks is the Fox News guys. I'm not sure I agree with her, because our civil court system is hunting them down with a coldblooded killer's instinct. The only thing Fox will ever understand is punitive monetary penalties, so I hope that Dominion's ask of $5 billion or whatever ridiculous number is actually close to the true judgement against Fox. We're only in pretrial and they've already got Murdoch to admit that he knew it was a lie but thought it was good business nonetheless.