New York Times managed this with eloquence.

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    I don’t see any orange dots. Where are the orange dots? We know there should be orange dots there. Not in the acquitted pile either. Where are the orange dots?

    Where are the red dots? I don’t see any red dots there. There were a lot of red dots involved with this. They still are.

    Where are the red and orange dots?

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    If these people were on the left they wouldn’t even be alive to get convicted. Instead, all but the most egregious get to walk off scot free.

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    The majority of them were given charges of breaking and entering into a capitol building or picketing in a capitol building. Not really sure what the graphic is trying to convey. It makes it seem like the majority plead guilty to inssurrection.

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    But wouldn’t the pleaded guilty and convicted people overlap?

    Also, source article?

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      the distinction is between those who worked out a plea bargain (plead guilty) and those who were found guilty by a jury at trial (plead not guilty and were then convicted). both are, technically, convictions, but the difference is between those who owned up to their crimes (and saved the courts and the taxpayers the trouble and expense of a trial) and those who tried to get away with it.