Add to this one another map of past CIA-backed coups and despair.
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His narrative is a bit wonky but the general idea is true. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Democratic_National_Committee_email_leak
Trump's presidency was so chaotic that it made us forget that the DNC Chair resigned mid campaign because of this scandal.
Yes! Their positions and actions are suspiciously very demobilising.
No unity even in the most basic stuff. No willingness to hold a constructive conversation. Things have to be done in their way or you're labeled an enemy. Doctrine above humanity. Incessant nitpicking.
How do they intend to build socialism if they can't even have an honest, good faith conversation?
As if they would be there in the frontlines when shit hits the fan. It shows very clearly they don't risk much (and lack the most basic level of empathy) if they really think Trump and Biden are the same. Ask our trans comrades. Or homeless people. Or journalists.
In abstention, they just found a way of feeling good about doing nothing at all. Voting is literally the least you could do and they won't do even that.
We all are vast collections of harmonic oscillators.
Liberals tend to say that the system just needs a few tweaks here and there while the reality is that the entire thing is rotten to the core and the stuff they enjoy now in their "developed" countries was built upon centuries of exploitation of other people, which is still ongoing stronger than ever.
When confronted with these facts, some liberals act defensively and instead of learning and growing in their understanding, they start aligning with right wing thinking. That's why the saying goes "scratch a liberal and a fascist bleeds".
Many people don't feel in control of their futures. In general, people in the "global South" have way fewer opportunities to start with. It doesn't matter how hard you work if you live in a dictatorship. Or if you never had a good breakfast before math in primary school. Of if half of your waking hours are spent commuting in dilapidated busses packed with people.
These are in reality the hardest working people; every waking hour can be challenge if you are poor.
Yeah, this trumps all the recent intense propaganda about the IDF being professional and meticulous.
Thing is, the game was rigged from the start.
Wealth redistribution is only resetting the board, not a change in the game.
Her talent is in marketing/making money through music. Artistically, she hasn't risked going half a millimeter from the mainstream. Were she as talented as her (loud! Jesus, we already know you like her) fans think, she would be creating new forms of art unknown to humanity. She just found a group of people over the internet and a way to influence them to milk them for money with 27 million versions of the same album and merch.
It doesn't hurt being ultra WASPy and the daughter of the super well connected, super wealthy vice president of Merrill Lynch who basically harassed other people and companies into giving TS a space.
You could start by reading about the School of the Americas, Operation Condor and Operation Gladio. See how the USA treats its "friends".
Read about cointelpro and see how it treats its citizens. Some tactics are still in use today.