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Re:The TikTok Hearings Inspired Little Faith in Social Media... by luckylion on Saturday March 25, 2023 @07:59AM (#35301783)
> It will be far better having US as dominant power than having the axis countries like China, Russia, Iran.

For us in Europe, that's certainly true. For someone in South America where the US had installed some dictator, or funded and trained some paramilitary groups to clear lands for US fruit companies, I don't think that answer is quite as clear.

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Re:The TikTok Hearings Inspired Little Faith in Social Media... by cool_dude85 on Saturday March 25, 2023 @08:40AM (#35302082)
Let's be fair, the US has installed and supported plenty of dictators in Europe. In Greece, Spain and Romania at least the US has strongly supported the dictators there.
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Re:The TikTok Hearings Inspired Little Faith in Social Media... by thefounder on Saturday March 25, 2023 @06:12PM (#35307995)
That sounds like a conspiracy theory. It was more like the U.S didn't support democracy in certain European countries(i.e left them to Russia) than to support dictators backed by communist systems.
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Re:The TikTok Hearings Inspired Little Faith in Social Media... by DuckFeathers on Sunday March 26, 2023 @04:47PM (#35319414)
You don't need to install dictators. You can just continue to get potentially problematic leaders into unexpected accidents until your guy gets voted into power.
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