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I apologize. I sometimes introduce typos, especially when using autocomplete on tiny mobile keyboards. I'm sure it's just me and never happens to anybody else.

Anyway, I corrected that typo. Please, oh please, take me seriously now.

Maybe they meant the university

I can't take you seriously if you think a typo invalidates someone's argument or opinion.

Also calling it anti-leftist is just poor framing, paramilitar organizations have very close ties with the right-wing politicians here.

> "Paramilitary organizations have very close ties with the far-right politicians here."

Does that make it more likely those paramilitary organizations are on the left, or on the right?

I think they're implying that anti-leftist isn't the same as far-right. A centrist could in theory function as an anti-leftist.

Are there anti-leftist militarists in Colombia who are centrist?

I have no idea.

Take a guess.

Yes.

Was Uribe center-left or far-right? It seems like was both at different times. In any case, viewed by this outsider from thousands of miles away, Colombian politics looks fluid enough that labels lose distinction. The one constant seems to be U.S. policy.

Ok… no then? I was just trying to save the original poster from being badgered in bad faith with questions like, ‘take a guess’.

Yeah, but also anti-comunist propaganda from the cold war is still prominent, so when they say anti-leftist it feels like a justification. I'm sorry this is not my main language.

> when they say anti-leftist it feels like a justification

I wrote "anti-leftist" to be descriptive, not normative. If it wasn't clear, I aim to criticize American policy, not to praise it.

It's fair to call that out. Anti-communist propaganda is a problem still in the US as well.

Is the mountain of skulls really propaganda?

Uh, aren’t the paramilitaries explicitly targeting leftists? As in ‘let’s go out and murder some of those leftists’?

What else could you call anti-leftist but that?

Honestly, I was confused by that myself.

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