U.S. Capitol Locked Down Amid Escalating Protests

Re:U.S. Capitol Locked Down Amid Escalating Protests by tharne on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @03:22PM (#25661871)

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.

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Re:U.S. Capitol Locked Down Amid Escalating Protests by bdamm on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @03:25PM (#25661919)

How do you imagine that authoritarians get going? Hint: It requires a horde of angry hillbillies, every time.

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Re:U.S. Capitol Locked Down Amid Escalating Protests by tharne on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @03:27PM (#25661943)

Usually 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.

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Re:U.S. Capitol Locked Down Amid Escalating Protests by triceratops on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @03:32PM (#25662030)

Isn't Trump a guy with education and money?

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Re:U.S. Capitol Locked Down Amid Escalating Protests by watwut on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @04:02PM (#25662442)

Degree and money yes. Education as in learning and knowing things, not so much.

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Re:U.S. Capitol Locked Down Amid Escalating Protests by wonnage on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @04:18PM (#25662627)

mao was a farmer you dumb hillbilly

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Re:U.S. Capitol Locked Down Amid Escalating Protests by dang on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @04:28PM (#25662767)

Hey, can you please not post like this here? or like these?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25662616

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

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Re:U.S. Capitol Locked Down Amid Escalating Protests by willcipriano on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @03:29PM (#25661978)

Just the first counterpoint that comes to mind, the Bolsheviks were angry hillbillies?

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Re:U.S. Capitol Locked Down Amid Escalating Protests by RoboticWater on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @03:35PM (#25662073)

This 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.

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