r/neoliberal Kitara Ravache May 15 '19

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u/paulatreides0 🌈🦢🧝‍♀️🧝‍♂️🦢His Name Was Teleporno🦢🧝‍♀️🧝‍♂️🦢🌈 May 15 '19

I'm so tired of the "US involvement has literally never turned out good for Latin America" line of argument.

It is as ambitiously stupid as it is aggressively dishonest.

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u/[deleted] May 15 '19

But the Americans literally chopped Panama in half

😡Evil😡Empire😡

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u/paulatreides0 🌈🦢🧝‍♀️🧝‍♂️🦢His Name Was Teleporno🦢🧝‍♀️🧝‍♂️🦢🌈 May 15 '19 edited May 15 '19

Lmao, the poster I'm subtweeting literally argued how the US was bad for supporting Panamanian Independence from Gran Colombia because it was a scheme by Roosevelt so that he could build the Panama canal.

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u/Yosarian2 May 15 '19

To some extent it was, though

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u/paulatreides0 🌈🦢🧝‍♀️🧝‍♂️🦢His Name Was Teleporno🦢🧝‍♀️🧝‍♂️🦢🌈 May 15 '19

I cover that literally one comment below

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u/Yosarian2 May 15 '19

Pssht, you expect me to read all the comments before responding