• Churbleyimyam@lemm.ee
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    8 months ago

    It’s going to be so surreal looking back at this in a few decades:

    A crowd of phone-waving overweight cosplay nitwits from the internet taking over the headquarters of the most powerful nation on earth…

    It makes me think of the vast numbers of brutal and battle-hardened rebels with AKs and rocket launchers, who have failed to storm their respective third-world governments, and the look that must have been on their faces when they saw this.

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      8 months ago

      I mean usually the government doesn’t basically invite the rebels in, unless they are loyal to the old guy, and want him back in power.

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        8 months ago

        Yeah, it was less “rebels staging a coup and imposing a junta” and more “Napoleon returning from exile with ease, because the government never bothered to remove his loyalists from positions of authority.”

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          8 months ago

          I think that’s going to be a much more accurate assessment of this coming election than anything else.