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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by velox_vulnus@lemmy.ml to c/chat@hexbear.net

I saw this new video of BadEmpanada on Bangladesh. As someone from India, I cringed so hard:

  • According to BadEmpanada, it is a revolution of the proletariat 🤡. The students protest, which was marked by the death of a young man, shot by a copper pig, turned into a violent riot, which was then conveniently hijacked by the populist military switching sides, just to commit a coup.

  • And then they finally install a interim puppet of the US. Yep, that microfinance Nobel laureate guy, Mohammad Yunus, who is responsible for a disastrous loan system that has caused farmers and small business owners to common suicide in droves in South Asia.

  • For software engineers out here, Narayan Murthy, the capitalist chuckle-fuck running a IT sweatshop, and father-in-law of Rishi Sunak, endorses this guy. Villains looking out for each other, amirite?

  • Haseena's claim that the US wanted to set their air base on St Martin’s Island to dominate the Bay of Bengal seems to make a lot of sense, given USA's anti-Chinese policies. I mean, the US is know for backing color revolution.

  • the leftists in Bangladesh have been very, very weak, probably after seeing the failures of Jyoti Basu in West Bengal, and have never secured a significant amount of seats. The Awami League, despite being centrist, was a majority party that prevented the descent of the mad fascist Bangladesh Nationalist Party, who are allied with the extremist Jamaat-e-Islami, a religious expansionist group. But not, there's no one stopping them to win the next election.

BadEmpanada also removed several comment which called him out for his ignorance on South Asia. I should've taken a screenshot, because it was so well-written.

Edit: yup, he is deleting comments, lmao. Another thread gone to dust, because he could not answer.

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[-] Diuretic_Materialism@hexbear.net 46 points 1 month ago

You know, it's okay to NOT have an opinion on a political event in a country you don't know much about.

[-] Nakoichi@hexbear.net 45 points 1 month ago

More like FedEmpanada.

I really hate that guy.

[-] BobDole@hexbear.net 37 points 1 month ago

Australian colonizer moves to South America to exploit the local economy.

[-] SeekTheDeletion@hexbear.net 19 points 1 month ago

to argentina no less. wonder if there's a history of a certain type of white guy going to argentina in droves?

[-] Frogmanfromlake@hexbear.net 14 points 1 month ago

Tbf they’ve been moving to the Americas since colonization began

[-] BeamBrain@hexbear.net 41 points 1 month ago

BadEmpanada's been on a streak of absolutely terrible takes lately. Was there any particular catalyst for this?

[-] booty@hexbear.net 37 points 1 month ago

I thought this was what he was always like. People here mentioned him only every now and again and I was always a little surprised because I thought he was a regular lib.

[-] Barx@hexbear.net 12 points 1 month ago

Yes he's always been like this

[-] Diuretic_Materialism@hexbear.net 12 points 1 month ago

I argue his good to bad take ratio used to be a little better than it is now, but he always had bad takes.

[-] heggs_bayer@hexbear.net 22 points 1 month ago

Bad Take Empanada kelly

[-] jack@hexbear.net 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

He's a staunch anti-zionist, so his profile grew lately. Now all his other bad opinions are coming to light.

[-] MF_COOM@hexbear.net 36 points 1 month ago

I mean I agree with the title of the post, but please don't let YouTubers or streamers be the measure of our ignorance

[-] velox_vulnus@lemmy.ml 23 points 1 month ago

Fair point, I've changed the title to reflect the message.

[-] AssortedBiscuits@hexbear.net 28 points 1 month ago

Why do people care about what that sexpat gringo (all white male immigrants in Global south countries are sexpats unless proven otherwise) has to say?

He's a Professional Bad Takes Haver. This isn't anything new, he just does this for clicks.

[-] pooh@hexbear.net 25 points 1 month ago

Anyone else notice a lot of odd noise on social media over this? And I mean lots of denials that the US had anything to do with it. Maybe I’m paranoid, but I also notice this sort of thing when coups in Latin America happen, so makes sense that there would also be astroturfing regarding this event.

[-] Red_sun_in_the_sky@hexbear.net 20 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

He is an arrogant guy and very abrasive. He says lot of baseless shit at times.

The whole affair in Bangladesh looks like a gladio op. Hasina at first took time to say ISI was involved. Now she is saying US interfered.

The small business loans, sks loan shit is from pierre omidyar and de soto who ran peru into the ground. Of course this yunus is also affiliated with them. I've seen too many news outlets pushing the "noble prize winner".

Funny that narayana murthy is also jumping in.

Situation surrounding Mizoram, Myanmar and Bangladesh has not been good. The refugee crisis since Myanmar coup has gotten worse. Even just recently rohingya people escaping died in a drone attack on a boat. It just gets worse.

I see more escalation coming.

[-] dirtybeerglass@hexbear.net 19 points 1 month ago

Amplifying idiot is the only capital offence in my utopia.

[-] newacctidk@hexbear.net 17 points 1 month ago

I like BE 80% of the time and think people often act hysterical about him, but fucking hell is he spiraling right now. Just doing contrarianism with no consistency

[-] Breath_Of_The_Snake@hexbear.net 11 points 1 month ago

👨‍🚀🔫👨‍🚀

[-] newacctidk@hexbear.net 5 points 1 month ago

His work on Che is good, his stances on Israel are essentially perfect, his Columbus videos are not particularly Marxist but are good, his video on Fujimori is a great resource for a subject most english speaking leftists are utterly clueless on same goes for his Shining Path video. It is silly to treat his work as always generic western libshit. That would just be ignoring reality in the service of a clear narrative. We are better than that

[-] lowered_lifted@hexbear.net 16 points 1 month ago

BadEmpanada has been a fool for a long time so this is fun to see

[-] ZoomeristLeninist@hexbear.net 14 points 1 month ago

good post but please put a CW for self harm in the title

[-] velox_vulnus@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 month ago

Aye aye 🫡

[-] CliffordBigRedDog@hexbear.net 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

You're telling me the guy behind this genius take is deeply ignorant about South Asia?

[-] velox_vulnus@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Wow, this tweet is just full of so much misinformation, I'm laughing out of my ass. Blud blatantly denies the existence of STs, SCs and OBCs.

[-] gueybana@hexbear.net 4 points 1 month ago

Pure bigotry

[-] heartheartbreak@hexbear.net 10 points 1 month ago
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