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It's getting downvoted because it's equating a handful of angry hillbillies who absolutely no one is taking seriously to an authoritarian revolution in a countr
by tharne 6y ago
It's getting downvoted because it's equating a handful of angry hillbillies who absolutely no one is taking seriously to an authoritarian revolution in a country that was never democratic to begin with.
This is bad and these folks should be punished, but this not the second coming of Vladimir Putin. Hyperbole is not helpful, and it's exactly what these idiots want. Don't give it them.
- bdamm 6y agoHow do you imagine that authoritarians get going? Hint: It requires a horde of angry hillbillies, every time.
- tharne 6y agoUsually revolutions are headed by the upper middle classes, not the lower classes. Che was a doctor. Pol Pot was educated at elite European schools. Heck, look at the founding fathers of the U.S. These were guys with education and money.
- triceratops 6y agoIsn't Trump a guy with education and money?
- watwut 6y agoDegree and money yes. Education as in learning and knowing things, not so much.
- wonnage 6y agomao was a farmer you dumb hillbilly
- dang 6y agoHey, can you please not post like this here? or like these? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25662616 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25662616 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25595546 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25595546 We're trying for quite a different sort of discussion, and the two sorts are not compatible, the way forest fires and hiking are not compatible. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- willcipriano 6y agoJust the first counterpoint that comes to mind, the Bolsheviks were angry hillbillies?
- RoboticWater 6y agoThis is significantly more than a "handful" of hillbillies trying to upend the legal results of the presidential election following the explicit rhetoric of the incumbent, and unless I'm mistaken, this riot began after one of Trump's "Stop the Steal" rallies. I'm not qualified enough in foreign affairs to justify the allusion to Putin or Erdogan, but let's not play this down either.