A lack of international observers, the suspension of some foreign broadcasts, and the authorities’ decision to cut internet service and impose a night-time curfew nationwide after the poll had raised concerns about the transparency of the electoral process.

If successful, the coup would represent the eighth in west and central Africa since 2020. Coups in Mali, Guinea, Burkina Faso, Chad and Niger have all undermined democratic progress.

The Guardian is coping here

I saw multiple cishet dudes around me lose their shit after rejections and instantly go in stalker mode or worse. I always try to temper them down and sometimes it works, I’m amab presenting for now (sadly), at least I put a couple of people off from doing weird stuff

Dictatorship is when bad country, democratic is when good western country

— 🇵🇱/🇧🇾/🇷🇺 NEW: ‘Polish and U.S. intelligence are preparing a large-scale provocation against the Polish civilian population, which they will blame on Russia and Belarus’ – Aleksandr Lukashenko

Sources: https://www.sb.by/en/lukashenko-warned-about-provocations-being-prepared-by-western-intelligence-services-in-poland.html

https://eng.belta.by/president/view/lukashenko-western-special-services-are-preparing-provocation-in-poland-156158-2024/

In Ukraine, most likely, there will be an additional conscription into the ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine - Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council Oleksiy Danilov

The meat grinder goes on

The amount of times I’ve heard this rhetoric coupled with “the animals are better than us! We should let them govern the planet instead! They’re vastly superior to us murderous beings” is baffling

Trying to blame their proxy state instead of the US to redirect blame

what happened to the marketplace of ideas

Tech workers being labor aristocracy mostly making them much more reactionary. And they’re enthusiastic about some magic tech fixing the world only if we accept our Sillicon Valley overlords and such.

Probably they also are terminally online due to their jobs, thus making them more exposed to all kinds of propaganda on the Western internet.

Capitalism worked under Eastern aggression

Right, the countries that invaded the USSR in its nascent years, constantly tried to assassinate leaders of progressive movements, couped most countries on Earth.

Communist economic sanctions, Communist covert actions

The projection lol

and a propaganda apparatus far more widespread than anything from the West.

As that joke goes, a CIA and KGB officer meet at a bar. The CIA officer says to the KGB officer “You’ve got a good propaganda machine!”, the KGB officer replies “Well, yours is unbeatable.”

The CIA agent responds with “What propaganda? In the West we don’t have propaganda.”