• Doomsider@lemmy.world
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    24 hours ago

    Yeah, there are other widely accepted definitions as well.

    “A coup d’état (/ˌkuːdeɪˈtɑː/ ⓘ; French: [ku deta] ⓘ; lit. ‘stroke of state’),[1] or simply a coup, is typically an illegal and overt attempt by a military organization or other government elites to unseat an incumbent leadership.[2][3] A self-coup is when a leader, having come to power through legal means, tries to stay in power through illegal means.[3]”

    “A coup d’état, often abbreviated to coup, is the overthrow of a lawful government through illegal means. If force or violence are not involved, such an event is sometimes called a soft or bloodless coup.”

    Stop pretending that years of voter suppression don’t exist.

    https://www.lwv.org/blog/recent-rise-anti-voter-litigation

    https://www.sentencingproject.org/reports/locked-out-2024-four-million-denied-voting-rights-due-to-a-felony-conviction/

    https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/voting-laws-roundup-2024-review

    Pretending Democracy is being served is a disservice considering voter suppression, gerrymandering, and a broken first past the post system that has lead to this. This is not the will of the of the people.

    This also ignores that the majority of our news and information is controlled so that makes informed voting even harder.

    I think this act that were deserve this is disingenuous and probably is born out of a propaganda campaign to get people to accept what is going on under false pretenses.