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Before the coup that happened a few days ago, my country was casually known as a dictatorship. You don't insult politicians, not especially on a public place. When you are home, you check if the coast is clear before you call the president names. Otherwise you get an armed and humiliating response, if not tragic. Looks like lots of democratic countries are looking at us with envy and for inspiration these days.
Before the coup that happened a few days ago, my country was casually known as a dictatorship. You don't insult politicians, not especially on a public place. When you are home, you check if the coast is clear before you call the president names. Otherwise you get an armed and humiliating response, if not tragic. Looks like lots of democratic countries are looking at us with envy and for inspiration these days.
which country?
And as an American, Germans/Australians/etc. will still insist they're more free than me because of something arbitrary like free healthcare. I don't think there's anywhere I'd feel particularly more "free" all things considered aside from maybe Mars.
The German basic law protects people's personal honour (article 5, freedom of expression), and this goes back hundreds of years. ( strafrechtlicher Ehrschutz ). > "These rights shall find their limits in the provisions of general laws, in provisions for the protection of young persons and in the right to personal honour. " This is reflected in the German criminal code Beleidigung (Insult), unchanged for about 150 yea…
Completely ridiculous from an American point of view, but I know we're in the minority here.
I would like a balanced perspective on this. What do our German/European think about this? Is this expected or a random event? Does this have public support?
But the sad thing is that most if not all twitter users, have seen far worse go unpunished.
I would like a balanced perspective on this. What do our German/European think about this? Is this expected or a random event? Does this have public support?
A different example: there were some "creative" protests by environmentalists against the new "greenwashed" automobile fair IAA which has moved from Frankfurt to Munich since this year - defacing freeway signs etc.. Nine of the activists involved will be kept in "preventive custody" until the end of the fair (for one week) - https://twitter.com/mic_tra/status/1435529384174227459.
And as an American, Germans/Australians/etc. will still insist they're more free than me because of something arbitrary like free healthcare. I don't think there's anywhere I'd feel particularly more "free" all things considered aside from maybe Mars.
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which country?
Guinea is the only recent coup I know of https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-58461436
For example, in the US in Jan 2021, there was a riot that some call a coup, and some do not.
Brazil might also count. I am not aware of the details.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Guinea is the only recent coup I know of https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-58461436
Note that different people have different criteria for a coup. For example, in the US in Jan 2021, there was a riot that some call a coup, and some do not. Brazil might also count. I am not aware of the details.
People already part of the government could be involved in triggering an insurrection, such as with the Jacobins involved in the Insurrection of 1792, but it still counts as an insurrection and not a coup because it is carried out by the population, not by forces working for the government, such as assassins or the military.