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It’s weird to think we did regime change for a couple of brothel visits, just a few decades ago.

Eta: I mean it weirds me out.

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A lot of history in a short article. Thank you.

People should listen to Linda Lovelace. Things haven’t changed much.

Not an American, A Palestinian American. The Magazis don’t give a shit.

Bold mine. Yes there is.

This did not start with Obama. It’s always been here but ramped up again because Obama got the presidency.

https://writingexplained.org/calvary-vs-cavalry-difference

Stop negotiating and play hardball. Thank you, where’s my 6 digit salary?

I hear you. A lot of fill in the blanks media that leaves the general public to political madlibs style imaginings.

I will feel better if Nigeria et al get onboard.

I hope Traoré can shore up and extend popular support.

Strong social support policies, sound, well-rounded education, good jobs cuts crime drastically, but then megacorporations and ultrawealthy can’t get richer of bodies and suffering.

Yes. I dug in! It’s the difference between hearing and listening, looking and seeing. Just noting that hundreth monkey is on their own timeline.

Exactly.

Okay but every time anyone posts anything historically accurate, .world goes "lies!” ffs, they’re down to denying that h Hitler was defeated because of Russia and can’t bring themselves to write the opening line of “First They Came,” as a Lutheran pastor originally wrote it. Yes, we’re not only that unaware of history, but that propagandized.

I don’t think the populace does.

There should be no veto power and states* that export violence and their proxies should have no place on any human rights councils.

He recalled his father’s words: “Independence is not a gift. We cannot import democracy or revolution; we must create our own. What works in the United States may not suit Burkina Faso. Venezuela has chosen its path, and each country must decide what is best for its people.”

If only the global West could innerstand and overstand this.

You make me laugh, and I need that, so thanks! I’m sure your analyses are closer to accurate than my best guesses. I suppose what government or economic system states call themselves (or what media calls them) mean fa anymore. I’m not sure if we live in a post-truth world, or always have and it’s just so glaringly obvious, only those really emotionally invested in their illusions and those without mental capacity to identify them (whether through overwork and other stresses or direct learning/developmental disabilities) insist otherwise. Maybe most fall somewhere between those points, I’m certainly not as informed as I prefer.

I’ll have a look tonight or tomorrow. My project hours are all over the map, right now, which means my neighborhood and household obligations are, too.

Cheers!

Is there nuance for Iranians? Russians?

Eta: Kurds? Syrians?