• Muad'DibberMA
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    These CIA-planted stories used to have legs, but not anymore. No one except the alwaysthesamemap countries believes them.

    AMLO holds nothing back lol. Calls the NYTimes a tabloid and a filthy rag multiple times.

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      The entire article boils down to: anonymous source said X, Y, Z, no investigation done to confirm it.

      The most egregious one is this one imo: “Investigators obtained information from a third source suggesting that drug cartels were in possession of videos of the president’s sons picking up drug money, records show.”

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        AMLO Jr caught on CCTV at a cash point but someone – who may or may not have been paid by the NYT or CIA – has agreed to weave a fairy tale around the facts.

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          your honor we have video of the suspect at an Automatic Terrorism Machine

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      We have incriminating videos. How do you respond?

      Show us the videos.

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      I absolutely hate how outlets like NYT are seen as having no biases by most people in western mainstream. Libs just take whatever they report as fact and if you question it, then you’re a conspiracy theory weirdo whose opinion can be safely discarded.

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        Unless they don’t like what they read then they immediately call it “Russian propaganda” but forgot it right away when reading yet another State Department vomit day later.

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          lol yeah, the reaction they have to their favorite publications whenever they dare tepidly report anything factual is hilarious

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    My favorite part is when the NYT says the US backed down over a diplomatic crisis, wheb I have from fairly credibile sources that the US will juat invade mexico and deal with a law enforcement matter for them whenever a big enough company asks them too. Also the US’s record of behavior the only country they might maybe be scared of is the PRC and I sometimes think they are not smart enough to be scared of them

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      They’re definitely not smart enough to be sufficiently cautious. That there are US troops on Kinmen (right next to Xiamen- a city on the mainland) right now is all that needs to be said.

      Honestly, unless the US tears itself apart prior, I expect WW3 in due time.

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        At this point I almost expect the US to do WW3 to delay their collapse, and I would not be opposed to fighting in it… neath the red flag

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    Mexico desperately needs a better military to withstand this kind of bullshit. At the current rate, the US is gonna try to coup Mexico soon. Once the US starts collapsing for real, Mexico is the first place American fascists are gonna expand into. The current Mexican air force is composed of 40 propeller plane fighters, and the other Army and Navy don’t look much better.

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      There’s a sort of logic to having a weak military in Mexico. Their only land neighbours are the USA, Guatemala and Belize. Neither south neighbour is a threat, and despite the USA being really inefficient there’s no way Mexico could fight toe-to-toe with them if they were directly invaded.

      They also don’t have any strategic overseas rival like an imperialist power would.

      So not only can you save lots of budget in the military, but it also reduces the harm that a well-funded and organised military can be to the “internal enemy”, which is usually poor, indigenous, black or otherwise marginalised people. (Usually with the cover of “combatting drug trafficking”)

      Bribing the military is also part of the CIA modus operandi for interfering in Latin America. Just look at the current investigation on the Bolsonaro coup attempt and how many of the relevant generals took part in the MINUSTAH.

      But I also don’t think the USA will ever be able to directly attack Mexico without gigantic repercussions to themselves. They’re better off just doing another Allende.

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        So not only can you save lots of budget in the military, but it also reduces the harm that a well-funded and organised military can be to the “internal enemy”, which is usually poor, indigenous, black or otherwise marginalised people. (Usually with the cover of “combatting drug trafficking”)

        while that’s true, the military is also the only institution that, if co-opted, could be used in a theoretical situation against local police, which is usually armed to the teeth in countries where drug trafficking is serious enough

        when bolsonaro had his pathetic military parade, with tanks fuming like old chevettes (to the point where it became a meme), i was only happy until i remembered how our local police are pretty much brownshirts bearing automatic rifles

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          Tfw when you want to demilitarise the police, but the civilian police also sucks.

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        Also to add to your comment, narcos literally recruit from or start out as military units. Minimum military for a country like this just makes more sense. Mexico’s not Iran.

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      i don’t think the Mexican military is the kind of organization you want to pump full of guns if you want to avoid a right wing coup lol

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    off topic but when i was scolling down the very top of this video was just barely showing and it looked like a hallway of cartoon limp dicks for a second… maybe i need to go outside more

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    Judith Miller’s New York Times

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    Comrades, I’ll speak in Spanish to talk to our Spanish speaking comrades, I hope nobody feels alienated

    Camaradas, tenemos una comunidad de corte socialista en español en discord, está empezando a tomar vuelo.

    En general compartimos memes, noticias y la pasamos bien. Eventualmente me gustaría a mí crear propaganda.

    No es exclusivamente de México. Si te llama la atención unirte, mándame un mensaje. ¡Hay mucho por hacer!

    Fuerza en la lucha.