Friday, January 6, 2023

A couple of reminders of a truly unpleasant event

Today is the second anniversary of the attempted self-coup on January 6th, 2001, and a couple of things you should read on it (provided you can find the time - one of them is quite lengthy, and the other isn't exactly a quick read, either) include the following:


The full text of the House January 6th Committee's report is available, but be forewarned: it's over 800 pages in length, and although you might want to read all the details it's going to take a good long time to actually finish it. 

RationalWiki's article on January 6th is shorter (but still extremely detailed) and has a good deal of appropriate snark that the official report had to avoid for the usual reasons. Either way, neither of these will let you forget what actually happened that day - which is precisely what the perpetrators, fellow travellers and apologists for the coup attempt don't want.

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