Democratic Icon turned Pro Genocide Turned Deposed by Coup

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Democratic Icon turned Pro Genocide Turned Deposed by Coup

Postby Kurt » Mon Feb 01, 2021 3:53 am

Aung San Su Kyii is out of power and detained by the military.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-myan ... SKBN2A00VC

And the excuse they used was "Election Fraud"

hahahaha...

This is going to be tricky, Muslim neighbors and Western sensibilities are needed for her government to survive the coup, but they got kind of turned off with the whole "Drive out the Royhinga" policy.

So...Repressive Military Regime that favors ethnic Burmese but only kills people in active rebellion or Genocidal Democrat who favors ethnic Burmese?

That's two shitty choices.....Support Democracy but piss off Muslim alies or support a coup that used the same Trumpian excuses that the world opposed.
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Re: Democratic Icon turned Pro Genocide Turned Deposed by Co

Postby snaark » Mon Feb 01, 2021 8:23 am

Aung San Su Kyii burned her bridges long ago. Nobel prize or not, no-one is going to rush to support her now.
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Re: Democratic Icon turned Pro Genocide Turned Deposed by Co

Postby Kurt » Mon Feb 01, 2021 1:36 pm

snaark wrote:Aung San Su Kyii burned her bridges long ago. Nobel prize or not, no-one is going to rush to support her now.


Genocide = Bad.
Coup = Bad.

Not sure whether to stand outside the consolate with a sign that says "Just Because I Prefer a Coup to Genocide Does Not Make Me Approve of This" or just "Meh"
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Re: Democratic Icon turned Pro Genocide Turned Deposed by Co

Postby ROB » Mon Feb 01, 2021 11:00 pm

Be gone with your nuance.
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Postby el3so » Tue Feb 02, 2021 10:42 pm

Reminds me of Ultra Swain.
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