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WellHacktually t1_j2afda8 wrote

Reply to comment by SubredditPeripatetic in A Myanmar military court has sentenced Aung San Suu Kyi to a further seven years in prison by icedpickles

>but doing so would have been a grandly performative act of self-immolation

Looks like she got immolated either way. Publicly sucking the genocidaires' asses and making excuses for them turned out not to save her, so she might as well have done the "grandly performative act."

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SubredditPeripatetic t1_j2axtqy wrote

I actually tried crossposting this to r/LeopardsAteMyFace ... this account lacked the karma to get through the gates, but this was the explanation I submitted with it:

>I was conflicted about posting this one: I realize that practically speaking, her ability to go against the will of the military was extremely limited. Still, she did enter into a power sharing arrangement with the military, refraining even from making strong public statements against the genocidal purging of the Rohingya, and oh look, you can't save yourself by reaching a supposed understanding with a bunch of face-eating leopards.

^({emphasis added})

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thekingminn t1_j2cj6u4 wrote

I mean you are judging this with hindsight.

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WellHacktually t1_j2clv7g wrote

Yes, it's the specific kind of hindsight that I like to call "having an understanding of history."

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thekingminn t1_j2cm8dr wrote

So you predicted that a coup would take place for a completely different reason. You must be a god.

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