Remember the Guy Who Robbed His Bank, Handing the Teller a Note on His Own Deposit Slip? MAGA Insurrectionist Crowd Reminds Me of Him.

Capitol rioters taking selfies leave digital trail of 140,000 images under FBI investigation.

[quote]The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has been able to track down Donald Trump supporters who stormed the US Capitol thanks to the selfies and videos they took inside the Capitol – with some 140,000 images and videos posted online.

According to court documents seen by Bloomberg, many rioters went on to share videos and pictures on social media after the 6 January attack on the Capitol, and in the process document their own complicity.

Those pictures and videos have come alongside written messages on far-right message boards, as well as photographs captured by journalists who were also at the Capitol on the day of the riot.

Of 275 suspects identified thanks to those images, at least 98 have since been arrested and charged, according to court documents seen by Bloomberg.

Some are thought to have been arrested with their own social media posts providing evidence, and others with the digital media submitted to investigators.

The extent to which the rioters documented their own complicity in the Capitol attack has allowed FBI investigators to shun legal and technical tools typically relied-upon by the agency.[/quote]

https://www.yahoo.com/news/capitol-rioters-taking-selfies-leave-165419267.html

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beckyromero · 36-40, F

[@ Majorsite] blocked me because of this post.

Woo-hooh!!!!

MistyCee

It's easy to knock these folks as idiots, but can't they also be true believers looking to risk their liberties for their beliefs?

I think there's risks to treating Trump supporters like common criminals and to underestimating the threat that more of them won't be willing to join the more radical the first wave if we dismiss them as just stupid nuts.

Didn't no less a sage than Rand Paul just say that the anger of millions of Trumpists shouldn't be underestimated? (paraphrasing of course).

Skipping the fact that Trumpism has always been about hurting others, overthrowing society, how different is this really from bragging on tape about pussy grabbing, firing Comey for not firing Mueller, or hundreds of other of Trump's corruption in plain sight moves.

Maybe instead of just making fun of his easy they made it for themselves to get caught, we should be wary about why they did it how it might help them achieve their goals.

At the very least, we should take them seriously and recognize the difficulty making them martyrs to the supression of gut thinking, anti humanity deplorables.

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beckyromero · 36-40, F

@MistyCee

I'm not sure we can change their behavior. They knowingly participated in an insurrection.

Trump had 70 million voters. Only a small percentage acted in this way. Many more would have done so, too. But it's still a small percentage of his voters.

MistyCee

@beckyromero Interesting that while I talked about changing their minds, you went to changing their [b]behavior[/b].

Arresting and convicting active Trumpists will certainly accomplish some specific deterrence and may also generally deter others from being next in chains at least.

That's the issue, though. Changing minds is much harder than discouraging specific discrete behavior that's not Constitutionally protected (except in the minds of a few Second Amendment nuts)

beckyromero · 36-40, F

@MistyCee [quote]Changing minds is much harder than discouraging specific discrete behavior that's not Constitutionally protected (except in the minds of a few Second Amendment nuts)[/quote]

I agree. Changing one's mind from "the dark side" generally has to come from self-reflection. I don't think counseling sessions with that crowd is going to work.

I'm not sure we can change their behavior because I don't think we can change their minds.

I just hope they have a lot of self-reflection time in prison.

JoeyFoxx · 51-55, M

We also have the morons at Parler to thank for creating a platform with Swiss cheese security, so all the evidence was able to be downloaded before it shut down.

Once it’s on the Internet, it can never be deleted

Turtlepower · 36-40, M

The sad thing is this stupidity isn't limited to his supporters. Society's infatuation with posting their lives on social media rarely works in their favor.

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beckyromero · 36-40, F

[@ Majorsite]

You know nothing.

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