Intent on toppling Mexico’s popular president, local oligarchs and an international right-wing network backed a youth-led anti-corruption uprising,

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    From the link:

    Among the chief organizers was a wealthy young influencer named Carlos Bello; Mexico’s most infamous serial tax cheat, Ricardo Salinas Pliego; and the operators of anonymous social media accounts which mysteriously attracted hundreds of thousands of followers on Twitter/X, Instagram, and TikTok in just a handful of weeks.

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          15 hours ago

          Not if you confiscate all their wealth and make their kids actually work for a living.

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            Well, then you were just making a rich kid poor. What if they could earn that money back and then exact their revenge by buying a social media company in brainwashing teenage Boys to vote for them? I’ve seen enough movies to know that the only way to get this done is to kill the whole bloodline.