A longish thread on the invasion of #Venezuela.
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A longish thread on the invasion of #Venezuela.
We are again watching world media be willingly manipulated. Parroting the propaganda they’ve been fed. Normalising international criminality. Sane-washing what is patently not so, and ignoring globally irresponsible behaviour.
A case in point is watching them bend over backwards to try and make coherent the patently incoherent, contradictory rationale the Trump administration has given for its actions in Venezuela.
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A longish thread on the invasion of #Venezuela.
We are again watching world media be willingly manipulated. Parroting the propaganda they’ve been fed. Normalising international criminality. Sane-washing what is patently not so, and ignoring globally irresponsible behaviour.
A case in point is watching them bend over backwards to try and make coherent the patently incoherent, contradictory rationale the Trump administration has given for its actions in Venezuela.
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First - the reasons given.
Drugs: If the Trump regime cared about drug trafficking, they would not have pardoned the Honduran ex-president convicted of it.
The attacks on Venezuelan ‘drug boats’ were spectacle and priming. For months, the media helped prime the public for what happened yesterday.
But how does kidnapping Maduro and his wife stop cocaine being trafficked to the US? It doesn’t. But Trump supporters cannot think in abstracts. They’ve been fed an image of Maduro as Tony Montana.
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First - the reasons given.
Drugs: If the Trump regime cared about drug trafficking, they would not have pardoned the Honduran ex-president convicted of it.
The attacks on Venezuelan ‘drug boats’ were spectacle and priming. For months, the media helped prime the public for what happened yesterday.
But how does kidnapping Maduro and his wife stop cocaine being trafficked to the US? It doesn’t. But Trump supporters cannot think in abstracts. They’ve been fed an image of Maduro as Tony Montana.
@Remittancegirl Everybody knows that it isn't about drugs.
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@Remittancegirl Everybody knows that it isn't about drugs.
But the world is unable or not willing to stop Trump.@IreneMoews @Remittancegirl
As an American, I'm not sure how we *do* stop Trump. Clearly our systems of impeachment simply don't work. The Democratic establishment is *still* bowing at the altar of Everything Is Fine Actually. The mainstream media is off the rails. The people who don't support Trump were shamed out of violence decades ago, so the right-wingers are the ones with all the guns. The Supreme Court is Trumpist. And the subversion of our electoral process seems inevitable.1/2
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@IreneMoews @Remittancegirl
As an American, I'm not sure how we *do* stop Trump. Clearly our systems of impeachment simply don't work. The Democratic establishment is *still* bowing at the altar of Everything Is Fine Actually. The mainstream media is off the rails. The people who don't support Trump were shamed out of violence decades ago, so the right-wingers are the ones with all the guns. The Supreme Court is Trumpist. And the subversion of our electoral process seems inevitable.1/2
@IreneMoews @Remittancegirl
And yet, in the face of all that... foreigners on the Fediverse look at us, sneer, and insist that "you need to save yourselves".I'm left to wonder if foreign governments also assume we can so easily "save ourselves", or even think we as a people "deserve it" (as opposed to, say, our oligarchs deserving it).
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