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[–] MaoTheLawn@hexbear.net 25 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Hahaha. Love to see it.

I'm writing a stageplay about Operation Gideon at the moment, another hilariously failed coup (the 2020 Venezuela 'bay of piglets')

If anyone's got information on other funny coups and stuff like that, or other shocking facts or covert operations, let me know.

My plan is to have Guaido, Rendon, and Goudreau (the orchestrators of Operation Gideon) discuss various coup tactics they could use, citing various things the West has done. Of course, from their perspective those coups were good, so they can speak the full truth of the atrocities to the audience.

The genre is a sort of surreal farce, so the more absurd the better.

[–] ComradeCmdrPiggy@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago

I was just thinking about that incident a few days ago LMAO

[–] SaniFlush@hexbear.net 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What a bunch of fucking nerds

[–] SunriseParabellum@hexbear.net 21 points 1 year ago

Literally this is some speak "I read too much Soldier of Fortune" shit. Make for a good Jagged Alliance mod.

[–] Trudge@lemmygrad.ml 22 points 1 year ago

None of the guys who financed the plan ever did prison time. What a surprise.

[–] CliffordBigRedDog@hexbear.net 20 points 1 year ago
[–] TheCaconym@hexbear.net 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Reminds me of this hilarious incident three years ago. These imbeciles ended up caught and tied up by local fishermen IIRC

[–] SunriseParabellum@hexbear.net 17 points 1 year ago

Oh we all know about operation Gideon here at HexBear. That was one of our better posting days.

[–] buh@hexbear.net 18 points 1 year ago

the founders of reddit-logo will do something like this in the near future

[–] wahwahwah@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago

What's up with white supremacists constantly bitching and whining about black ppl while actively seeking out places that are majority black? Same thing happened with Epstein: he was apparently so racist that he refused to hire anyone black, was always complaining about how they ruined NYC for him—and then he turns around and buys a whole-ass island in...the Virgin Islands (80% black for those that don't know). I get that these types are cynical capitalists at the end of the day, and that a lot of poor vassal states are non-white because of racism, but I mean can't they just go to fucking Ukraine???? Jesus Christ.

[–] LeZero@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago

(actual Stormfront, not reddit)

same-picture

[–] egonallanon@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago

Always throws me off when I hear about stormfront as I just think of the UK apple reseller and I don't think they have anything to do with white supremacy.

[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago

Maybe they believed in the original Red Pill Could Invade New Zealand Copypasta, before it was a pasta and it was just a dae le thought experiment:

"The Red Pill is 120 thousand fit college educated middle class men. If we really wanted to we could invade New Zealand and install a new government. We definitely have the manpower. There are plenty of veterans here. Plus everyone here knows where the magazine release is on an M16, from years of playing Call Of Duty.

Realistically the Red Pill Reaction Force would be far more effective than half the world's militaries. The Afghan military is fucked up on opium. The Iraqi army cant even do jumping jacks. . Plus New Zealand has only 8 thousand military personnel the majority of whom are useless paper pushers.

I don't actually support the violent overthrow of New Zealand. I just think its kind of a fun idea conceptualy."