Broke Wave
The GOAT
Egypt under Mubarak was a terrible, corrupt, repressive military dictatorship.
Egypt today is a terrible, corrupt, repressive military dictatorship.
this is funny.
I guess it's easier to vomit out these racist, orientalist stereotypes about Arabs and Muslims than to look at these failed attempts at democracy within the context of the history of the region. like how the West has long encouraged fundamentalist Islam and other reactionary forces to suppress the embryonic social struggles in Arab & Muslim countries and how any instance of democratic, leftist or liberal impulses were stamped out and suppressed.
no, it's easier to label A-rabs as a subhuman race of savages that need a *strongman* to keep them in check.
Shoulda supported the Ikhwan :wakeupmad: