#COUP

So all the Trumpists seem far more upset about losing Twitter followers than they are over a violent assault on the US Congress. This isn't just digusting; it's terrifying 1/
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Pretty wild that we’re living through the stupidest coup attempt everhttps://twitter.com/joshnbcnews/status/1326226043246694402 Like it’s not just that it’s a coup, it’s that it’s a stupid fucking coup with next to no
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Okay, a brief thread about this 'coup' framing. Coups involve overt attempts unseat a sitting executive, backed by the use or threat of force. The types of steps Trump is
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Like a lot of people, I spent an insomniac night Googling, "What to do if there's a coup." I learned a ton of surprising stuff. Which boils down to: For
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In a few years when there is another coup attempt in the USA, people will look back and say it was because no one who led the 2021 coup attempt
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I know some folks just want to call the insurrection at the US Capitol a coup. Others say it's just academic & perhaps trivial to focus on what to call
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The fact that Trump's coup attempt (or "autocoup," if you're the kind of person whose favorite word about words is "Actually...") is failing shouldn't blind us to the fact that
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Three general conclusions that I can say about the coup from 5 years of studying the #Mali Armed Forces. (1/4) No magic formula for coup proofing. Mali has tried everything:
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by Biden declaring victory long before a legal decision was made couldn't it be said that his campaign is attempting to manipulate the process? Now everyone's like COUP! because they
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Late, evidence-free speculation about a Trump coup is intended to prepare the public for a military counter-coup "to save democracy" -- which would, of course, result in the abrogation of
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It’s not just whether there will be violence or another attempted coup over the next nine days. It’s the absolute certainty there’ll be more violence and more intentional undermining of
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It was frightening and appalling to see protestors succeed in storming the Capitol building yesterday-- in doing this, they used a tactic of coup-plotters, who frequently seek to capture symbolic
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The military coup in #Myanmar has brought a sudden halt to the democratic transition. The coup cannot go unchallenged. But the international response must be realistic about its leverage over
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This is actually... a really interesting thread.re Serbia IPhttps://twitter.com/georgew63613375/status/1339538730554634241 I have written about “Canvas” before - they were heavily involved in Arab Spring & Other ‘Color Revolutions
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to the people mad at the timing of which the slavic struggles thread was released.... firstly op started posting it before it was even known that there was a coup,
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end of this Parliament, the Cabinet Office will have its own databases on people with disabilities, ethnic minorities, security vetting and – if the Cabinet Office decides to change data-sharing
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