https://twitter.com/DanielPipes/status/1472712182106402819
I think you've mistaken them for CPGB-ML, but I might be wrong. . CPGB-ML is a famous one for that shit, they believe the queer movement is bougie decadence and all forms of racism are both good and nonexistent at the same time.
45% of Chileans
In other words, a minority. Remember, kids, when the majority wins an election, that's an authoritarianism. And the more popular they are, the more anti-democratic it is.
Was making a joke about the CIA deciding what fair elections are, no worries.
In other words, a minority.
Christ, remember when Bush won a contested election by way of 450 Floridians and a single SCOTUS judge? And anyone who objected was a Sore Loserman?
Even Obama and Reagan didn't clean up 55-45, and their wins were considered landslides. A ten-point deficit in the states would result in so much open jeering of the opposition. But in Chile, they're supposed to be a serious opposition? Lolz.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/12/20/gabriel-boric-wins-chiles-presidential-election
An additional 1.2 million Chileans cast ballots Sunday compared with the first round, raising turnout to nearly 56 percent, the highest since voting stopped being mandatory in 2012.
“It’s impossible not to be impressed by the historic turnout, the willingness of Kast to concede and congratulate his opponent even before final results were in, and the generous words of President Pinera,” said Cynthia Arnson, head of the Latin America program at the Wilson Center in Washington. “Chilean democracy won today, for sure.”
Better turnout than Americans managed between 1972 and 2016.
The west pretends to care about democracy until the people vote in a socialist it seems
Wonder why it ended badly. Was it that socialism failed or that fascists couped the sitting socialist government? The world may never know.
it ended very badly
Yeah, in a fascist dictatorship, the remnants of which they may finally lay to rest.
That's sadly one of the things that even if he turns out better than a socdem, he will never do
"Extremist" means "didn't lick the boot with enough enthusiasm and foreplay."
He presented himself as such in the second round of the election, but he's the candidate of the coalition who's largest constituent party is the communist party.
Still waiting to hear what Boric's policies actually entail. So much of modern Latin American Leftism is shit like "Don't export all our raw materials at bargain basement prices to foreigners", "maybe spend a bit more on public services that already eclipse those in the American imperial core", and "don't explicitly cooperate with CIA cut-outs to wage guerrilla wars on our neighbors".
The bar for Leftism is so comically low. And it kinda always has been, even straight back to the 1970s. "Hey, maybe lets plan an economy such that a super-majority of residents see real material benefit over the next generation" is the thing Americans will conduct a genocide to prevent.
