• gnuthing@piefed.social
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    5
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    2 days ago

    In the 70s, Nixon initiated a CIA program to stamp out moderately left wing governments in Latin America and Catholic liberation theology that let to significant loss of life and oppression. This was done in conjunction with evangelical churches, including funding their operation

    • a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      2
      arrow-down
      2
      ·
      2 days ago

      I mean, we are bombing indiscriminately, cozying up to the worst dictators, having a president who in all likelihood was indispensable to child trafficking, threatening war against our friends to take over their island, having billionaires invade the systems that protect us, are now monitoring (at scale) the actions of the other branches of government by one, and above all else most of this is being led by a traitor who is in cognitive decline and never did anything other than fail upward in his entire life.

      I just think the bar has shifted quite a bit, no?