I've always said that these right-wing govts in Latin America are the most fragile we've seen in a generation.
They're all approaching single digit approval ratings within 3 months max. They were 'elected' by foreign intervention and are rapidly impoverishing their populations.
I always suspected Matt Taibbi actually was a useless idiot. And now he’s come clean. Who’s more important Matt? The Mona Liza or Hind Rajab?
Matt scratches his head. Ok Matt, The Mona Liza is a painting, Hind Rajab is our sister.
The thing is, if James Hetfield had just said nothing, no one would have cared.
It’s the fact that he was preaching to musicians to keep their mouths shut about awful things happening in the world, and dressing that up as an apolitical statement.
This story is extremely important:
A whistleblower revealed that Brazil's far-right Bolsonaro family dynasty met with Meta to discuss US plans to interfere in Brazil's election, to prevent Lula from winning.
Lula's Facebook and Instagram accounts were censored a few days before the first round of the presidential election.
This had a huge impact on the election, because Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, which are all owned by Meta, are the most popular apps in Brazil, and are hugely influential all across Latin America. (Jair Bolsonaro's son Flávio was declared the winner of the first round of the vote, by a narrow margin.)
Meta later admitted that Lula's accounts had been restricted, but it claimed that this was supposedly due to a "technical error"...
The whistleblower who disclosed this is Nadia Beller, a Bolivian journalist who was almost killed by hitmen hired by Fernando Cerimedo, a far-right Argentine political operative who oversees election interference, bots, and disinformation campaigns.
Cerimedo is closely linked to the US government and has worked for pretty much every right-wing leader in Latin America. He was photographed with Donald Trump Jr. and members of the Bolsonaro family, and he received an award at Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida a few months before he was arrested for the failed assassination attempt against Beller, his pregnant ex-girlfriend.
Link here: https://t.co/9hqjur2P8x
I’m so happy people like Kyle Kulinski exist. He’s the perfect example of how you don’t change the Democratic Party, the party changes you. He’s a walking advertisement for my politics
Bro used to hate Obama and look at him now
Says the Metallica that were very vocal about supporting the #NATO Proxy War in Ukraine. Metallica prefer taking the money instead of advocating for Peace + Justice. More Hypocrisy...
What Metallica is actually doing is influencing their audience to tune out of politics and real world problems and just pretend they aren’t real. And they’re doing this in service of Israel and their extermination campaign in Palestine. There absolutely is a political agenda here