I’ve had an experience where I simply asked a french cashier if they spoke english and she threw a fit. Spoke to me in French and mixed my items with the next customer’s.

There can be more than one problem.

That’s not what you’ve been saying until now.

A coup still inherently relies on there being internal forces willing to execute said coup.

No shit, what are you trying to say? Are you saying there exists political systems which are immune to people wanting to stage a coup?

I don’t dare say being capitalist could have stopped this particular one, quite likely it couldn’t. But it it is at least more resilient in general.

How would it be more resilient?

If it was impossible to resist superpower sponsored coups, I am sure the Baltics wouldn’t be able to remain democratic right next to Russia.

What coup attempts are you talking about? Let’s try to focus on coups that were at least attempted or has any substantial evidence of being in the works.

The problem isn’t political systems, it’s superpowers intervening, e.g. america funding fascist coups of democratically elected socialists. It would be hard for any small nation, regardless of political system, to defend against a coup funded by a superpower. Please prove me wrong and tell me how e.g. the coup in Chile 1973 could have been prevented by decentralizing power.

In many of these cases, the political system which couldn’t withstand coups were democracies. Does this mean that democracy isn’t useful? Are you saying that democracies should forbid socialists from being elected since if they get elected then america will intervene and the democracy will cease to be useful? Sounds like you don’t care for democracy and self-determination of nations. Bonus points will be awarded for being able to make your point without a potion metaphor.

Worst headline ever, probably intentionally

Haha like saying something is boomer facebook

The largest cinema corporation in Sweden (when asked about why they chose to restrict people from bringing their own snacks) infamously compared bringing snacks not bought at the cinema to brining your own food to a restaurant.