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If you want to play footsie with technical definitions, sure, this was really not a coup but a putsch. The end result would have been the same. And I shudder t
by Pokepokalypse 5y ago
If you want to play footsie with technical definitions, sure, this was really not a coup but a putsch.
The end result would have been the same. And I shudder to think how f*cked we'd be as a nation if it had succeeded.
- seriousquestion 5y agoThe chances of a group of unarmed people, and a LARPer with zip ties, overthrowing the most powerful government in history is 0.0%. Even if that was the intention of the group. Which it clearly wasn't. That otherwise logical thinkers are getting caught up in such hysterics is unnerving.
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- edgyquant 5y agoIt very much was their intention to scare lawmakers into letting their lame duck president get a second term. After the first non-peaceful transition of power in US history I really don’t see the point in humoring your stance that it was “just a protest.”