Sri Lanka’s Change Election
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In Sri Lanka, one party — a nominally commie party — has won a landslide election, taking a supermajority of Parliament. Sri Lankans have been posting the Ls more than the winners, all the corrupt old guard that’s leaving. We won’t be sorry to see the back of them. These bastards bombed our churches as political advertising, killed whatever minority was politically expedient, bankrupted the country into a western debt trap, and were casually thievy and rapey. They killed my wife’s uncle, they’ve stolen from my family; they thought they could get away with murder and they did, quite regularly (RIP Thajudeen, Lasantha, so many).
For my entire adult life Sri Lanka was a two-party uniparty, characteristic of the Trojan Horse liberal democracy the Brits dumped here (beware Greeks bearing gifts). The rules of the rules-based order is heads they win, tails you lose. Every election was a rigged coin flip, with the same house always coming out on top. Politicians would keep changing chairs, but it was the same old faces. They just kept murdering and thieving and reproducing, introducing their idiot sons into office; pistol whipping people at nightclubs. I honestly thought we’d never be rid of them, then it happened. Yesterday, actually. Both parties have imploded and most of their…
