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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (5 children)
[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Whataboutit?

This is a weird thing to reply to this post.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

US do bad thing so places US did bad thing to are always right and shut up.

This is why using the trench guns anyways after the germans asked the US nicely to stop means nobody from America is allowed to think that Hitler Fella might not have risen to power in the most legitimate way.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

"Critical support for dictatorship! Socialist praxis is when you strip the proletariat of their power, and the more power you strip from them, the more socialist it is!"

I understand hating the US. But Jesus. That doesn't (or at least shouldn't) mean one has to simp for every anti-US regime out there.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Wow that's a long list made by someone that thinks picking sides in a developing nation is the same as "backing" a coup. These power struggles and civil wars were brewed locally, and saying "well we like this guy and hope his side wins" isn't a nefarious imperialist plot to subvert democracy.

Of course, a few of them were exactly that, but even then, not without reason.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

What do you want to tell us? That it's time for another coup to restore democracy in Venezuela?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

If Maduro's electoral arm could release the results of the elections none of this would happen as it's Iin democratic countries.

So I'm not sure about how a coup could restore anything if the government went into power executing fraud on the polls and a de facto coup d'etat denying Venezuelans of their real representation.