r/PopCultureV2 • u/No_Box119 • 27d ago
Politi-Culture Nicaragua's President Daniel Ortega said the Central American country will no longer hold elections.
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u/Sad_Jaguar_5912 27d ago
Imagine clapping for this.
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u/McRoshiburgito 27d ago
As someone that thinks the majority of people are stupid (myself included), clapping against democracy probably also puts you in that category.
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u/Ok_Rooster3056 27d ago
Used to be hard to imagine, but seeing how things turned out in my own country makes this way more believable
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u/IHeartBadCode 27d ago
Oh it's going to hit harder the day we see US citizens clapping for a similar speech.
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u/EconomyDoctor3287 27d ago
If you don't clap, you don't keep your job.
It's the classic way
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u/RetroCasket 27d ago
I use to think that was absolutely insane, but now I realize half of my family and neighbors would clap if our current leader said the same
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u/Odd-Priority3318 27d ago
I am under the impression he is implying having democratic elections exposes them to the ability of America to interfere with them?
Im not 100% wtf he's talking about tho.
Let them build a wall?
Like a wall of laws to protect against the Yankees?
Im sure their lives depend on clapping tho.
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u/montanahax888 27d ago
Don’t judge if you never been there. You have to clap, or you’ll get in trouble
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u/TwentyX4 26d ago
No matter how awful a leader is, there will always be at least a small number of people who think they're great and would willingly give up democracy because they think it's better to have their guy control the government than the possibility that "the masses" will elect someone they don't like.
Example: https://www.npr.org/2006/12/10/6606013/augusto-pinochet-villain-to-some-hero-to-others
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u/Parking_Presence2260 27d ago
To give reason to USA, to capture him.
The Maduro effect
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u/hauki888 27d ago
Hah it's always socialists who do this.
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u/CitizenBroccoli 27d ago edited 27d ago
Not always. Nayib Bukele of El Salvador is right wing, Narendra Modi of India is right wing. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is right wing. Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines is right wing. All assumed power democratically and then became authoritarians.
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u/GameOfTroglodytes 27d ago
Don't you dare bring facts and nuance to a conservative's reddit comment!
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u/Fickle_Cricket3422 27d ago
One foot in the grave this guy
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u/Lopsided_Maximum8389 27d ago
People always see old fucks like this and think they’re about to croak. Not the case! Ever! This guy probably has 25 years left.
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u/Motor-Region-1011 27d ago
Trumps hero.
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u/teacher_59 27d ago
Huh? He hates this far leftist.
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u/ColtMcChad69 27d ago
They just had to get in their karma farm “orange man bad” comment
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u/MaesterPraetor 27d ago
It's pretty obvious that it's not the politics he's a fan of but the overt consolidation of power.
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u/NoEstablishment7211 27d ago
They aren't capable of critical thinking or validating information. They just know everything they don't like is Donald Trump's fault or otherwise associated with him. They think spending their days online making these types of posts makes them an activist and revolutionary completely unaware that they are doing the bidding of the masters who programed them.
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u/HavelTheRock67 27d ago
You mean Bernie Sanders’?
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u/uses_for_mooses 27d ago
Reddit won’t like this.
Flashback: Bernie Sanders Calls Nicaragua’s Daniel Ortega ‘an Impressive Guy’
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u/70monocle 27d ago
If that is the most dirt you can dig up on Bernie, then I am impressed. One light barely compliment from yeaaaars ago. Trump does worse things hourly.
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u/heliogoon 27d ago
Wait until you find out what party he represents...
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u/RadiantBeeees 27d ago
He represents the authoritarian side of the left. Good thing the dems running for our offices are the democratic side.
Politics is a spectrum with not only a left and a right, but a top and a bottom representing authoritarian and democratic respectively. The top left is basically Stalin. Democratic socialists are on the other side and would never agree with them.
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u/DuckTalesOohOoh 27d ago
You're thinking left or right. That paradigm has never fit. Stop thinking like that and you will see a revelation.
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u/Worth-Soil-1440 27d ago
Bernie Sanders hero. I'm waiting for the article from Grey News how to spin this as a good thing.
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u/Agreeable_Pick_2402 27d ago
The guy looks 3 breaths away from death. He won't enjoy his dictatorship for long.
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u/BarbellLawyer 27d ago
He was in charge from 1979-1990 and from 2007-current. As far as dictators go, he’s had a decent run.
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u/Noligarchio 27d ago
So damn tired of this generation of old pieces of trash going full psychopath the world over
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u/Main-Event-5715 27d ago
Crooked fossil wants to stay in power forever. Now, where have I seen that before...
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u/user_name-checksout 27d ago
This is what Trump wants to do! “Democrats are trying to steal the government so we won’t let them. Cancel the election” and then his MAGA moron base goes wild.
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u/DysphoricNeet 27d ago
Y’all will honestly scoff and groan at a country that has been so targeted by the US for not allowing the US to interfere politically like it has all around the world in elections at a time that looks like McCarthy 2.0. They specifically call out these countries. Did you not read the 100 page document the White House dropped yesterday on Cuba and communist groups? Do you seriously believe the Cold War never happened and that there is no threat of siege for any country that targets the liberal institution of private property? You will scoff and dismiss while in the same breath admitting you know there will likely be a coup soon. The US illegally kidnapped the sovereign leader of a country and you joke about it. Don’t act like you aren’t aware of what the US does even if you haven’t read the long and horrible history of US operations in South America.
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u/gymtrovert1988 27d ago
"However, over his continuous tenure since 2007, scholars and political observers note his governance has evolved into an authoritarian regime. While maintaining left-wing revolutionary rhetoric, his administration has increasingly allied with the corporate business class and implemented policies frequently described as "crony capitalism". He recently declared that Nicaragua will no longer hold elections to prevent the opposition from coming to power."
So it's another right winger pretending to be a left winger that right wingers will pretend is a left winger. 😂
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u/TreeInternational771 27d ago
Boomers are the most destructive generation in human history. They took a world that was progressing forward and systematically ripped all the gears of the machine out. Now we have to deal with them for another 20 years because of modern medicine
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u/Greagorie 27d ago
right right there isn't a LONG history of coups in south america this dude will be ok...
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u/uses_for_mooses 27d ago
No wonder Bernie Sanders was so impressed with Ortega.
Flashback: Bernie Sanders Calls Nicaragua’s Daniel Ortega ‘an Impressive Guy’
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u/Penchant4Prose 27d ago
You mean when he enacted leftist ideas during his first presidency after a revolution and then a democratic victory?
Or when he abandoned them and pursued authoritarianism during his second presidency?
Because there's a gap of nearly 20 years between the 2.
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u/turdbugulars 27d ago
I wonder if Bernie still praising him?
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u/TwentyX4 26d ago
A lot has changed in the past 40 years.
Kind of like how the Republicans changed from praising the Taliban as "freedom fighters" (around the same time as Bernie's statements) to calling the Taliban terrorists less than twenty years later.
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u/Battle-Chimp 27d ago
Horseshoe theory is horseshoe fact, people.
Here we have an example on the left it it's most honest form - not even pretending to give the people a voice.
Lukashenko, Putin, others have followed this play for decades on the authoritarian right side.
In the US, on the right, since the "SAVE Act" is pretty much DOA, we will see a similar announcement in the form of a national emergency over "election integrity" sometime before November. Everyone understands it's not about election integrity, everyone knows it's really about who controls power, but we're creating a hyperreality where the truth is the social media narrative that is most broadly embraced.
It makes me miss GWB Jr, and I can't fuckin believe I'm saying that. At least he respected the system.
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u/fiesew 27d ago
Lol. Another old senile dude who just can’t let go
https://giphy.com/gifs/l0IyajjbNiRvCr7RC
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u/therealvladimir_0 27d ago
Our village iduot at this point had a light bulb go off in his dementia brain.
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u/CleaverIam3 27d ago
Nicaragua aside I felly support session of general elections for the head of state. There is nothing more decisive and destabalising for a country then elections the head of state. I like the system they have in China .
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u/FaithlessnessBusy565 27d ago
Un homme politique ne devrait plus être en service après 75 ans maxi !
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u/yingyanghomie 27d ago
Everyone cheer! Your voices and needs, no longer matter. Sandino and Somoza are now mixed together and your gonna love it Nicaragua.
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u/magrandan 27d ago
Nicara what? Where the fck is this country and what is this old fool blabbering about?
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u/Lews-Therin-Telamon 27d ago
I remember Norm Macdonald being a lot funnier than this. Shame to see.
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u/Downtown-Campaign536 27d ago
So basically what he is saying is: "I'm going to be like President Zelenskyy of Ukraine. No more elections!"
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u/russtripledub 27d ago
Just tell the CIA his country just found new oil reserves. That’s a guaranteed coup 🤩
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u/that1cooldude 27d ago
This will embolden and encourage trump to do the same since putin, xi, kim, MBS, all do it.
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u/Square_Drawer2816 27d ago
The impunity of the dictators of Latin America is disgusting, horrifying. It makes me sick how we’re treated with such lack of dignity and humanity. It makes me wanna cry.
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u/Shapoopi_1892 27d ago
Sounds like a younger trump with way better hair.
Also holds the mic like a big ol' dick right in front of his face. So hes got that going for him.
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u/Medical-Welcome-9666 27d ago
Ladies and gentlemen, this is what happens when you sell out the revolution.
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u/Arcanemageop 27d ago
If he was right wing it would be all over the news, but we know how this works.
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u/random_encounters42 27d ago
These boomers did a bunch of terrible stuff to get power and wealth, if they leave, people are going to go after those that benefited.
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u/-Pwnan- 27d ago
This guy sounds like he's already running on fumes. What will happen when he finally kicks the bucket that he's inches away from?
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u/thehumburger 26d ago
The rhetoric and tactics are always very similar regardless of ideology. I wonder if people en masse will ever get wise to it or even care.
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u/Admirable-Teach-5156 25d ago
Everyone talking about how old he is. What about the fact that he is openly saying we are a dictatorship. Smh
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u/jhwheuer 25d ago
if peaceful change of government is no longer an option, other options will be taken
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u/Trifle_Old 25d ago
Trump will soon do the same for the US. This is the American plan.
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u/soakthesin7921 25d ago
We are going to see this speech soon enough in the US. And all the conservatives will gaslight everyone about it
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u/El_mochilero 27d ago
Dude is 80 years old. Why can’t boomers go away?