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Not So Fast posted:Is there a good book recommendation going into the background of Venezuela - covering what the political situation was that lead to Chavez's coup and why he was so popular compared to the opposition? it’s a really complicated situation and I don’t think there’s a single good book explaining it but broadly - Perez was elected around the time the Venezuelan oil industry was really getting going and he was initially really focused on using oil revenue to improve the lives of ordinary Venezuelans. my impression from reading about him is that he was in earnest. but managing that kind of economic transition is really hard and what happened was that a huge influx of oil revenue was not well managed - a lot of it was lost to corruption, boondoggle projects that didn’t really get off the ground etc. in the end the country wasn’t really in good shape for a bunch of fairly boring economic reasons and he lost re-election. when he made his comeback he basically accepted the devil’s bargain with the IMF which involved everyone’s favorite “market reforms” and caused chaos, including huge gas price increases. that led to a massive protest called the caracazo. perez’s repression was fairly brutal and spurred a lot of discontented military officers to plot against him. Chavez really half assed his coup but gave himself up and urged the others to lay down arms, which made him really popular since he was seen as a guy who cared about Venezuela rather than his own power. in the end he was elected because he had credibility as a man who cared about the working class and a sufficient number of middle-class people were willing to vote for him as an anti-corruption campaigner
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Sep 16, 2023 02:43
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fermun posted:Part of it is that since Deng, China has had an official policy of trying to develop the developing world in order to safeguard local manufacturing. They saw that they could be threatened by a widespread capital strike on their manufacturing industry so they are actively investing in the developing world to try to bring their standard of living up enough that there would be no advantage for a multinational to shift their manufacturing to another country since the cost of labor would be too close to that in China and there would be massive infrastructure investments needed to make the shift that China would be able to hold out and win against any attempted international capital strike. deng was a genius.
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Sep 16, 2023 14:36
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Zodium posted:deng was a genius. More and more people are saying.
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Sep 16, 2023 14:57
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Zodium posted:deng was a genius. no no
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Sep 16, 2023 22:08
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fermun posted:Part of it is that since Deng, China has had an official policy of trying to develop the developing world in order to safeguard local manufacturing. They saw that they could be threatened by a widespread capital strike on their manufacturing industry so they are actively investing in the developing world to try to bring their standard of living up enough that there would be no advantage for a multinational to shift their manufacturing to another country since the cost of labor would be too close to that in China and there would be massive infrastructure investments needed to make the shift that China would be able to hold out and win against any attempted international capital strike. that owns. Id like to read more about this if you (or anyone) has any sources handy that talk about it.
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Sep 16, 2023 23:16
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joepinetree posted:Yeah, they found a scheme where Bozo's group would take state gifts and rather than bringing them to Brazil they'd go unreported and one of his helpers would go and sell it in the US. Just recently the main guy doing this for him entered into a plea deal with the feds and is rolling on him. puts all those times he challenged his critics to prove he was corrupt into context
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Sep 17, 2023 18:24
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vyelkin posted:puts all those times he challenged his critics to prove he was corrupt into context the response from his supporters also has been to spread a video where lula was allegedly pilfering pens from the G20 meeting and even if it was true how is it any comparable
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Sep 17, 2023 18:36
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Plutonis posted:the response from his supporters also has been to spread a video where lula was allegedly pilfering pens from the G20 meeting and even if it was true how is it any comparable lmao
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Sep 17, 2023 18:37
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Plutonis posted:the response from his supporters also has been to spread a video where lula was allegedly pilfering pens from the G20 meeting and even if it was true how is it any comparable this only makes him more relatable, always steal pens from conferences etc
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Sep 17, 2023 18:40
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V. Illych L. posted:this only makes him more relatable, always steal pens from conferences etc Exactly, it's like taking home soap and shampoo from the hotel, everyone does this poo poo.
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Sep 17, 2023 18:41
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lol lula4eva
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Sep 17, 2023 18:50
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lula would get an entire meal's worth of pigs in blankets from the sample table at costco
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Sep 17, 2023 18:51
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I couldn't remember off the top of my head if Lula truly came up from working class origins but that confirmed it for me. Especially if they were click pens, the G20 has nobody to blame but themselves for leaving them out in the open, something even a high schooler working at a sandwich shop knows not to do.
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Sep 17, 2023 19:04
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So Netflix has a movie where Pinochet is a 300 year old vampire The Strangest Vampire Movie of the Decade Takes a Guillotine to History What if one of the most infamous dictators of the 20th century was actually a vampire quote:Shot by Edward Lachman in stark black-and-white, El Conde plays like your foggiest liminal dream turned into a depraved bloodbath. Narrated by a mysterious British woman, who recounts the most ghastly details of Pinochet’s immortal life with a fondness that borders on perverse, El Conde supplements its rather sparse narrative with shocks of gore. We see Pinochet rip heads off prostitutes, lick the blood from guillotines, and stab his way to the top of the Chilean government. The vampire metaphor is played straight; Pinochet’s reign of terror as both a politician and a creature of the night are depicted on an even footing. Regardless, El Conde feels like a strangely apolitical take on such a divisive figure.
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Sep 17, 2023 19:18
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mods please rename me Apolitical Vampire Pinochet
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Sep 17, 2023 19:25
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KomradeX posted:So Netflix has a movie where Pinochet is a 300 year old vampire I watched the movie and Pinochet is treated as a pathetic crook, murderer, cuckold and a bestial monster, how the gently caress is this apolitical? Also spoilers: The narrator British woman is Thatcher who is also a vampire and Pinochet's mother lol Plutonis has issued a correction as of 01:04 on Sep 18, 2023 |
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Sep 18, 2023 01:02
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There is absolutely nothing political about an amoral bloodsucking ghoul becoming a vampire.
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Sep 18, 2023 05:13
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Plutonis posted:I watched the movie and Pinochet is treated as a pathetic crook, murderer, cuckold and a bestial monster, how the gently caress is this apolitical? Okay you sold me on it
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Sep 18, 2023 05:52
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quote:The vampire metaphor is played straight; Pinochet’s reign of terror as both a politician and a creature of the night are depicted on an even footing. Regardless, El Conde feels like a strangely apolitical take on such a divisive figure. 
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Sep 18, 2023 07:03
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Depicting a political leader as a literal monster is apolitical. Ok then.
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Sep 18, 2023 11:01
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Orange Devil posted:Depicting a political leader as a literal monster is apolitical. Ok then. Idk, if you focus on personal failings like sexual misconduct or vampirism your going pretty non political
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Sep 18, 2023 12:41
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horror: notoriously apolitical genre
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Sep 18, 2023 12:43
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yeah the movie's directed by Pablo Larraín who also directed No (a film about the 1988 referendum to remove Pinochet) and El Club (about a 'retirement house' for sex pest priests). No was pretty lukewarm politically (the underlying message was that the option against Pinochet was obviously the morally correct choice but the clueless left needed savvy ad execs who weren't polluted with ~ideology~ in order to pull an unexpected win) but that one had a different writer so w/e he's also the son of the former UDI chairman (ie the party at the furthest right of the chilean political spectrum before Kast's Republicanos took that spot), lmao
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Sep 18, 2023 23:36
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SexyBlindfold posted:yeah the movie's directed by Pablo Larraín who also directed No (a film about the 1988 referendum to remove Pinochet) and El Club (about a 'retirement house' for sex pest priests). No was pretty lukewarm politically (the underlying message was that the option against Pinochet was obviously the morally correct choice but the clueless left needed savvy ad execs who weren't polluted with ~ideology~ in order to pull an unexpected win) but that one had a different writer so w/e [don draper voice] i call it la alegría. and it's ya viene [chilean democracy organizers] god dammit he's done it again
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Sep 18, 2023 23:42
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Cuba is just so loving cool https://twitter.com/ldejesusreyes/status/1703891409223274841?t=sDZ-SIBOXIhww99n74sOPg&s=19
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Sep 19, 2023 02:00
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i say swears online posted:[don draper voice] i call it la alegría. and it's ya viene lmao
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Sep 19, 2023 02:03
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i say swears online posted:[don draper voice] i call it la alegría. and it's ya viene
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Sep 19, 2023 02:07
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huh, there’s a Temple of Solomon in Brazil that some evangelical psychos built. aren’t Latin American Protestants supposed to be completely insane even by American standards
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Sep 19, 2023 16:28
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Sep 19, 2023 17:58
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yeah Latin American Protestants are roughly comparable to American catholic convert psychos
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Sep 19, 2023 18:13
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the real horseshoe theory
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Sep 19, 2023 19:38
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Adult converts in general tend to be the real weird ones one way or another.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Adult converts in general tend to be the real weird ones one way or another. Now think back to the original spread of these religions and how for a good few years, every single adherent was an adult convert.
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Sep 20, 2023 10:14
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https://twitter.com/POTUS/status/1704566624622141458 I earnestly don't know how to interpret this.
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Sep 20, 2023 23:11
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he doesnt want to get couped again
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Oh no, I don't think he was fully into an anti-america sentiment and I don't give much of a hoot about that if my friends in Brazil recover the gains that were lost from Temer\Bolso 's work, I meant if this would be a net positive to the people there.
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