Loving the defense of “But slavery makes things cheaper 🥺” as if everyone didn’t already know that. As if the main reason to enslave people was for the love of the game.
My account is still blocked from searching/tags/etc on my business blog @foundfamilyadventurecrafts so I’m posting this here. There’s something very bad happening with Small Business, Tech, and Amazon. What else is new?
> random trans woman on the internet getting a lot of attention > ask ppl on socmed if this is proportional to her words and deeds or if they’re trying to make a new lolcow > they don’t understand > pull out illustrated diagram explaining what is proportional attention and what is turning them into a lolcow > they laugh and say “it’s not that deep, it’s just a joke lol” > look at her posts > they’re turning her into a lolcow
immediately started seeing these kind of takes on twitter and I know they will reach here and you have to understand this isn’t happening because the US is the country of cartoon villains who does things because it’s evil. It’s imperialism. The US has an empire and it wants to keep it and extend it. When it does not use diplomatic and political means it uses financial and economic control, when that does not work it tries to use intelligence operations and when that does not work it uses military action. Venezuela has gone and suffered through all the stages of this and now it’s being struck with direct military action.
And again, the reason why the US does all this is not because “thirst for blood and chaos”, it’s because it’s an empire. It wants the natural resources of Venezuela. It wants to keep its imperial dominion over Latin America, it wants to erase potential rivals on the region and keep it under their control. They have said it so. Explicitly.
Stop thinking things happen because of craaaazy guys like Trump or just because the US is “cursed” or whatever the fuck. These things have reasons behind them. Learn that the US is an empire, that it has economic and political interests behind the actions they do, that Latin America and the rest of the global south, and also the US people themselves, have to resist and challenge this empire, and that the only way for this empire to end will be the dismantling and destruction of the US capitalist oligarchy and the triumph of socialism and anti-imperialism.
“the US will run Venezuela directly until there’s a ‘transition’”
there we go.
in the words and candence of Trump:
“WE are going to run the country. (untilthereisasafeandjudicioustransition) … We are going to run it basically. And as you know the oil business in Venezuela has been a bust for years now… the best oil companies in the United States will invest on its infrastructure.”
Just if there is any ambiguity. The oil part was immediately afterwards by the way. I’m almost transcribing it live, you will find the transcript soon. Say what you want about Trump but he is completely transparent.
“we built the Venezuelan oil industry with American money and talent and the socialist regime ROBBED it from us, it was the largest theft of American property in history”
OH MY GODDDDDDDDDDDDD
IT’S LITERALLY LIKE IF US CAPITALISM AND IMPERIALISM MATERIALIZED INTO A PERSON. IT’S LIKE HISTORY IS SPITTING ON MY FACE. I FEEL LIKE I’M GOING INSANE.
If you’re a USAmerican and rightfully horrified by what the government is doing right now, I just want to rq share 5calls. They have a really simple tool for finding your reps and contacting them, as well as a variety of scripts for anyone not confident speaking off book. Emails can be filtered out, phone calls, voicemails, and physical letters are much harder to ignore. Calling your reps isn’t the end all be all of anti-war action, but it’s a place to start while you process what the fuck just happened.
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