• snowydroopz@lemmy.world
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    12 hours ago

    I’m an Egyptian, and 2011-13 was 110% a dictatorship. We’ve always been under one, just different people in different ways

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      2 hours ago

      Morsi won office in a popular election, lasted barely two years, and then was couped and imprisoned.

      I wouldn’t call that interm period a dictatorship, if for no other reason than it stood in stark contrast to the periods immediately before and after. There was no well-defined national leader. Bureaucrats were still shuffling around and rebuilding a power base, before settling on el-Sisi.