• eran_morad@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    The three moderate candidates in the race – Jill Stein, Cornel West and Chase Oliver – were barred from participating.

    Yeah bruh, you lost all credibility with this russian bullshit. Fuck off.

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      3 months ago

      It’s precisely as inaccurate and ethnocentric as American media’s discussion of, say, politicians in Africa or Latin America would be. Which is the joke.

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    3 months ago

    Why is “former colony” written like it’s a pejorative?

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      Because the entire article is a parody on how western media usually reports on sub-saharan African states.