I love how the mercury one is unchanged in every version of this meme lol
Kooky_Support3624 on
We need to start keeping scores between authoritarians and democratic gaurd rails. These events aren’t in isolation. Any bets on the first Western country to actually lose democracy? My money is on Poland or Finland.
DangerousCyclone on
How the fuck are Brazil and South Korea better at foiling and punish coup plotters than America. Donald Trump should be rotting in federal penitentiary with his former supporters throwing rotten cabbages at him. I feel like George Washington would rise from the grave and beat the shit out of Donny himself if he could.
HotTakesBeyond on
France š¤ South Korea
On their sixth republic
Dependent_Weight2274 on
āThe media convinced me that liberal democracy was a rotten structureā will be the new āI was just following ordersā.
SwordfishOk504 on
It was mercury retrograde obvs
ShouldersofGiants100 on
Memes like this bring to mind what the IRA said after they failed to kill Thatcher:
“Today, we were unlucky. But remember, we only have to be lucky once ā you have to be lucky always”
This sub is trying to take a victory lap over a situation where even victory is defeatābecause it points to a larger problem, that authoritarians are growing more and more brazen in their attempts **and they only need to be lucky once.**
We live in an era of Democratic backsliding. It already happened in Hungary and in Turkey, it is being attempted elsewhere, and the “conservative” parties behind these attempts are all sharing notes, often actively supporting each other and protecting each other from consequences where possible. One need look no further than the love affair mainstream Western Conservatives have with Victor Orban to see where their desires lie. A failed coup is not a victory for Democracy, it’s a sign of deep institutional rot and a society that grows more and more unstable. Democracies rarely fall on the first coupāthe first one simply serves as the rallying point to build support for the next one. The Beer Hall Putch was not the end of German democracy, but ten years after it Adolf Hitler was Chancellor of Germany.
ArmAromatic6461 on
People were pretty upset about January 6th when it happened.
The problem in 2024 is that outrage fades.
ForeverAclone95 on
Yoon really went āunderstandable, have a nice dayā
CrimsonZephyr on
St. Francis Fukuyama said history had ended. I’m not worried.
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Also, please adopt a parliamentary system
I love how the mercury one is unchanged in every version of this meme lol
We need to start keeping scores between authoritarians and democratic gaurd rails. These events aren’t in isolation. Any bets on the first Western country to actually lose democracy? My money is on Poland or Finland.
How the fuck are Brazil and South Korea better at foiling and punish coup plotters than America. Donald Trump should be rotting in federal penitentiary with his former supporters throwing rotten cabbages at him. I feel like George Washington would rise from the grave and beat the shit out of Donny himself if he could.
France š¤ South Korea
On their sixth republic
āThe media convinced me that liberal democracy was a rotten structureā will be the new āI was just following ordersā.
It was mercury retrograde obvs
Memes like this bring to mind what the IRA said after they failed to kill Thatcher:
“Today, we were unlucky. But remember, we only have to be lucky once ā you have to be lucky always”
This sub is trying to take a victory lap over a situation where even victory is defeatābecause it points to a larger problem, that authoritarians are growing more and more brazen in their attempts **and they only need to be lucky once.**
We live in an era of Democratic backsliding. It already happened in Hungary and in Turkey, it is being attempted elsewhere, and the “conservative” parties behind these attempts are all sharing notes, often actively supporting each other and protecting each other from consequences where possible. One need look no further than the love affair mainstream Western Conservatives have with Victor Orban to see where their desires lie. A failed coup is not a victory for Democracy, it’s a sign of deep institutional rot and a society that grows more and more unstable. Democracies rarely fall on the first coupāthe first one simply serves as the rallying point to build support for the next one. The Beer Hall Putch was not the end of German democracy, but ten years after it Adolf Hitler was Chancellor of Germany.
People were pretty upset about January 6th when it happened.
The problem in 2024 is that outrage fades.
Yoon really went āunderstandable, have a nice dayā
St. Francis Fukuyama said history had ended. I’m not worried.