# When is an attempted coup not an attempted coup? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 20, 2023, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-is-an-attempted-coup-not-an-attempted-coup/982991 "2023-04-20T22:15:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2023, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-is-an-attempted-coup-not-an-attempted-coup/982991/21 "2023-04-21T00:46:47Z")
“The lady doth protest too much, methinks.” ---
**Author:** ![BeepKillBeep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9e8a1a/32.png) [@BeepKillBeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BeepKillBeep)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2023, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-is-an-attempted-coup-not-an-attempted-coup/982991/22 "2023-04-21T00:46:56Z")
Oh I see! Well in that case… This is a parody of [Does Overturning an Election equate to Overthrowing the Government?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-overturning-an-election-equate-to-overthrowing-the-government/982986) I have not lost my mind. Well, not completely anyway. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2023, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-is-an-attempted-coup-not-an-attempted-coup/982991/23 "2023-04-21T00:49:59Z")
I’m willing to edit that into the OP if you like, let me know. ---
**Author:** ![BeepKillBeep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9e8a1a/32.png) [@BeepKillBeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BeepKillBeep)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2023, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-is-an-attempted-coup-not-an-attempted-coup/982991/24 "2023-04-21T00:50:31Z")
The thread will probably die pretty quickly anyway, but sure if you’ll get some spare change out of it. 🙂 Thanks! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2023, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-is-an-attempted-coup-not-an-attempted-coup/982991/25 "2023-04-21T00:54:41Z")
I just despise how boring it was. Hey genius, people said the exact same bullshit you said literally days after the insurrection attempt. We had a very long thread about it. Every single stupid thing you’re saying now was said then, and debunked. Here, I’ll link to the thread for you. …Continues to blather on in willful ignorance. I don’t know if the OP of the other thread is a troll, but they’re making a damn good show of imitating one. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2023, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-is-an-attempted-coup-not-an-attempted-coup/982991/26 "2023-04-21T00:58:23Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > I don’t know if the OP of the other thread is a troll, but they’re making a damn good show of imitating one. Agreed ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2023, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-is-an-attempted-coup-not-an-attempted-coup/982991/27 "2023-04-21T01:03:17Z")
Hey, they’re just asking questions. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2023, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-is-an-attempted-coup-not-an-attempted-coup/982991/28 "2023-04-21T01:15:09Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > I just despise how boring it was. So very, very this. ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2023, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-is-an-attempted-coup-not-an-attempted-coup/982991/29 "2023-04-21T01:24:18Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > I don’t know if the OP of the other thread is a troll, but they’re making a damn good show of imitating one. [![](https://3.bp.blogspot.com/--CvdOEPJaEU/WH1frIeAfUI/AAAAAAAAAkk/ga5mX7szQ24c8e_PjG6cK3MTuc3xutgdQCLcB/s1600/Wondermark%2Bsealioning.png) ](https://3.bp.blogspot.com/--CvdOEPJaEU/WH1frIeAfUI/AAAAAAAAAkk/ga5mX7szQ24c8e_PjG6cK3MTuc3xutgdQCLcB/s1600/Wondermark%2Bsealioning.png) Stranger ---
**Author:** ![Tibby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tibby/32/17030_2.png) [@Tibby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tibby)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2023, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-is-an-attempted-coup-not-an-attempted-coup/982991/30 "2023-04-21T12:31:24Z")
> [@BeepKillBeep](#): > > Haven’t we all done a little coup every now and then? No, but my family and I were _victims_ of a vicious coup. Date: April 1, 2022. Location: my home. Purpose: house takeover and control. Outcome: 100% successful. Perpetrators: 6 cats. Had the insurgents not been high on catnip and instead resorted to a violent, clawed-coup d’é_c_at, the resulting bloodbath would have made the Romanov massacre look like a kid’s pillow fight. ---
**Author:** ![k9bfriender](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k9bfriender/32/3283_2.png) [@k9bfriender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k9bfriender)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2023, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-is-an-attempted-coup-not-an-attempted-coup/982991/31 "2023-04-21T13:03:09Z")
> [@wolfpup](#): > > Pretty sure he mistyped “I don’t watch anything except Fox”. Which, incidentally, is quite consistent and certainly not mutually exclusive with “dumbest motherfucker I’ve encountered in years”. Or, he may not watch Fox, since they don’t tell him the _real_ truth, like OANN and Newsmax do. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2023, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-is-an-attempted-coup-not-an-attempted-coup/982991/32 "2023-04-21T13:06:35Z")
Is it that difficult to detect sarcasm? Maybe reading past the first line of the OP would have helped. It was a rather good effort. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2023, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-is-an-attempted-coup-not-an-attempted-coup/982991/33 "2023-04-21T13:09:54Z")
At least one sarcasm fail was a poster that I’m pretty sure is English as a second language. Though I might be wrong about that. That has to make it far harder though if I’m right. ---
**Author:** ![k9bfriender](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k9bfriender/32/3283_2.png) [@k9bfriender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k9bfriender)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2023, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-is-an-attempted-coup-not-an-attempted-coup/982991/34 "2023-04-21T13:09:58Z")
Are you talking about _this_ OP, or the OP that this OP is mocking? ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2023, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-is-an-attempted-coup-not-an-attempted-coup/982991/35 "2023-04-21T13:12:13Z")
> [@TriPolar](#): > > Is it that difficult to detect sarcasm? Maybe reading past the first line of the OP would have helped. It was a rather good effort. See, I didn’t know the thread that was parodied, but after reading it, I think that OP and the poster’s other contributions virtually aren’t less asinine and outrageous than @BeepKillBeep’s effort. So cut me a little slack, because dumbasses who express dribble like in the OP of this thread really exist. Sad, but true. > [@What\_Exit](#): > > At least one sarcasm fail was a poster that I’m pretty sure is English as a second language. Though I might be wrong about that. That has to make it far harder though if I’m right. That’s true, but reading comprehension was not my problem. My sarcasm-meter, which normally is quite good, wasn’t properly calibrated. ---
**Author:** ![BeepKillBeep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9e8a1a/32.png) [@BeepKillBeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BeepKillBeep)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2023, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-is-an-attempted-coup-not-an-attempted-coup/982991/36 "2023-04-21T13:17:58Z")
For the record, I’m not hurt or offended at all. I was very frustrated yesterday with stuff happening off these boards, the thread I parodied was frustrating me, and I felt the need to vent via parody. I also sent a great (imo) meme to the Russian embassy. That made me feel better too. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2023, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-is-an-attempted-coup-not-an-attempted-coup/982991/37 "2023-04-21T13:24:56Z")
This one. I don’t know what the other one is. ---
**Author:** ![k9bfriender](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k9bfriender/32/3283_2.png) [@k9bfriender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k9bfriender)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2023, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-is-an-attempted-coup-not-an-attempted-coup/982991/38 "2023-04-21T13:31:31Z")
> [@TriPolar](#): > > This one. Then, no, it’s not hard at all. Only one poster didn’t notice the sarcasm, and that was cleared up 13 hours ago. > [@TriPolar](#): > > I don’t know what the other one is. That would be the one linked to in the OP. I thought maybe you thought _that_ one was sarcastic. Which, to be honest, if it was just the OP, I could see as being satire, if a little over the top. But then the OP came back to defend those positions, and at that point, he’d have to be pretty committed to the bit. ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2023, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-is-an-attempted-coup-not-an-attempted-coup/982991/39 "2023-04-21T13:42:06Z")
> [@TriPolar](#): > > I don’t know what the other one is. Please (may we say ‘please’ in the Pit?) read it, and you’ll see that it’s hard to tell from its parody. ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Hedonia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ann_hedonia/32/319_2.png) [@Ann\_Hedonia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Hedonia)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2023, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-is-an-attempted-coup-not-an-attempted-coup/982991/40 "2023-04-21T13:46:21Z")
Next up on the Uncommon Sense channel…… The 9/11 hijackers were just normal tourists overly eager to see the sights of downtown Manhattan and too impatient to wait in the cab lines at the airport. As evidence, he will show video footage of them being polite and patient while waiting to to board their flights. I’m sure Fox News would’ve picked up the story if they had been, you know, white Christians. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-is-an-attempted-coup-not-an-attempted-coup/982991.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-is-an-attempted-coup-not-an-attempted-coup/982991.md?page=3)