CarmineCatboy2

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[–] CarmineCatboy2@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'd have to read on the argentinean junta, but if the experience there is anything like Brazil's there's only a misconception that it was 'neoliberal'. For starters, the regimes predated the washington consensus. And as it turns out, authoritarian officers aren't liberal people in any way. What the brazilian junta did was un-do or freeze social progress. If before you can see the state capitalist machine wanting to develop internal consumption, the juntas fully endorsed outright fascism and social hierarchy. 'What is good for the rich is good for the poor', rather than negotiated settlements or any sort of policy oriented towards the consumer base or unionization. Nonetheless, what was good for the rich was to keep the developmentist money spigot going, only for the rich. Privatization is a post-volcker shock, post hyperinflation political project.

It's kinda like how Bolsonaro not that long ago actually liked Hugo Cháves. The brain of latin american officers is a mush of wanting to impose strongman rule and only some of them come across having an actual ideology - leftist or otherwise.

I could be wrong though. Maybe the Argentinean junta was less statist than ours. But even so, Menem, Macri and now Milei does make for a nice aliteration does it not?

[–] CarmineCatboy2@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago

:3 is arguably a sexuality

[–] CarmineCatboy2@hexbear.net 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

blaming him entirely for inflation is silly

This is true, since he's actually the third Thatcher that God visitted upon that country.

[–] CarmineCatboy2@hexbear.net 40 points 1 year ago (3 children)

whenever are they not bombing syria?

[–] CarmineCatboy2@hexbear.net 33 points 1 year ago

now thats a wild thought

[–] CarmineCatboy2@hexbear.net 56 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Meanwhile, on the Sahel.

The West African regional bloc is lifting most sanctions imposed on Niger over last year’s coup, in a new push for dialogue following a series of political crises that have rocked the region in recent months.

A no-fly zone and border closures were among the sanctions being lifted “with immediate effect”, the president of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Commission, Omar Alieu Touray, said on Saturday.

[–] CarmineCatboy2@hexbear.net 35 points 1 year ago

wasn't that MAGA's plan A

[–] CarmineCatboy2@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago

oh man trump would be so catastrophic for israel, what will the far right occupation government do without biden's vociferous support?

[–] CarmineCatboy2@hexbear.net 50 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's like that time the pro american government in afghanistan fell and suddenly ISIS declared war on the taliban for no real reason.

[–] CarmineCatboy2@hexbear.net 65 points 1 year ago (9 children)

Mr. ISIS, welcome to the resistance.

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