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Brazil's X ban is sending lots of people to Bluesky

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slowhadoken ◴[01 Sep 24 03:16 UTC] No.41413974[source]▶
I’m glad I don’t live in Brazil. Why ban X? It makes no sense.
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viburnum ◴[01 Sep 24 04:40 UTC] No.41414346[source]▶
People used it to organize an attempted coup against a democratically elected government and twitter is not cooperating with the investigation.
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1. matheusmoreira ◴[02 Sep 24 00:09 UTC] No.41421387[source]▶
It was a protest. There was no coup attempt. A coup attempt would be the military launching the operation to seize power and failing. An actual coup would be the military trying it and succeeding.

They didn't try to seize power for themselves. They wanted the military to seize power so it could rule them instead of the elected president. There's a difference. They thought the military would be better rulers. That's just their political position.

There's simply no way you can convincingly claim that a bunch of people, many of them elderly, equipped with bibles and brazilian flags, tried to seize power in the brazilian capital. This country is pathetic but it can't possibly be so weak that it could suffer a coup by people like that.