• @PugJesus
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    726 months ago

    “I’m in charge here.”

    “Oh, fuck, you are? Let me check my chain of command- damn. Yep, says right here. I’ll go back to my barracks now and wait to be arrested.”

    Peak noncredibility, I love how weird the world is some days.

    • @NOT_RICK
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      356 months ago

      Giving me Prigozhin vibes

      • @[email protected]
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        116 months ago

        I still have no idea what actually happened in that. I was convinced he was acting the whole thing out at Putin’s request, but then he was killed a week later. IMO, that was the weirdest news story ever.

    • @Agent641
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      166 months ago

      “Im sorry but we aren’t accepting applications for the position of President at this time.”

      “Oh, okay. Can I leave my resume?”

      “No.”

      “Oh. Okay.”

      • @[email protected]M
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        86 months ago

        Same thought crossed my mind but what bothers me the most was that Zuniga’s neck gaiter makes it look like he has no neck, from that angle. It makes him look like his face is retracting, like a turtle. Why would he lose his job and look like a limp turtle’s noodle, just to help out President Arce?

      • @[email protected]
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        76 months ago

        The fact that Zúñiga claims, it was a ploy by the president to gain popularity, leads me to believe, that it wasn’t.

    • @PugJesus
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      486 months ago

      Arce confronted the general commander of the Army — Juan José Zúñiga, who appeared to be leading the rebellion — in the palace hallway, as shown on video on Bolivian television. “I am your captain, and I order you to withdraw your soldiers, and I will not allow this insubordination,” Arce said.

      https://www.npr.org/2024/06/26/nx-s1-5020668/bolivia-coup-attempt

        • @[email protected]M
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          146 months ago

          Big hallway energy. Zuniga had a plan for ramming the palace gates and a plan for talking to the media, he blanked on what to do in the hallway.

          • @Agent641
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            6 months ago

            He was expecting the politicians to flee and go into exile. Then he would just walk in and assume command in absence of a leader.

            It gets super awkward when they just hang around and be like “No thank you.”

            Then you either have to commit to killing some folks and potentially sparking an insurgency or civil war, or stand down.

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            6 months ago

            I don’t know what to do with my hands military

            • @[email protected]M
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              16 months ago

              I never noticed the guiding hand, oh so gently pushing Ricky Bobby’s hand down, before this. Must be a babysitter that we never see in the movie.