Bulletins and News Discussion from September 9th to September 15th, 2024 - Viva Sandino! - COTW: Nicaragua

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It takes very little effort to find an article from Western state propaganda decrying Daniel Ortega and the Sandinistas as authoritarian and rife with human rights abuses. This is the natural reaction the US has to any successful liberation movement. This fairly long report from Jason Cohen, a socialist who travelled to Nicaragua one week ago, should quell any suspicions.

He describes a country with high political consciousness among the masses, who are working to construct critical infrastructure for the country and their communities. There is a virtual education system that is free across the entire nation, which serves the dual goal of democratizing education and ensuring that those in rural areas or without much free time for university can still achieve degrees and a quality education; and these classes cover technical skills in the production of infrastructure and agriculture, but also political and ideological education in order to counter the fascist propaganda produced by imperialist nations abroad.

While Nicaragua is deeply invested in its nationality and national figures who led to their socialist revolution, such as Sandino, they are also immensely proud of their indigneous history, recognizing it as also part of their anti-colonial history which continues to the present day. Additionally, they honour the struggles of other nations on the continent, such as the Bolivarian Revolution in Venezuela, as well as Castro in Cuba and Allende in Chile. Countries around the world are also celebrated and admired, such as Burkina Faso; during the Reagan administration, Nicaragua and Burkina Faso were comrades in arms, and now Traore is continuing the legacy of Sankara's anti-imperialism in the present. Perhaps most relevant today is their dedication towards Palestine, involving the creation of the Parque Palestina (shown in the post image), in which the Palestinian flag flies alongside the flag of Nicaragua. In July, Leila Khaled of the PFLP gave a speech in Nicaragua, in which the solidarity of the two nations was highlighted.

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So, I just saw on twitter that the elections for São Paulo (Brazil's largest city) had a debate, and a neoliberal candidate just used a chair to hit a neonazi (bolsonarista) candidate in the head live on Brazilian TV lol. I think the Bolsonaro candidate called him a rapist and mocked the fact that his mother-in-law died.
During the São Paulo mayoral debate, candidate Datena attacked Pablo Marçal with a chair after Marçal called him a "coward" for not being man enough to slap him in the face.
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Pablo Marçal (Bolsonarist) is injured, with suspected fractured ribs and difficulty breathing - according to a journalist from TV Cultura
After hitting Pablo, journalists asked Datena if he regretted the aggression
Journalist: You don't regret [using the chair to hit Pablo].
Datena: Of course not.
lol
- I've seen one tweet in where some random brazilian chud calls Datena "the communist"
  Wish Massa would have used a chair to fucking kill milei on stage. Brasil always does thing better than us.
  
  Datena "the communist"
  Datena is running for the old opposition party (Social Democratic Party of Brazil), the party that used to run against Lula's Workers' Party and governed during the 1990s. But the Bolsonaro guy seems to be a totally weird neo-Nazi. I'm sure he's a weirdo “coach” who promotes redpill shit. Seems like the two left-wing candidates from Lula's party and his VP's party were just chilling there, lol.
  This Pablo guy probably thinks like an old Republican, that everything he doesn't like is communist. As Lula da Silva said: “They think that calling us communists is an offense. We are proud to be called communists, we would be ashamed to be called fascists, Nazis and terrorists”.
- We've definitively found the world's least bad neoliberal
  
  I think Datena is the host of some sensationalist TV program and is running for the old opposition (Social Democratic Party of Brazil, which is a bit confusing because the Social Democratic Party is another party that is some random center party that is allied to Lula's Goverment) party that used to run against Lula's Workers' Party and governed during the 1990s.
  But the Bolsonarist guy seems like full weirdo neonazi. Seems like he wants to be the new Bolsonaro and was already arrested for drug traffic. Pretty sure he is some weirdo "coach" that promotes redpill shit.
  
  can we stop calling nazis and chuds "weird" and "weirdo"?
  I'm weird. I got bullied for being weird. I own my weirdness. I took weird back from chuds. Many other people had to go through the same thing. Please don't give that word to nazis.
  
  Furthermore, look at what “normal” people have done with the place. NeoliberalS are “normal”, chuds are “normal”. Guess who isn’t “normal”? Comrades. Weird is objectively better. Being a comrade m is “weird”, being a comrade is better. “Normal” people suck.
  
  Ok, I'll refrain from using weird etc to talk about these people.
  
  The Neoliberal Driller.
- BAH GAWD IS THAT DATENA'S MUSIC?!
- The sign language translator has that "another long day in the office" look nailed down.

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