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I am merely criticising his (lack of) commitment to democracy. I agree that Bolivia was better off with him than it is now, but that doesn't invalidate my point. The fact that the people who came after him were/are worse does not retroactively turn him into a Saint.
THEY. DID. NOT. COME. AFTER. HIM. THEY WERE THE OPPOSITION HE WAS FIGHTING. It is their fascist propaganda that you're now repeating.
I'm done here, dude. If you'd like to educate yourself so you don't come off like a fash apologist in the future check out The Jakarta Method by Vincent Bevins and/or Washington Bullets by Vijay Prishad. Jakarta Method covers a specific group of US backed coups and genocides, but has plenty of notes and citations, While Washington Bullets is more of a polemic that covers American Foreign Policy from a broader perspective and assumes you've got a basic background on CIA activity in the Third World.
You know the justices are also elected there, right? It's not like he packed the court to keep in office.
Beyond that, when the choice is between an elected official and a literal military dictator, which path do you think supports democracy?
This again. The fact that I am critizising the one does not mean I support the other. On the contrary, if you wanna read my first comment again.
The immediate choice was between those two. Picking what he picked is not undermining democracy, it was attempting to save it.
Projection
Citations Needed Episode 25: The Banality of CIA-Curated Definitions of ‘Democracy’
Interesting. I agree that democracy is hard to define. But I do not agree that this means we should stop striving for it. And there definitely are governments that are more democratic than others.
What would you consider the most democratic governments? Give me a couple examples
I think the nordic countries have a pretty good thing going.
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bullshit
Fuck all the way off
I'm sure you think its fun playing this rhetorical bullshit about "democracy" but people fucking died because the US backed a coup against him that fucking dipshit libs like you nodded your heads too. The coup government massacred indigenous people as soon as they could. And you were nodding along.
they comment in the s.j.works "tankie watchers" comm, so they're probably just fishing for content
Makes sense. Libs acting like this about the Bolivian coup just really piss me off.
Hope they enjoy showing off me calling them a dipshit smuglord for trivializing the lives of indigenous people
I don't recall saying I support the coup. See my first comment for my opinion on the state of Bolivia after the coup.
I wasn't 'nodding along'. The situation in Bolivia has gone from bad to worse. Acknowledging the bad does not mean ignoring the worse.
No of course you don't. People like you never commit to anything. You just want to play around as if there aren't real stakes for real people.
Parroting state department propaganda about "democracy eroding" is fun for you, because you don't care about the actually people and what they want, or that to alternative to MAS and Evo's reelection at that time was fascists that were going to massacre thr indigenous base of MAS, the people that you are trying to claim that "democracy eroded" for.
So fuck you dipshit smuglord