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.
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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