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FrancisFukyomama
Feb 4, 2019

check out r/Bolivia on Reddit if you want some nerd tears. lots of redditors going “I’m a progressive so that’s why I voted for Carlos Mesa (center left)”

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FrancisFukyomama
Feb 4, 2019

didn’t acre have to deal with a huge IMF loan the morons in charge before him took to do poo poo like pay civil servants bc of how horrifically they dismantled the state when he and morales took power for the first time? it seems if anyone knows what to do in this situation it’d be him

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FrancisFukyomama
Feb 4, 2019

I checked r/Chile and the top post is a meme about how everyone’s gonna be an antifa catgirl now so I’m guessing that they’re left leaning
I wonder if the fact that they seem to be a Spanish language sub while r/Bolivia was inexplicably English speaking has much to do with it

FrancisFukyomama
Feb 4, 2019

https://twitter.com/cbs46/status/1323616434816245761?s=21 lol at how much of a clusterfuck our elections are vs the one they couped Morales for

FrancisFukyomama
Feb 4, 2019

Kal-L posted:

Do as I say, not as I do!

Hmm, sweet, sweet Schadenfreude!

Also, loving how all the right wingers in Twitter are trying to blame AMLO if Trump wins, because he's an impopular and ineffective President... except when he goes to visit a foreign head of state that's also our biggest trading partner. Then he's so popular he can influence american voters towards him!

isn’t AMLO still pretty popular despite being a big disappointment since he’s still way better than the neolib ghouls in power before him? I saw that his approval was still something like 58% which in the US would be unthinkably high

FrancisFukyomama
Feb 4, 2019

I heard AMLO’s still got high favorability bc dragging his feet on implementing leftist policy aside, he at least doesn’t seem actively evil like the ghouls he replaced; is that about right?

FrancisFukyomama
Feb 4, 2019

drat, Lenin Moreno really hosed up his party’s electoral prospects by being a pussy lib, huh

FrancisFukyomama
Feb 4, 2019

Fast Luck posted:

Also Haiti now has their own good Guaido. Everyone hates the fake puppet president who won a sham election and declared his term ended yesterday even though the Biden administration is insisting there's another year before his term ends. There have been street protests for years now and violent reprisals and black ops kidnappings in response. So now Haitians have sworn in some judge to be the new president but the old president is still there.

didn’t the last time Haitians had a good President hillary immediately couped him? or was that for the min wage vote?

FrancisFukyomama
Feb 4, 2019

Fast Luck posted:

Yeah, when the United States literally kidnapped the president JB Aristide and renditioned him to Africa. Just absolutely insane. US-trained insurgents came across the border from the DR and then the US claimed they kidnapped the president for his own protection and for the good of Haiti basically.

Aristide ruled too, he's a liberation theologist and was building hospitals and poo poo. He was probably the first and last truly democratically elected president of Haiti since the dictatorship.

there are so many leaders in the region who have biographies that begin with stuff like “as a young priest he frequently slept in the rain, having opened his parish to the destitute of the city” and end with “couped by US”

FrancisFukyomama
Feb 4, 2019

Spice World War II posted:

He has been discharged and appeared in public since a bunch of times including a debate with fujimori

I heard he crushed that debate, which is good bc people seemed really worried about him having to cancel the previous one

FrancisFukyomama
Feb 4, 2019

so is there a reliable source on the scale of the protests rn? since the initial protests seemed to be a few hundred people at most and the Cuban govt doesn’t really seem too concerned about it

FrancisFukyomama
Feb 4, 2019


didn’t green berets make necklaces of human ears as trophies? half the time people come up with a weirdly specific atrocity it’s bc that’s what we did

FrancisFukyomama
Feb 4, 2019

i say swears online posted:

lol jadue lost the primary

drat, is the other guy a lot worse? it sounds like he’s from an ancom/libsoc coalition

FrancisFukyomama
Feb 4, 2019

maybe guaido was a Venezuelan double agent this whole time and that’s why he’s like he was grown in a lab to be an impotent fuckup

FrancisFukyomama
Feb 4, 2019

so has Maduro actually done any pivoting or is this just cope? i skimmed the article and the only reform they actually describe is making the dollar an unofficial currency

FrancisFukyomama
Feb 4, 2019

doesn’t Latin America have a bunch of places where psycho American/Korean prots have started doing missionary work? i remember the last Bolivia election the furthest right candidate was one of them

FrancisFukyomama
Feb 4, 2019

AnimeIsTrash posted:

Yeah this is the exact number, Bolivia allegedly has found a huge supply too.

yeah doesn’t Bolivia have the supply, they just don’t have the infrastructure yet for extraction? i remember before the coup morales was working on a deal with Germany for both selling the lithium but also building mines

FrancisFukyomama
Feb 4, 2019

wasn’t Ecuador the place where the leftist coalition lost by like 1.5%

FrancisFukyomama
Feb 4, 2019

didn’t they get held at gunpoint by some random fishermen that found them bc Venezuela actually has pretty high gun ownership rates

FrancisFukyomama
Feb 4, 2019

you’d think Biden would ease up on this poo poo considering he’s also trying to beg Maduro for oil

FrancisFukyomama
Feb 4, 2019

doesn’t AMLO still maintain pretty absurdly high approval despite his admin being a bit of a mess bc he’s the first Mexican pres to not be deliberately evil

FrancisFukyomama
Feb 4, 2019

isn’t John sipher the guy who says that his hair turning white is proof that Havana syndrome is real and happened to him

FrancisFukyomama
Feb 4, 2019

wasn’t boric a libsoc/anarchist? those fellas seem to turn into socdems really easily

FrancisFukyomama
Feb 4, 2019

from what I’ve heard the Australian electoral system is about as fair as you can make one in the context of a liberal democracy and the fact that they keep electing people like that leader of an anti pedo party that turned to be himself a pedo is less an indictment of their electoral system than it is a scathing indictment of the Australian people

FrancisFukyomama
Feb 4, 2019

i say swears online posted:

the greens in australia got 12% of the vote and 3% of the seats in the house. not exactly a great system

what makes you say this over a system like the netherlands?

lthought they were supposed to have a decent implementation of ranked choice voting but it sounds like im misremembering. my bad

FrancisFukyomama
Feb 4, 2019

is Haiti where the un peacekeepers did all those sex crimes or is that just everywhere they go

FrancisFukyomama
Feb 4, 2019

isn’t El Salvador the country run by the libertarian dipshit who converted the treasury to bitcoin like a month before it crashed

FrancisFukyomama
Feb 4, 2019

cat botherer posted:

Can't believe I got burned again thinking somebody like Boric would be cool. I never learn.

didn’t he call himself an anarchist or libertarian socialist? they always turn into socdems in office it seems like

FrancisFukyomama
Feb 4, 2019

i say swears online posted:

this is literally the US. until the 2020 presidential election, we went about a half century where "not voting" would have won each time. also we're dumb and terribly nonideological unless it's something we read on fb

I'm a member of some Mexican anti AMLO meme groups and it's just basic US Republican talking points

i heard that English Mexican social media like r/Mexico loving hates amlo

you occasionally see lib/socdem types go “we need to listen to Mexican’s lived experiences and even bernie fans think he’s a tyrant!”

FrancisFukyomama
Feb 4, 2019

DAD LOST MY IPOD posted:

Mexicans who post memes in English and on websites more popular with English-speakers are obviously selecting for a specific group

I saw an r/Vietnam thread on Luna_oi once that was a bunch of redditors going “this lady is delusional no one in Vietnam thinks socialism is real anymore even the party knows it’s a joke” and “she’s clearly paid by the cvp” which seemed contradictory


like by definition the official party line probably isn’t something that is an insane fringe belief in the country

FrancisFukyomama has issued a correction as of 23:20 on Jun 5, 2023

FrancisFukyomama
Feb 4, 2019

Raskolnikov38 posted:

bolivia is about to get a large injection of freedom

hasn’t lula been buddying up with china since being re-elected? seems like a good choice for safety reasons if you’re a leftist Latin American leader

FrancisFukyomama
Feb 4, 2019

i say swears online posted:

wikipedia shows seven separate trotskyist parties in Argentina, with six of them in alliance this election

have trotskyists ever taken power anywhere? I remember reading that Nepal doesn’t even have an electorally viable Trotskyist party and they have a Juche party that has municipal officials

FrancisFukyomama
Feb 4, 2019

isn’t amlo like one of the most popular Mexican politicians in living memory? getting 60% of the vote in a 5 way race seems insane

FrancisFukyomama
Feb 4, 2019

every new detail about boric’s background seems like a red flag in retrospect

FrancisFukyomama
Feb 4, 2019

Nurgle’s greatest servant

FrancisFukyomama
Feb 4, 2019

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

FrancisFukyomama
Feb 4, 2019

the ruling party winning with an enormous majority and popular mandate after doing good things?
sounds like Authoritarianism to me

FrancisFukyomama
Feb 4, 2019

what’s the deal with PRD? did Amlo just take everyone cool with him and leave it a neoliberal husk?

FrancisFukyomama
Feb 4, 2019

aren’t those significantly better numbers than the last election where he still won a majority

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FrancisFukyomama
Feb 4, 2019

Some Guy TT posted:

madame secretary season 2 episode 7 the cold open is a fairly unsubtle flashback to assata shakur in the abridged fictional version the other guy in the car goes for a gun in the glove box and draws first blood in a seemingly unremarkable traffic stop

then its onto cuba which everyone agrees is an authoritarian shithole but also the team is totally behind ending the embargo because capitalism will bring freedom so the main conflict is the white house using carrots and sticks to get sixty votes to end the cuban embargo until inevitably assata shakur ruins everything by being a fugitive from justice but fortunately racism has been solved in the last forty four years so assata shakur is willing to turn herself in

as 2015 time capsules go this is pretty typical the line about cuba communistly banning religion had me going uhhh really also there was something about the rationing system failing

do libs even have a reason for being anti embargo nowadays aside from Biden doing it so it’s ok? I remember Obama era libs were pretty behind normalization for the “capitalism will fix Cuba” reason you mentioned

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