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pleb_world | 8 months ago (raw) | export | reply | flag +1 
 He’s done more good than all of us combined nostr:note1ruxqdjaljx6v2tx0096juwxka0vgh2m49eksgccsvwzt4gupld6swspqhh
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BlueGoat | 8 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Simp
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Russo | 8 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Why?
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QW | 8 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 It’s hard to criticize a man’s methods who took the reins on a country that had decades of children soldiers who grew up to homicidal adults. The sad truth. 

Question is, where would El Salvador be right now without him?

I can’t say whether he is a “good guy” but he appeared to be a necessary guy at the time.
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The: Daniel⚡️ | 8 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Too bad we can’t ask @muyshondt about it anymore.
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Kingbee | 8 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Food for thought.
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pleb_world | 8 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
  https://image.nostr.build/8b18eb6606853a2c0c5e4327289a7360d819c9903738a0bb80fcb944179b7755.jpg
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The: Daniel⚡️ | 8 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 I thought Bukele “ended corruption.”

That’s what we were told.
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pleb_world | 8 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Does that completely invalidate all the positive changes in El Salvador because he didn’t 100% eradicate the corrupt nature of humans? 

He did make that claim though, politicians gon’ be politicians… And that’s why I’m not out here saying I think he’s a good guy. I’m just out here saying he’s done more good for more people than any of us will in our lifetimes! 

(still fully expecting Salvador and plebs around the world to get rugged by him at some point tho)
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The: Daniel⚡️ | 8 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Count on it.
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BlokchainB | 8 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Like we just going to ignore how he changed the rules to get re-elected? He gets an A for stopping crime but other parts of his policies are a bit suspect
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The: Daniel⚡️ | 8 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 I am a very popular politician, let me prove it by changing the laws to guarantee I stay in power.
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pleb_world | 8 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 How are we going to ignore that the people voted for him to stay in power? Isn’t that real democracy? He just changed the law to make multiple terms a possibility.
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BlokchainB | 8 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 It just seems fishy to me. Why not work within your party find a candidate that will emulate the same values as the current president then go to the election hope that person gets elected
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QW | 8 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 It is too bad. The whole thing is a shit show.
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kate | 8 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 He’s a dictator running mega prisons but he did get on top of the gang problems
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pleb_world | 8 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Compared to pseudo-dictators running even bigger mega prisons here in the US and who are still not anywhere close to solving our gang/crime/drug problems.. I see it as an absolute win! 🥇 (for now…)
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kate | 8 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 You have a point there.