https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1325868311482163202
tore the nation apart
ginormous crowd cheering his return, his party wins majority handily without him even being there
choose one
He cheated by having more supporters than the opposition, you're not allowed to do that if you're leftwing
Yes, that's populism. Basically people shouldn't like you, because that's populism. The only legitimate way to be elected is if everyone is like "fuck guess I have no choice but to vote this motherfucker".
is that actually what populism is? if so are people really whining about democracy?
They're cheering him because Evo was using his secret mind control machine!
Good thing the New York Times is so close to central park.
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My fucking lib friends and family members look at me like I've got three heads when I make the case that MSM coverage on "foreign policy" (itself a sanitized propagandistic term for empire management) is best thrown out entirely rather than given any amount of credence. You'd think after lying us into war and imperial slaughter enough times these fuckfaces would lose some credibility but here we are.
They understand somewhere deep inside that they benefit from imperialism. That’s why they tolerate the fascistic rightwing, they are useful
Without having seen in real time how facts get distorted beyond any recognition there's no way to make people understand. They assume that there are some mistakes in foreign reporting, but the vast majority of Americans (and Brits, and <insert Western country here>) will never visit anywhere outside the West and have no context for anything. They're struggling to understand mistakes in foreign media reporting because their entire context for foreign stuff is other foreign media reporting.
For me the thing that got me to realise what a crock of shit it all is, was the Bolivian coup. When I saw Chapos calling it a coup right off the bat I was a bit skeptical (I was still a baby leftist at the time) but over time as all the evidence rolled in and there were still shitty op-eds that weren't wrong so much as complete fantasy rolled it, it really drove home how little you can trust even the big names.
Actively following these sorts of events in real time on Twitter and other fast-paced social media before the relevant hashtags get astroturfed by chuds and corporate media have the time to concoct an "official" version of the story, and then seeing the distortions reported in the MSM, has been an eye-opening experience.
It's probably not a coincidence that Occupy blew up shortly after US-Americans saw online posts about and videos of the Arab Spring, mostly unfiltered. It's definitely not a coincidence that attitudes towards racist police violence changed significantly when white people and other unaffected groups started seeing more and more recorded examples of cops acting like assholes and violent thugs with little apparent justification, with ideology becoming the only remaining barrier to understanding. Anglos who can overcome the ideological hurdle through their lived experience of class oppression have a much much stronger understanding of what the hell has going on in the world than they did even 10 years ago, even if for many of them that understanding is still weak and plagued with some imperialist distortions.
dun'cha know non-whites don't know how to do demmmocccrazy, it's a white man's burden to bring democrazy to these savages....
incredible. his party won in a landslide but that's apparently not enough to prove that the people clearly love him. this is just so blatant and lazy.
Didn't these assholes already acknowledge that Evo got couped? Or did they only admit the one that failed in Venezuela was a coup attempt?
Who are these fucking people. CIA monitors? I bet a buncha libs registered during the election.
you're surprised some people downvoted new york post propaganda? not everyone enjoys "click here do die instantly" posts, "die" is literally in the name.
That comment section is getting spammed by fuckers trying some obscure term limit shit. Wonder what % is operating out of Langley, or if they can correct the record from home nowadays
NYT nerd voice: BUT TECHNICALLY HE SHOULDN'T HAVE RUN A FOURTH TIME, IT'S NOT CONSTITUTIONAL, WHAT IF THERE WERE NO TERM LIMITS FOR PRESIDENTS HERE IN THE USA? WE COULD HAVE HAD 16 YEARS OF THE CHEETO IF BIDEN DIDN'T WIN
Ignore the fact that FDR was elected for 4 consecutive terms because of his popular New Deal program and they added the 2-term limit to the constitution after he died so rich people could more quickly swap out a president they don't like
