President Donald Trump just made it clear that he already has his eyes set on a new target following the US’s capture of the president of Venezuela. During a press conference on Saturday, he urged Colombian President Gustavo Petro to ‘watch his ass.’ The threat marks a dramatic escalation in tensions across Latin America, with Trump openly invoking the Monroe Doctrine to assert US dominance in the Western Hemisphere.

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    19 hours ago

    Man its weird how defensive the purity voters got. Palestine is being wiped from the map and we’re attacking other countries unprovoked but both sides amirite?

    Every single one of these deaths could have been avoided if you didn’t fall for the obvious divide and conquer strategy being peddled out by bad faith actors.

    The entire reason the Overton window keeps shifting right is because the right wing assholes will vote lockstep for whoever the right candidate is. He may not be right enough for them, or he may be too far right for some, but they all fucking show up and vote.

    Meanwhile, we can’t get leftists to figure that simple fact out and then people directly helping these assholes wine about how the candidate wasn’t perfect.

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      19 hours ago

      Democrats like Kamala Cheney keeps shifting right because that is the type of neocon Democrats you keep telling everyone they must support. Then when they engage in war without congressional approval & commit war crimes like Obama did, you stick your head in the sand.

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        17 hours ago

        I think most every president since FDR was ass. I also know letting the window shift further right isnt going to help. We should be making the furthest right candidate lose by tons each and every election just like the right shows out and keeps making that Overton window shift right.

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          16 hours ago

          It shifts right because people keep making excuses for corporate Democrats who don’t stand for anything. They keep propping up the system that got us here. If you consider yourself on the left, then vote left where the progressives were at. Don’t vote right of center & complain that it keeps shifting to the right. Don’t just scream about Republicans when genocide the proud Zionist Joe & drone-strike Obama were killing children. All it does is signal to everyone you’re a hypocrite, and that is how you end up with Trump.

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            15 hours ago

            Yet we are currently living through what happens when you do that. While both options suck, I’m not going to contribute to accelerating a genocide and allowing for multiple new warfronts to open up. I’m rather vote for not having camps like alligator Alcatraz opening up.

            I vote as far left as possible in primaries and the general but we’re actively seeing what not voting against fascism gets you: fucking fascism. Has not voting against fascism stopped the bullshit DNC push of fucking Newsom? No. So non voters allowing fascism isnt exactly helping the cause.