Capitol
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Capitol is a recurring venue in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between March 18, 2021 and May 04, 2021. The archive places it in contexts such as “Trump supporters entering the Capitol was an “attempted coup””; “attacks on the Capitol and Pentagon”. It most often appears alongside China, Democrats, United States.
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- Category: Venues
- Mention count: 2
- Issue count: 2
- First seen: March 18, 2021
- Last seen: May 04, 2021
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- China (2 shared issues)
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- Democrats (2 shared issues)
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- United States (2 shared issues)
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- US (2 shared issues)
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- 2008 (1 shared issues)
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- 11 attacks (1 shared issues)
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- A Brief History Of Neoliberalism (1 shared issues)
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- Abdullah Gul (1 shared issues)
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- ABHoN (1 shared issues)
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- Academy Awards (1 shared issues)
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- Afghanistan (1 shared issues)
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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.
Second, if there was a single moment went things obviously took a turn for the worse in Turkey, it was the Ergenekon trials - Erdogan's attempt to forge evidence of an anti-Turkey conspiracy involving all of his enemies. This makes me a little more concerned about things like QAnon than I had been previously - if Trump had arrested various prominent Democrats for their role in a Deep State pedophile ring, that would be pretty similar to the tactic Erdogan used to seize ultimate power. On the other hand, the thing where Democrats talk about how Trump supporters entering the Capitol was an “attempted coup” and we need lots of “domestic terror laws” and a grand attempt to uncover the complicity of the mainstream Republican establishment and bring them to justice - that also feels a little too Erdoganesqe for comfort. Having ideas about the Deep State and attempted coups floating around, sounding vaguely credible, was a major factor in Erdogan's success. The more skeptical we can be of that sort of thing, the better.
Status 451 had a great post about the 1970s as lacuna in cultural memory - we don't remember how bad it was. Their focus was violence and terrorism - "people have completely forgotten that in 1972 we had over nineteen hundred domestic bombings in the United States", including attacks on the Capitol and Pentagon. "A Puerto Rican group bombed two theaters in the Bronx, injuring eleven, in 1970; NYT gave it 6 paragraphs".