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The best painfully-funny bit I've seen recently is "Foreign power undermines election to install right-wing authoritarian; CIA outraged". I'd challenge that po
by Bartweiss 10y ago
The best painfully-funny bit I've seen recently is "Foreign power undermines election to install right-wing authoritarian; CIA outraged".
I'd challenge that poster to tell anyone from South America, East Asia, or the Middle East (or North Africa, or Eastern Europe, or...) that superpowers are a way to preserve effective democracy.
- brbrodude 10y agoWell it's not to bash the person individually, but obviously it you think this through there's clearly double standards. Anyway, there's no morality here, it's all about power and control, I don't delude myself. But yeah, the US could at least own up to it, or be coherent with the values it says it defends(I guess it's too late for that tho). The hipocrisy is getting uglier with each passing day :/
- devoply 10y agoThey are not a way to preserve effective democracy. That's not what I was getting at. I was getting at the fact that it would be someone else who would install dictators instead. It would be Russia or China. The outcome will be different, but the problems will not get solved. In fact it may be worse. When you have many people playing, then the jockey for position and cause even more chaos.