I don’t know my Burmese politics very well, but if this is true, what was the point of having a coup?
In short, the victorious party accepted the results of a recent election and the military-led party went, “What do people think this is? A democracy? We’ll show them!”
Essentially, what the Republicans wanted to do but were too incompetent to pull off.
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Yep. Saw the coup and thought it was terrible, saw she had been arrested and thought ‘womp womp/FAAFO’.
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probably a few theories can be equally relevant. it was under a military rule until only ten years ago, and just didn’t want democracy anymore after ten years. new general may have been more ambitious than previous. US foreign policy is weakest right now, and all the other cool dictators are doing it, so opportunity is very important. sometimes it’s a way to blame/write off things like genocide on previous administration. regime change is also a good time to do some offshoring of assets and covering up the breadcrumbs.
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I’m not an expert, just a guy who made a post once on an internet forum, but I’m gonna go with ASSK Was No Angel
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Lol the my pillow dude tried to use the corporate account on Twitter so now that’s been banned too.
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Nails it.
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Would have been nice if the Dems handed the party over to AOC within weeks of her swearing in.
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can’t believe I’m hearting an NYT post…
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Michelle Goldberg is elite.
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I’m looking to the Andrew Johnson impeachment trial to predict what will happen at Trump’s.
- Trump will decline to testify, and the prosecutors will not try to compel him
- Republicans will receive bribes, promises, and political favors for voting for acquittal
- Trump will be acquitted (this is much less in doubt than Johnson’s acquittal)
Also, WTF at Lincoln picking Johnson, a Democrat from Tennessee, to be his running mate in 1864? Unity!
Conclusion: just scrap the whole thing, make the Senate like the House of Lords, the President a figurehead, and have a Prime Minister selected by the House every two years. FFS.
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Pretty sure Lincoln didn’t pick him, they nominated them independently at the convention back then
https://twitter.com/RonanFarrow/status/1356424848654884871
@goofyballer - pink hat lady has been found. Crazy mother of 8 from West PA. Probably on shitload of govt assistance.
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Three weeks to find a PA mom. Where was she, Walmart? How’d we ever find Bin Laden?
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Well, feel bad for those kids.
She told me that she did not share the racist views espoused by some on the far right. (In 2013, she tweeted, “what’s up, my n*ggas?” Powell defended the use of the N-word, saying, “My favorite book is ‘Gone with the Wind,’ and it uses that term freely.”)
Flawless logic.
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I like my racists to be literate.