• odioLemmy@lemmy.world
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    10 hours ago

    USA will aid Jamaica in the form of touristic corporations that will privatize their land (most of Jamaica’s beaches are already restricted to locals), massive cruise ships full of ignorant tourists, and all this will report net negative value to their citizens because its exploitative nature. But the GDP will go up

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    9 hours ago

    Those people really suck. Except for ALL the Venezuelans I’ve ever met, including my neighbors, and one of my best friends. They’ve all been great, but I’m sure the rest of them really suck.

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    11 hours ago

    You’d think a country like the US that claims to be Christian would remember the whole Thou Shalt Not Kill thing. Meanwhile, Venezuela is sending foreign aid and turning the other cheek.

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      9 hours ago

      SCOTUS told Trump he needs an actual war in central or south America to invoke the Alien Enemies act. He needs that to justify internment camps and to allow the military to support ICE.

      Venezuela is as good a target as any.

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          Every state (meaning country/government) supports terrorists. They only call it terrorism if it’s a non-state actor though. Ignoring what we do to other places in the world, do you think policing in the US is terrorism? I don’t see any way it isn’t. Violence and fear for political gain is the definition.

          You’ve just drank the kool-aid. You think what the state tells you is true and they can’t lie. Terrorism is a valid and useful tool. Again, it’s why every state uses it. It’s only since about 9/11 where politicians and the media discovered they can call anything they don’t like “terrorism” and get people like you to repeat the drivel.

        • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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          My man, we are the terrorists here. We are murdering people halfway across the globe over false pretenses and with zero evidence.

          What they are doing up Venezuela is literally state sponsored terrorism and war crimes.

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          Does it ever get old viewing the world as either good or bad with no in-between?

          The world is complicated and full of nuance. I’d be exhausted trying to sort everything is such a binary system.

          It’s a worldview that eliminates the possibility of people you identify as “good” to do bad and vice versa. The only way to keep it consistent ia to ignore all information that doesn’t fit the binary worldview you’ve established

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          I don’t support terrorism, which is why I’ve never voted for Trump. The only hypocrisy here is yours - e.g. claiming to be a “Christian” while saying the things you have.