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[–] 43 points 14 hours ago* (6 children)

Wait, when'd they become a dictatorship??

Edit: 2013?? How am I so far behind the times on this one?

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  • [–] 19 points 12 hours ago (5 children)

    Mubarak had been dominating the county since the 1980s. The 2011 to 2013 period was a brief period of not-dictatorship

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  • [–] 25 points 11 hours ago* (4 children)

    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 points 56 minutes 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.

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