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cheesetriangles posted:Whats the tweet? No way I am clicking it. A tank running over and goring some protesters.
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cheesetriangles posted:Whats the tweet? No way I am clicking it. A tank crushing civilians against a metal barricade.
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cheesetriangles posted:Whats the tweet? No way I am clicking it. A tank driving into a crowd and a guy cut in half by the guide rail when the tank swiped it.
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https://twitter.com/aleynazaynmalik/status/754159558688444416 Twitter picture of the soldiers on the bridge surrendering.
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cheesetriangles posted:Whats the tweet? No way I am clicking it. An IFV charges into a crowd to get through and literally cuts people in half.
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cheesetriangles posted:Whats the tweet? No way I am clicking it. It's the result of someone getting in between a rock (a tank) and a hard place (a guardrail). Very graphic.
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Dapper_Swindler posted:
oh god don't click this
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Dapper_Swindler posted:
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How exactly are police getting soldiers in tanks to surrender?
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That's pretty bad I gotta say. At least it was a quick way to go.
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Istanbul seems to be effectively back under government control, Ankara still a question mark although. Government claims that a Coup helicopter was shot down over Ankara by a government plane.
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when I sit back and think about erdogan and his career, I have to say that guy is a hard as nails motherfucker who took it all the way to the end, it's like, everything and the kitchen sink was thrown at him in terms of challenges to his political journey, even landing in the middle of bombing runs didn't faze the guy. it's over, his grip totally complete at this point such a shame he's probably going to bookend his career by going full autocrat. If only the Arab world could get a hard motherfucker like that who was democratic. Instead it gets mass murdering rabid rulers instead. gently caress this earth. watching all those civilians just walk up and successfully arresting those military guys is like watching a wet dream of what if everything went right in the middle east 4 years ago. It happened in Tunisia, shame it couldn't have happened everywhere else. but then again that's what happens when there's literally no civil society and the military is its own tribe. Al-Saqr fucked around with this message at 04:53 on Jul 16, 2016 |
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Those monsters. Forcing that poor tank driver to take such desperate action to defend himself from certain death at the hands of the unarmed civilians' shouts and sticks. I can only imagine what terror the helicopter gunship crews were in too.
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Eej posted:How exactly are police getting soldiers in tanks to surrender? Probably, "Your coup has failed, either surrender or we call the air force."
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Eej posted:How exactly are police getting soldiers in tanks to surrender? The armored vehicles are surrounded by hundreds of people and they aren't willing to massacre then to get out + it looks like the coup is falling apart.
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I imagine the soldiers are realizing the coup has failed and would rather take whatever sentence they get than die shooting police/protestors. A lot of them probably imagined themselves saviours of the people during planning and anticipated broad support. This wasn't the reaction they expected.
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Eej posted:How exactly are police getting soldiers in tanks to surrender? I mean, I would let myself be arrested in that situation. The alternatives are a) getting murdered by protestors b) murdering the protestors
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Eej posted:How exactly are police getting soldiers in tanks to surrender? The soldiers in the tanks seem to be surrendering when they're put in a position where they'd have to either surrender or kill civilians. Most of these guys aren't super invested in the coup and aren't willing to kill unarmed people for it. Of course, that's not the case 100% of the time, as seen in that tweet in the last page.
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Al-Saqr posted:watching all those civilians just walk up and successfully arresting those military guys is like watching a wet dream of what if everything went right in the middle east 4 years ago. It happened in Tunisia, shame it couldn't have happened everywhere else. I mean, they're lynching the poor bastards in the name of Allah right now, so it's gotten pretty dark. Holy gently caress don't click that tank video btw. Scarred for life.
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Al-Saqr posted:when I sit back and think about erdogan and his career, I have to say that guy is a hard as nails motherfucker who took it all the way to the end, it's like, everything and the kitchen sink was thrown at him in terms of challenges to his political journey, even landing in the middle of bombing runs didn't faze the guy. it's over, his grip totally complete at this point such a shame he's probably going to bookend his career by going full autocrat.  disjoe posted:I mean, I would let myself be arrested in that situation. There's always a bullet to the head.
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lamentable dustman posted:So has there ever been a worse planned coup in modern history before because this one seemed really badly planned, I would think you would want to be able to take the President in hand Well, pretty much all of the "Soviet Republics" that sprang up across Europe in 1919 were pretty bad. The Bavarian one is my favorite, if only for this guy: quote:The government members were not always well-chosen. For instance, the Foreign Affairs Deputy Dr. Franz Lipp (who had been admitted several times to psychiatric hospitals), declared war on Switzerland over the Swiss refusal to lend 60 locomotives to the Republic. He also claimed to be well acquainted with Pope Benedict XV and he informed Vladimir Lenin via cable that the ousted former Minister-President Hoffmann had fled to Bamberg and taken the key to the ministry toilet with him. Good coup planning can't afford to ignore the crucial bathroom-key national resources.
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Eej posted:How exactly are police getting soldiers in tanks to surrender? Their options are to: A: surrender to the police, probably get humane treatment and a trial. B: get overrun by an angry mob, getting the poo poo kicked out of them by people who have seen that twitter link with the tank and the guardrail, probably get killed. C: shoot a whole lot of civilians.
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Most of them are probably going to get off lightly since they were "just following orders" and all. Nothing that'd make dying the more preferable option, anyway. It's the officers behind the coup whose heads are going to roll.
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cheesetriangles posted:Whats the tweet? No way I am clicking it. You must have seen someone work a meat slicer at the local deli before?
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SirJohnnyMcDonald posted:There's always a bullet to the head. True. I didn't mention that one because that option is common to all of life's challenges.
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Eej posted:How exactly are police getting soldiers in tanks to surrender? Then there's also this: https://twitter.com/IndiaTodayFLASH/status/754160279525531648
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Erdogan is gonna autocrat even harder now. Sorry Turkey 
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disjoe posted:True. I didn't mention that one because that option is common to all of life's challenges. Not the abolition of the Second Amendment 
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Aww sad the coup failed and a bunch of people got killed for no reason. Now their state is REALLY going to turn into a dictatorship.
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So after this, they're changing the name of the country to Erdogistan, right?
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Stereotype posted:Aww sad the coup failed and a bunch of people got killed for no reason. Establishing a military junta is the best way to avoid dictatorship.
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no, erdogan is making himself sultan and remaking the ottoman empire, starting with taking back syria
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It's pretty amazing how even the enemies of Erdoğan refused to endorse the coup. It gives me hope that this won't be used as an excuse by Erdoğan to consolidate power. Not much hope but still.
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FourLeaf posted:ugh, i have a feeling this will somehow be even worse when i wake up in the morning. but i'm just too tired to watch anymore. Nice was bad, but Turkey is making me sleepy.
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Celexi posted:no, erdogan is making himself sultan and remaking the ottoman empire, starting with taking back syria poo poo, I forgot, weren't there reports of a great deal of celebration going on in Syria when poo poo was going down? I wonder if Erdogan has a mental list of how everyone reacted to the coup, or if he's so paranoid that he now thinks everyone is against him.
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Eej posted:How exactly are police getting soldiers in tanks to surrender? Tanks are not very effective without infantry to protect them.
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Atrocious Joe posted:It's pretty amazing how even the enemies of Erdoğan refused to endorse the coup. It gives me hope that this won't be used as an excuse by Erdoğan to consolidate power. Parliament should have rallied the loyalist forces while Erdoğan was in hiding. That might have reduced his power.
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Why does anyone want Syria anymore? It's likely to become essentially uninhabitable within our lifetime thanks to global warming, the entire nation has been torn to shreds, and the remaining populace will remain bitterly divided and mostly ungovernable.
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