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Negostrike
Aug 15, 2015



https://twitter.com/RicardoHurtubia/status/1463318555492065281

:cripes:

loving Star Wars fans, I swear...

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Ghost Leviathan
Mar 2, 2017
Probation
Can't post for 14 hours!

Cao Ni Ma posted:

drat it seems like he's playing the system (the same way all our politicians do)

Seems better if he's actually giving people a material reason to vote for him

ZearothK
Aug 25, 2008

I've lost twice, I've failed twice and I've gotten two dishonorable mentions within 7 weeks. But I keep coming back. I am The Trooper!

THUNDERDOME LOSER 2021


bagual posted:

flawed vote as in perfectly by the rules according to international observers

The International is a communist organization, they have a theme song and all

Doktor Avalanche
Dec 30, 2008

Democrats: This guy Maduro, it looks like he's actually trying to win? By giving people what they want? That can't be legal! Can it?

CharlestheHammer
Jun 26, 2011

YOU SAY MY POSTS ARE THE RAVINGS OF THE DUMBEST PERSON ON GOD'S GREEN EARTH BUT YOU YOURSELF ARE READING THEM. CURIOUS!
I mean to be fair democrat mouth pieces also attacked Bernie for doing the same so they are pretty consistent here

hot witch divorcee
Jan 4, 2021

is that a tower in your pants or are you just happy to see me

CharlestheHammer posted:

I mean to be fair democrat mouth pieces also attacked Bernie for doing the same so they are pretty consistent here

yeah populism is cheating, especially left populism

mortons stork
Oct 13, 2012
average western liberal:
No carrot! only stick! wait why are you flipping me off????

Atrocious Joe
Sep 2, 2011

Socialism is when the government does stuff, and that's unfair and authoritarian.

brugroffil
Nov 30, 2015


Democrats practice unpopulism.

Atrocious Joe
Sep 2, 2011

Honduran elections tomorrow
https://twitter.com/ZoPepperC/status/1464752882897625088?s=20
https://twitter.com/vijayprashad/status/1464662640253407247?s=20

https://twitter.com/starsandstripes/status/1464739312436658191?s=20
Of course I'm going to quote the Bloomberg news wire piece

quote:

(Tribune News Service) — Hondurans are voting Sunday in presidential elections that may oust the scandal-hit ruling party and end the nation's alliance with Taiwan.

Xiomara Castro, the wife of a former president deposed in a coup, is leading in polls as she tries to end 12 years of rule by the conservative National Party. She spooked some investors by saying that capitalism hasn't worked for most Hondurans and calling for a radical overhaul of the nation's "failed neoliberal model."

Some businesses in the capital, Tegucigalpa, boarded up windows for fear of the kind of violent unrest that followed the last election in 2017, which was widely regarded as fraudulent.

Honduras' 2030 dollar bond touched a record low to trade at 99.7 cents on the dollar last month as Castro's campaign gained momentum.

Hugo Noe Pino, an economist who worked on Castro's government plan, said that the candidate would consider a plan with the International Monetary Fund if the conditions were right, and if the pace at which the deficit would be cut were not too onerous.

"People always invent these comparisons with Venezuela, Nicaragua and Cuba, but I've always said that the country we'd like to resemble is Costa Rica," Noe Pino said Friday, in an interview in Tegucigalpa.

Castro wants to tax large fortunes, introduce a new welfare payment for poor households and senior citizens, and allow the central bank to lend to the treasury in emergencies. Her rhetoric has been more moderate than in previous campaigns, and some investors are waiting to see how she'll govern if she wins, said Eurasia Group analyst Risa Grais Targow.

Honduras is one of the 15 remaining countries that has full official diplomatic relations with Taiwan rather than with the People's Republic of China. Castro floated the idea of switching to Beijing if she wins, though Noe Pino said this isn't a done deal and that local business groups have expressed concerns over the idea, which need to be taken into account.

Ruling party candidate Nasry Asfura, the mayor of the capital city and son of Palestine immigrants, is polling second. Asfura refers to himself as "Papi a la orden," Spanish for "Daddy at your service," and boasts that he doesn't use a smartphone. He promises to pave thousands of miles of roads and boost agricultural jobs, trade and tourism.

Asfura is under investigation for the embezzlement of city funds, though he says he is innocent.

Polls are open from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. with initial results expected on Sunday evening.

One survey by a local pollster found that unemployment and corruption are voters' biggest grievances. The government of President Juan Orlando Hernandez has been plagued by scandal and accusations of ties to organized crime, especially after his brother was sentenced to life in prison in the U.S.

Hernandez said the charges were "outrageous", and based on "the false testimonies of confessed murderers."

Juan Antonio Hernandez was convicted in 2019 after a trial featuring evidence that he worked with traffickers from Colombia and Mexico to turn Honduras into a major hub for cocaine bound for the U.S. The ruling party used to be closely allied with the U.S., though Hernandez's conviction has soured this relationship.

God help us if the US cold war mindset means they provide cover for another coup. Would be weird if Central America had two right wing presidents of Palestinian descent, but one is a Bitcoin Bro and the other refuses to use a cellphone while insisting everyone call him Papi.

Jose
Jul 24, 2007

Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer
https://twitter.com/davidrkadler/status/1465037248852807681?s=20

Atrocious Joe
Sep 2, 2011

https://twitter.com/ZoPepperC/status/1465036645661655047?s=20

i say swears online
Mar 4, 2005

NPR did a blurb on honduras in their hourly news update and described 2009 as a coup. no mention of hillary but i thought it was interesting

a few DRUNK BONERS
Mar 25, 2016

i say swears online posted:

NPR did a blurb on honduras in their hourly news update and described 2009 as a coup. no mention of hillary but i thought it was interesting

it's been more than 10 years, they're allowed to call it a coup since coups only happen in the distant past

Crowsbeak
Oct 9, 2012

by Azathoth
Lipstick Apathy

Knew the traitors would do it. Really would be horrible if Nicaragua would arm those opposed to the traitors in power there.

Centrist Committee
Aug 6, 2019

a few DRUNK BONERS posted:

it's been more than 10 years, they're allowed to call it a coup since coups only happen in the distant past

it’s called the statue of limitations and was given to us by the french

galenanorth
May 19, 2016

i say swears online posted:

NPR did a blurb on honduras in their hourly news update and described 2009 as a coup. no mention of hillary but i thought it was interesting

For Honduras, Clinton pretended a coup wasn't a coup because people under a dictatorship don't deserve to be punished with starvation as incentive to overthrow a dictator as a workaround for an absurdly written law, and somehow they found that line of logic while extending sanctions on this country and that country.

everyone knows this, but I still felt like venting it

galenanorth has issued a correction as of 22:44 on Nov 28, 2021

Neurolimal
Nov 3, 2012
fond memories of fishmech & co insisting that it was cool and good for zelaya to be removed because a referendum on the possibility of a vote on revising the constitution was proof that he was a despot

Atrocious Joe
Sep 2, 2011

a few DRUNK BONERS posted:

it's been more than 10 years, they're allowed to call it a coup since coups only happen in the distant past

Also Hillary isn't running for office anymore

AnEdgelord
Dec 12, 2016

Atrocious Joe posted:

Also Hillary isn't running for office anymore

not yet anyway

Feldegast42
Oct 29, 2011

COMMENCE THE RITE OF SHITPOSTING

AnEdgelord posted:

not yet anyway

i say swears online
Mar 4, 2005

AnEdgelord posted:

not yet anyway

cerro es cuarenta y siete

Crusader
Apr 11, 2002

https://twitter.com/abzcommunists/status/1465093509531242497?s=21

ToxicAcne
May 25, 2014
So are we seeing a new pink tide or is Latin America becoming more polarized along both spectrums?

Also is there a consensus in most Latin American leftists towards reformist socialism?

zetamind2000
Nov 6, 2007

I'm an alien.


This is good way to end my birthday

Pablo Nergigante
Apr 16, 2002


Hell yeah

dead gay comedy forums
Oct 21, 2011


ToxicAcne posted:

So are we seeing a new pink tide or is Latin America becoming more polarized along both spectrums?

Also is there a consensus in most Latin American leftists towards reformist socialism?

hard question. the most nervous one is next year and might be the definitive

should The Supreme Squid (Lula) win in Brazil, it's going to be seriously interesting to see. there has been a large deal of radicalization in this last decade and there has been a significative growth in younger voters for him that lean harder communist than the party or himself was back at the time

BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


Lipstick Apathy
furiously updating my twitter bio to add a honduran flag to my collection

BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


Lipstick Apathy


https://twitter.com/PartidoLibre/status/1465193058249682944

BrutalistMcDonalds has issued a correction as of 07:21 on Nov 29, 2021

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

(and can't post for 20 days!)

this rocks

Wraith of J.O.I.
Jan 25, 2012


i’ve been calling obama all night to see what he thinks but his phone has been busy every time i’ve tried

AnimeIsTrash
Jun 30, 2018

:toot:

Fortaleza
Feb 21, 2008

Phone exchange for Martha’s Vinyard must be swamped

Ghost Leviathan
Mar 2, 2017
Probation
Can't post for 14 hours!
So did Trump actually wreck the security state that badly, or are centrist liberals incapable of dealing with even the things they're supposed to recognise as problems now? Or both?

Slugnoid
Jun 23, 2006

Nap Ghost
its joe bidens damned woke cia

comedyblissoption
Mar 15, 2006

i say swears online posted:

NPR did a blurb on honduras in their hourly news update and described 2009 as a coup. no mention of hillary but i thought it was interesting
i forgot but was there some stuck in a craw type rhetoric around specifically calling it a military coup

30.5 Days
Nov 19, 2006
For whatever reason, the honduran government had a break with the US relatively recently, they charged hernandez's brother back in 2018 and the national party has been pissy ever since, which has resulted in previously-loving coverage turning sour. I remember immediately after the UN project to provide neutral third party homicide rates for every country in the world ended, honduras's murder rate "plummeted" and they even had vice running "miracle!" type vlogs where they'd interview generals about how they got their incredible results. Not sure whether the charges are the actual genesis or just the first symptom of whatever happened.

lollontee
Nov 4, 2014
Probation
Can't post for 10 years!

omedetou

i say swears online
Mar 4, 2005

30.5 Days posted:

For whatever reason, the honduran government had a break with the US relatively recently, they charged hernandez's brother back in 2018 and the national party has been pissy ever since, which has resulted in previously-loving coverage turning sour. I remember immediately after the UN project to provide neutral third party homicide rates for every country in the world ended, honduras's murder rate "plummeted" and they even had vice running "miracle!" type vlogs where they'd interview generals about how they got their incredible results. Not sure whether the charges are the actual genesis or just the first symptom of whatever happened.

lolll in 2014 i rolled up to the border at el amatillo and said no thx and that was compared to el salvador. poo poo was bad there

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AnimeIsTrash
Jun 30, 2018

https://twitter.com/Lefty_Jew/status/1465050742549463041

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