When they had the clout of a shiny world superpower they could bribe some people who trusted they could be rescued if they were caught
Now who's gonna accept a bribe from the lame collapsing pile of garbage run by Genocide Joe and Stupid Orange Man? They couldn't even save any of their puppets from getting executed.
Tbh Sankara isn't really demonized there, he's got more of a silent treatment by the establishment. Leftists tend to love him, and most importantly, French people absolutely suck at English and don't engage with english speaking content at all. So basically Vaush is no one there, because nobody can watch an English speaking stream
As a personal aside, my partner is concerned that I will fall into a “conspiracy theory” or “cult” bubble due to my ML leanings
That's why it's important not to fall into the old Soviet way of having a Marx or Lenin quote for everything. It's a good exercise to vulgarise dialectical materialistic analysis and back it with academic sources, as well as references to the basis of logic and the scientific method.
Some people will still think you're dogmatic even with that though, then a good way of staying in friendly territory is to take a shot at flat earthers and QAnon nuts from time to time
Liberal institutions have no response, other than unproductive hostility, against conspiratorial thinking because they require nothing but blind trust. The media doesn't know the difference between a structured and informed radical analysis and whatever wierd stuff people on the internet come up with. Most importantly, conspiratorial thinking is the basis for creating myths about the imperialist's enemies.
It's up to us to provide the tools to build upon broken trust in liberal institutions
Not a lot of info on the author but this is pretty epic :
At 28, he joined the anti-apartheid movement in South Africa, building sanitation and water systems by day on a stipend and playing the saxophone in his free time in a band.[4] He later earned a master's degree in environmental engineering from Bangkok.
This kind of scenario reminds me of WWI. I wouldn't be optimistic for a progressive revolution given the state of ideology but maybe we'll have an anti-west coup in Ukraine which would be one step
Could've at least used a diamond one