Comment by jibal
4 days ago
"Venezuela’s authoritarian government has accused the US ..."
should be
"Venezuela’s authoritarian government has accused the US authoritarian government ..."
or (better, really)
"Venezuela has accused the US ..."
4 days ago
"Venezuela’s authoritarian government has accused the US ..."
should be
"Venezuela’s authoritarian government has accused the US authoritarian government ..."
or (better, really)
"Venezuela has accused the US ..."
Holy whataboutism. Regardless of what you think about Trump the US system is nothing like that of Venezuela or Russia or any other actually authoritarian state.
Yet.
The "whataboutism" accusation is absurd--that's not even remotely an example of it. All my comment was about was editorial insertions of biased loaded language into a supposed news report. And I didn't say that the U.S. "system" is "like" Venezuela or Russia--that's a blatantly intellectually dishonest misrepresentation ... a) "authoritarian" is broader than the most extreme examples, and b) the Trump regime is acting outside of the "system". And: https://www.npr.org/2025/04/22/nx-s1-5340753/trump-democracy...
"A survey of more than 500 political scientists finds that the vast majority think the United States is moving swiftly from liberal democracy toward some form of authoritarianism."
That's from April ... the move to a "Department of War" and the actual waging of unauthorized war pushes things considerably further.