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There's a zillion people on Twitter, including a bunch of high-profile conservative blue-checks, who think this thread is practical advice for toppling the Washington Monument. https://twitter.com/indyfromspace/status/1267271817439346689
The thread says "you'll want to be standing 30 feet away from obelisk so it won't topple on you." The Washington Monument is 555 feet tall.
The thread suggests looping a chain tightly around the obelisk you want to bring down, "around the top (below pointy bit)." Again, the Washington Monument is 555 feet tall.
The thread suggests using sixty people to bring down a 20-foot monument. Given that weight rises with the cube of height, that means you'd need twenty thousand people pulling on ropes a mile long to bring down the Washington Monument.
(Six miles long, if you wanted to maintain social distancing.)
For reference, the distance shown in this photo is about a mile and a half. For reference.
Weight rises with the cube of height ASSUMING PROPORTIONS REMAIN CONSTANT ACROSS THREE DIMENSIONS, people. https://twitter.com/studentactivism/status/1267425342114930688
So if she wasn't referring to toppling the Washington Monument, and this tweet wasn't a wan shot for plausible deniability, what obelisk might she have been referring to? https://twitter.com/indyfromspace/status/1267276059608834049
Hmm. Computer? https://twitter.com/indyfromspace/status/1267274543774814212
Computer, zoom and enhance.
Thirty-two thousand followers. https://twitter.com/RyanGirdusky/status/1267319615421583362
Sixty-six thousand followers. https://twitter.com/CarmineSabia/status/1267405773421846530
Thirty thousand followers, " @DailyCaller social media." https://twitter.com/greg_price11/status/1267322221413961730
In conclusion.
Update: I see Christina Sommers and Ian Miles Cheong have jumped on the "antifa Egyptologists are targeting the Washington Monument" bandwagon, bless 'em. https://twitter.com/willsommer/status/1267460632556769281
