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“It’s my office, the building I love most in the fucking world. I used to call the Capitol my girlfriend. I’ve devoted 15 years of my goddamn life to that building,” said freelance reporter Matt Laslo, choking up. “Now? I don’t want to be there.”
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‘So, So Angry’: Reporters Who Survived the Capitol Riot Are Still Struggling
The reporters who survived the insurrection are still covering Congress. But things don’t feel normal.
By Cameron Joseph July 6, 2021, 2:47pm
Some reporters who were there won’t go back into the building. A number have sought therapy to deal with the trauma. One longtime Capitol Hill reporter opted for early retirement shortly after living through the riot. Many still aren’t sleeping well.
“I’m still not sleeping like I used to, even to this day,” said PBS NewsHour correspondent Lisa Desjardins. “I became kind of an insomniac.”
Even the journalists who don’t feel personally impacted say they’re still dealing with covering a Congress where members and staff are coping with their own emotional fallout.
“It definitely could happen again. It’s something that’s on my radar. We’ve become very complacent in thinking the U.S. is different,” said Bloomberg News reporter Erik Wasson. “It’s eerily back to normal. But sometimes It feels like one of those horror movies, like the end of ‘Jaws.’ Everything feels copacetic on the beach. But you wonder if there’s anything out there.”
But in the weeks after, Wasson said he experienced symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder—depression, short-tempered irritability that led to fights with his wife over nothing. This went on for nearly a month.
“I do remember just feeling unsafe in my house,” said Wasson. “It occurred to me, like, I wonder if some protesters could be tracking me or could show up at my house. There was definitely a moment of fear, and just trying to assess whether there was actually any danger to me and my family.”
“He was more panicked than I was. I couldn’t see the footage outside the building,” she said. “I actually said, ‘There are men with guns who will shoot anyone who tries to come inside. I’m in the world’s safest building.’”
He watched out the windows as insurrectionists bear-sprayed police, then overran the building. He saw senators being rushed by police back into the Senate chamber. He retreated upstairs at the sound of “gladiator screams” in the building.
Copy-pasting the same comment I posted in the other thread: the degree to which democrats have lied about January 6th has made me much more open to Holocaust denial.
This is not to say that I deny the Holocaust. I'm merely stating that I no longer trust any mainstream narrative, past or present, because I have seen people successfully fabricate them so blatantly over the last seven years.
Watching a false history crafted in real time does have a certain effect on one's willingness to accept 'established' history.
There are a lot of discrepancies about the holocaust, and not just the "wooden doors" meme that pol loves to bring up. Stuff like a lot of the photos of the camps are actually from Soviet gulags, survivors straight up admitting they were lying about being there, and Anne Franks dad admitting he wrote her "diary" for sympathy (and money, obviously). There's red flags all over the place.
Can you show some of this lot?
(The Gulag is a singular word. It's a Russian/German style acronym for the Camp Main Administration agency. A camp was a lagier.)
I cant because I dont remember where I saw it. They made a very convincing case tho
We actually don't have photos from the Soviet camp life (and death) almost at all. What we have is mostly drawings.
I think it's funny how much everyone wants to discuss the Holocaust, but nothing closer to home. Stuff like the console wars not having explainable numbers, or the story about arcades is way more dubious. What about conventions and sexploitation? How did they get those photos anyway? The ones every website and magazine had.
What about the congressional hearings in the 90's? How about why pinball has flippers?
Oh, why does a lot of early GG look like Goons verses Channers? Like some people used it as a joke.
What's this about the numbers being inexplicable during the console wars? Did they misreport the casualties?
Many bothans died reporting those numbers.
Look up the Sega Genesis and it's console sales numbers. Then look up it's game sales. The numbers should be the top game sales are about 50-60% of the console sales. The games sell the reason to own the console after all.
You can do the same with Playstation every generation.
Oh, I got this one: to make it a game of skill instead of a game of chance. You can still have your seedy backroom game corner but you don't need a gambling license.
Most top minds stop studying world war ii. There's a ton more history than just a sequel. Germans don't magically appear to stand as villains.
If you look, I say there's stuff closer to videogames that have been covered up and it's not discussed.
Well, that's not how the fucking stormfags took it, now was it?