glad you enjoyed it!

There are definite “smells” of CIA here, particularly the drug running and arms trafficking networks based out of Florida.

oh, for sure. can guarantee that one.

I had no idea the US had invaded Haiti. For 20 years no less!

ikr? and Haiti didn’t do nothing to oppose the US’ sanctions or their looting of Haiti but still got invaded anyways.

It seems it was really the earthquake that broke Haiti’s back, just textbook disaster capitalism. Like, I hated the Clintons before but fuck I hate them even more now, somehow.

the leader of the recovery commission of Haiti being clinton - and not even a Haitian - really pissed me off too

Where are the Marxists I wonder?

not sure, and i plan to find out next. only marxist views i’ve seen are non-Haitians who equally blame all sides - government, imperialists and “gangs” - without considering why those armed groups exist for example.

i’d imagine class solidarity is quite high in Haiti, especially with cooperative, neighborhood groups provided the most mutual aid there.

my guess is as marxists, we should support these groups directly (funding, volunteering) especially with weapons to outweigh the criminal gangs and pressure them to rehabilitate into their local communities, hopefully preventing conflict.

then shift focus to socialist and marxist groups, kind of like the Cuban revolution. then as one entity, they could hopefully overthrow the state with support from the global south. but again i really don’t know for sure.

It does seem that a BRICs aligned peacekeeping force would be the best thing for Haiti based on this video. Some stability and belt and road investments.

yeah, sounds like a good bet.

hdjsjsndndnn hiiii

important to note mozilla is keeping their mastodon.social account, just not their instance experiment

The underlying nature of the class forces at play are incredibly dense and difficult to parse

oh, for sure

most of the narratives about whats happening are incredibly simplistic and/or naive.

definitely. they don’t breakdown the complexities of armed groups in haiti or don’t mention the immense colonialism and oppression exerted by the West, NGOs and charities.

a lot of videos on haiti like to blame the haitians too which was why i was skeptical going into the video, but the video has a (mostly) good and consistent narrative at least.

I will say I hate the framing of the armed groups as “gangs” it’s just so racially coded.

oh i didn’t catch that. yeah that’s racially coded, i wouldn’t call neighborhood defence groups for example “gangs”

i’ll be waiting for your comment then

oh for sure lol

autocompleting like that is so messed up but atp i really shouldn’t be surprised

for sure, takes guts to say that shit in your own press conference

anytime

ooh happy for you

(the both of us)

for sure! watching a trans meme comp rn

yt recommended finally doing its job (no fascists)

from a reddit comment:

The spokesperson states that the people of Haiti are now being subjected to the same violence Kenyans experienced at the hands of the police at home.

In June 2024, Kenyan police were sent to “restore order” to the gang-controlled country. Massive protests spread across Haiti earlier this year, calling on the US-backed Ariel Henry to resign. Armed gangs then exploited the power vacuum that followed and currently control about 85% of the capital, Port-au-Prince.

So far, 400 Kenyan police officers have been deployed and a total of 1,000 have been promised. US neo-colonies such as Bangladesh, Benin, Chad, the Bahamas, and Barbados are also set to participate in the US-financed invasion.

In the first six months of 2024, five children a week were killed or injured in Haiti, totaling 131 children. More than 600,000 Haitians have been displaced and become homeless due to gang violence. Two million live in gang-dominated areas where the risk of being killed or kidnapped is high. NGO Save the Children warned that given the track record of the Kenyan forces, the invasion would likely only lead to more violence and suffering.

10/10 would recommend

birthdate counts by the date of the first repository commit to the ActivityPub protocol, btw

birthdate counts by the date of the first repository commit to the ActivityPub protocol, btw