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[E.H. Ruddock]

Stop doing this you idiots

https://beta.ctvnews.ca/national/world/ ... 60962.html

https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/08/us/gende ... index.html

This is all you need to read from that article:

in Turkey, Texas, about 100 miles southeast of Amarillo, The plane's other passenger had minor injuries. The plane was designed to carry only one person

[BurtReynolds]

This war between groypers vs. Turning Point USA (please don't ask for details) that's been going on for a couple of weeks is great fun. It seems to be really blowing up into something they can't keep suppressed much longer.

Funny that they are "happy to hear your questions" despite canceling Q and A's.

[96583UP]

Evo Morales: the latest in a seemingly endless line of far-left South American leaders to take office in a parade of righteousness and leave office in a flaming clown car of corruption

[BurtReynolds]

Evo Morales: the latest in a seemingly endless line of far-left South American leaders to take office in a parade of righteousness and leave office in a flaming clown car of corruption

Corporate media assures me that this is not a military coup.

[E.H. Ruddock]

This war between groypers vs. Turning Point USA

What's this all about?

[BurtReynolds]

no ruddo no

[Mickey]

Evo Morales: the latest in a seemingly endless line of far-left South American leaders to take office in a parade of righteousness and leave office in a flaming clown car of corruption

Unbelievably fucking wrong on this one, bub.

[96583UP]

there was not electoral fraud?

[96583UP]

after packing his court to overrule a referendum to uphold term limits?

[96583UP]

in white after labor day?

[96583UP]

This probably does deserve its own thread, but here we go anyway:

[Jorge]

Evo Morales: the latest in a seemingly endless line of far-left South American leaders to take office in a parade of righteousness and leave office in a flaming clown car of corruption

Unbelievably fucking wrong on this one, bub.

Bumping for Mickey's take on this

[Mickey]

Evo Morales: the latest in a seemingly endless line of far-left South American leaders to take office in a parade of righteousness and leave office in a flaming clown car of corruption

Unbelievably fucking wrong on this one, bub.

Bumping for Mickey's take on this

It's not a particularly hot one. I don't think you have to be a supporter of Morales or the pink tide more broadly to think that what happened in Bolivia is disturbing. You don't even have to dispute the neutrality of the OAS and their allegations of inconsistencies (the majority of which are explained entirely by the difference between the quick count and the official count insofar as it pertains to rural areas, which both overwhelmingly support Morales and are historically slower to report their votes). Leaving that aside and accepting that the elections were fraudulent and that Morales should never have been allowed to run for a fourth term (this means disputing the sovereignty of the Bolivian Supreme Court, but okay), there's still the fact that Morales was run out of office by the military, that protest leaders called for his arrest even after he abdicated the Presidency, that his house was ransacked, and that the new interim regime is explicitly racist and anti-indigenous (burning the Wiphala, bringing the Bible back to the Presidential palace, etc.). We should also note that no one disputes the idea that Morales got more of the vote--only that he didn't get the sufficient 10% lead necessary to win outright--and that he had already agreed to hold new elections. This isn't to say that Morales is not, to a lesser or greater extent, corrupt or authoritarian, or that his presidency was the right move for the Bolivian people--we don't need to go down the Telesur rabbit hole. But the idea that he was run out in a "flaming clown car of corruption"--as if this is a populist and ethical response to the abuse of executive power rather than, say, a violently racist right-wing backlash supported by international business and with chilling similarities to Bolsonaro's rise in Brasil--suggests that you might not have a clear idea of what's happening in Latin America.

[BurtReynolds]

I love everything about this.

[bune]

saw that headline this morning and thought it was too damn early for that kind of nonsense.

[Bi_3]

Hot take: Kim Karadashian has actually helped more people then Greta Thunberg

https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/k ... f-and-hope

[Jorge]

I mean yes she is a 40 year old woman and a literal billionaire who has the means to

[96583UP]

Evo Morales: the latest in a seemingly endless line of far-left South American leaders to take office in a parade of righteousness and leave office in a flaming clown car of corruption

Unbelievably fucking wrong on this one, bub.

Bumping for Mickey's take on this

It's not a particularly hot one. I don't think you have to be a supporter of Morales or the pink tide more broadly to think that what happened in Bolivia is disturbing. You don't even have to dispute the neutrality of the OAS and their allegations of inconsistencies (the majority of which are explained entirely by the difference between the quick count and the official count insofar as it pertains to rural areas, which both overwhelmingly support Morales and are historically slower to report their votes). Leaving that aside and accepting that the elections were fraudulent and that Morales should never have been allowed to run for a fourth term (this means disputing the sovereignty of the Bolivian Supreme Court, but okay), there's still the fact that Morales was run out of office by the military, that protest leaders called for his arrest even after he abdicated the Presidency, that his house was ransacked, and that the new interim regime is explicitly racist and anti-indigenous (burning the Wiphala, bringing the Bible back to the Presidential palace, etc.). We should also note that no one disputes the idea that Morales got more of the vote--only that he didn't get the sufficient 10% lead necessary to win outright--and that he had already agreed to hold new elections. This isn't to say that Morales is not, to a lesser or greater extent, corrupt or authoritarian, or that his presidency was the right move for the Bolivian people--we don't need to go down the Telesur rabbit hole. But the idea that he was run out in a "flaming clown car of corruption"--as if this is a populist and ethical response to the abuse of executive power rather than, say, a violently racist right-wing backlash supported by international business and with chilling similarities to Bolsonaro's rise in Brasil--suggests that you might not have a clear idea of what's happening in Latin America.

or it might suggest that someone who doesn’t subscribe to his deification was posting for entertainment on a pearl jam message board rather than to promote their book in Foreign Affairs magazine

so for the sake of humoring reader microaggression:

“flaming” = mass protests because he committed fraud. the military should be commended for stepping in on behalf of the will of the people to remove an illegitimate leader
“clown car” = the shitty plane he flew on to hide in shitty mexico
“corruption” = apparently not disputed

and he may be a lesser evil in a region plagued with fraud!

but maybe a special forces team of U.S. white privilege intelligentsia can air drop in and convince all those protesting people that they are wrong to express their will for free and fair elections

[Bi_3]

I mean yes she is a 40 year old woman and a literal billionaire who has the means to

Exactly. And that whole spaghetti thing...

[Mickey]

Evo Morales: the latest in a seemingly endless line of far-left South American leaders to take office in a parade of righteousness and leave office in a flaming clown car of corruption

Unbelievably fucking wrong on this one, bub.

Bumping for Mickey's take on this

It's not a particularly hot one. I don't think you have to be a supporter of Morales or the pink tide more broadly to think that what happened in Bolivia is disturbing. You don't even have to dispute the neutrality of the OAS and their allegations of inconsistencies (the majority of which are explained entirely by the difference between the quick count and the official count insofar as it pertains to rural areas, which both overwhelmingly support Morales and are historically slower to report their votes). Leaving that aside and accepting that the elections were fraudulent and that Morales should never have been allowed to run for a fourth term (this means disputing the sovereignty of the Bolivian Supreme Court, but okay), there's still the fact that Morales was run out of office by the military, that protest leaders called for his arrest even after he abdicated the Presidency, that his house was ransacked, and that the new interim regime is explicitly racist and anti-indigenous (burning the Wiphala, bringing the Bible back to the Presidential palace, etc.). We should also note that no one disputes the idea that Morales got more of the vote--only that he didn't get the sufficient 10% lead necessary to win outright--and that he had already agreed to hold new elections. This isn't to say that Morales is not, to a lesser or greater extent, corrupt or authoritarian, or that his presidency was the right move for the Bolivian people--we don't need to go down the Telesur rabbit hole. But the idea that he was run out in a "flaming clown car of corruption"--as if this is a populist and ethical response to the abuse of executive power rather than, say, a violently racist right-wing backlash supported by international business and with chilling similarities to Bolsonaro's rise in Brasil--suggests that you might not have a clear idea of what's happening in Latin America.

or it might suggest that someone who doesn’t subscribe to his deification was posting for entertainment on a pearl jam message board rather than to promote their book in Foreign Affairs magazine

so for the sake of humoring reader microaggression:

“flaming” = mass protests because he committed fraud. the military should be commended for stepping in on behalf of the will of the people to remove an illegitimate leader
“clown car” = the shitty plane he flew on to hide in shitty mexico
“corruption” = apparently not disputed

and he may be a lesser evil in a region plagued with fraud!

but maybe a special forces team of U.S. white privilege intelligentsia can air drop in and convince all those protesting people that they are wrong to express their will for free and fair elections

Posting for "entertainment" doesn't make you less wrong, homie. It may surprise you to learn this but there are actually discrete interests in Bolivian society, it's not a monolith. If you think the interim government represents the "will of the people" you are an absolute fucking moron.