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It takes a really long time for a bad government to actually be overthrown because most people have SOMETHING to lose, and they would rather live in a fairly shitty existence than accept the uncertainty of starting a revolution - in which you might just end up dead... But then when it becomes obviously inevitable, they go from 0 to 10 like a light switch.

@cjd @teto @JeffGrimesArt @matty Napoleon was not just a random organic people's hero. The rich people in the government already had a plan to transition away from monarchy and into republicanism before napoleon rose to prominence. He was in the perfect place at the perfect time defending one of france's harbors when the english tried to attack it after the revolution.

Helene destroyed much of the Southeast, most notably North Carolina, and FEMA was less than worthless, even actively obstructing local recovery efforts.

Then Milton, a category 4, was about to completely annihilate the middle of Florida and then mysteriously dissipated and vanished just as it started reaching the coast. Everyone cheered that their prayers had been answered, and that was that, and the media hurriedly moved on to the next thing.

It was a strange year for hurricanes. Some might even say unnatural.

Another strange thing about Helene...It was supposed to go straight over Atlanta. All the forecasts predicted Atlanta was going to be hit, and the city was bracing for impact. But overnight the hurricane veered hard eastward, missing Atlanta and western Tennessee almost entirely and instead hitting east Georgia and the Carolinas out of nowhere.

Ah, well. Probably just happenstance.