I’m not skeptical per se. I’ve just been propagandized so fucking much—I grew up watching those propagandocumentaries on the National Geographic Channel about the DPRK, etc., fr that was what I watched instead of cartoons lol.

Pretend I’m a lib who you’re trying to convince, or something. In addition to calming this feeling in my gut like something isn’t making sense, I want to be able to make this argument, myself.

  • MF_COOM [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    4 months ago

    because that’s how you get the CIA creeping in and doing a Pinochet.

    That’s not really how the CIA did a Pinochet though

    • JoeByeThen [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
      9·
      4 months ago

      Could you clarify a bit on that, please? From my own reading Chile wasn’t really all that different than any other country in The Jakarta Method and NephewAlphaBravo wasn’t saying anything too specific? Or are you just speaking more to the US military’s involvement against Cuba and DPRK?

      • NephewAlphaBravo [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
        3·
        4 months ago

        I’d welcome it too tbh, that was just a probably-muddled explanation of my own realization that “of course the empire is going to paint all attempts to keep them out as authoritarianism, why wouldn’t it?”