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Not sure why this post is getting downvoted. This is literally how Putinism or Erdoganism starts.

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.

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

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.

Isn't Trump a guy with education and money?

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

mao was a farmer you dumb hillbilly

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

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

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.

The american checks and balances systems are much stronger, and trump got pushed back on a good portion of the things he was trying to do.

Not to mention, trump will clearly be out by the end of the month, and won't be Putin

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