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Agreed but there is an important win here:

Isreal Easterday, 23, was arrested in Florida in December 2022 and was found guilty in October on several counts, including felony charges of civil disorder and assaulting officers.

No more gun ownership for him, nor voting rights (in most states). He's removed himself from the most important parts of political discourse.

Something else I'm interested in seeing in the future is the sentence of a second conviction for some of these folks in the future when they inevitably decide to try some kind of insurrection again. What does sentencing look like for a two time insurrectionist?

If these were black people causing an insurrection, you can bet those numbers would be higher

They asked for more.

The government sought 151 months — or more than 12.5 years — in federal prison for Easterday

Sure, but 2.5 years is very real time. Some people might be willing to risk doing similar crimes if they think they'll only get a couple of months, but if they think they might get a couple of years that's a very different thing and it might deter many of them

Yes, they should. It also won’t matter if Trump wins in November.

Imagine doing an insurrection, looking at the flags waving next to you, and wondering what the fuck ideology it is that you're attacking cops over.

So can we run the neglect lawsuits here like the Michigan parents? /s kinda

Fourth generation homeschooled with a bloodline as pure as the driven snow.

I mean usually the government doesn't basically invite the rebels in, unless they are loyal to the old guy, and want him back in power.

Took it over just as the vote counts were being ratified by the senate (right place, right time), and all went down some time after Trump had asked Pence to go along with his phony elector counts plan (and Pence had said no).

Word has it they got just a few hallways away from where the votes were being transported.

Seems like it was a sort of back up plan to bring the chain of custody of the votes into question before they could be officially recorded by the senate.

As a kid I I remember naively wondering how anyone could possibly be proud to be of house Slytherin; that it was kind of unrealistic. Boy was I wrong...

Yeah there are a lot of Trump supporters who may be good people at heart but are utterly uneducated, uninformed, misinformed, and overall just lack the critical-thinking to see the end-result.

... But there are a lot of people who are plenty smart enough to know better and support him just the same. These people sicken me the most. But you know, the Putins and Bundys of the world walk among us. Sometimes they're leaders; sometimes they're just shitty used car salesmen posting comments on youtube.

I feel ya, take some time, then continue the fight to make things better for the next generations.

That seems like a pretty big omission. Hell, I'm from the South and I had a better idea of it in middle school.

A topic that hits close to home for me as I and my 3 siblings were homeschooled until college. 3 out of 4 of us turned into bleeding-heart libtards. All are doing well now.

Just to flip things around a bit, I perceive public schools who often look like prisons in my area and whose 1:15-25 teacher-student ratio and where peer-pressure and blind-leading-the-blind rules tends to be a bit abusive in itself. To that end, I'm willing to bed by proportionality there are less "school shooters" or suicides produced from homeschooling than there are from public school.

But ultimately I think it comes down to pointing the finger at the wrong thing; you see, it's not homeschooling, it's religious extremism. Partition out secular homeschooling and there's quite a difference. Even that said, my mom placed such a high importance on empathy and critical-thinking that my entire family reasoned ourselves out of the religious indoctrination bubble and even my parents flipped from right to left.

And if academics are of concern, it should be noted that homeschooled tend to either meet or out-pace the median publicly-schooled student.

Confirmation bias is also at play, here. Since most people can't relate to homeschooling and only know of public school, it's easy to point to it as a problem — similarly to how out of touch parents point to violent video-games. The bad apples are thus often highlighted in news articles, but nobody ever points to the fact that 9/10 of the other Jan 6'ers were most assuredly public schooled.