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Wait, you mean it's possible to just arrest people leading a coup? We need that in the US!
Wait, you mean there was an attempted coup in the US? When?? I have never heard it mentioned literally every single time a coup is brought up in conversation on Lemmy ever ever
Pretty depressing that even Montenegro manages to arrest, convict and imprison their coup instigators faster then the US has.
It is easier when you're a micronation. Like, you're going to see the dudes who did it at the pub, there's not that many places they can be.
Lousy excuses.
Gosh, who could have been behind that?
I guess we'll never know for sure!
This was obviously Russian fuckery, but looking at any coup globally since WWII, the odds of CIA involvement are pretty goddamn high.
...now that I sound like I belong in hexbear, I'll see myself out.
I was forty-something before I noticed Montenegro wasn't in south America lol
I was mumble-something before there was an independent Montenegro.
It does have that ring to it, like Montevideo. I think what helps me is I heard so much once about Serbia and Montenegro that it's kind of become an association path to former Yugoslavia.
And we just pretend like the West never does coups - be it to instill a pro-NATO or pro-EU or pro-free market.. Only the other side does these undemocratic/injust acts right? We are just trying to help!
immediately going into whataboutism and trying to shift the descussion to blame the west?
c/foundtherussianbot
like the user below me points out, it’s about the apparent hypocrisy that is oh-so visible today in Western media. we love to point out the bad things our ‘enemies’ engage in - even though we are doing the same acts ourselves - in which we never talk about.
We’re throwing stones from a glass house. And when ppl throw the stones back, we call it ‘whataboutism’. lol
Says the one with the profile that says "Swiss Pan-European Nationalist". By the way, whataboutism is when you bring up an unrelated topic to distract from the current topic. It's not whataboutism to point out the accusing side doing the exact same thing, that is simply called pointing out hypocrisy.
It’s not whataboutism to point out the accusing side doing the exact same thing, that is simply called pointing out hypocrisy.
It is literally the definition of whataboutism, you muppet.
There was definitely a lot, south America in particular, with psychopaths like Pinochet put in charge.
It doesn’t count when it’s brown people, silly.
Edit: apparently need the /s
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