Bolivia's Jenine Áñez finally allows election effectively at gunpoint, loses and is going to jail

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Uhrm, okay. I'm not arguing the Convention is always right, I'm saying that Morales' actions were legal.



Which is something he can do anyway, and which Morales did not do (and could not have done). What's the relevance of any of this? Are you saying the decisions of the Bolivian judiciary are illegitimate because the US judiciary is susceptible to abuse?



Yes, he botched the optics in the referendum. The Bolivian electorate, who chose to overwhelmingly re-elect him afterwards, evidently don't believe that's grounds to oust him.
I'm saying the Bolivian judiciary is susceptible to abuse. Stop acting dense.
 
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I'm saying the Bolivian judiciary is susceptible to abuse. Stop acting dense.
It's clearly not susceptible to political stacking in the same way, since its members are elected. Your comments about the US judiciary being stacked by the President simply do not apply when the members aren't appointed in the same way.

Be honest: you're only questioning the legitimacy of the judiciary because you don't like this specific ruling.
 
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It's clearly not susceptible to political stacking in the same way, since its members are elected. Your comments about the US judiciary being stacked by the President simply do not apply when the members aren't appointed in the same way.

Be honest: you're only questioning the legitimacy of the judiciary because you don't like this specific ruling.
You're only justifying this because the CIA lives in your head rent-free. Morales was a populist meme, he said coca cola and fried chicken makes you gay and bald.
 

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You're only justifying this because the CIA lives in your head rent-free. Morales was a populist meme, he said coca cola and fried chicken makes you gay and bald.
If moronic statements about science and minority groups discount somebody from public office, I hope you'll apply the same standard to Donald "inject disinfectant" Trump and Boris "letterboxes and bank robbers" Johnson. It would be a welcome change of tone.
 

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If moronic statements about science and minority groups discount somebody from public office, I hope you'll apply the same standard to Donald "inject disinfectant" Trump and Boris "letterboxes and bank robbers" Johnson. It would be a welcome change of tone.
They're both walking jokes. I am not familiar with the Boris quote though.
 

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Sulfur by another name would smell as foul.

A democratic socialist is only sperated from a communist in that they have not yet reached the point where they need to and can kill to start forcing their ideology. It's a bit like trying to fit a square peg in a round hole. You'll only be able to get it in there if you use violence.
 

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Sulfur by another name would smell as foul.

A democratic socialist is only sperated from a communist in that they have not yet reached the point where they need to and can kill to start forcing their ideology. It's a bit like trying to fit a square peg in a round hole. You'll only be able to get it in there if you use violence.
Pretty certain in this case the people murdering to enforce their ideology are white supremacist capitalists because they have no other way to gain power in Bolivia.
 
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Pretty certain in this case the people murdering to enforce their ideology are white supremacist capitalists because they have no other way to gain power in Bolivia.
Bolivians vote for whoever fucks them the most, historically. This guy is an absolute meme
loaded the helicopter with suitcases of dollars and ran away to the US, avoid extradition because he's a US citizen. They voted for him TWICE, two non-consecutive terms.
 

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A democratic socialist is only sperated from a communist in that they have not yet reached the point where they need to and can kill to start forcing their ideology. It's a bit like trying to fit a square peg in a round hole. You'll only be able to get it in there if you use violence.
*looks at Canada's many social programs that the US deems "socialist" or at least "democratic socialist", which we've had for a pretty significant amount of time*

Oh no! Clearly we are on the path to mass slaughter in order to uphold it! Clearly we are headed for total social collapse where the government will sent hordes of G men onto the street to-

Oh wait, we're more free, more healthy, with more opportunity and social mobility than the US. Which is currently headed for massive social unrest, what with the eviction crisis looming and the government doing jack shit to help, while there's still anti-police-brutality protests happenning, and this has a very real chance of getting violent really fast.

soo....

If I said "A Capitalist is only sperated from a fascist in that they have not yet reached the point where all the resources belong to them and they need to and need to kill to start forcing their ideology and claim the last of it for themselves. It's a bit like trying to fit a square peg in a round hole.", you'd see how flatlining the entire political spectrum in such a way isn't true, right?
 

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Bolivians vote for whoever fucks them the most, historically. This guy is an absolute meme
loaded the helicopter with suitcases of dollars and ran away to the US, avoid extradition because he's a US citizen. They voted for him TWICE, two non-consecutive terms.
Peepeepoopoo indeed
 

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A democratic socialist is only sperated from a communist in that they have not yet reached the point where they need to and can kill to start forcing their ideology. It's a bit like trying to fit a square peg in a round hole. You'll only be able to get it in there if you use violence.
Yes, I'm sure Sweden will begin opening the gulags any day now.
 

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Yes, I'm sure Sweden will begin opening the gulags any day now.
Sweden, social democrat. I forgot when they nationalized IKEA and shared in all of the profit. Was it in 2008? Damn, now that I look at it, even IKEA left Sweden to avoid taxes and set up shop in Holland.