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Turns out all you need for a coup is about 70 lightly armed boomers and a few zip ties.
by potato 6y ago
Turns out all you need for a coup is about 70 lightly armed boomers and a few zip ties.
- mc32 6y agoAn ISIS technical has more firepower than this. Oooooh 11 molotovs.... more than that were used in a number of demos this past summer... It’s a willful exaggeration and narrative driving.
- paulryanrogers 6y agoComparing the rioters' equipment to ISIS and other criminals doesn't make them any less troublesome, or their cause more sympathetic.
- mc32 6y agoEquipment is equipment. It can only do so much regardless who has it. As I said more molotovs were thrown during the past summer’s sometimes peaceful sometimes violent demos.
- cygx 6y ago80 Cubans would be a better choice, but if circumstances are right, 70 people is plenty to make good on threats such as lynching the vice president. Just because they chose a bumbling buffoon as savior figure doesn't mean they can be dismissed as harmless.
- tetrometal 6y agoI thought the savior figure was the guy with horns and a fur cape prancing about on the dais? Glad they got him. We were THIS close to the end of the US, I tell ya'.
- mc32 6y agoStill “80” only works when there’s a strongman/woman who rules by iron fist and it’s a powderkeg ready to blow. He or she is surrounded by enemies biding their time. That’s the only scenario where this “may” work.
- refurb 6y agoHard core seditionists who, when they entered the Speaker of the House’s office, decided the priority was taking selfies.
- verwyrelevant 6y agoThey were assault zip ties, though.