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Speedrunning getting banned
Speedrunning getting banned
Found a new peel, three months later! Day made.
December 2, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Found a new peel, three months later! Day made.
The world if DreamWorks had been able to stay profitable:
November 24, 2025 at 3:26 AM
The world if DreamWorks had been able to stay profitable:
![A coup d'état (/ˌkuːdeɪˈtɑː/ ⓘ; French: [ku deta] ⓘ; lit. 'stroke of state'),[1] or simply a coup,[2] is typically an illegal and overt attempt by a military organization or other government elites to unseat an incumbent person or leadership.[3][4] A self-coup is said to take place when a leader, having come to power through legal means, tries to stay in power through illegal means.[4]
General Napoleon Bonaparte during the Coup of 18 Brumaire in Saint-Cloud, detail of painting by François Bouchot, 1840
By one estimate, there were 457 coup attempts from 1950 to 2010, half of which were successful.[3] Most coup attempts occurred in the mid-1960s, but there were also large numbers of coup attempts in the mid-1970s and the early 1990s.[3] Coups occurring in the post-Cold War period have been more likely to result in democratic systems than Cold War coups,[5][6][7] though coups still mostly perpetuate authoritarianism.[8]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6yb2poojz2jsnbqn7jqhpvtv/bafkreicqemraw4jn4bb5kvcudegv22hj4gaagpv3geryvjyw7odhzzsfiy@jpeg)
![A soft coup, sometimes referred to as a silent coup, is an illegal overthrow of a government. Unlike a classical coup d'état, it is achieved without the use of military force.[1]
Definition
The concept of a soft coup as a strategy is attributed to the American political scientist Gene Sharp, a Professor Emeritus of political science at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth and Nobel Peace Prize nominee, who has been a theorist and author of works on the dynamics of nonviolent conflict. He studied the potential to spark, guide, and maximize the power of sometimes short-lived mass uprisings, as he tried to understand how unarmed insurrections have been far more politically significant than observers focused on military warfare have cared to admit.[2]
According to Axel Kaiser, a Chilean lawyer member of the Mises Institute, the soft coup is often part of a conspiracy theory used by Latin American populists who seek the centralization of power but do so under the pretense of improving democracy. Kaiser argues that the Latin American leaders' rationale is that democracy should be a system where the general will must be absolute, and that the populist leader describes himself as the representative of the general will by virtue of having been elected by the people. Kaiser says that these leaders feel that the will of the leader equals the general will, and that any limits on the will of the leader would be also a limit to the general will itself.[3] In this scenario, opposition to the leader is treated as an act against democracy, justifying persecution of the opposition, forced nationalizations and limits to the freedom of the press.[4] This notion of democracy is opposed to the one traditionally held in the United States, which considers that rulers must have limits to their power;[4] it also conflicts with minority rights.[5]
Several military coups took place in South America during the 20th century, in particular during the Cold War. There is a perception of tho…](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6yb2poojz2jsnbqn7jqhpvtv/bafkreicdfwansng72davubxbha6cujjbddfh56vrm2bwyppekkeygd4r24@jpeg)
FINALLY, THE ROTTEN TOMATOES APP
October 13, 2025 at 5:59 PM
FINALLY, THE ROTTEN TOMATOES APP
Are people actually buying these? Not that I would NEVER, but I get way too many of these emails for these types of Crocs to be that limited
August 5, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Are people actually buying these? Not that I would NEVER, but I get way too many of these emails for these types of Crocs to be that limited
Yeah, I do want to make flying more sustainable. But that's not my job, is it, United? It's yours.
July 9, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Yeah, I do want to make flying more sustainable. But that's not my job, is it, United? It's yours.
I LOVE THEM SM. SO WELL THOUGHT OUT
July 2, 2025 at 1:37 PM
I LOVE THEM SM. SO WELL THOUGHT OUT
Just wanna say, to drown out the haters, I really like the new Nothing headphone(1) design!
June 21, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Just wanna say, to drown out the haters, I really like the new Nothing headphone(1) design!
Bitch isn't it your job to know?
June 5, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Bitch isn't it your job to know?
May 28, 2025 at 2:51 AM
The grok app is so fucking dumb. I mean just look at the first showcase...they clearly didn't make a typo there.
May 23, 2025 at 12:23 PM
The grok app is so fucking dumb. I mean just look at the first showcase...they clearly didn't make a typo there.
I guess Gemini has a sense of humor.
May 20, 2025 at 1:10 PM
I guess Gemini has a sense of humor.
Chicago deserves full-service public transportation! savetransitnow.org
May 12, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Chicago deserves full-service public transportation! savetransitnow.org
I don't even know what to say. Sure, the mirror didn't mirror that It was a repost, but my god.
May 12, 2025 at 12:03 PM
I don't even know what to say. Sure, the mirror didn't mirror that It was a repost, but my god.
Some look at this and see a king. Others see a rich nation. Just saying. See it from their perspective.
April 18, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Some look at this and see a king. Others see a rich nation. Just saying. See it from their perspective.