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[–] 26 points 1 year ago

It’s fine: Gates has the best PR apparatus money can buy.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    I hope Traoré can shore up and extend popular support.

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  • [–] [S] 4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    They've got support I just hope they can create strong international relationships and ride this out

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I will feel better if Nigeria et al get onboard.

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  • [–] [S] 4 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    I don't know how it can happen, I just have a pile of stuff about how messed up Nigeria is + historical reasons for it. This is my problem with the alt media particularly, they only traipse around after the general news narrative. If you want to actually get ahead of it and learn about Kenya, SAfrica, Nigeria, Argentina, Myanmar, Indonesia, etc in depth they will not help you at all. A friend compared it to small business owners painting themselves as opposition to big corporations when they just sit on the sidelines waiting to side with capital if it wins

    It would be nice if they actually helped regions without real opposition media groups instead of trying to be the backup MSM that points out hypocrisy in opinion pieces

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)
  • [+] -10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Well, we had large swathes of our federal government forcibly dismantled by a (admittedly South) African, so... 🤷‍♂️

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  • [+] -28 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    I mean, the alternative is economic and infrastructure colonization from the Chinese. Not a whole lot of good options it seems.

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