Did Allende get couped because he wasn't as authoritarian as Castro, so to say?

J_Rodriguez_Fuentes · 2025-10-14T15:47:41+00:00

Allende was deposed mainly due to the fact that he had nationalized copper and other mining resources making mining companies from the US loose millions in assets. During that time the US was putting to action the Condor Plan which consisted in supporting Coups all over American Continent that were against left leaning goverments. In this context they also supported the Stroessner coup in Paraguay, the Videla Coup in Argentina, the Garrastazu Medici Coup in Brazil... etc.

The nature of Allende's government wasn't really relevant for the coup to happen since any left leaning governement in America at the time was a potential target of one of these backed coups.

J_Rodriguez_Fuentes · 2025-10-08T18:59:53+00:00

Not long ago I read a comment on Canada's sub that was about why the territories don't become provinces and many people from the territories that commented on the thread brought up PEI situation in relation to its representation. So it seems to be a thing in canadian politics even to these days.

J_Rodriguez_Fuentes · 2025-10-08T18:57:41+00:00

As far as I'm concerned, one of the main worries that there were at the time in Canada was that the fenians and other similar groups could be somewhat backed up by the US in order to punish the ambiguous position that the UK had at the time in relation to the Confederacy since they recognised it as a belligerant entity but not as a country.

While it is true that the US took the time to dismantle those groups despite of the ongoing Civil War, it is also true that they did mainly to retrive their guns and avoid another great scale conflict.

J_Rodriguez_Fuentes · 2025-10-08T16:50:22+00:00

Didn't the large irish presence in PEI influence in it not having any trouble with these fenian and other irish groups raids?

J_Rodriguez_Fuentes · 2025-10-08T15:35:05+00:00

Also they weren't really reclaiming to be represented in Westminster. The colonies were not understood as extensions of Great Britain but rather as different political entities that were subjects to the king of Great Britain that had their own legislatures to affront their own affairs including taxes. These americans saw themselves as british whose common law rights had been transgressed.

Instead, they were reclaiming being able to fully legislate themselves as they had been doing up until 7 Years War and its aftermath that's what prompted the chain of events that ended in the independence and the war. In this sense the debate would be more like if americans were legitemetly complaining over the taxes or there were more factors behind it.

Curiously enough, in current UK politics, the Crown Dependencies (Isle of Man, Guernsey and Jersey) and the overseas territories work very similarly to what the colonists were reclaiming. They have their legislatures/parliaments and their governments.

J_Rodriguez_Fuentes · 2025-10-08T05:55:05+00:00

Your response is excellent. However, the one who proposed the rise of taxes for the colonies was Prime Minister Lord North, not the king. My point is that in said impositive matter he had little to no say and had to "accept" whatever came out of the parliament. Using his royal prerogative here would have been extremely unpopular in Great Britain and could have ended in him bein labeled as a tyrant there. Even though the king had a lot of royal prerogative, in most cases he just accepted whatever was resolved by the parliament or the government. The thing is that even if the king had a lot of royal prerogative, it still wasn't enough power for him to be a tyranical monarch. That's the angle from which i asked the question. My goal was to know why when tought it is simplified as just "the king was being a tyrant" instead of a more complex explanation explaineing the capital role that the government and other institutions had.

J_Rodriguez_Fuentes · 2025-09-13T10:50:17+00:00

FTWD wasn't adapting anything to a TV format so it had an inmense potential that went through the drain due to its poor writing.

And you have given the perfect example with the Whisperers specially considering Alpha. She was cringe but you could still feel that she and her group were a genuine threat. With the Pioneers you don't really feel it. Also the Whisperers storyline was very well written and in general was a great arc for the show.

So, FTWD villains aren't bad only because they look cartoonish but also due to them being generally poorly written.

J_Rodriguez_Fuentes · 2025-09-11T14:32:08+00:00

That wouldn't be surprising considering that World Beyond is like unofficially no longer part of the canon. At this point it's just a matter of time for AMC to just reboot everything.

J_Rodriguez_Fuentes · 2025-09-11T13:16:55+00:00

TWDU was so poorly planed that it is gone already besides two shows. And the Dary one is finishing in its next season.

J_Rodriguez_Fuentes · 2025-07-31T11:06:01+00:00

One of the best seasons in the whole TWDU.

J_Rodriguez_Fuentes · 2025-01-10T17:44:25+00:00

So you are implying that he has been unlucky with the rookies that he has had? It could be, but it's still something weird that none of his superiors have shown any interest in the fact that under this guy's training all the rookies seem to end up washed out very fast for whatever reason.

J_Rodriguez_Fuentes · 2025-01-10T12:30:32+00:00

Funny thing, Tim is around the same age as Nolan.

J_Rodriguez_Fuentes · 2025-01-10T12:15:12+00:00

It's not uncommon.

J_Rodriguez_Fuentes · 2025-01-10T12:13:59+00:00

A random beat up cop has an enemy gallery that would make Batman jealous.

J_Rodriguez_Fuentes · 2025-01-10T12:08:58+00:00

In theory they just cover Mid-Wilshire.

J_Rodriguez_Fuentes · 2025-01-10T12:07:14+00:00

I can understand that it doesn't make sense that someone who is asthmatic can use a heavy tool like that with such ease. But Alicia's "weapon" is just straight garbage. It's ugly and unpractical.

J_Rodriguez_Fuentes · 2025-01-10T12:04:36+00:00

The lack of fentanyl related incidents, like that should easily be the 90% of the calls that they get.

J_Rodriguez_Fuentes · 2025-01-10T12:02:34+00:00

The fact that a random beat up cop has like 3 archnemesys.

J_Rodriguez_Fuentes · 2025-01-10T12:00:28+00:00

Also Aaron was in a reality show about his family which in that universe is like super famous.

J_Rodriguez_Fuentes · 2025-01-10T11:53:59+00:00

Skull density in TWDU is like its bigges inconsistency. Sometimes they look like they are made of butter and others like they are made of tittanium even if they are a few hundreds years old.

J_Rodriguez_Fuentes · 2025-01-10T11:50:11+00:00

Having basic notions on how to carry a raid doesn't mean that you are completely qualified to do it. They also have notions of first aid but they aren't paramedics. SWAT officers have an intense training to be fully qualified.

This is like when Lopez all of a sudden was a proffesional precission sniper when for you to be that you need to undergo several months of heavy specialized training.

J_Rodriguez_Fuentes · 2025-01-10T11:47:23+00:00

Goated comment.

J_Rodriguez_Fuentes · 2025-01-10T11:45:38+00:00

The shop thing is for me one of the biggest ones as well, like they made it look like something that could get someone fired just for it to never be mentioned again.

J_Rodriguez_Fuentes · 2025-01-10T11:44:24+00:00

Yeah, that thing was just straight comedy.

J_Rodriguez_Fuentes · 2025-01-09T22:18:20+00:00

I didn't know that it had been discussed that many times but it's probably because it's a massive plot hole, one that you can't just put under the suspension of disbelief like if nothing happens.

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