Yet he wasn’t tyrannical about the afterlife of these dramatic curios.

On Monday, Musk started a poll asking X users to vote on whether "America should liberate the people of Britain from their tyrannical government".

"Civil war is inevitable" … "Britain is going full Stalin"… "The people of Britain have had enough of a tyrannical police state".

But after half a century of tyrannical rule from a regime which fanned sectarian hatred and warned that Alawites would be massacred if they ever lost power, it is an adjustment to say the least.

It points to their experience with artificial hierarchies, arbitrary violations of natural rights and freedoms, and abuses of political power by a tyrannical governing authority.