Problem 1: Calling the president of Mexico "cute" just because she is a woman.

Problem 2: Implying Claudia is "owned" by the Cartels, when she has consistently said that her goal is to address the underlying economic issues that cause criminal drug trafficking activity rather than escalating police violence in a futile effort to treat its symptoms, in the performative way American politicians do.

Problem 3: Implying Claudia is "owned" by Blackrock even though her new tariffs would harm Blackrock financially.

Problem 4: Implying Claudia is "owned" by China despite them playing no role in getting her elected and despite China's overall trade with Mexico being far less than the volume of trade they do with the United States.

Problem 5: Implying that Latin American drug cartels, the Blackrock corporation, and the Chinese Communist Party all have the SAME goals, which they bribe politicians to achieve.

Problem 6: Ignoring the fact that 99% of global north politicians are ACTUALLY controlled by corporate donors like Blackrock.

Problem 7: Naming your Twitter profile "The Investigative Centurion." My brother in Jupiter, Centurions were dumb fighting machines sent to Germany to bash in the skulls of tribal warlords so that senators and patricians in Rome could continue to profit off the exploitation of the peasant farmers and common soldiers.

Problem 8: Paying for a blue checkmark on Twitter.

  • Lemmygradwontallowme [he/him, comrade/them]
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    6 days ago

    This guy's just corncobbing, throwing out all the scary words

    A claim like “There’s cultural genocide of Uyghurs in Xinjiang” is simply unreal to most Westerners, close to pure gibberish. The words really refer to existing entities and geographies, but Westerners aren’t familiar with them. The actual content of the utterance as it spills out is no more complex or nuanced than “China Bad,” and the elementary mistakes people make when they write out statements of “solidarity” make that much clear. This is not a complaint that these people have not studied China enough — there’s no reason to expect them to study China, and retrospectively I think to some extent it was a mistake to personally have spent so much time trying to teach them. It’s instead an acknowledgment that they are eagerly wielding the accusation like a club, that they are in reality unconcerned with its truth-content, because it serves a social purpose.

    What is this social purpose? Westerners want to believe that other places are worse off,