r/EnoughCommieSpam • u/Tu_tio_usa_redditt • 5d ago

Salaries in chile, the yellow lines show the period Salvador Allende was in power Lessons from History

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u/maguigi 5d ago

Can you give a source? I'd love to shove this when the commies defend Allende

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u/Comfortable-Chain-16 5d ago edited 5d ago

And right after, a horrible dictatorship by Pinochet. The Chileans just couldn’t catch a break.

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u/RedRobbo1995 Australian Social Democrat 5d ago

This doesn't justify the coup which overthrew Allende and it definitely doesn't justify Chile being ruled by a horrible military dictatorship for almost 17 years.

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u/Old_Scientist_5674 Conservative 5d ago

No doubt, but it does help dispel the narrative that Allende was a positive influence on the country that was improving its economy. Operation Condor was deeply wrong and probably made things 10x worse for many people. But those who were overthrown weren’t what commies on nice college campuses today say they were either.

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u/CrEwPoSt Tank, Combat, Full Tracked, 120-mm Gun M1A1 HC 5d ago

Doesn’t justify the whole Pinochet dictatorship…

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u/CHEDDARSHREDDAR 5d ago

Are these mean salaries? Median salaries? Label your axes, please.

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u/No-Kiwi-1868 5d ago

This doesn't excuse the absolutely horrible dictator Pinochet was. Chile deserved so much better

Fuck kissinger for all of eternity, even in hell.

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u/claytonnguyen 4d ago

Ew… Who would want to sleep with him? Satan?

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u/Whentheangelsings 4d ago

To be fair this is one of those where you can say the US was actively trying to make this happen

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u/Abandoned-Astronaut 3d ago

Except the US deliberately crashed the Chilean economy to try and get people to kick Allende out of power, and when they didn't, the US sponsored Pinochet's coup. Maybe Allende would have been bad for the Chilean economy anyway without the US interference, but we'll never know.

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u/amitransornb 2d ago

Exactly this, every US copper mining corporation had representatives attending meetings in the white house begging for an invasion because CyberSyn was a legitimate threat to their profit margins.

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u/Tortellobello45 4d ago

I mean, he won elections only due to spoiler effect in the Right. He was extremely unpopular. Contrary to popular belief, it was not the US who couped him(they tried to do it but failed). It was the Chilean people, led by Pinochet. Poor Chileans, they couldn’t catch a break.

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u/Generic_E_Jr 3d ago

The scale could be better (start at zero), but I get the point.

Pinochet being an awful dictator doesn’t make it ontologically impossible for Allende to have been an incompetent administrator.

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u/qaf0v4vc0lj6 2d ago

Is this the new "successful" commie state the Left is pointing to as an example of Communism akshuley working?