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Guy was illegally operating a Latin American democracy in defiance of decades of US coup attempts. He should be arrested, convicted, shot, buried, exhumed, convicted a second time, and launched into the sun. How fucking dare he.
I’m all fuck the US and the US’s imperialism in Venezuela (and in general) but let’s not whitewash Maduro either.
Calling the system under Maduro a “democracy” is a massive stretch.
"S/He was no angel" is the same language conservative media uses to smear victims of police shootings, ICE arrests of migrant people, and targets of US/Israeli assassination.
Getting tired of hearing the nightmarish actions of a fascist state justified by rattling off reasons you think the victims of this violence deserved it.
How many foreign backed coup attempts does the Venezuelan government need to thwart before we question the foreign-sponsored narrative that the current government is popular and the people failing to replace them through armed insurrection are not?
Two things can be bad at the same time.
The number of times I have said this on Threadiverse… Some people here seem to always believe theres a good guy and a bad guy. The world isn’t usually like that. Very few good guys in power.
Imagine watching the J6 riot and proceeding into a long rant about how Congress is bad.
That’s not at all equivalent to what I did.
Banana Republic stuff
It cost 80 people and counting their lives. It cost homes and it destroyed the livelihood of dozens of Venezuelan fishermen. It will cost the country lifetimes devoted to the miserable task of once again bulking up the military and training people in the art of killing, in hopes of improving civil defense.
It was a rape. A brutal and callous use of force that will haunt the country for a generation to come.
Even if it didn't cost a dime, it would have been a horror to perpetrate on anyone, much less an entire nation of people.
What we did was Venezuela's 9/11.
Truthfully just misread what you typed the first time. Coffee is now finished and I understand you now.
We're on the same side