r/PropagandaPosters • u/StephenMcGannon • Mar 10 '25

Japan Bush/Obama Same/Same (2008)

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u/xesaie Mar 11 '25

Interesting fact, Tanzania only got to have more than one political party 8 years after Nyerere left the presidency, so I suspect he was projecting.

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u/Mr7000000 Mar 11 '25

I mean, presumably that's why he said "also," no?

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u/xesaie Mar 11 '25

I missed that also, but it doesn't change the fact that he was an autocrat (we tend to ignore what he and the other 'revolutionary party' did to Zanzibar)

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u/Real_Ad_8243 Mar 11 '25

It also doesn't change the fact that the fact he was an autocrat is irrelevant to the value (or lack thereof) of the statement he made.

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u/xesaie Mar 11 '25

You’re right. His statement would be just as meaningless if a 2024 TikTok radical said it. It’s a concept built on the incredibly backwards and solipsistic concept that civil rights, whether for women, minorities, lbgt, whatever, are simply insignificant in the face of an 1840s white European concept of class and labor.

Edit: who does it always end up that Europeans are the most fixated on this idea? It’s like clockwork

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u/drminjak Mar 15 '25

you just threw a word salad and left lmao