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4 days agoSure Mr. McCarthy, let’s get you to bed.
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Remember what happened the last time Ukraine had a deal with the US?
It got couped, and not for the first time.
AFAIK, archive.today is the best around for that, outside of installing the Bypass Paywalls Clean browser extension for Firefox or Chrome.
Why are specifically are you using archive.today? To post links that bypass paywalls, or for something else? Because if it’s for something else then there may be other solutions, like using archive.org or saving the page locally.
archive.ph is just another alternate hostname for archive.today.
2·10 days agoit ain’t called liartown for nuffin’: it’s all photoslop and wordfuckery.
You never want a serious crisis to go to waste. — Rahm Emanuel
You framing the issues in terms of the CIA is dismissive of broader issues that these protest are taking on.
The article wasn’t about whatever grassroots grievances Mexicans may have; it was about astroturfing.
If you want to have a discussion about broader issues in Mexico then post about them.
This administration just loves jerking everyone’s chains.
…Right guys?
You don’t understand: Gen-Z suddenly, organically, and globally had a collective epiphany. No NGO no NGO you’re the NGO.
Still the same strawman. No one said tgat every problem is caused by the CIA or that Mexico has no problems of its own, so why are you still arguing against a position that no one holds?
None of them have claimed such a thing. That’s just you putting words in their mouths and pretending to be their savior.
Does that mean we should dismiss grievances at their lack of transparency and accountability as the CIA because Morena happens to be in power
Again, no one dismissed anything, so why are you still shadowboxing this strawman?
It would be patronizing if we were actually telling them that.
The institutions in Mexico are very weak and Morena has not done that much to fortify them. They now have even more judicial and legislative power too. People feel the influence of cartels is still too strong and government accountability too low.
Why do you suppose the institutions are so weak or the cartels exist at all, never mind having significant power? You get that the CIA has largely been managing the global illegal drug trade for decades, right? Those cartels are there because the US wanted them there. The Iran-Contra affair wasn’t an aberration but a peek behind the curtain of the everyday activities of US empire.
Of course there are legitimate problems and real tensions. When the US wants regime change, it never starts from scratch. It always leverages whatever fissures already exist.
Capitalism and its contradictions 🤣
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