Not something I designed– a friend shared it on Facebook– but in an effort to spread counter propaganda I thought this would be helpful to share for folks in areas where breaking through the liberal bubble is especially needed
Six out of ten South American countries are currently controlled by the right wing. Let that sink in. Six out of ten. Fascists are having the time of their lives, and what’s happening in Brazil comes to validate their hate speech, homophobia, racism and misogyny. Six out of ten South American presidents think violence is the answer to all the problems we have over here. Violence in the form of dictatorships.
In case you didn’t know: we have a history with military dictatorships over here, and ALL of us are still living under their repercussions. People were kidnapped, tortured and killed just for opposing these regimes, and their families still don’t have the chance to give them a proper burial. And entire countries are being ruled with constitutions made under these periods.
It’s fucking scary, because this whole thing is coming back. But this is why it’s important to get involved and actually do something if we’re against what’s happening right now. Get informed. Find out ways you can help in your communities. And RESIST. I know it feels horrible, but you are not alone. The rest of the continent is with you. And we won’t let them win.
It’s important to note that every single one of those dictatorships we still haven’t recovered from yet, were engineered/supported by the United States.
Yes. It all started when Latin America started promoting developing policies connected to the left wing. The US got really scared with the Cuban Revolution and its repercussions, so they started to financiate a few military groups.
The US even gave chilean economy students scholarships at the Chicago University in the 50s and 60s, just so they would learn everything about Milton Friedman’s neoliberalism. Those students, then known as the “chicago boys”, went back to Chile and helped to build an economical plan for their countries dictatorship, ruled by Pinochet.
Although we have more evidences about it happening in Chile, it happened in all of South America. Most countries were under a violent dictatorship for around 20 years.
Trump blames Synagogue shooting on the Synagogue for not having “better protection”. You know, instead of the white supremacist shooter who yelled “All Jews must die!” with an assault weapon and killed jewish people.
Lets not forget last year he called the nazis in Charlottesville “very fine people”.
so yeah now that he’s openly stated that he’s a nazi I feel like if we learn nothing else from this presidency we should at least learn that there’s no way you can argue that capitalism and fascism aren’t two sides of the same ideological coin. like I fully believe that you could swap out trump for any other high-profile CEO or banker or real estate investor and he or she would still have openly declared allegiance with fascism within the first two years of the first term. anyway I am going to go and have a glass of water now
“It becomes clear now, the Portland Police Bureau has just used their entire arsenal of militarized weaponry to attack a coalition of labor unions, community members, and antifascists to allow what amounts to a standing army of out of state fascists to march through the fucking streets of downtown, beating down anyone in their path. The pigs have done all the dirty work for them, hell, they did everything but lay down a red fucking carpet. In this, they are not just complicit with fascism, but have facilitated its every need! It dawns on us that something has changed forever. Something important. The state has always been the enemy of the community, and the cops the armed enforcers of it, but this is new. This isn’t even blatant favoritism, this is absolute and premeditated coordination with the fascists. Concussion grenades explode all around us, and roving gangs of violent bigots are free to wander the streets and assault anyone with total impunity.”
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