# Octopus here's your own thread to shit all over

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**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [June 6, 2018, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/octopus-heres-your-own-thread-to-shit-all-over/815550 "2018-06-06T15:40:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![Max\_S](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/46a35a/32.png) [@Max\_S](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_S)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2021, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/octopus-heres-your-own-thread-to-shit-all-over/815550/1072 "2021-01-07T00:32:23Z")

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> [@octopus](#):
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> It is general.

There’s the problem.

I’m looking at a specific topic, here’s a link for you: [Trumpsters in the US Capitol building](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/929829)

The topic has a narrow focus, per the rules of P&E. It is about today’s events on Capitol Hill. It is not a debate about whether mob action is good or bad or violent or peaceful in general. If we are agreed, I will proceed to your post,

> [@Trumpsters in the US Capitol building](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumpsters-in-the-us-capitol-building/929829/10):
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> That’s absolutely uncalled for. I was against mob violence while it was excised daily by those on this site because it suited their political agenda. I’m against this as well. Sorry if pointing out hypocrisy is somehow uncomfortable. However, when mob violence is normalized and process is ignored as inconvenient you cannot be surprised when that very concept works against you.
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> You don’t think the citizens of all the cities and states that had 10s if not 100s millions of dollars worth of damage matter as much as the folks in DC? I think this whole year has been absolutely shameful with regards to political civility. There is no place for violence in politics and yet depending on who that violence is directed at we get selective outrage or selective support. That doesn’t work.

The discussion had a narrow focus on today’s events, per P&E rules, and I assume your posts do too. You didn’t actually point out **JohnM** ’s hypocrisy (I can’t see any hypocrisy here). You made an argument going from the general to the specific,

- You are against all mob violence, and today’s storming of the Capitol is mob violence, so you are against today’s storming of the Capitol

In my opinion the general debate would have been off-topic, but the specific argument was on-topic. Now here in this Pit thread, you’re trying to tell me that you were making a general argument and my understanding of you is highly flawed.

Well, what did I get wrong? How is pointing out hypocrisy of other members in other contexts in any way related to your main argument that mob violence in this specific instance is wrong?

~Max

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