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I hate Orwell, but man was right about the doublespeak thing.
western MSM will say "democracy" when they're talking about western leaning dictatorships, and "dictatorship" when they're talking about non-western democracies.
The only "democracy" in French West Africa is what has been built by its local inhabitants, not what the white man has forced upon them. Full solidarity with the coups, freedom comes from the barrel of a gun.
He worked for the BBC, didn't he? So he would speak from experience there
Orwell never said "doublespeak". That was a thinking that stupid political cartoonists made up to describe "when a politician says one thing to one audience and another thing to another audience". Orwell's thing was "doublethink," which was "holding two contradicatory beliefs at the same time". You know, like the belief Orwell was an actual leftist and spent all of his time decrying actually existing socialism with no positive alternative.
He didn’t coin “doublespeak” but the term was a conflation of his “doublethink” and “Newspeak.”
Military junta coups are just one elite ousting another.
I don't think it's that clear cut.
I don't like blanquism, but there's no denying that the old, old coup in Burkina Faso that installed Sankara left the people much better off than they were before.
Even if that's the case (it isn't always) it's a lot better to have a local boot than a foreign one.
Africans deserve to be governed by Africans, not politicians who turn their country over to imperialists for profit. It's much better to critically support coups in the imperialized world when they're done by local interests than it is to make blanket statements and deny local voices their self-determination.