I’m convinced (no evidence tho, maybe I’m being a lib) that the YT algorithm has been extremely supportive of Palestine and pro-china with me lately. Maybe China started to exert soft power in the US/CIA way? That would be a huge net benefit for the world ngl
Who needs left adventurism when you have glasses of water performing A. Venturism
I hate the way Mujica is glazed in the west. He’s portrayed as this “poor president” for living a simple life and rejecting most of his salary and benefits, and what they glaze of him isn’t his revolutionary activity but the fact that he was in jail. Spanish newspapers like El País have his death on the cover page, when they’re everything he fought against during his youth (was his presidency really that progressive economically? I know about the civil rights but it wasn’t really anticapitalist was it?).
Meanwhile, contemporary revolutionaries and anti-imperialists like Ibrahim Traoré are ignored or vilified in western media. The only article I could find about Traoré is from 2024, essentially saying “this junta dictator is likely gonna pass some really bad anti-LGBTQ policy” because of a law proposal that he later rejected. Disgusting shit.
Edit: this is related to socialism being associated to a poverty cult. Anti-consumerism is morally correct mostly because of material necessity, distribution of scarce goods, and ecology. But fuck me if I’m not gonna be happier having a washing machine and access to electricity than breaking my back washing my clothes by hand! Rejecting mindless capitalist consumerism is good, valuing politicians based on their materialist behaviours instead of their actual policy is stupid.
To be fair, if you’re an ambassador in Israel you’re not really innocent either