The Democratic Party can never fail, it can only be failed. 🤡

And the reason we can get away with military violence is because of financialized violence. They’re interconnected.

For instance, we destabilize regions by bombing them, but we also destabilize them by giving financial support (and often also military support) to opposition parties and terrorist groups who then carry out the violence for us. We also destabilize regions by trapping them in debt, and that debt is partially enforced by military violence, but partially enforced by SWIFT banking and NGO aid organizations and IMF loans and the almighty petrodollar that backs it all up.

It’s a snake eating its own ass. Where the financial warfare ends and the literal warfare begins is impossible to distinguish.

There’s some difference between the violence of “pay our debts or we’ll kill you” and “we’ve destabilized your home region; you need to buy our weapons or they’ll kill you” and “the only way you can afford to feed yourselves is if you buy our subsidized food crops.”

It’s all violent, but it’s not always violence inflicted by jets and aircraft carriers like in the picture.

That’s still consistent, normal people don’t want posts they disagree with to be seen by other people. Only debate perverts would upvote something they disagree with, because they want people to see “good discussion” or whatever.

EDIT To clarify, as a proud debate pervert I tend to upvote people I’m arguing with just so our argument gets more visibility.

I see voting as decentralized moderation, not as an expression of agreement or like or something.

Upvote means “I want people to see this” and downvote means “I don’t want people to see this.”

It’s multifaceted. It’s backed by violence, by oil trade, and US consumption. It’s also backed by trapping countries in debt denominated in US dollars. It’s also backed by US arms and “security” sales in dollars. It’s also backed by the worlds largest banks being based in the US and issuing credit in dollars. It’s also backed by gas, media, and even subsidized ag products like corn. Plus, inertia.

It’s also falling apart because they overused sanctions and created demand for an alternative. They killed the golden goose.

As opposed to all the other times the US removed a sovereign foreign leader? I can name more than half a dozen off the top of my head and I know there’s way fucking more than that that I’d have to look up to remember. Same as it ever was.

lol i was totally right

That’s a no, isn’t it?

Have you actually read anything that wasn’t assigned in school?

Unlike Vietnam, there are millions of people in the US that are either from or that have close family in Latin America. That’s why they spent the last year trying to deport and terrorize migrants, why they want to go after naturalized citizens, why they talk about going after “home growns” after they’ve finished rounding up the migrants, etc etc. It’s all laying the groundwork for this next stage.

We’ll see how well it works. I think they’re moving too fast and it’s going to blow up in their faces.

The US has been waging war since 2002 when it tried to coup Chavez. Obama continued it by hammering them with sanctions and naming Venezuela an “unusual and extraordinary threat” to U.S. national security. Trump continued it by recognizing the joke candidate Juan Guaidó and ramping up sanctions, Biden paused the sanctions pressure to get some prisoners released and then ramped it right up when they didn’t elect the “correct” candidates, and now Trump isn’t even pretending this has anything to do with human rights or elections or national security or any of that other bullshit. He’s ripped the mask of and told everyone what America has always done. Every demon that this county elects thirst for oil and blood, same as it ever was.

In short, death to America. Venezuela will break the back of this invasion and I spit on every piggy that serves in this demon country’s army.

Germany is one of the largest purchasers of US military hardware.

Well yeah they’re haunted.

Make every kWh above the average power draw have a higher cost and it increases further with every additional kWh.

Your employer already governs your livelihood through your paycheck.

That’s why employers should be elected, not just be rich people that can afford to hire workers.

We thinking NEW PARADIGM!!! or denial?

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