T. A. Gardner
Serial Thread Killer
Jan 6 was violent. It was also a three-hour riot and nothing more. It wasn't an "insurrection" nor did it go on for weeks, even months, like Leftist rioting in cities across the US has.
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ROFLMAO. You are the one using logical fallacies. You are claiming someone that was affected by tear gas proves there was a riot. It does not such thing.
Jan 6 was centered on attacking and breaking into a Federal building.
But let's decide what a riot is.
Does there need to be property destruction for a riot to occur?
Is just yelling in the streets enough to be a riot?
T. A. Gardner
Serial Thread Killer
riot
[ˈrʌɪət]
noun
verb
riot (noun)
riots (plural noun)
- a violent disturbance of the peace by a crowd
ri·ot ˈrī-ət
Synonyms of riot
1
a
: a violent public disorder
specifically : a tumultuous disturbance of the public peace by three or more persons assembled together and acting with a common intent
riot
noun
uk
/ˈraɪ.ət/ us
/ˈraɪ.ət/
an occasion when a large number of people behave in a noisy, violent, and uncontrolled way in public, often as a protest
The person in that article described a riot as commonly defined. I have described a riot, as commonly defined, in numerous citations now. Rioting is ongoing in Portland daily right now.
Your turn. How do you define a "riot?" So far you are using a Sorites Paradox as a No True Scotsman.
Sorites paradox - Wikipedia
A violent public disorder works for me.riot
[ˈrʌɪət]
noun
verb
riot (noun)
riots (plural noun)
- a violent disturbance of the peace by a crowd
ri·ot ˈrī-ət
Synonyms of riot
1
a
: a violent public disorder
specifically : a tumultuous disturbance of the public peace by three or more persons assembled together and acting with a common intent
riot
noun
uk
/ˈraɪ.ət/ us
/ˈraɪ.ət/
an occasion when a large number of people behave in a noisy, violent, and uncontrolled way in public, often as a protest
The person in that article described a riot as commonly defined. I have described a riot, as commonly defined, in numerous citations now. Rioting is ongoing in Portland daily right now.
Your turn. How do you define a "riot?" So far you are using a Sorites Paradox as a No True Scotsman.
Sorites paradox - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
No riot has been declared.
But you have presented a lovely anecdotal fallacy for us to view. Did you bother to read all the other anecdotes that say the city is peaceful?
T. A. Gardner
Serial Thread Killer
Now you're making an irrelevant appeal to authority fallacy. Again, irrelevant. There's rioting going on in Portland right now.
Cherry picking on your part. I have presented multiple sources in multiple posts that show rioting is ongoing in Portland.
What appeal to authority?
You have presented a few anecdotes and nothing else.
Surely with all the rioting and everyone in the world having a camera on them, you must have video of this rioting?
ICE pepper-sprayed a protester in a frog costume. Now the "Portland Frog" is a symbol of absurd resistance
"Is this really what you guys consider to be 'domestic terrorists?'"
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Reports on the ground from both protestors and journalists have portrayed the protests themselves as generally peaceful and civil—until conservative livestreamers try to agitate crowds and federal agents start attacking protestors.
What a riot. Dancing unicorns and dinosaurs
T. A. Gardner
Serial Thread Killer
And you circle back to argumentum ad absurdumWhat appeal to authority?
You have presented a few anecdotes and nothing else.
Surely with all the rioting and everyone in the world having a camera on them, you must have video of this rioting?
ICE pepper-sprayed a protester in a frog costume. Now the "Portland Frog" is a symbol of absurd resistance
"Is this really what you guys consider to be 'domestic terrorists?'"
Reports on the ground from both protestors and journalists have portrayed the protests themselves as generally peaceful and civil—until conservative livestreamers try to agitate crowds and federal agents start attacking protestors.
What a riot. Dancing unicorns and dinosaurs
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9unC5Wa2ANw
Says the guy that can't provide any actual evidence online let alone would stand up in a court of law. The judge said, Trump's statements about Portland are "untethered from facts." I have asked for actual evidence. You provide nothing.
Calling my argument absurd only shows that you have nothing. I don't have to show there are no riots. You have to show there are. Anecdotes are not evidence since even the anecdotes don't call it riots.
T. A. Gardner
Serial Thread Killer
Argumentum ad absurdum is a variant of the burden of proof fallacy. You keep demanding more and more proof and offering up red herrings and other distractions. I've shown there are riots going on in Portland pretty much right now. In response, you've argued that the dates are wrong without proof, that the protests / riots are insufficient in size to be counted (Sorites Paradox and No True Scotsman), ignored that the police in Portland have declared riots going on in some recent cases, and tried to characterize some of my evidence as anecdotes while ignoring the rest (cherry picking / argument from ignorance).