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Re:Opposition to net neutrality was faked, New York says by Pokepokalypse on Thursday May 06, 2021 @05:32PM (#27069300)
If you want to play footsie with technical definitions, sure, this was really not a coup but a putsch.

The end result would have been the same. And I shudder to think how f*cked we'd be as a nation if it had succeeded.

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Re:Opposition to net neutrality was faked, New York says by seriousquestion on Thursday May 06, 2021 @06:06PM (#27069601)
The chances of a group of unarmed people, and a LARPer with zip ties, overthrowing the most powerful government in history is 0.0%. Even if that was the intention of the group. Which it clearly wasn't.

That otherwise logical thinkers are getting caught up in such hysterics is unnerving.

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Re:Opposition to net neutrality was faked, New York says by edgyquant on Thursday May 06, 2021 @08:10PM (#27070404)
It very much was their intention to scare lawmakers into letting their lame duck president get a second term. After the first non-peaceful transition of power in US history I really don’t see the point in humoring your stance that it was “just a protest.”
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