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@ -67,12 +67,24 @@ Why don't buddhist leaders speak out against things like US imperialism? The war
Pragmatism in order to not "rock the boat" is an insufficient answer to atrocities, especially for orgs grounding themselves on moral conduct. It is extremely immoral to not oppose these things, especially as communists and anti-imperialists show themselves willing to do so by risking their lives.
In Loving kindness it plain english, gunaratana tells a story about how the buddha did nothing to prevent a neighboring farmer from slaughtering pigs for 50 years. Nor did he ask king kosala, a powerful supporter, for help to stop this. Nor did he ever ask a king to abstain from wars out of compassion for the beings killed. Instead, gunaratana says that even these killers need our loving friendliness, and only do personal wishes / self-practice.
> Metta is an individual practice that others cannot be forced to participate in. We may not have any power to stop them from killing living beings, but we ourselves should neither kill nor intentionally support the killing of living beings.
Yet this contrasts directly with the story of the buddha intervening to prevent angulimala from killing more living beings. Why is there an inconsistency? Should we intervene it the world to stop killing, or not? Weapons, arms, lying, intelligence services are all needed to stop these atrocities. Look at the examples in latin america, operation condor, where right-wing governments massacred thousands of innocent people.
## Buddhism and inequality
He never challenged the kings to give up power.
In fact he helped king ajatasatu conquer the lichavee people, by advising him that the ppl could not be conquered while they were unified, so based on this advice, the king's ministers hatched a plan to disunify, and conquer them, and the rest of the confederacy. This story is told as a warning against gossip and unwise words, yet ironically the buddha's words proved here to be the unwisest, naively aiding a warlord and indirectly causing death and destruction.
In another story, prince ajatasatu, lead by devadatta, attempts to kill his father, and the buddha. After being caught, the king gives his kingdom to his attempted killer, who then empowers devadatta with assassins to kill the buddha. The buddha then disarms them only with his presence, 16 soldiers in a row (utterly unthinkable).
Then the devadatta tries to murder the buddha, nearly successful.
He stops a man-killing elephant through loving kindness. Real weapons wielded by imperialists have no conscience to be receptive to such.
## Only monks can achieve enlightenment?
In several places, the buddha says that lay people can become enlightened. In others, only celibate monks. In others, only the celibate.
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What good is the buddhas message or its practice, if it doesn't challenge poverty, hunger, and war, which are the most obvious forms of suffering througout human history?
What is the primary contradiction in the world today? World Poverty, and specifically, the division of the world into rich and poor nations.
What is the primary contradiction in the world today? World Poverty, inequality and specifically, the division of the world into rich and poor nations. Some people born on one plot of land have to work all the days of their lives, while other people get to live in idleness and ease.
It is not, as the buddha says, spiritual poverty, or the five hindrances, but real, material, physical hunger, homelessness, lack of health care, lack of comfort, etc.
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If 99% of the population attempted to practice the noble eightfold path, it wouldn't alleviate their poverty.
Practicing the noble eightfold path will not uplift anyone out of poverty. It will not end colonialism. It will not end war. Only challenging bullies, taking posession of production, can do that.
## No friends / loved ones
The buddha talks to vesaka, and tells her that holy ones have no loved ones in the world. This was after she was attending her grandchild's funeral.
In another story he talks about how dear ones bring only pain and suffering in their wake.
Compare 4 noble truths, with the marxist noble truths.
1. Suffering, yes.
2. cause of suffering. Not selfish craving, but the selfish craving of a tiny minority of exploiters, and also those who help them get away with it (which includes religious leaders who advocate against violence, and class struggle). Who dares accuse someone working 10 hours a day, exploited by capitalists, no health care, no security, that the cause of their suffering is their own selfish craving? That the suffering of hunger is just their own selfish craving?
3. nibbana? how about instead comfort, security, stability, health care, free time, friendship, comaradery, fun times.
4. The path - proletarian revolution, which takes decades. Learning the history of class struggle. Ppl working 10 hours a day don't have time to meditate, and practice the precepts.
capitalism / surplus value extraction is the greatest theft of all, stealing time, and lifetimes away. Theft is depriving another of a resource, the use of a resource.

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- Mindful breath of loving-kindness towards all beings.
- Mindful breath of death, and the impurity of your body.
## Dealing with distractions
## Dealing with distractions (hindrances)
[Source](https://suttacentral.net/mn20/en/sujato?lang=en&layout=plain&reference=none&notes=asterisk&highlight=false&script=latin)
- Focus on its opposite, or something else.
- Sensual desire - the gross body
- hatred / anger - loving friendliness
- depression / dejection - wholesome qualities of the buddha
- Examine its drawbacks (three marks)
- Forget or ignore
- Reject or stop them
- Crush them, with teeth clenched and tongue against roof of mouth
- Sensual desire
- The gross body, dead bodies, old bodies, rotting food, reguritated food, food inside the stomach.
- hatred / anger
- loving friendliness.
- depression / dejection
- wholesome qualities of the buddha.
- Dullness / drowsiness
- Meditate on a bright light.
- walking meditation
- washing face
- going outside
- Restlessness and worry
- Mindfulness of breathing
- Doubt
- Stop meditating, and study.
- Or develop a strong resolution to continue.
- Or devotional practices.
- Examine its drawbacks / dangers (three marks). Keeping us entangled in suffering, and not doing good for ourselves and others.
- Forget or ignore. Think of other things: breathing.
- Analyze it deeply, still it and slow it down, see its causes, and see how it causes suffering.
- Crush them, reject them, expell them, with teeth clenched and tongue against roof of mouth.
## List of cravings
- Grabbing phone and mindlessly opening things.
- Stop yourself, do something else.
- Think about the time you waste, and how short your life is.
- Think about how it won't make you happy.
- Leave it in the other room.
- Fix notifs.
- Popcorn + red hot + soy sauce, Tasty foods, meals, snacking.
- Eating neutral foods that don't inspire craving.
- Eating mindfully
- Eating only once per day.
- Imagining that food rotting.
- Rewatching movies / shows
- Do something else productive, like language learning, meditating, reading.
- Thinking about the waste of time.
- Thinking about how it inspires selfish attachment to views. How you then get mad when other people don't like them.
- Foot baths / baths
- Put on socks, warm clothes instead.
- Note how attached you get to it.
- Coffee / tea
- Drink mindfully.
- Browsing lemmy / reddit.
## 10 fetters
1. belief in a self (Pali: **[sakkāya-diṭṭhi](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sakkaya-ditthi "Sakkaya-ditthi")**)
2. doubt or uncertainty, especially about the Buddha's awakeness (_[vicikicchā](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vicikicch%C4%81 "Vicikicchā")_)(
3. attachment to rites and rituals (_[sīla](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhist_ethics "Buddhist ethics")bbata-parāmāsa_)
4. sensual desire (_[kāmacchando](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_hindrances "Five hindrances")_)
5. ill will (*vyāpādo* or *byāpādo*)
6. lust for material existence, lust for material rebirth (_[rūparāgo](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhist_cosmology#Spatial_cosmology "Buddhist cosmology")_)
7. lust for immaterial existence, lust for rebirth in a formless realm (_[arūparāgo](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhist_cosmology#Spatial_cosmology "Buddhist cosmology")_)
8. conceit (_[māna](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C4%81na "Māna")_)
9. restlessness (_[uddhacca](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uddhacca "Uddhacca")_)
10. ignorance (_[avijjā](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avidy%C4%81_\(Buddhism\) "Avidyā (Buddhism)")\_)
## Unwholesome states
1. greed (_[lobha](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raga_\(Buddhism\) "Raga (Buddhism)")\_)
2. hatred (_[dosa](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dvesha_\(Buddhism\) "Dvesha (Buddhism)")\_)
3. delusion (_[moha](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moha_\(Buddhism\) "Moha (Buddhism)")\_)
4. conceit (_[māna](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C4%81na "Māna")_)
5. wrong views (_[micchāditthi](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/View_\(Buddhism\) "View (Buddhism)")\_)
6. doubt (_[vicikicchā](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vicikicch%C4%81 "Vicikicchā")_)
7. torpor (*[thīna*ṃ*](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Th%C4%ABna "Thīna")*)
8. restlessness (*[uddhacca*ṃ*](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uddhacca "Uddhacca")*)
9. shamelessness (*[ahirika*ṃ*](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C4%80hr%C4%ABkya "Āhrīkya")*)
10. recklessness (*[anottappa*ṃ*](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anottappa "Anottappa")*)
## 25 wholesome mental factors
- Nineteen universal beautiful mental factors (_sobhanasādhāraṇa_):
- *[Saddhā](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saddh%C4%81 "Saddhā")* – faith
- _[Sati](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mindfulness_\(Buddhism\) "Mindfulness (Buddhism)")\_ – mindfulness
- _[Hiri](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiri_\(Buddhism\) "Hiri (Buddhism)")\_ – shame at doing evil
- *[Ottappa](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottappa "Ottappa")* – regard for consequence
- *[Alobha](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alobha "Alobha")* – lack of greed
- *[Adosa](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adosa "Adosa")* – lack of hatred
- *[Mettā](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maitr%C4%AB "Maitrī")* – loving kindness (if *adosa* is developed)
- *[Tatramajjhattatā](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tatramajjhattat%C4%81 "Tatramajjhattatā")* – balance, neutrality of mind (also called *[upekkhā](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upek%E1%B9%A3%C4%81 "Upekṣā")*, equanimity)
- *[Kāyapassaddhi](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passaddhi "Passaddhi")* – tranquility of mental body
- *[Cittapassaddhi](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passaddhi "Passaddhi")* – tranquility of consciousness
- *[Kāyalahutā](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lahut%C4%81 "Lahutā")* – lightness of mental body
- *[Cittalahutā](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lahut%C4%81 "Lahutā")* – lightness of consciousness
- *[Kāyamudutā](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mudut%C4%81 "Mudutā")* – malleability/softness of mental body
- *[Cittamudutā](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mudut%C4%81 "Mudutā")* – malleability/softness of consciousness
- *[Kāyakammaññatā](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamma%C3%B1%C3%B1at%C4%81 "Kammaññatā")* – wieldiness of mental body
- *[Cittakammaññatā](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamma%C3%B1%C3%B1at%C4%81 "Kammaññatā")* – wieldiness of consciousness
- *[Kāyapāguññatā](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C4%81gu%C3%B1%C3%B1at%C4%81 "Pāguññatā")* – proficiency of mental body
- *[Cittapāguññatā](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C4%81gu%C3%B1%C3%B1at%C4%81 "Pāguññatā")* – proficiency of consciousness
- *[Kāyujukatā](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ujukat%C4%81 "Ujukatā")* – straightness/rectitude of mental body
- *[Cittujukatā](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ujukat%C4%81 "Ujukatā")* – straightness/rectitude of consciousness
- Three Abstinences (_virati_):
- *[Sammāvācā](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_speech "Right speech")* – right speech
- *[Sammākammanta](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noble_Eightfold_Path#Right_action "Noble Eightfold Path")* – right action
- *[Sammā-ājīva](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_livelihood "Right livelihood")* – right livelihood
- Two Immeasurables (_appamañña_):
- *[Karuṇā](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karu%E1%B9%87%C4%81 "Karuṇā")* – compassion
- *[Mudita](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mudita "Mudita")* – sympathetic joy
- One Faculty of wisdom (_paññindriya_):
- *[Paññā](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pa%C3%B1%C3%B1%C4%81 "Paññā")* – wisdom (also called *[amoha](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amoha "Amoha")*, lack of delusion)
## Noble eightfold path
- Right view
- Learning, Study, 4 noble truths, 3 marks.
- Right intention/resolve
- 3 intentions: renunciation, loving-kindness, non-injury
- Right speech
- 4 types: False, Divisive, Harsh, Idle
- Right action
- No killing, stealing/exploiting, sexual misconduct,
- Right livelihood
- 6: Dealing in meat, poisons, weapons, slavery/prostitution, intoxicants, usury
- Right effort
- Energy, exertion, control over senses.
- 4 aspects
- Preventing unarisen unwholesome states(greed hatred, delusion).
- Removing arisen unwholesome states. (5 hindrances)
- Developing unarisen wholesome ones (8 factors of this path, 4 foundations of mindfulness, 7 factors of enlightenment).
- Develop/Maintain existing wholesome states.
- Right mindfuless
- Awareness/attention to the present, without elaborating, judging, liking/disliking, grasping, or evaluating with a goal.
- 4 foundations: body(breathing, postures, parts), feeling, states of mind, ideas/perceptions
- When enough concentration is built up to mindfulness, panna develops, direct seeing into the 4 noble truths, from moment to moment. Seeing qecomes direct and immediate.
- Right concentration
- Wholesome one-pointedness, collected, stilled, focused, tranquil, without disturbances or hindrances.
- 4 jhanas
- Only used as a powerful tool to develop insight.
- It will not eliminate latent defilements.
- Gain concentration, apply it to right mindfulness, repeat.
Monogram: vilascem
3 groups
- wisdom(view, intention)
- moral discipline(speech, action, livelihood)
- concentration(effort, mindfulness, concentration)
Eliminating defilements: 3 layers
- Latent
- Defeated by right insight
- Active or manifested
- Defeated by right concentration
- Transgression
- Defeated by right Moral conduct

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- 150g water
- 140F
- 2m
## Fukamushi
- 5g tea
- 150g water
- 160F
- 45s
## White
- 2g tea
- 200ml water
- 185F
- 4m

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### Recipe
- combine salt, flour, mix
- combine salt, flour, water, mix
- add butter
- knead for a minute
- let sit for 8m somewhere hot

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@ -4,8 +4,6 @@ This is a guide for good practices / daily routines.
These routines should promote better long-term physical and mental health.
During the non-thinking activities, such as working out, stretching, showering, etc, you can listen to audiobooks / podcasts.
## Recommended apps
For creating recurring habits, use [habit-maker](https://github.com/dessalines/habit-maker), [loop habit tracker](https://loophabits.org/), or recurring tasks using tasks.org . The [don't break the chain](https://luxafor.com/dont-break-the-chain-explained/) method is a proven way to build habits gradually.
@ -94,29 +92,19 @@ Get a fitness tracker like a Xiaomi Mi Band (They cost ~$30), or Huawei Band. Be
You probably don't need to shower every day, 2-3 times a week or anytime after you sweat.
Start with the water very hot, and shave in the shower to save time. Turn the water cold(to whatever temp you feel comfortable with, see above video for why) and wash + condition your hair.
Do navy showers to save time. Start with the water very hot, close drain, shampoo and rinse hair, then turn off water. Condition hair, wash body, then sit down in the water and shave. Turn the water back on cold, and rinse off.
Don't soap your skin or face, only soap folds: your armpits, and crotch.
The colder the shower, the faster you'll be.
Do [Ali Abdals routine](https://youtube.com/watch?v=OrElyY7MFVs), or [Dr Dray's Routine](https://youtube.com/watch?v=G8q08kY3zqY). Rinse / use cleanser, then moisturizer, then retinol, then sun-tan lotion. Do any makeup you need to after.
Do [Ali Abdals routine](https://youtube.com/watch?v=OrElyY7MFVs), or [Dr Dray's Routine](https://youtube.com/watch?v=G8q08kY3zqY). Use moisturizer, then retinol, then sun-tan lotion. Do any makeup you need to after.
Put on deodorant after clothes.
Time: 15m
### (Optional) Drinks
Make coffee or tea only after these are done.
Time: 10m
### Work
Start work. Use the pomodoro method / timer (IE 25-50 minutes work, 5-15 minute no-screen break, 15 minute break every 4 sessions).
Start work. Use the pomodoro method / timer (IE 25m-1.5h work, 5-30m minute break. I've found 1 hour work sessions, with no phone usage, then 15-30m no phone or brain-work breaks, to be best.
Stretch, meditate, Take a 20-30m nap(before 3pm), or walk or just sit there during your short breaks. Use social media / other things during your 15 minute breaks.
I like [this pomodoro app](https://f-droid.org/packages/com.apps.adrcotfas.goodtime/).
I like [this pomodoro app](https://f-droid.org/packages/com.apps.adrcotfas.goodtime/), or use alarms / timers on your watch.
## Night
@ -140,6 +128,7 @@ Your willpower / energy to do daily tasks is like a tank, and needs to be replen
- 20-30m nap. This works best in the afternoon, after coffee, before 3pm.
- Meditating for any amount of time.
- Go for a walk.
### Things that empty the tank
@ -154,7 +143,7 @@ Your willpower / energy to do daily tasks is like a tank, and needs to be replen
Do IF (intermittent fasting). No, its [not bad for you... its good for your long-term health](https://youtube.com/watch?v=7nJgHBbEgsE), and can help you lose or gain weight depending on your goal.
Start out with a **14-10** (14 hour fast, 10 hour eat), and work your way up to either a 20-4, or 22-2. Aim for eating one big meal a day, and snacking / eating whatever you want the rest of your window. I start eating at 4-5pm, and end at 8-9pm.
Start out with a **14-10** (14 hour fast, 10 hour eat), and work your way up to either a 20-4, or 22-2. Aim for eating one big meal a day, and snacking / eating whatever you want the rest of your window. A large morning meal works best, then you're sated the rest of the day.
Switch to a weekly schedule if you want to acheive your goals faster (IE 10-2, fasting 2 days a week, or alternate day fasting).

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## Week
Do abs, stretching, and posture everyday (5m)
Do walks every day.
| Day | Workout | Time |
| ----- | ------- | ---- |
| Mon | Cardio | 15m |
| Tues | Chest | 20m |
| Wed | Rest | |
| Thurs | Cardio | 15m |
| Fri | Arms | 20m |
| Mon | Cardio | 20m |
| Tues | Chest | 15m |
| Wed | Yoga | 20m |
| Thurs | Abs | 10m |
| Fri | Legs | 20m |
## Equipment
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### Cardio
- [Dr. Eric Berg - sprint interval training](https://youtube.com/watch?v=_eB3z1mhlBw) . [Studies](https://runrepeat.com/sprint-interval-training)
- Do 10-20s all-out sprint, 2m rest, 4-6 times in a session. Twice per week. (10m total)
- Do
- 15-20s all-out sprint
- 2m rest
- 4-8 times in a session. (10-15m per day)
- 2-3 times per week.
- Mark's daily apple - [Sprint interval training](https://youtube.com/watch?v=2YogM9wXAJg)
- [Guide.](https://experiencelife.lifetime.life/article/the-beginners-guide-to-sprint-interval-training/)
- [FitnessBlender - 20 min Brutal HIIT Ladder Workout](https://youtube.com/watch?v=cZnsLVArIt8)
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- [Dr. Fung - Intermittent Fasting - the science and benefits](https://youtube.com/watch?v=7nJgHBbEgsE)
- [Jeff Nippard - The smartest way to get lean](https://youtube.com/watch?v=d8V9ZaSq9Oc)
## Six pack abs
Unlike other muscles, such as arms, you can't simply do core exercises to get a six-pack. This is because even if you have ab muscles, they'll still be hidden under a layer of belly chest fat. Diet and cardio are more important than core exercises. To get a six pack, you have to:
- Have _extremely low_ body fat.
- Doing Intermittent fasting is the most reliable way to acheive this.
- Do Cardio to get your chest muscles lean.
- Sprint interval workouts are the best.
- Do chest / weightlifting workouts.
- (Optional) Do ab / core exercises.

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- [The US has more CCTV's per capita than China.](https://aithority.com/news/top-10-countries-and-cities-by-number-of-cctv-cameras/#:%7E:text=The%20United%20States%20has%2015.28,the%20United%20Kingdom%20with%207.5.&text=Russia%20has%20around%20196%2C000%20CCTV,Petersburg.)
- The US's credit score system is vastly more influential and detrimental to a majority of its population than China's social credit system, [which largely doesn't even exist](https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/11/16/chinas-orwellian-social-credit-score-isnt-real/), and where it does exist it is [only used to target businesses](https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/09/15/china-social-credit-system-authoritarian/).
- [numuves - How the US dominates tech](https://youtube.com/watch?v=EgzB4_Zw3RE)
- [What about the "great firewall", isn't it repressive?](https://youtu.be/LAEwoYIYgJA)
- [On the great firewall, and china not allowing US taech companies. ](https://mobile.twitter.com/Mango_Press_/status/1423263749302067202)
### What's going on with the Uyghurs?
@ -810,7 +811,6 @@
### [Did Mao kill millions of people?](https://www.reddit.com/r/communism/wiki/debunk#wiki_anti-communist_myth_number_1.3A_mao_killed_millions_of_people)
- [_Did Mao Really Kill Millions in the Great Leap Forward?_](http://monthlyreview.org/commentary/did-mao-really-kill-millions-in-the-great-leap-forward/) by Joseph Ball
- [_Monster or Liberator?_](http://www.invent-the-future.org/2013/12/monster-liberator-legacy-mao-zedong/) by Carlos Martinez
- [_The Battle for China's Past_](http://www.strongwindpress.com/pdfs/EBook/The_Battle_for_Chinas_Past.pdf) by Mobo Gao
- [_Was Mao Really a Monster? The Academic Response to Chang and Halliday's "Mao: The Unknown Story"_](http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=b83ac8a7e6c2d8ce3f809842521965f1) by Benton and Chun
@ -1466,10 +1466,10 @@ Much credit to [David Kinder's current affairs article, the rise of the Ruth Bad
- [What is whataboutism?](https://blackagendareport.com/praise-whataboutism)
- [A Marxist analysis of the 2008 financial crisis](https://twitter.com/LeninBol/status/1535120492775976967?t=VQXCwkpunYl4adK11n381A&s=19)
- [Gabriel Boric](https://orinocotribune.com/gabriel-boric-lashes-out-at-cuba-and-venezuela-at-summit-of-the-americas/)
- [Responding to a polcomp tweet in which he calls himself a libertarian socialist](https://mobile.twitter.com/gabrielboric/status/1249811334058979328)
- [Demanding that the PCCh retract their support of Daniel Ortega, claiming he's an illegitimate president](https://m.elmostrador.cl/dia/2021/11/12/yo-invito-al-pc-a-retractarse-boric-sale-al-paso-de-la-declaracion-de-sus-socios-a-favor-de-daniel-ortega-por-elecciones-en-nicaragua/)
- [Calling Venezuela a failure and a dictatorship](https://www.infobae.com/america/venezuela/2022/01/22/gabriel-boric-venezuela-es-una-experiencia-que-ha-fracasado-y-la-principal-demostracion-son-los-6-millones-de-venezolanos-en-diaspora/)
- [BlackAgendaReport - Cory Booker](https://www.blackagendareport.com/cory-bookers-boot-licking-butt-kissing-and-buck-dancing-zionism)
https://5pillarsuk.com/2018/02/23/black-panther-the-same-old-western-politics-with-a-black-face/

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- On 11 September 1973, The CIA backed a [military coup](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973_Chilean_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat) to remove democratically elected socialist president Salvador Allende, in favor of right-wing dictator [Augusto Pinochet](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augusto_Pinochet). His US-supported regime was characterized by the systematic suppression of political parties and the persecution of dissidents to an extent that was unprecedented in the history of Chile, backed by the neoliberal free-market economic policies of the [Chicago Boys](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Boys). Over-all, the regime left over 3,000 dead or "dissappeared", tortured thousands of prisoners, and forced 200,000 Chileans into exile. He's known for the [Villa Grimaldi](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Villa_Grimaldi), a torture complex, and his [Caravan of Death](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caravan_of_Death), a Chilean Army death squad guilty of countless atrocities, including dropping pregnant women and teenagers out of helicopters in the ocean, and executions where prisoners were shot by parts, over extended periods of time. Pinochet's forces are conservatively estimated to have killed over 11,000 people in his first year in power. [1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973_Chilean_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat), [2](http://www.spunk.org/library/otherpol/critique/sp001280.html)
- In 1971 in Bolivia, after half a decade of CIA-inspired political turmoil, a CIA-backed military coup overthrows the leftist President [Juan Jose Torres](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Jos%C3%A9_Torres), eventually being kidnapped and murdered by CIA backed right wing death squads, as part of [Operation Condor](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Condor). In the next two years, dictator [Hugo Banzer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Banzer) will have over 2,000 political opponents arrested without trial, then tortured, raped and executed. Banzer wwas trained at the U.S.-operated School of the Americas in Panama and later at Fort Hood, Texas. A few years later the Catholic Church denounced an army massacre of striking tin workers in 1975, Banzer, assisted by information provided by the CIA, was able to target and locate leftist priests and nuns. His anti-clergy strategy, known as the Banzer Plan, was adopted by nine other Latin American dictatorships in 1977.
- In 1971, A CIA operative told a reporter he delivered a strain of the [African Swine Fever](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_swine_fever_virus#Cuba) virus from an army base in the Canal Zone to anti-Castro Cubans. An outbreak of the disease then occurred in Cuba, resulting in the slaughter of 500,000 pigs to prevent a nationwide animal epidemic. It was labeled the "most alarming event" of 1971 by the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization.[1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_swine_fever_virus#Cuba)
- In the 1950s-80s, the CIA [supported a right-wing dictator in Paraguay, general Stroessner.](https://youtu.be/sYJyarFqqY8), an anti-communist pedophile who sheltered nazis, created an indigenous slave trade, surpressed worker revolts, and killed at least 50k people, working with other operation condor countries.
- Starting in the 1970s, a CIA-backed coalition of right wing governments in Argentina, Ecuador, Peru, Chile, Uruguay, Paraguay, Bolivia and Brazil, began [Operation Condor](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Condor), a campaign of political repression and state terror involving intelligence operations and assassination of opponents, with the stated aim of "eliminating Marxist subversion." Victims included dissidents and leftists, union and peasant leaders, priests and nuns, students and teachers, intellectuals and suspected guerillas. An estimated 30,000 to 80,000 leftists or sympathizers were killed. [1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Condor)
- In 1969, amid a collapsing economy, labor and student strikes in Uruguay, CIA operative [Dan Mitrione](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Mitrione) initiates a campaign of torture and violence against the left-wing student group [Tuparamos](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupamaros). Former Uruguayan police officials and CIA operatives stated Mitrione had taught torture techniques to Uruguayan police, including the use of electrical shocks delivered to his victims' mouths and genitals. It has been alleged that he used homeless people for training purposes, who were executed once they had served their purpose.[1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Mitrione#cite_note-9)
- In 1968, a CIA-organized military operation in Bolivia led by cuban exile and CIA agent [Félix Rodríguez](<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F%C3%A9lix_Rodr%C3%ADguez_(soldier)>) captures legendary guerilla [Che Guevara](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Che_Guevara), defeating the [Ñancahuazú Guerrilla](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%91ancahuaz%C3%BA_Guerrilla). The Bolivian president ordered his immediate execution to prevent worldwide calls for clemency, and the drama of a trial. Nazi war criminal [Klaus Barbie](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klaus_Barbie) aka "The Butcher of Lyon", advised and possibly helped the CIA orchestrate Guevara's eventual capture.[1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%91ancahuaz%C3%BA_Guerrilla#cite_note-ObserverChe-1)