blobjim [he/him]

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Cake day: July 29th, 2020

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    Prof Yunus spoke about the six commissions formed by his government to recommend vital reforms to the election system, the civil administration, the police, the judiciary, anti-corruption and the constitution.

    He said the government would hold discussions with the political parties on the recommendations of the commissions. Once a consensus on the reforms is reached and the voter list is prepared, the date for the election will be announced, he added

    ramming through IMF debt slavery and US puppet-ification before they hold an election.

    This is the type of thing liberal psychopaths these days try to convince us has just ended.

    “The US doesn’t do coups like that anymore!” Does a coup in Bolivia
    “The US doesn’t do structural adjustment and debt slavery anymore” Does structural adjustment and debt slavery
    “The US doesn’t do wars of mass murder anymore we’re the good guys” Does a genocide


















  • People (who benefit from imperialism) want a casus belli for their hatred and “authoriarian foreign rulers” and every other piece of propaganda gives them that.

    I remember an article around when the Bolivia coup happened that mentioned that some indigenous people who had supported MAS and were beneficiaries of its economic policies to the point that they increased their financial class, had actually started supporting the right-wingers against MAS, who were using the usual talking points about unearned handouts or whatever.

    I think there are lots of people who won’t visibly support awful politics until they’re given encouragement by the ruling class and shown in a “wink-wink” way that they should. A lot of anti-China or anti-anything propaganda does mention how imperialism benefits Americans (our “way of life” under attack, “taking American jobs”, violent criminals, “welfare handouts” to immigrants, other fascist type stuff). I think the propaganda that doesn’t tie in to people’s selfishness may actually be less effective. Really the propaganda seems to try to emphasize the worst in people.

    People who imperialism doesn’t benefit may parrot those talking points but maybe they’re also the least attached to them, and them believing them has the least effect. Someone working in the service industry doesn’t affect whether imperialism or anything else goes as planned, someone working for a weapon manufacturer does.

    It wasn’t jews in Nazi Germany that anti-Jewish propaganda was directed at.




  • I think even people who are part of the US “underclass” in a lot of cases have a quality of life better than most non-labor-aristocrats in the Global South. Hence why people migrate here. People go through hell even to work undocumented in the US.

    You’re not going to convince anyone to “support socialism” by saying “your quality of life will increase”. Spoiler: it won’t. People won’t care about “all the benefits of international solidarity” because equal distribution of wealth would make them poorer.

    You don’t grow a radical left-wing movement in the US by trying to sell people on their personal quality of life increasing. We already have organizations like the AFL-CIO who’s goal is trading quality of life in the global south for quality of life for people in the imperial core. All it takes is right-wing spokespeople to say “hey we’ll get you a bigger paycheck if we just screw these Venezuelans” and workers in the imperial core are like “oh sweet lets help them bring democracy to Venezuela and make ourselves richer too this is great there’s no downsides and no I don’t need the details!”

    We have like 100-500 years of history to show us that people in white supremacist countries will drop any kind of radical politics or international solidarity in a heartbeat in exchange for quality of life increases.

    The only way you’re getting the support of a majority of Americans for socialism is to continue to sell out the global south at the same time.