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[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago

Hawaii is probably #1. I don't care that they were a monarchy

[–] Tenderizer78@lemmy.ml 3 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

Australia, Indonesia, Bolivia, Chile

(It's hard to know which criticisms were propaganda and which were legit, so I can't pick many that I can call my "favourite". I'm 100% confident in Australia, mostly in Bolivia, somewhat in Chile, doubtful of Indonesia).

[–] Ascend910@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 hour ago

As a Labor/Greens voter in Australia, I am still salty about this. They did a entire peaceful coup just to save their little enclave next to Alice spring

[–] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 17 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Don't even need to look outside the so called US. Just look at the Indigenous nations they destroyed.

[–] lectricleopard@lemmy.world 2 points 9 hours ago

I think the Iroquois Nation counts. They certainly had representative government that included the minority parties in decision making. It didn't look like democracy because it wasn't modeled after the Greeks or Romans. They'd never heard of them.

[–] zululove@lemmy.ml 9 points 14 hours ago

Iran, Iraq, I think Brazil or Cuba

[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 42 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (1 children)

Low bar. Just name 3 random countries from the global south and you'll probably get it right.

[–] baldingpudenda@lemmy.world 5 points 12 hours ago

Yeah, I'm not sure, but more than likely all of central and south America

[–] migo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 14 hours ago

Chile, Indonesia, Brazil

[–] Zerush@lemmy.ml 70 points 22 hours ago (3 children)

OH SAY CAN YOU SEE🇱🇷🇱🇷🇱🇷🇱🇷🇱🇷

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 19 points 21 hours ago (1 children)
[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml 18 points 21 hours ago

Pitiful squeaks in the background

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 6 points 21 hours ago

I keep getting a closed *link error

[–] somerandomperson@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 18 hours ago

This is not c/196

Why did you title it rule?

[–] ozymandias@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

illegally?
pretty sure it was legal according to their own laws…

[–] cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 6 points 17 hours ago (1 children)
[–] ozymandias@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 15 hours ago

that would be nice

[–] drolex@sopuli.xyz 25 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (2 children)

Actually extremely low bar. I was checking the Wikipedia page and I was thinking that Liechtenstein could be safe, but I'm not not completely sure now.

ETA https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in_regime_change

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 14 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

There's a lot of lesser known ones that aren't even listed there. Australia, Italy, Russia, and Greece for example.

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 6 points 18 hours ago

there are so many that not even wikipedia can keep up. lol

[–] selokichtli@lemmy.ml 6 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

I seriously don't know if it's easier to do the opposite list.

[–] carotte@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 17 hours ago

surprisingly canada doesn’t seem to be anywhere on those lists

maybe because even those who get elected on being anti-USA bow down to lick the hegemon’s boots

[–] Diva@lemmy.ml 19 points 21 hours ago
[–] n3m37h@sh.itjust.works 13 points 22 hours ago

Chile, Iran, Nicaragua

[–] Una@europe.pub 11 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

You love USA? Name every American...

[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml 12 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (3 children)

Bob. That's it, now every American is named Bob.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago

Don't forget Jimbob, the American

[–] selokichtli@lemmy.ml 5 points 21 hours ago (1 children)
[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml 4 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

No, everyone is Bob, no exceptions.

[–] selokichtli@lemmy.ml 6 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

~~Karen~~ Bob won't like this.

[–] ordnance_qf_17_pounder@reddthat.com 4 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Bob

To be fair, you've got a lot of their names correct

[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml 5 points 20 hours ago

It's like the southeastern Poland where everyone is named Bogdan.

[–] Zerush@lemmy.ml 4 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

Too many people with a circular geneological tree, above armed.

[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 8 points 21 hours ago

argentina, uruguay, Chile.

[–] Mediocre_Bard@lemmy.world 6 points 20 hours ago

Banana-pire, Oil-pire, and Cigar-pire.

Better yet, show the top 3 illegally elected governments they have overthrown.