I had the same reaction to this that I did 1/6/2021. Once the laughter died down I was finally able to get out 'fucking idiots'. Not sure why you're writing an apologia for the Jan 6th nitwits though. Unauthorized tour my ass, there was more brawling with police in a few hours that day than in the whole summer of 'riots' here in Louisville.
So what exactly are you saying makes the goings on in Brazil 'have teeth' in comparison to Jan 6th? Near as I can tell the guns stayed home about as well there as in DC and the calls for a coup sound eerily similar to the cries of 'invoke the Insurrection Act' that were going around in the run up to Jan 6th.
Are you familiar with Hanlon's razor? "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity." Ignorance may be more apt than stupidity but do you really need agent provocateurs in the age of QAnon? In my experience the lack of a plan or organization is a help rather than a hindrance to things getting out of hand.
Don't get me wrong, I'm no more impressed with the Democrats clutching of pearls than you, but the fact that they're milking it for all it's worth doesn't negate the fact that a bunch of cult of personality types tried to keep their guy in power by force, albeit in a spectacularly idiotic and doomed to fail fashion.
Did you see Bolsonaro is in Florida? There's something to be made of the fact that both of them have fled to Florida but I haven't quite pinned down what yet.
I suspect Q-anon was some kind of FBI honeypot. I'm not ruling out a 4chan troll op though. And it would be fair to point out the FBI has a long history of infiltrating and instigating. "FBI foils FBI terror plot" has been a joke going back at least to the Obama administration, if not Shrub. How many FBI scores against terrorists stem from agents finding the dumbest kid in the mosque and feeding him propaganda? The whole MI governor kidnapping thing was spurred by feds.
I second that: Q-Anon was almost certainly a government psyop. "Trust the plan" was suspicious enough all by itself.
Yeah, but which government?
Lol, our views are reversed on that, I'm not ruling out an FBI honeypot but if I had to put money on it I'd wager on it being a 4chan op for the lulz. My brothers and I did that kind of thing for fun when we were teenagers and although I haven't frequented 4chan in a long time it still seems a lot more their MO than the FBI's. I'm quite familiar with the FBI's history, that's part of the reason I don't really think they're behind it. As you pointed out, FBI plots tend to be rather directed with an eye towards a press conference and a conviction, while QAnon is much more vague, nebulous, undirected. Honestly, if there's any sort of government entity behind it I suspect it's the FSB, it resembles old KGB 'active measures' a lot more than anything the FBI has done.
While we're on the topic of shady police antics, are you familiar with the Stasi's zersetzung?
Hanlon's Razor is the respite of the malevolent. Rather the reverse is the default, as condemning the merely stupid to the penalties justly assigned the guilty resolves the hazards and harms they effect just as well, and not doing so faces the prospect of educating the stupid so they no longer commit the harms, which flies in the face of the fact of stupidity.
'Respite of the malevolent' eh? That's cute. So showing some modicum of understanding is bad but 'punish everyone' is good? In that case I'll consider it an honor to be called malevolent by the likes of that sort of good.
Can you think of a single offense that's ever been penalized out of existence?
Punish everyone is not anything I said. Neither did I call you malevolent. I am quite confident that all the crimes that would have been committed by those executed for the crimes they already had committed were penalized out of existence, and the innumerable innocents that would have suffered were saved by the ropes around the criminals' necks.
But that has nothing to do with Hanlon's Razor. My point was to consider evil deeds done malevolently, to prosecute evil doers as evil doers, and if during the prosecution it is proven the criminal was non compus mentus, then they can be properly availed the guardianship they need, and that would have prevented their stupidity from harming innocent(s).
All that said, I firmly believe it is better that ten guilty men go free than one innocent man be deprived of his liberty. A just nation has just courts that will not convict the innocent, unlike the USA which the best DNA research shows to wrongly convict ~25% of those convicted. Imprisoning the innocent will never prevent a crime, but is a crime itself.
Be well.