U.S. Capitol Locked Down Amid Escalating Protests

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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