Why don't you socialists try winning through the ballot box : memes

[–] sleeplessone@lemmy.ml 23 points 1 day ago

Maybe if a socialist wins an election in the US, the US will overthrow the US 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔

[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 19 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Yeah we should ask Costa Rica, Korea, China, Burma/Myanmar, Guatemala (not a communist, but wanted land reforms), Iraq, Vietnam, Cuba, Cambodia, Laos, Iraq again: The Empire Strikes (with) Ba'ath, Brazil (not even a communist again, just wanted trade with China and land reforms) Cambodia again. Bolivia, Chile, Angola, Poland (don't forget), Nicaragua, Grenada, Iraq again: A New Gulf, Haiti (not even a communist again), Iraq again, Haiti again to undo the last one, Yugoslavia, Venezuela, Iraq again (Mission Accomplished), Haiti again to undo the undoing, Honduras (kinda? only person on the planet to become more leftist after being elected), Bolivia, Venezuela, Venezuela, Venezuela.

I think that's most of the most overt ones. Not even counting the ones in the Middle East other than Iraq cause it started by being scared of communists and cause it's funny. Also not counting soft power things and things like, say, US intelligence having ties to the judge that sentenced Lula, making him unable to compete in the 2018 elections and giving the world Bolsonaro

[–] BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 5 points 14 hours ago

Don't forget the Indonesian Genocide, one of the worst crimes of the twentieth century

[+] SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world -16 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Is this a meme about the almost universal international agreement that Nicolás Maduro stole the 2024 election from Edmundo González?

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 20 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

If by "almost universal" you mean "almost universal among the west," which actively oppose any and all attempts at building socialism.

Notably, Nicaragua, Cuba, and Bolivia support Maduro, and Brazil, Mexico, and Colombia took a neutral stance (despite what Wikipedia's map implies). Further still, Colombia and Mexico attended Maduro's inaguration, recognizing his legitimacy.

It's the imperialist bloc that opposes Maduro and supports US imperialism with respect to Venezuela, and are trying to get the right-wing opposition elected against the will of the people.

[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world -5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I didn't see that on Wikipedia it was the top return on my Google search.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Map implies Mexico, Brazil, and Colombia oppose Maduro.

[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world 1 points 1 day ago

Ok hang on I'll have to google research this for a bit.

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

what the wasps mean when they talk about the "universal international agreement"

[–] agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works -3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I don't get it, would this not have happened if they'd followed some other path?

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 day ago

They would face outside hostility, yes, but revolution allows you to replace the bourgeois state with a socialist one, without levers outside influence can manipulate so easily.

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