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The cartoon isn’t ambiguous
It's really vague, and does warrant some specific examples..
I'd say if anything, they pretend some things are more peaceful than they are. Like sending the military in to capture a foreign leader being portrayed as simply "a military operation" rather than "act of war". Emphasizing celebrations by Venezulan ex-pats.
The nominally socialist nations that receive media attention are generally truly not particularly peaceful, and the socialist nations that are pretty good peace wise are well known, but just too 'boring' to be in a 'news' cycle.
I suppose the point is that people can't just take someone's declaration of 'socialism' at face value, as there's too many examples of malicious authoritarianism that claimed affinity to socialism as part of their rise to power. Not to say that capitalist nations are faring any better, just that the word 'socialism' when wielded as a brand isn't to be trusted.
Who are you to make me spend a bunch of time “enlightening” someone whose intentions are clearly in bad faith.
I'm not sure why you engaged at all if you didn't have an answer to my question.
To call you out on being an antagonizer
When you complain about people disrupting the 3cho chamber you should be more subtle about it.
lol, try some better bait, asshat
sshat, shat, hat, at, t...
If you want to engage in a meaningless discussion with someone asking bullshit questions and waste your time, then no one is stopping you. Or you can just keep playing some victim and claim everything is an echo chamber because someone won’t answer bullshit questions like you keep doing, have at it.
Everything contradicting the echo chamber is a bullshit question.
Everyone questioning the echo chamber is a malicious troll.
Whats next, "verified only" threads, like /r/conservative?
Blah blah blah
Exactly.
don’t engage, people
Here's an answer if you're willing to watch a 20 min video.
That's disappointing.. I'll give you one example then. I'll try to keep it short. Democratically elected socialist, Salvador Allende, was overthrown with help from Nixon, Kissenger, and the CIA using the media to influence public opinion in the 70s. Allende wanted to nationalize Chile's resources like its copper mines which at the time were owned by US companies.
I'm well aware. The point is how the capitalist press was used to lie to the american people furthering their agenda and suppressing freely elected socialist leaders. It answered your question, and this particular instance wasn't revealed as fact until some 35-40 years later. There's plenty more examples like it.