Aren’t we saying the same thing?

Le président du Faso s’est prononcé sur l’idéologie politique en cours au Burkina. « Nous ne sommes pas dans une démocratie. Nous sommes bien en révolution progressiste populaire. Il faut que tout le monde comprenne cela », a affirmé Ibrahim Traoré.

Pour lui, aucun pays ne peut se développer dans la démocratie qui est « l’aboutissement ».

« On passe forcément par une révolution et nous sommes bel et bien en révolution », a-t-il déclaré, tout en invitant les Burkinabè s’en approprier.

Selon lui, la question de démocratie ou de libertinage d’action ou d’expression, n’a pas sa place. Elle débouche sur une « société de désordre ».

« On ne fait pas de révolution dans le désordre, c’est impossible. Et nous allons faire régner l’ordre et la discipline pour que nous puissions progresser. Parce que les réformes sociales, économiques, politiques, idéologiques ont besoin d’ordre et de discipline. Et chacun a son rôle à jouer », a insisté le Chef de l’Etat.

https://fr.apanews.net/news/nous-ne-sommes-pas-dans-une-democratie-capitaine-traore/

So, basically what’s he’s saying is that the situation is too volatile for democracy, that they want to do certain reforms that require order. The concept of a provisional transitional dictatorship to stabilize things is not an aberration per se, in the context of a chaotic situation. In theory it could be reasonable.

So far so good. One can debate his sincerity, can have different assessments of whether he’s right or not. That’s legitimate political debate.

But the other things he said, equating democracy as such with crimes, that’s extremely alarming. The problem is that he’s making an ideology out of a necessity. He’s not saying “the country is not ready, we need to first stabilize and then democratize”. He’s saying that democracy isn’t even an horizon. And even worse he’s not even qualifying what kind of democracy he’s rejecting, he’s rejecting democracy as such. Really Existing Socialist countries at least maintain that they are higher forms of democracy. He’s done away with the concept altogether.

So they bring the “Jihad” in the “Butlerian”?

I was talking about the US carceral state, i.e., the inhumane American exception from the global norm that is considered “normal” in the US. The US system is slightly more intelligent than blanketly imprisoning a population. No. First the US marginalizes and impoverishes them, then over-polices them, then finds little justifications to label them criminals, then does the imprisonment. That this is entirely normalized and nuanced and cast as complex in a country that considers itself “a city on the hill” or whatever bullshit, is irrelevant. If China had Hollywood and good copaganda TV shows, they would have also convinced the world that their carceral system is normal.

How would Americans feel if Golden Gate bridge was bombed by a hostile entity?

The US is literally doing all the things you’re accusing China of. The only reason it gets a pass on the massive carceral state, the largest in the world by far, is because its cultural industry has so normalized it.

The big difference is that China is a net positive when it comes to global stability and addressing climate change, whereas the US is not.

Those of us who care about things like democracy and human rights have a lot of digging to do.

Boycott, divest, sanction.

Same applies to Israel. BDS should be taken seriously.

Bad juju for Israelis.

That’s a good start but these are rookie numbers.

Further down the thread: https://lemmy.world/comment/23021213

She crossed a line praising the Lod massacre perpetrators. It was not an attack on the IDF, it was an indiscriminate attack on random people in an airport.

That said, we live in an era where criminal and genocidal language is spewed by the leaders of Israel, the US, and other countries. If only the same high standards were applied to them too.

Great advertisement for Chinese solar tech.

At some point, some world leader should do a dressing down of this fuckface right there in the world stage.

Edit: Trudeau was too polite: https://youtube.com/shorts/G0va-McELJE

Fuck around, find out. Trump gave them this power.

The straight being open is not mutually exclusive to the US and Israel being defeated. It just means that they tuck tail and accept that in the new order they created Iran has veto power over the straight so they need to stop fucking with it.

The MAGA US needs to lose this one.

May they all get diarrhea.

Pizzaballa has been outspoken about Gaza.

I don’t care if Iran wins. I just want the US MAGAs and the Israeli fascists to lose this shit they started at this point. Their noses need to be rubbed on their shit until they learn their lesson.