1) the Capitol Coup
2) the 2021 Insurrection
3) the Great Awakening
4) the Storm
5) Trumpnado
6) Magapalooza 2021
7) Coupchella 2021
8) Burning Orange Man Festival 2021
9) (Wood) Lock (Stock) and Two Smoking Barrels
10) the Proud Boys Overnight Capitol Experience
11) the Napalm Pajama Party
The day some vacuous (having or showing a lack of thought or intelligence; mindless) person decided to equate it with 9/11. Suffer the fools! 🙇🏼‍♀️
shareThe whole purpose of this exercise is to find a name for this even OTHER THAN 1/6, which I agree is lame and unimaginative. "9/11" itself is a kind of lame title, compared to something like "The Gunpowder Plot", "Pearl Harbor", etc. I've offered a few positive, neutral and negative (mostly negative, it's true) alternates to 1/6. Anyone may feel free to give 1/6 a proper name, and may spin it whatever way they like. The only requirement is that it be something catchy and memorable.
shareCalling it 1/6 is nonsensical. You are equating the day with 9/11 which is an insult and hurts loved ones left behind. If you start giving Jan. 6, 2021 the same status, you would have to fill a 2020 calendar with tags for every day after George Floyd. Where do you begin? Jan. 6, 2021 was a blip in history. Do you recall the day (no fair looking for it) of the Kent State shootings? The day of the Oklahoma City Federal Bldg. bombing which is on par with 9/11? Not as many murdered, but horrific.
shareSo gives us a new name. I'll accept anything, even "the Nothingburger Plot". Exactly my point, everyone remembers "Kent State" because people were more imaginative back then and didn't give the date of something, they gave it a name. If you believe 1/6 was a "blip in history", then you should actually support the moniker "1/6", as it means people are more likely to forget it.
shareJan. 6, 2021.
shareThat' not how counter-branding works, chief.
shareJan. 6, 2021 doesn’t need to be counter-branded. It’s just another day of rioting like so many, many days which occurred last year.
share"Jan. 6, 2021 doesn’t need to be counter-branded. "
Then be prepared to lose the war over hearts and minds... And speaking of "vacuous", it doesn't get any more vacuum packed than claimed the Storming of Capitol was "just another day".
I wrote “just another day of rioting”. I love how you guys omit & twist our words. Ho Hum!
shareOK, "just another day of rioting"... what of it? Does any historian think the Storming of the Bastille or the Storming of the Winter Palace were "just another day of rioting", or pivotal, watershed moments in two years which were full of them? True, what happened at the Capitol was much less decisive than those two events (though arguably just as shocking symbolically), however, it could prove the pivot towards (soon-to-be?) events that are.
shareYou’re comparing what occurred on Jan. 6, 2021 to The French Revolution which began on July 14, 1789? I don’t believe we came any way near this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storming_of_the_Bastille#/media/File:Prise_de_la_Bastille.jpg
But, you can compare what BLM & Antifa did last year to Bastille Day. We burned across this nation day after day!
Only the alt left would do such!
No, I can't compare them. And neither will any other historian.
sharehttps://www.latimes.com/visuals/photography/la-me-fw-archives-1967-anti-war-protest-turns-violent-20170620-story.html
“The Capitol police arrested 111 antiwar protesters who blocked a hallway outside the Senate chamber this afternoon.”
https://www.nytimes.com/1972/06/28/archives/111-foes-of-war-arrested-in-capitol-as-hall-is-blocked.html
“Armed Black Panthers in the Capitol, 50 years on”
https://capitolweekly.net/black-panthers-armed-capitol/
I lived those times and they weren’t pretty.
The Potato Insurrection
shareThe Losers Tea Party
sharethe Poo d'etat
shareCapitol Siege. Simple.
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