spain unhinged
This is the pathetic state that politics in Spain has been reduced to. To outsiders it seems too surreal to be true. Catalans will tell you that surreal became the new normal some time last autumn and that this autumn the crisis will deepen.
Back in the news, Anna Gabriel has once again been subject to the regulation sexist and classist insults and personal attacks from the Spanish right. ‘Fat’, ‘filthy’, ‘sweaty’, ‘flabby’, ‘stinking’, ‘gross’, ‘ugly’, ‘homely’ are just some of the insults and comments about her physical appearance and her image.
“Many journalists now are no more than channelers and echoers of what George Orwell called the ‘official truth’. They simply cipher and transmit lies.” John Pilger
The Spanish government and media want us to believe that fake news bankrolled from abroad, especially Russia, interfered in the Catalan election and at the same time would like us to ignore the massively expensive homegrown production of alternative facts, fake news, post truth, hysterical exaggeration and racist demonisation. You know: lies. Trump-style, they assert that any critical voice or opinion diverging from the Spanish government line are ‘fake news’.
For an international media organisation with the reputation of The Guardian to give credence to a right-wing trolling campaign while failing to report the real news is shocking. They are making light of an anti-democratic repression of human rights.
Today my UNDERAGE daughter told me she’d received an email from @CiudadanosCs asking for her vote in the 21-D elections.
Ciutadans ha estat picant aquesta metàfora en ferro fred des del començament del partit. Aquí teniu una selecció de referències al Matrix dels seus representants, i altres. La metàfora també és un gran favorit dels blocaires feixistes.
Natural disasters, pandemics and bloody civil wars rarely get coverage like this. The clear non-unionist majority in Catalonia is not an irrelevant minority living in ‘Tractorland’. Determined to continue the punishment for Catalonia, the orange media pretends Catalonia does not exist and invents an alternative version. An orange version.
Ara you an independentist? You’ll die soon.
All “indepe” children should be killed.
Dead separatist, happy Spaniard
Oriol Junqueras, death sentence.
Death to separatism
This and more is what we have to hear and see. This is the hatred we live with. This is why we have to leave. https://t.co/g8vd9KblDE
There is no chance that any Catalan or Spanish political party will be able to put the self-determination genie back in the bottle
https://t.co/slbvpT0KCF
Who cares about what hugely unpopular ex French PM @manuelvalls thinks about Barcelona - why Ciudadanos lackey @stephenburgen of course.
What about Spain’s reputation and the Catalans in jail? Shame on @Guardian for such biased nonsense. https://t.co/tkDqYYtmK1
"Ironically, it was Spain that pioneered universal jurisdiction in pursuit of former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet: now it is an Argentine judge who must bring Spain’s own past to light."
Heartbreaking injustice.
#ShameOnSpanishJustice
https://t.co/IcjrBOgFM6
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