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Fun fact, I’m actually in one of the few countries they thought of couping, that they didn’t. Portugal in 1974 had a military staged coup against the dictatorship that ruled back then. It looked a lot like we were going to turn red, and Kissinger even said “let them be, it’ll remind Europe why communism doesn’t work”. Long story short, after a few nationalisations, an attempted coup by radical left, and some general weirdness, we managed to get ourselves a mostly working republic that still lasts to this day
It’s almost like letting a people decide how to run their country for themselves leads to a more stable government. Who would have fucking thought
The US thought, but then they changed their mind about 150 years later
And only for a certain kind of people prior to that.
I mean, most revolutions end up pretty badly, maybe we just got lucky
It's all those legal drugs that keep things going 👌
Decriminalised != Legal