The west tries to hush up actual popular resistance while magnifying color revolutions. That's a good litmus test to see that yes, this is genuine popular resistance.

[–] DeaglanOMulrooney@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 1 month ago

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[–] Malyca@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 month ago

I've only heard whispers on lemmy and Reddit. This is the first journalism I've seen. I love Bolivia and I've always wanted to go. The salt flats alone are something everyone should see. Now I can't show my American face there :( those poor people.

[–] sakuraba@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 month ago

I watched some videos of it on tiktok but they already fixed the algo to not show this

[–] reallykindasorta@slrpnk.net 30 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That’s really inspiring

[–] snowydroopz@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

That was a beautiful read, thugs in suits.

[+] Pissed@lemmy.ml 18 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

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[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 20 points 1 month ago (2 children)

It's really frustrating to watch how people keep talking about how you just have to vote harder, when we can see a concrete example of how workers actually take power in Bolivia.

[–] Malyca@lemmy.zip 12 points 1 month ago (2 children)

The mass delusion makes me feel like I'm in a zombie movie. Like I've explained it, countless times through history we've fought this battle. It always goes the same way. Yet they still think they can vote their way out of this.

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 month ago

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's willful blindness.

[–] TiredTiger@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Agreed. They don't want the treats to stop flowing; it's an addiction at this point. So many people around me aren't even willing to boycott, which I view as the barest minimum involvement at this point. Anything that threatens their comforts is summarily dismissed out of hand. For a lot of people, that level of consumption is not going to be sustainable as prices rise without a simultaneous increase in wages. We'll see what happens if gas prices hit $10 per gallon; I'm expecting the price to start skyrocketing as the supply chain catches up to the shortage.

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You can't even get the biggest Lemmy instance users to question Zionazi moderator narratives and motivations.

https://imgshare.cc/m300imcs

[–] TiredTiger@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The thing about denial is that it eventually comes crashing down. Cognitive dissonance takes a lot of energy to maintain, even if it's unconscious. The libs on the big instances are in a precarious place because they're not grounded in reality; even if they ignore what we've told them now, they won't be able to do so forever.

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Well, they denied Nazis working in multiple governments in high levels the world over for almost a century. I hope you are right.

[–] TiredTiger@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I choose to believe that we are not some special few, gifted with secret knowledge or special ability but instead the canaries in the coalmine, just the first of many who are perhaps most sensitive to the disinformation environment we are in. Eventually what we know to be true will become undeniable.

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 2 points 1 month ago

I hope so. Palestinians are almost final solutioned. I hope it doesn't come to that for the other para/militarily bullied nation states.

[–] Malyca@lemmy.zip 13 points 1 month ago

Jfc that was a hard read. Those people are an inspiration.

[–] Assian_Candor@hexbear.net 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Comrade yogthos with the choicest content as always

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 month ago

[–] cornishon@lemmygrad.ml 11 points 1 month ago

Workers seizing an airport to prevent the kidnapping. That's how it's done.

Reminded me of the time, right after the October Revolution, when the Russian bolshevik workers foiled a coup by Kornilov by taking control of all the rail and telegraph stations in Petrograd.

[–] narwhal@mander.xyz 10 points 1 month ago

For anyone who is in possession of a machine gun, that country feels they have the right to kidnap you.

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 3 points 1 month ago

https://imgshare.cc/m300imcs

[–] Alva_Alveiro17@lemmy.world -5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

That is not true, in Bolivia armed and terrorist groups are committing the international crime of extermination in the capital, the city Nuestra Señora de La Paz, and all of this is directed by Evo Morales who is linked to drug trafficking and trafficking of minors.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This is imperialist bullshit, what's going on is a leftist uprising against the right-wing government and the US Empire supporting it.

[–] Alva_Alveiro17@lemmy.world -1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That is completely false.

Drug trafficking and personal and collective political ambitions are funding this illegitimate movement and its demands.

They seek to seize power by force and in an undemocratic manner, attempting to circumvent the law.

These armed and irregular groups have already caused the deaths of innocent people, preventing the passage of food, medicine, and fuel, and restricting free movement.

This is entirely unconstitutional.

They are relying on national and international disinformation.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago

Nope. Just like the charges against Maduro, this is bullshit used to manufacture consent.