Patriot Putsch

The Patriot Putsch, also known as the July Coup and July Revolution, was a failed coup attempt by Patriot on July 11, 2021 to overthrow the leadership of the Alternate Territories Wiki (ATC) and unban the previously-banned Alpha. The putsch had initially been successful as the two main leaders of the ATC, Liuan and Freecoder, were successfully banned, although intervention by other moderaters reversed the coup and banned Patriot.
The Patriot Putsch resulted in removal of Patriot's main account, PatriotMapperOMSBand, from the ATC until October 6, 2021. Patriot continued to secretly be active on the wiki through two different alternate accounts, one of which is now Patriot's main.
==Etymology==
Immediately after Patriot launched the coup, an article about it was created titled "July 11 Coup d'état." This name, often shortened to just "July Coup," remained the popular name for the event for well over a year. On August 7, 2022, however, Patriot changed the article title to "Patriot Putsch," intending to compare the coup attempt to the Beer Hall Putsch of the Nazi Party, apparently as an act of self-criticism. This name has remained the common name for the event ever since.
==Prelude==
Prior to the Patriot Putsch, tensions in the ATC had been rising between Patriot and other users. The general War on Politics, especially the Liuan-Alpha Politics Conflict and subsequent War on Alpha resulted in Alpha's idenfinite ban from the ATC. Patriot had previously viewed Alpha as his closest allies, with both of them fighting for the maintaining of wiki politics. This relationship was generally known as the Patriot-Alpha Alliance, and continued to impact ATC events both before and after the putsch.
On May 27, 2021, the Patriot-Belastan War broke out after Patriot and Belastan got into an argument over the existence of the Patriot Politics Movement (PPM), an organization that the former founded in an attempt to restore wiki politics. The war between Patriot and Belastan only lasted a day, but the tensions on the ATC is generated were crucial in setting the conditions for the later putsch. This was largely because Hi and Freecoder, both of which were leading figures in the ATC leadership at the time, both criticized Patriot for his handling of the situation.It is important to note that Hi actively supported Belastan during the Patriot-Belastan War, but Freecoder attempted to stay neutral as a peacekeeper.
==History ==
===Coup ===
On July 11, 2021, Patriot made a FANDOM post entitled "Coup d'état" where he referred to Liuan and Freecoder as "authoritarian freaks" and called for the overthrow of the "ATC Bureaucracy." Patriot followed this up by using his admin powers to indefinitely ban Liuan and Freecoder from the wiki, citing their "tyranny" in silencing Alpha's political motives. With Liuan and Freecoder removed from power, Patriot consolidated what was effectively a dictatorship around himself where he tried to rebuild wiki politics. Furthermore, the indefinite ban against Alpha was permanently lifted by Patriot.
===Counterrevolution===
After Patriot's take over of the main wiki on FANDOM, Liuan and Freecoder reached out to Finn via Discord. Finn, who currently served as moderator despite his lack of server activity at the time, logged on and lifted the ban on Liuan and Freecoder. The three then pressed an indefinite ban on Patriot, and later reinstated the ban against Alpha.
==Aftermath==
Patriot lost all the remaining respect people had for him after the failure of what was later dubbed the Patriot Putsch. Freecoder made a FANDOM post after the events unfolded in which he denounced Patriout as a "cloutchaser" and called for him to be put on trial for his crimes against the community. No such trial ever occurred.
Patriot returned to the wiki on July 12, 2021, using an alternate account named "HistoryIsPog." He used the alt to engage in a short flame war with Freecoder, however the account was banned shortly after.
In August 2021, Patriot secretly returned to wiki with another alternate account under the name "MapOfFish." This account remained in use until October, and it was never banned. Patriot's main account was unbanned on October 6, 2021, and Patriot returned to being a normal member of the community. It should be noted, however, that Patriot's status as a moderator was never returned.
==Speculation==
===Escalation scenario===
Liuan, in a comment on the July 11 Coup d'état, made a remark stating his theory that if the July Coup d'état hadn't been stopped when it was by Finn that it would've escalated into a July Revolution or July Civil War between Patriot and the ATC Bureaucracy. Though, seeing as the community isolated Patriot following the coup d'état, it is likely the July Revolution would've ended in a loss for Patriot and the Wiki-Politicals. A July Revolution likely could've lasted until roughly July 16, 2021 but possibly even longer. It is likely that if a July Revolution had occured that it would have been the Patriot Politics Movement opposing the ATC Bureaucracy instead of just a loose coup, though the ATC Bureaucracy would have likely evolved into the majority of the Alternate Territories Wiki. Sria and Poxy also could've possibly gotten involved, along with Alpha becoming more officially involved as opposed to allegedly. Another affect of this alternate timeline is MapOfFish as an account never becoming a thing as Patriot's willing surrender would result in them not becoming banned on the PatriotMapperOMSBand since Finn wouldn't ban them indefinitely.
==Notes==
Category:ATC Winter
Category:Coups