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> What details do you think they needed to know

Those that are materially relevant to the discovery of comprehensive truth.

> lol?

What is the intended message of this? Do you believe this is a laughing matter?

> Pence was going to take all of the official actions.

You have no way of knowing with guaranteed correctness what Pence was going to do. If you disagree, please explain a methodology of how you could.

> The rioters just had to storm the capitol and delay the response long enough for team Trump to consolidate power, and maybe serve as a prop if Pence was asked to rationalize his decision.

Leaving aside a variety of things, such as:

a) The US Military's opinion on the matter.

b) The truth of the matter.

> Trump's speech to rile up the mob and send them to the capitol building at the correct time was quite sufficient.

Sufficient to accomplish what it did, which is unknowable. Due to the unknowability of reality, our culture has adopted a convention: telling stories, and believing them to be true with little to no concern whether they actually are. This cultural norm is driven into our heads constantly, bypassing all filters, because it is a cultural norm.

> That's how stay-in-power coups work. That's how they've always worked. The mobs never needed telepathic training before, why would they now?

Well, you could explain how the gameplan ended up within the mind of each participant. Or, you could explain why you refuse to do that. Or, you could tell us some more popular, fun to believe memes, and continue to act as if I have not asked you point blank about the truth value of them.

Humans fear epistemology, and I can see it clear as day through your evasive cultural conventions, "lol".



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