And when I say 'again', you know that it was the exploitation by US companies that led to Hugo Chavez ascending to power, right?
We're the ones doing the pillaging. We're going to strip them of what resources they have left, take their wealth for ourselves and leave them with nothing. We're going to make the people an underclass in their own country, serving the rich white colonizers who come in to stay at the luxury hotels and casinos Trump will be building there. Or maybe the Saudis, who knows? The world is full of rich vultures. We'll build data centers over the carcasses of their cities and shoot anyone who wants the water. We're going to rape their women and children.
And then we're going to do it to Cuba. And then maybe Mexico.
What incredible privilege you have to be worried about future labor exploitation at yet-to-be-built resort casinos.
What incredible privilege you have to not care about exploitation as long as capitalists are doing it.
Anything Maduro has done to the Venezuelan people is going to pale compared to what Trump and Western business interests are planning.
I promise you things can get worse. Making things worse is what Americans do.
> What incredible privilege you have to be worried about future labor exploitation at yet-to-be-built resort casinos.
This is an incredibly dishonest take on this situation. You ignore the innumerable historical precedents out there. And you call it hypothetical when they have already made it clear that economic exploitation is exactly what they plan to do. Heck! What is the story of this discussion even about? You're displaying willful and selective ignorance here.
> Maduro’s government shot about two dozen people who had the nerve to protest the last election. Violence against women and children doesn’t get much worse.
How did Maduro get into power in the first place? What is the situation in the other natutal resource-rich countries you invaded in the name of freedom? The US didn't spend all that money to invade a nation to replace its dictatorship with something better, did they?
These self-righteous self-aggrandizing justifications are just too disturbing to read. This is one of those harrowing comments that justify utterly reprehensible and psychopathic behavior.
Messing up the situation and leaving the natives to clean up after them is what the US does every time.
> This seems like a thought-terminating cliche.
The US excuses to military aggression is a cliché. Responses to clichés with a cliché should come as no surprise.
Is this any different from manufactured consent?
The way I see it you can do both at once. Exaggerating/downplaying stories in a way that confirms biases is something the media does today (see MSNBC/Fox News), and I’d argue it’s absolutely a form of manufactured consent.
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