Celebrities post about Myanmar military coup

[kyiviansnow]

Myanmar’s new military government has blocked access to Facebook as resistance to Monday’s coup surged amid calls for civil disobedience to protest the ousting of the elected civilian government and its leader Aung San Suu Kyi. https://t.co/xxrkxqIuEK
- The Associated Press (@AP) February 4, 2021
From Wednesday night (3 Feb) onwards, social media

Comments

[ljtryout]

Far from the point and i dont wanna go OT that early, but i thought OP meant Kit Harrington when i read Jon Snow an went “what does HE has to say about this?”

[hellojeds]

I came in here expecting to see this comment! You don't see the newsreader Jon Snow on ONTD every day. He had a good laugh at the catchphrase "You know nothing John Snow" during GOT's run.

[iznanassi]

"THANK GOD TRUMP SUCKS BIGLY AT INSURRECTIONS OR THIS WOULD BE US RIGHT NOW!"

americans cannot help themselves

eta: jake tapper too? gross

[kyiviansnow]

Part of the reason I used the spoiler cut was to hide Resistance Cringe lol

(Also, sourcing for celeb tweets is sadly difficult so I cheated a bit with the journos)

[iznanassi]

i just cant believe a journalist (can anyone on CNN even be called that anymore?) is engaging in memeing on twitter over a political emergency, so inappropriate

[peddlestools]

He defended Andy Ngo, so i don't expect much from him

[mary_pickforded]

This shit is why Trump and all the insurrectionists including their co-conspirators in government have to face consequences. Failed coups are often followed by successful ones and that happening is made much more likely with this bullshit, lukewarm response to what happened on January 6th (not to mention almost everything Trump and his supporters have done). We're still in MAJOR danger and it's stupid beyond comprehension to believe otherwise.

[derevko]

the aerobics video is surreal

[lyra_loo]

honestly feel like it sums up the modern era completely, it's like this perfect time capsule somehow. if humans 500 years from now want to understand what it was like to be alive in our generation just watch that

[luvthatdrtywata]

the insane amount of people trying to say it was fake because her shadow cuts off, therefore showcasing their inability to even understand the basic science of STAIRS, was also surreal.

[ahkna]

truly. it's up there with the video of musicians playing while rioting is going on in the background.

the modern world has produced some truly bizarre images

[kyiviansnow]

Because this is more Discussion than specifically article sourced information, I'm going to put my take on the situation here

[iznanassi]

can i ask you how much power she held realistically? was she more of a puppet or just a leader crippled by the political situation, or somewhere in between?

[kyiviansnow]

I would argue she was a leader who was a lot more popular (79% approval rating in 2020) than she had actual power. This does not absolve her of the horrific decisions she made, but rather is a concession that the treatment of Rohingya is seen with indifference or even righteousness by a majority of the population. I blame social media for a lot of this Rohingya demonisation + Buddhist radicalisation.

The military for the most part were still the movers and shakers in the country even pre-coup. They were automatically granted a quarter of seats in parliament, had an effective veto on constitutional changes, and held the most important ministerial portfolios. Military spending was still one of the biggest areas of the government (more so than many other areas of civic development), and it was well known that important deals were always 'negotiated' through the junta.

[vaels]

"military and religious extremists are the ones perpetuating the genocide, and with ASSK gone expect the situation for the Rohingyas (and of Myanmar's many other minority groups, like the Shan and Karen), to get even worse."

this is what I keep coming back to. it's hard not to feel a certain way about ASSK because she's indelibly linked and at least in some ways responsible for the genocide (I need to do more reading to get a more clear understanding of how much control she really had over the situation). but I can't see any way that it doesn't escalate and get worse from here.

that to me is the irrefutable fact of what's happening here, and the aspect that I wish more people were focusing on, instead of blue checks on twitter making it about America somehow.