Pushed to the edge by the Capitol riot, people are reporting their family and friends to the FBI

[Zorro]

When a mob stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, Leslie hoped that this would be her Trump-supporting parents’ wake-up call. She hoped they were watching, maybe feeling ashamed.

Then, a friend called. “Do you know already?” the friend said, and Leslie wondered briefly if someone had died.

The politically liberal 35-year-old cried about the screenshots from her mother’s Facebook page, posts defending the pro-Trump crowds and suggesting that Leslie’s mom made it at least to the Capitol’s steps. Then she reported her mom to the FBI — because “actions,” she said, “should have consequences.”

“I think before I realized she was this far gone … there was a sense that perhaps there was some way to reconcile,” said Leslie. “It felt like a death, honestly.”

Leslie shared screenshots of text messages in which she shared her FBI tip “submission complete” page, and another friend recounted hearing that Leslie had reported her mother.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/01/16/capitol-riot-family-fbi/

[SoFlaBro]

1. About time. LOCK EM UP!

n/t

[underpants]

2. They are trying so hard to diffuse and distract from this in their world

Excuses
Yeah buts
False equivalencies
Both sideism
You name it.

Their poor followers walk out into a world in which they think there’s one reality (this is not new) when there is a completely different one. In this case the followers are getting whopped right in the face with reality and the horror seen by everyone else.

[dewsgirl]

3. I hate what they've done to this country.😭

[irisblue]

6. Me too. 💔

[uponit7771]

9. +1, going to be hard to forget

[Azathoth]

4. This is Fox News, pure and simple

I've seen it in person: older folks that traditionally identify with the GOP start watching Fox continuously, and suddenly start getting crazier and crazier each time you see them. Within a year, they're proposing conspiracy theories and treating fringe clowns as people who have valid points.

The right-wing media radicalization spiral is the same process that turns ordinary people into Scientologists and jihadis.

[BComplex]

5. I'm really glad you call out Scientologists and jihadis in the same post.

They're all batshit crazy. My grand-niece, who started out as a Scientologist, is now a Qanon fan.

[Demobrat]

7. I have never watched Fox before

but I started flipping to them after the election to see how they were handling the defeat. Every time I did I ended up with my jaw on the floor after two minutes.

They were not handling the defeat. They were simply not admitting it happened. Even now they will admit that Biden will be President but not that Trump lost.

It truly is an alternate universe. I’m sure people here are well aware of that but I guess I was just naive.

Crazy stuff!

[Marthe48]

8. Kind of doubt 'liberals' get reported to the FBI

At least not for attacking the government with weapons other than the pen.

I wish that would sink in to these dolts who either went to D.C. or supported and still support the traitors.