US Issues "Do Not Travel" Warning for 21 Countries.

[cortazar]

You do know that countries that *disappear* people (like the one you're currently living in has in the past), they don't get to have margaritas at a resort with a US Senator, right?

You do know that that image was staged to distort the real situation for mass media, and that, by making these snide comments, you have become the dim-witted mouthpiece for statist authoritarianism, right?

If “disappeared” is too strong a word, neither side disputes that people who were in good legal standing have been detained, deported, and imprisoned without due process.

 

[daveholman]

Hyperbole damages your cause, and makes light of *actual* desaparecidos.
Or in simple language...it's easy to dismiss drama queens.

 

[cortazar]

Hyperbole damages your cause, and makes light of *actual* desaparecidos.
Or in simple language...it's easy to dismiss drama queens.

It sounds like we agree: precision in language is important. So I’ll reiterate that your post distorts events in a way that excuses extrajudicial acts of state power.

 

[JMHarris]

You do know that countries that *disappear* people (like the one you're currently living in has in the past), they don't get to have margaritas at a resort with a US Senator, right?

You are trivializing what happened to Kilmar Abrego Garcia, as well as Maryland Senator Chris Van Hollen's trip to El Salvador to meet with Abrego Garcia. From the photos and videos that I saw, they weren't drinking margaritas, but coffee. And Abrego Garcia is still in El Salvador, contravening all U.S. law regarding due process.

Also, whataboutism is never effective. Argentina's terrorismo del estado in the 1970s and 1980s (as well as Chile's and Brazil's and Uruguay's; ni hablar de Paraguay) is a very weak and ineffective counter-accusation to what the U.S. government is now doing. We can discuss one or we can discuss the other. But essentially saying "What about Argentina?" is 100% whataboutism a la Putin.

Finally, it is a gross misrepresentation to say that Kilmar Abrego Garcia and Senator Van Hollen had margaritas at a resort.

 

[JMHarris]

It sounds like we agree: precision in language is important. So I’ll reiterate that your post distorts events in a way that excuses extrajudicial acts of state power.

100% agree

 

[FrankPintor]

You do know that countries that *disappear* people (like the one you're currently living in has in the past), they don't get to have margaritas at a resort with a US Senator, right?

One of the funniest posts I've read here

So you fell for the margaritas story? Naïve is too mild a word to apply to your understanding

As regards precision of language, I used "disappear" as a verb to describe being snatched by covert teams and left with no contact with family or legal representation for some time. Seems like a good description to me. I made no allusions to the "disappeared" (not a verb) in Argentina or anywhere else, where those unfortunate people suffered quite a bit more than being simply snatched.