The US is like a dumping ground for the reactionaries of the world.
Hadn't actually thought about this for a while and have lost track of all the reactionaries that have fled to the US. Mind naming a few to help rile me up about this shit?
South Vietnamese that assisted the U.S. A classmate last semester wouldn’t stop going on and on about being part of the Jorai an indigenous group in vietnam and his dad fought for the US.
South Koreans after the fall of the dictatorship.
Cubans the most famous gusanos.
Venezolanos after Chavez won and stayed winning because of the failed coup (my parents brought us here soon after). Additionally one of our dictators sought asylum and lived in Miami
Mexicans and latinx on the American side of the border joined the Border Patrol, all the time.
The filipino mafia in the navy.
just a few I can think of, off the top of my head.
First thing that comes to mind for me is following WWII the US snatching up as many Nazi scientists as they could before they could be tried for their crimes, so that the US could put them to use in advancing its own imperialist war machine.
The rockets go up
Who cares where they come down
That's not my department
Says Wernher Von Braun
Operation paperclip was just the tip of the iceberg. It's practically a limited hang out.
There's a Louis Malle film, . . .and the Pursuit of Happiness, that shows a disabled Salvadoran man being deported for no fucking reason, obviously being sent to his death. It then cuts to Jose Somoza , brother of the Nicaraguan dictator, giving the documentary crew a tour of his lovely Miami home where he lives in complete prosperity. A perfect and nauseating encapsulation of U.S. foreign policy in two domestic scenes.
The man who shot Victor Jara.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-chile-rights-jara-idUSKBN1KA2MG
Yasha Levine has had some good writing on this recently: https://yasha.substack.com/p/weaponized-immigrants-and-the-history
I think he was on a Radio War Nerd episode focused on this subject as well.
Yeah but our homegrown reactionaries don't do stem. This is my new character: American leftist that's mad that America sucks so much it can't even do fascism competently.
When the feds bring this post up next time I'm crossing the border into the US I just show them the Aaron Sorkin Jeff Bridges scene from newsroom and they all clap.
One thing I'm not clear on is can't they just pay the IMF loan straght back? I don't think the government has had really enough time to spend it.
At the very least they need to declare the coup regime illegitimate and that they have no responsibility for any actions of the regime, including the IMF loan.
You need to have military might if you want to play that game. Not sure if they're ready for that considering their military seems to be prone to a coup at the moment.
look if they flee to the US before they face justice its lame, however they will lose most or all of their influence in the country basically consolidating MAS power in bolivia which is a good thing, the bolivian gusanos are gonna be very cringe but its a price to pay for independence
nah, they'll bring her so she can "yearn for the freedom of the Bolivian peoples" and manufacture that consent for US to fuck around again
anez: 'yeah im a white supremacist let me in'
us: 'lol you aint white tho'
The US said no to a bunch of venezuelans trying to come in even after Rubio made a pathetic plee for it to Trump. The one good thing about Trump is that he doesn't give a shit about the monroe doctrine even if he's been pretty horrible in the middle east.
wtf is a geotus some kind of pokemon? these American acronyms are getting way out of hand
"We tried to ruin our country to appease you, can we crash at your place?"
Didn't the fash that tried a coup in Venezuela get put in ice detainment when they fled to the US. Like normally I wouldn't wish ice on anyone but these people deserve no mercy. Hopefully the US will use them up and throw them away like they do to everyone they don't need.
if the kurds end up getting fucked harder than anez :deeper-sadness:
COMMUNISM RUINED MY HOME COUNTRY! WHAT I SEE IN DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE RICK WILSON IS THE SPIRIT OF COMMUNISM AND HE MUST NOT BECOME THE PRESIDENT! MEDICAID AND MEDICARE IS COMMUNISM, WHY DOES RICK WANT TO KEEP COMMUNISM IN THIS COUNTRY!
I know hating Bernie is all the rage now but: https://twitter.com/zachjcarter/status/1195899676802854912?s=20
Can't tell me he wouldn't have been lightyears better
I think a lot of us have just moved beyond Bernie.
He's still a hell of a lot better than your typical neolib ghoul, but he's largely alone in his positions
Imagine if its actually the ghost of Allende who will drag her to hell, then go to DemSoc heaven to party with Chavez and Debs
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What if they do, they are granted, they come to the White House, then they all get corona.
