No religious flamewar, please. It's particularly nasty but also easily avoidable - like scurvy, or something.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

They already comment on the typical results of the popular vote with that story of Pontius Pilate and the resulting crucificaion of their savior, though. Just to make the point that it needs a god/leader/church instead of the people to make the right choices, but anyway...

At least we can pinpoint Twitter at having finally arrived at the level of a roman emperor's decadent way of giving to the people games with a wave of his hand after killing the senate and letting his personal troops run the place instead.

There might be hints towards similarities and broader application of that same concept connected to the other main character of the same twitter story...

This has already happened in the UK. Jacob Rees-Mogg — a Conservative MP who was heavily in favour of Brexit, likes to cosplay as a Victorian gentleman, and is a practicing Catholic — likes to use it to pretend he's clever.