You can thank Maduro for that. Chileans are scared of the drug gangs that came infiltrated among the Venezuelan refugees who fled to Chile.
venezuelans, much like indians and muslims, are the main concern for many countries right now.
Right or left isn’t the threat. It’s populism and autocracy that is what is so risky.
I love how, according to the article, he’s far right for wanting less crime and more deportations while the communist is “center-left” :)))
[Being pro-Pinochet] doesn’t make you far right. You can strongly respect him for being a hero against communism and still also not want a repeat of his extremism when the USSR is no longer a apocalyptic threat.
worldnews is a subreddit that got gradually got botted to shit over the past decade. You can look at posts there from 10+ years ago and the difference is stark
Edit: here I found an even better example this is a post from during the 2014 Gaza conflict and it’s a perfect example of how the subreddit today is completely different link
The biggest change to worldnews and /r/politics wasn’t when they started astro turfing with bots but when they started shadow deleting content based on phrases (while claiming it was to combat bots, something that none of their policies has ever had an effect on ever)
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