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How about not bootlicking authoritarians?\n","removed":false,"published":"2025-12-06T18:55:16.950206Z","deleted":false,"ap_id":"https://piefed.blahaj.zone/comment/2437733","local":false,"path":"0.18149277","distinguished":false,"language_id":37},"creator":{"id":18385229,"name":"transending_the_binary","display_name":"transending_the_binary","banned":false,"published":"2025-06-06T18:02:40.815398Z","actor_id":"https://piefed.blahaj.zone/u/transending_the_binary","local":false,"deleted":false,"bot_account":false,"instance_id":246196},"post":{"id":35321846,"name":"My Venezuelan friends say Maduro is a dictator","url":"https://lemmy.ml/api/v3/image_proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcrazypeople.online%2Fpictrs%2Fimage%2F358e9ad4-5a6a-46ee-a351-6148bf4325be.jpeg","creator_id":21536693,"community_id":1673,"removed":false,"locked":false,"published":"2025-12-06T14:16:50.060902Z","deleted":false,"nsfw":false,"thumbnail_url":"https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/pictrs/image/33f0bc31-2509-40bb-aaec-9a4b9edead14.webp","ap_id":"https://crazypeople.online/post/11824857","local":false,"language_id":0,"featured_community":false,"featured_local":false,"url_content_type":"image/jpeg"},"community":{"id":1673,"name":"memes","title":"Memes","description":"#### Rules:\n\n\n01. 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Chavez and Maduro instituted price controls which have harmed the agricultural economy significantly which further harmed things. \n\nThat being said while their results were bad their intentions were good which is not going to be true of whatever puppet government the USA would install. 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It is regularly improving, which is why the working classes support Maduro. \n\nRussia isn't imperialist, it has no colonies nor neocolonies, and a tiny amount of global financial capital. China isn't imperialist either, it's a socialist country wituout any financial domination of the state or economy. There's no mechanisms pushing for imperialism within China, and this manifests in regular south-south trade leading to *development* of global south countries when trading with China, unlike the unequal exchange of trade with the west where the west charges monopoly prices for tech and places compradors in power to prevent industrial development. \n\nMultiple things are true, correct. This isn't the grand own you think it is, though. You're passively parroting imperialist narratives. 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Check out my [*Read Theory, Darn it!*](https://lemmy.ml/post/22417306) introductory reading list!","local":false,"banner":"https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/ecd1c08d-97a2-4eea-9c9a-d782aa3220ff.webp","deleted":false,"bot_account":false,"instance_id":195},"post":{"id":35321846,"name":"My Venezuelan friends say Maduro is a dictator","url":"https://lemmy.ml/api/v3/image_proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcrazypeople.online%2Fpictrs%2Fimage%2F358e9ad4-5a6a-46ee-a351-6148bf4325be.jpeg","creator_id":21536693,"community_id":1673,"removed":false,"locked":false,"published":"2025-12-06T14:16:50.060902Z","deleted":false,"nsfw":false,"thumbnail_url":"https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/pictrs/image/33f0bc31-2509-40bb-aaec-9a4b9edead14.webp","ap_id":"https://crazypeople.online/post/11824857","local":false,"language_id":0,"featured_community":false,"featured_local":false,"url_content_type":"image/jpeg"},"community":{"id":1673,"name":"memes","title":"Memes","description":"#### Rules:\n\n\n01. Be civil and nice.\n02. 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Authoritarian doesn’t automatically mean bad…there’s such a thing as the concept of a benevolent dictator.\n\nWhat evidence do you have that “the country went to shit” or “Venezuela is not a nice place to live in” or that he’s a “corrupt dictator”?\n\nThis original post, presumably, attempts to scratch slightly beneath the surface of what we hear on the news and suggest that your above statements only apply to a certain “deserving” class.\n\nI don’t actually know a lot about Venezuela, and I’m asking these questions in earnest. I started to ask questions a lot earlier, but certainly looking into Maria Machado (this years Nobel Peace Prize winner) made some alarm bells go off. Could it be that the narrative is controlled by Machado and her neoliberal/right wing ilk, and she actually represents a large minority *class* of people that was purged/displaced in Venezuela? \n\nI’m still investigating.","removed":false,"published":"2025-12-06T20:00:40.670329Z","deleted":false,"ap_id":"https://piefed.world/comment/2842452","local":false,"path":"0.18149277.18149945","distinguished":false,"language_id":37},"creator":{"id":22349878,"name":"MyMindIsLikeAnOcean","display_name":"MyMindIsLikeAnOcean","banned":false,"published":"2025-11-28T17:04:51.578465Z","actor_id":"https://piefed.world/u/MyMindIsLikeAnOcean","local":false,"deleted":false,"bot_account":false,"instance_id":246203},"post":{"id":35321846,"name":"My Venezuelan friends say Maduro is a dictator","url":"https://lemmy.ml/api/v3/image_proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcrazypeople.online%2Fpictrs%2Fimage%2F358e9ad4-5a6a-46ee-a351-6148bf4325be.jpeg","creator_id":21536693,"community_id":1673,"removed":false,"locked":false,"published":"2025-12-06T14:16:50.060902Z","deleted":false,"nsfw":false,"thumbnail_url":"https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/pictrs/image/33f0bc31-2509-40bb-aaec-9a4b9edead14.webp","ap_id":"https://crazypeople.online/post/11824857","local":false,"language_id":0,"featured_community":false,"featured_local":false,"url_content_type":"image/jpeg"},"community":{"id":1673,"name":"memes","title":"Memes","description":"#### Rules:\n\n\n01. 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In addition, massive social programs have been implemented, focusing on housing, food security, and poverty eradication\n\nI think this really needs to be stressed. Venezuela is a country building Socialism. Maduro and the PSUV is in power because of a genuinely incredible mass movement of communes, neighborhood committees, and other organs of grassroots democracy. This is qualitatively different from say, any of the Gulf oil monarchies\n\nI highly recommend the books [*Building The Commune: Radical Democracy in Venezuela*](https://annas-archive.org/md5/f6496b41ba2cc73587c6aa3f4c14ab40), and [*Commune or Nothing: Venezuela's Communal Movement and Its Socialist Project*](https://annas-archive.org/md5/b6dfec9f42d502ee0ae7fbb31422ace8), for a look at these aspects of Venezuelan politics, because it's often papered over in discussions about the country.\n\n![](https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/dfb7047e-09fd-4eee-bceb-d784305f19d6.jpeg) ![](https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/2b6e2ee0-3bf1-4ae5-a106-a9478f86c6c9.jpeg)","removed":false,"published":"2025-12-07T02:56:23.218096Z","deleted":false,"ap_id":"https://lemmy.ml/comment/22623319","local":false,"path":"0.18149277.18149336.18153705","distinguished":false,"language_id":37},"creator":{"id":75863,"name":"SpookyBogMonster","avatar":"https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/f7b36a91-5b5a-4118-8d46-dc56dd28ada1.jpeg","banned":false,"published":"2023-06-02T19:39:55.475395Z","actor_id":"https://lemmy.ml/u/SpookyBogMonster","local":false,"banner":"https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/803362c7-a8c3-449f-b0e2-2dcc663bfcc6.jpeg","deleted":false,"bot_account":false,"instance_id":195},"post":{"id":35321846,"name":"My Venezuelan friends say Maduro is a dictator","url":"https://lemmy.ml/api/v3/image_proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcrazypeople.online%2Fpictrs%2Fimage%2F358e9ad4-5a6a-46ee-a351-6148bf4325be.jpeg","creator_id":21536693,"community_id":1673,"removed":false,"locked":false,"published":"2025-12-06T14:16:50.060902Z","deleted":false,"nsfw":false,"thumbnail_url":"https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/pictrs/image/33f0bc31-2509-40bb-aaec-9a4b9edead14.webp","ap_id":"https://crazypeople.online/post/11824857","local":false,"language_id":0,"featured_community":false,"featured_local":false,"url_content_type":"image/jpeg"},"community":{"id":1673,"name":"memes","title":"Memes","description":"#### Rules:\n\n\n01. 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Russian neo-colonialism is all over Africa.\n\n> China isn't imperialist either, it's a socialist country wituout any financial domination of the state or economy.\n\nChina is a kinder imperialist, but they are using largely the same playbook that the west used in Africa, including debt-trap diplomacy, undermining local sovereignty and regulation, and undermining labor movements.\n\nThey also have a mix of socialism and capitalism, sometimes getting the best of both, and sometimes the worst. They definitely dominate the state economy through control of banking and the use of capital controls to direct funding to national priorities. 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Following the western-supported coup, the areas in the Donbass region seceded, as they supported Yanukovych, are culturally and ethnically Russian, and were unhappy with the Banderites taking over the government under the cover of \"democracy.\" Said Banderites were also legally suppressing the Russian language in the Donbass region. \n\nWhat ensued was a decade of fighting, 2 failed Minsk agreements that Kiev broke and admitted to never wanting to follow, and massive risk of NATO on Russia's doorstep. The Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics requested Russian assistance, and Russia complied, sparking the next stage of the war. \n\nRussia purely wants the Donbass region and NATO neutrality. They want the Donbass region not out of the kindness of their hearts, nor for plunder or further expansion, but because it's a land bridge straight to Russia, the same route the Nazis took in World War II. NATO was building up because the West uses their millitary to threaten countries into opening up their economies to foreign plunder (like what's happening *right now* in Venezuela), a tradition employed since NATO was founded, destroyed Yugoslavia and Libya, etc.\n\nThis is the common Marxist take, shared largely by [PSL's statement](https://liberationnews.org/psl-statement-nato-expansion-must-end-to-guarantee-peace-in-ukraine/) and [FRSO's statement](https://frso.org/congress/resolution-against-the-us-nato-provoked-war-in-ukraine/). Essentially, the war is tragic, should end as quickly as possible, and was provoked by the west. 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Venezuela is genuinely what self-described demsocs want, the Empire just doesn't care and will kill you regardless of how procedural and by international law your socialism is. ","removed":false,"published":"2025-12-07T03:04:01.153306Z","deleted":false,"ap_id":"https://lemmy.ml/comment/22623403","local":false,"path":"0.18149277.18149336.18153705.18153774","distinguished":false,"language_id":0},"creator":{"id":6238908,"name":"Cowbee","display_name":"Cowbee [he/they]","avatar":"https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/c18ce632-5fb5-4888-8226-3dc55a07acc4.jpeg","banned":false,"published":"2023-12-31T19:47:40.358778Z","actor_id":"https://lemmy.ml/u/Cowbee","bio":"Actually, this town has more than enough room for the two of us\n\nHe/him or they/them, doesn't matter too much\n\nMarxist-Leninist ☭\n\nInterested in Marxism-Leninism, but don't know where to start? Check out my [*Read Theory, Darn it!*](https://lemmy.ml/post/22417306) introductory reading list!","local":false,"banner":"https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/ecd1c08d-97a2-4eea-9c9a-d782aa3220ff.webp","deleted":false,"bot_account":false,"instance_id":195},"post":{"id":35321846,"name":"My Venezuelan friends say Maduro is a dictator","url":"https://lemmy.ml/api/v3/image_proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcrazypeople.online%2Fpictrs%2Fimage%2F358e9ad4-5a6a-46ee-a351-6148bf4325be.jpeg","creator_id":21536693,"community_id":1673,"removed":false,"locked":false,"published":"2025-12-06T14:16:50.060902Z","deleted":false,"nsfw":false,"thumbnail_url":"https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/pictrs/image/33f0bc31-2509-40bb-aaec-9a4b9edead14.webp","ap_id":"https://crazypeople.online/post/11824857","local":false,"language_id":0,"featured_community":false,"featured_local":false,"url_content_type":"image/jpeg"},"community":{"id":1673,"name":"memes","title":"Memes","description":"#### Rules:\n\n\n01. Be civil and nice.\n02. 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In fact, the Donetsk and Luhanks People's Republics, the ones being ethnically cleansed by the far-right Banderites in Kiev that have been in power since the 2014 western-backed Euromaidan coup, specifically requested assistance from Russia in 2022. Belarus and Georgia having close economic ties is not the same as imperialism. You also have no evidence of neocolonialism, trade with Russia is closer to south-south trade as it doesn't have a monopoly on the goods it exports like gas and nuclear power plants, and as such African countries are developing more via trade with Russia and China while being underdeveloped by the west. \n\nChina is a socialist country. They have markets, but that doesn't mean they have a \"mix\" of capitalism and socialism. Public ownership is the principle aspect of their economy, and the state is under the control of the working classes. There is no \"real estate crisis,\" housing prices were kept low and no longer able to be used as an investment vehicle. The \"ghost cities\" are smart urban development, and most are habited after being developed. This kind of thinking ahead is possible because of socialism. \n\nYou also have no evidence of \"debt-trap diplomacy, undermining local sovereignty,\" or \"undermining labor movements.\" China regularly forgives loans, doesn't requore privatization of publicly owned industry or force austerity like the IMF does, and has been doing huge work in developing and building up the global south with more south-south trade. \n\nWhat's going on here is it's absolutely unacceptable for you to admit that the west *is* the worst, by far, out of that trio. China is genuinely a progressive state with mass popular support internally and internationally, governed by a communist party. Russia is seeing rising support for socialism internally, and is higher up on the list of candidates for new socialist countried because of it. The west is the indisuputed world empire, helmed by the US, and this empire is projecting *hard* onto other countries as it exports genocide and plunders the world on its way out. ","removed":false,"published":"2025-12-07T12:46:16.642206Z","updated":"2025-12-07T13:10:14.497939Z","deleted":false,"ap_id":"https://lemmy.ml/comment/22628211","local":false,"path":"0.18149277.18149336.18154651.18157448","distinguished":false,"language_id":0},"creator":{"id":6238908,"name":"Cowbee","display_name":"Cowbee [he/they]","avatar":"https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/c18ce632-5fb5-4888-8226-3dc55a07acc4.jpeg","banned":false,"published":"2023-12-31T19:47:40.358778Z","actor_id":"https://lemmy.ml/u/Cowbee","bio":"Actually, this town has more than enough room for the two of us\n\nHe/him or they/them, doesn't matter too much\n\nMarxist-Leninist ☭\n\nInterested in Marxism-Leninism, but don't know where to start? Check out my [*Read Theory, Darn it!*](https://lemmy.ml/post/22417306) introductory reading list!","local":false,"banner":"https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/ecd1c08d-97a2-4eea-9c9a-d782aa3220ff.webp","deleted":false,"bot_account":false,"instance_id":195},"post":{"id":35321846,"name":"My Venezuelan friends say Maduro is a dictator","url":"https://lemmy.ml/api/v3/image_proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcrazypeople.online%2Fpictrs%2Fimage%2F358e9ad4-5a6a-46ee-a351-6148bf4325be.jpeg","creator_id":21536693,"community_id":1673,"removed":false,"locked":false,"published":"2025-12-06T14:16:50.060902Z","deleted":false,"nsfw":false,"thumbnail_url":"https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/pictrs/image/33f0bc31-2509-40bb-aaec-9a4b9edead14.webp","ap_id":"https://crazypeople.online/post/11824857","local":false,"language_id":0,"featured_community":false,"featured_local":false,"url_content_type":"image/jpeg"},"community":{"id":1673,"name":"memes","title":"Memes","description":"#### Rules:\n\n\n01. Be civil and nice.\n02. Try not to excessively repost, as a rule of thumb, wait at least 2 months to do it if you *have* to.","removed":false,"published":"2019-04-25T16:54:42.997194Z","updated":"2022-01-12T13:43:29.936386Z","deleted":false,"nsfw":false,"actor_id":"https://lemmy.ml/c/memes","local":false,"icon":"https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/CJ7moKL2SV.png","hidden":false,"posting_restricted_to_mods":false,"instance_id":195,"visibility":"Public"},"counts":{"comment_id":18157448,"score":9,"upvotes":9,"downvotes":0,"published":"2025-12-07T12:46:16.642206Z","child_count":2},"creator_banned_from_community":false,"banned_from_community":false,"creator_is_moderator":false,"creator_is_admin":false,"subscribed":"NotSubscribed","saved":false,"creator_blocked":false},{"comment":{"id":18155419,"creator_id":14413263,"post_id":35321846,"content":"> including debt-trap diplomacy, undermining local sovereignty and regulation, and undermining labor movements.\n\nNotice how you have these facts in your brain that you're sure are true but can't actually identify why you think they're true? That's what being propagandized feels like.","removed":false,"published":"2025-12-07T07:31:25.371461Z","deleted":false,"ap_id":"https://lemmy.ml/comment/22625612","local":false,"path":"0.18149277.18149336.18154651.18155419","distinguished":false,"language_id":37},"creator":{"id":14413263,"name":"BrainInABox","banned":false,"published":"2024-12-11T00:35:20.275731Z","actor_id":"https://lemmy.ml/u/BrainInABox","local":false,"deleted":false,"bot_account":false,"ban_expires":"2025-10-17T11:38:35Z","instance_id":195},"post":{"id":35321846,"name":"My Venezuelan friends say Maduro is a dictator","url":"https://lemmy.ml/api/v3/image_proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcrazypeople.online%2Fpictrs%2Fimage%2F358e9ad4-5a6a-46ee-a351-6148bf4325be.jpeg","creator_id":21536693,"community_id":1673,"removed":false,"locked":false,"published":"2025-12-06T14:16:50.060902Z","deleted":false,"nsfw":false,"thumbnail_url":"https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/pictrs/image/33f0bc31-2509-40bb-aaec-9a4b9edead14.webp","ap_id":"https://crazypeople.online/post/11824857","local":false,"language_id":0,"featured_community":false,"featured_local":false,"url_content_type":"image/jpeg"},"community":{"id":1673,"name":"memes","title":"Memes","description":"#### Rules:\n\n\n01. Be civil and nice.\n02. Try not to excessively repost, as a rule of thumb, wait at least 2 months to do it if you *have* to.","removed":false,"published":"2019-04-25T16:54:42.997194Z","updated":"2022-01-12T13:43:29.936386Z","deleted":false,"nsfw":false,"actor_id":"https://lemmy.ml/c/memes","local":false,"icon":"https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/CJ7moKL2SV.png","hidden":false,"posting_restricted_to_mods":false,"instance_id":195,"visibility":"Public"},"counts":{"comment_id":18155419,"score":11,"upvotes":11,"downvotes":0,"published":"2025-12-07T07:31:25.371461Z","child_count":0},"creator_banned_from_community":false,"banned_from_community":false,"creator_is_moderator":false,"creator_is_admin":false,"subscribed":"NotSubscribed","saved":false,"creator_blocked":false},{"comment":{"id":18154743,"creator_id":951432,"post_id":35321846,"content":">> Russia isn’t imperialist, it has no colonies nor neocolonies\n> \n> Yeah, tell that to Crimea, the Donbas\n\nAre you kidding me? The people in Crimea and the Donbas *wanted* to join Russia, to protect them from Ukraine, which had been killing them since 2014.\n\n![](https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/6563aa3c-0910-4575-b530-2d4cdf611eb8.jpeg)\n\n>- Reuters, 2014: [Leaked audio reveals embarrassing U.S. exchange on Ukraine, EU](https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSBREA151VA/)\n>- Leaked recording between Nuland and Pyatt: [audio](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoW75J5bnnE) | [transcript](https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-26079957)\n>- Counterpunch, 2014: [US Imperialism and the Ukraine Coup](https://www.counterpunch.org/2014/03/10/us-imperialism-and-the-ukraine-coup/)\n>- BBC, 2014: [Ukraine underplays role of far right in conflict](https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-30414955)\n>- Human Rights Watch, 2014: [Ukraine: Unguided Rockets Killing Civilians](https://www.hrw.org/news/2014/07/24/ukraine-unguided-rockets-killing-civilians)\n>- Consortium News, 2015: [The Mess That Nuland Made](https://consortiumnews.com/2022/02/26/robert-parry-the-mess-that-nuland-made/) *Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland engineered Ukraine’s regime change without weighing the likely consequences.*\n>- The Hill, 2017: [The reality of neo-Nazis in Ukraine is far from Kremlin propaganda](https://thehill.com/opinion/international/359609-the-reality-of-neo-nazis-in-the-ukraine-is-far-from-kremlin-propaganda/)\n>- The Guardian, 2017: ['I want to bring up a warrior': Ukraine's far-right children's camp – video](https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2017/sep/04/i-want-to-bring-up-a-warrior-ukraines-far-right-childrens-camp-video)\n>- WaPo, 2018: [The war in Ukraine is more devastating than you know](http://archive.today/2018.09.22-203241/https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2018/04/09/the-war-in-ukraine-is-more-devastating-than-you-know/?noredirect=on)\n>- Reuters, 2018: [Ukraine’s neo-Nazi problem](https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN1GV2TC/)\n>- The Nation, 2019: [Neo-Nazis and the Far Right Are On the March in Ukraine](https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/neo-nazis-far-right-ukraine/)\n>- openDemocracy, 2019: [Why Ukraine’s new language law will have long-term consequences](https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/odr/ukraine-language-law-en/)\n>- Al Jazeera, 2022: [Why did Ukraine suspend 11 ‘pro-Russia’ parties?](https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2022/3/21/why-did-ukraine-suspend-11-pro-russia-parties)\n>- Jacobin, 2022: [A US-Backed, Far Right–Led Revolution in Ukraine Helped Bring Us to the Brink of War](https://jacobin.com/2022/02/maidan-protests-neo-nazis-russia-nato-crimea)\n>- Consortium News, 2023: [The West’s Sabotage of Peace in Ukraine](https://consortiumnews.com/2023/02/13/caitlin-johnstone-the-wests-sabotage-of-peace-in-ukraine/) *Former Israeli Prime Minister Bennett’s recent comments about getting his mediation efforts squashed in the early days of the war adds more to the growing pile of evidence that Western powers are intent on regime change in Russia.*\n>- Internationalist 360°, 2022–2024: History of Fascism in Ukraine: [Part I](https://libya360.wordpress.com/2022/11/04/the-history-of-fascism-in-ukraine-part-i-the-origins-of-the-oun-1917-1941/), [Part II](https://libya360.wordpress.com/2022/11/05/history-of-fascism-in-ukraine-part-ii-the-oun-during-world-war-2-1941-1945/), [Part III](https://libya360.wordpress.com/2023/09/23/history-of-fascism-in-ukraine-part-iii-1944-1963-upa-war-ratlines-and-the-assassination-of-stepan-bandera/), [Part IV](https://libya360.wordpress.com/2024/02/19/history-of-fascism-in-ukraine-part-iv-the-global-oun-network-in-exile-1962-1992/)\n>- NYT, 2024: [U.N. Court to Rule on Whether Ukraine Committed Genocide](https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/02/world/europe/ukraine-un-court-genocide-russia.html)\n\n> China is a kinder imperialist, but they are using largely the same playbook that the west used in Africa, including debt-trap diplomacy, undermining local sovereignty and regulation, and undermining labor movements.\n\n*The Atlantic*, 2021: [The Chinese ‘Debt Trap’ Is a Myth](https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2021/02/china-debt-trap-diplomacy/617953/)\n\nWhat is China doing to undermine local sovereignty or labor movements in Africa?\n\n>The current real estate crisis \n\nWhat “current” real estate crisis? The Chinese state intentionally popped the real estate bubble over a year ago, making the capitalists eat their losses.\n\n- Reuters: [China Evergrande ordered to liquidate in landmark moment for crisis-hit sector](https://www.reuters.com/business/embattled-china-evergrande-back-court-liquidation-hearing-2024-01-28/)\n- Bloomberg: [China Reiterates Stance That Homes Are Not for Speculation](http://archive.today/2024.03.10-074145/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-03-09/china-reiterates-stance-that-homes-are-not-for-speculation)\n- CNBC: [China’s housing minister says real estate developers must go bankrupt if necessary](https://www.cnbc.com/2024/03/11/chinas-housing-minister-property-developers-must-go-bankrupt-if-needed.html)\n >“We will scale up the building and supply of government-subsidized housing and improve the basic systems for commodity housing to meet people’s essential need for a home to live in and their different demands for better housing,” an English-language version of the report said.\n\nCompare that to Obama, who bailed out the private banks at the expense of people with home mortgages, banks that knowingly wrote those bad mortgages. Michael Hudson, 2023: [Why the Bank Crisis isn’t Over](https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/03/15/why-the-bank-crisis-isnt-over/)\n>The financial sector is the core of Democratic Party support, and the party leadership is loyal to its supporters. 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It worked out about the same too, except for the Russian military embarrassing themselves. Even taken at face value, all you are doing is justifying the imperialism, not showing it doesn't exist.\n\nChina is the biggest debt holder nation in the world. Zambia just had to default on loans for infrastructure that largely served Chinese needs, and Kenya and Ethiopia are not far behind. Meanwhile, the DRC is falling into debt paying for infrastructure to ship Copper and Cobalt to Chinese. China has not been as abusive as the west was, but they aren't that much better either. 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You're just upset that they came prepared because you've got jack shit","removed":false,"published":"2025-12-07T15:09:48.074515Z","deleted":false,"ap_id":"https://lemmy.ml/comment/22629903","local":false,"path":"0.18149277.18149336.18154651.18154743.18155270.18158744","distinguished":false,"language_id":0},"creator":{"id":16466782,"name":"Amnesigenic","display_name":"Amnesigenic","avatar":"https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/6e9794fd-00b9-4b83-bfa1-5ae9ae471b8e.jpeg","banned":false,"published":"2025-03-07T20:42:00.452805Z","actor_id":"https://lemmy.ml/u/Amnesigenic","bio":"Just another angry trans tankie shitposter","local":false,"deleted":false,"bot_account":false,"ban_expires":"2025-10-09T01:31:20Z","instance_id":195},"post":{"id":35321846,"name":"My Venezuelan friends say Maduro is a dictator","url":"https://lemmy.ml/api/v3/image_proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcrazypeople.online%2Fpictrs%2Fimage%2F358e9ad4-5a6a-46ee-a351-6148bf4325be.jpeg","creator_id":21536693,"community_id":1673,"removed":false,"locked":false,"published":"2025-12-06T14:16:50.060902Z","deleted":false,"nsfw":false,"thumbnail_url":"https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/pictrs/image/33f0bc31-2509-40bb-aaec-9a4b9edead14.webp","ap_id":"https://crazypeople.online/post/11824857","local":false,"language_id":0,"featured_community":false,"featured_local":false,"url_content_type":"image/jpeg"},"community":{"id":1673,"name":"memes","title":"Memes","description":"#### Rules:\n\n\n01. 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There is nothing that anyone could say to you to disagree that you wouldn't immediately say \"that's propaganda and therefore wrong!\" to.\n\n> It worked out about the same too\n\nAre you stupid? Iraq immediately erupted into long term insurgency, a thing that categorically did not happen in Crimea or Donbas.","removed":false,"published":"2025-12-07T07:33:53.694746Z","updated":"2025-12-07T07:35:28.364067Z","deleted":false,"ap_id":"https://lemmy.ml/comment/22625633","local":false,"path":"0.18149277.18149336.18154651.18154743.18155270.18155432","distinguished":false,"language_id":37},"creator":{"id":14413263,"name":"BrainInABox","banned":false,"published":"2024-12-11T00:35:20.275731Z","actor_id":"https://lemmy.ml/u/BrainInABox","local":false,"deleted":false,"bot_account":false,"ban_expires":"2025-10-17T11:38:35Z","instance_id":195},"post":{"id":35321846,"name":"My Venezuelan friends say Maduro is a dictator","url":"https://lemmy.ml/api/v3/image_proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcrazypeople.online%2Fpictrs%2Fimage%2F358e9ad4-5a6a-46ee-a351-6148bf4325be.jpeg","creator_id":21536693,"community_id":1673,"removed":false,"locked":false,"published":"2025-12-06T14:16:50.060902Z","deleted":false,"nsfw":false,"thumbnail_url":"https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/pictrs/image/33f0bc31-2509-40bb-aaec-9a4b9edead14.webp","ap_id":"https://crazypeople.online/post/11824857","local":false,"language_id":0,"featured_community":false,"featured_local":false,"url_content_type":"image/jpeg"},"community":{"id":1673,"name":"memes","title":"Memes","description":"#### Rules:\n\n\n01. 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Russian has had to resort to brutal tactics to suppress them, but has still not been entirely successful. Many of the resisters retreated to fight with the rest of Ukraine, and they are certainly giving Russia a fight. In any case, it's still imperialism.","removed":false,"published":"2025-12-07T14:33:16.306360Z","deleted":false,"ap_id":"https://midwest.social/comment/21554516","local":false,"path":"0.18149277.18149336.18154651.18154743.18155270.18155432.18158367","distinguished":false,"language_id":37},"creator":{"id":644027,"name":"Tinidril","banned":false,"published":"2023-06-07T21:00:01.359210Z","actor_id":"https://midwest.social/u/Tinidril","local":false,"deleted":false,"bot_account":false,"instance_id":193},"post":{"id":35321846,"name":"My Venezuelan friends say Maduro is a dictator","url":"https://lemmy.ml/api/v3/image_proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcrazypeople.online%2Fpictrs%2Fimage%2F358e9ad4-5a6a-46ee-a351-6148bf4325be.jpeg","creator_id":21536693,"community_id":1673,"removed":false,"locked":false,"published":"2025-12-06T14:16:50.060902Z","deleted":false,"nsfw":false,"thumbnail_url":"https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/pictrs/image/33f0bc31-2509-40bb-aaec-9a4b9edead14.webp","ap_id":"https://crazypeople.online/post/11824857","local":false,"language_id":0,"featured_community":false,"featured_local":false,"url_content_type":"image/jpeg"},"community":{"id":1673,"name":"memes","title":"Memes","description":"#### Rules:\n\n\n01. 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Where did you hear this?","removed":false,"published":"2025-12-07T16:19:27.742579Z","deleted":false,"ap_id":"https://lemmy.ml/comment/22630788","local":false,"path":"0.18149277.18149336.18154651.18154743.18155270.18155432.18158367.18159374","distinguished":false,"language_id":37},"creator":{"id":14413263,"name":"BrainInABox","banned":false,"published":"2024-12-11T00:35:20.275731Z","actor_id":"https://lemmy.ml/u/BrainInABox","local":false,"deleted":false,"bot_account":false,"ban_expires":"2025-10-17T11:38:35Z","instance_id":195},"post":{"id":35321846,"name":"My Venezuelan friends say Maduro is a dictator","url":"https://lemmy.ml/api/v3/image_proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcrazypeople.online%2Fpictrs%2Fimage%2F358e9ad4-5a6a-46ee-a351-6148bf4325be.jpeg","creator_id":21536693,"community_id":1673,"removed":false,"locked":false,"published":"2025-12-06T14:16:50.060902Z","deleted":false,"nsfw":false,"thumbnail_url":"https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/pictrs/image/33f0bc31-2509-40bb-aaec-9a4b9edead14.webp","ap_id":"https://crazypeople.online/post/11824857","local":false,"language_id":0,"featured_community":false,"featured_local":false,"url_content_type":"image/jpeg"},"community":{"id":1673,"name":"memes","title":"Memes","description":"#### Rules:\n\n\n01. 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That still doesn't make Maduro not an Authoritarian.\n\n> it seems to me that leftist leaders are always denounced as authoritarian by North American and European based NGOs and governments.\n\nThat's a fair observation but, again, that doesn't mean they are wrong when they say it about Maduro. Maduro is referred to as dictator by Human Rights Watch, the Organization of American States, and other human rights organizations, including some inside Venezuela.\n\nMaduro is a dictator. It's largely the fault of the US that Venezuela has a dictator. If the US succeeds in ousting Maduro, it will almost certainly replace him with an even worse Dictator. 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Long term, obviously no corruption and high revenue/profit per barrel has its advantages. 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If it’s so easy, why hasn’t it happened?\n\n>The pure socialists’ ideological anticipations remain untainted by existing practice. They do not explain how the manifold functions of a revolutionary society would be organized, how external attack and internal sabotage would be thwarted, how bureaucracy would be avoided, scarce resources allocated, policy differences settled, priorities set, and production and distribution conducted. Instead, they offer vague statements about how the workers themselves will directly own and control the means of production and will arrive at their own solutions through creative struggle. No surprise then that the pure socialists support every revolution except the ones that succeed.\n>\n>The pure socialists had a vision of a new society that would create and be created by new people, a society so transformed in its fundaments as to leave little opportunity for wrongful acts, corruption, and criminal abuses of state power. 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Ideally, it would be a fine thing to have only local, self-directed, worker participation, with minimal bureaucracy, police, and military. 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As in, in detail, practical examples of those freedoms and justice, please. Besides the theoritscl \"to each according to their needs, from each according to their possibilities\" (sorry if misstranslated), what practical examples have been just and free throughout time.","removed":false,"published":"2025-12-07T12:14:15.251947Z","deleted":false,"ap_id":"https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/comment/23018262","local":false,"path":"0.18149277.18149587.18149752.18153084.18153155.18157227","distinguished":false,"language_id":0},"creator":{"id":19428712,"name":"h3rmit","banned":false,"published":"2025-07-24T18:29:52.738292Z","actor_id":"https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/u/h3rmit","local":false,"deleted":false,"bot_account":false,"instance_id":97730},"post":{"id":35321846,"name":"My Venezuelan friends say Maduro is a dictator","url":"https://lemmy.ml/api/v3/image_proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcrazypeople.online%2Fpictrs%2Fimage%2F358e9ad4-5a6a-46ee-a351-6148bf4325be.jpeg","creator_id":21536693,"community_id":1673,"removed":false,"locked":false,"published":"2025-12-06T14:16:50.060902Z","deleted":false,"nsfw":false,"thumbnail_url":"https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/pictrs/image/33f0bc31-2509-40bb-aaec-9a4b9edead14.webp","ap_id":"https://crazypeople.online/post/11824857","local":false,"language_id":0,"featured_community":false,"featured_local":false,"url_content_type":"image/jpeg"},"community":{"id":1673,"name":"memes","title":"Memes","description":"#### Rules:\n\n\n01. 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But you're far more likely to see the evaporation of a super massive black hole.\n \nPower corrupts. And sometimes there really is no point to arguing which shitty person is slightly less shitty than the other shitty person. The only true answer is not play, and that there shouldn't be such positions of power. Anything else is calvinball.\n \nYou'll notice that there are no real arguments that he isn't a authoritarian/dictator. Just justification that certain people identify with him, so it's okay. Or that because one cringe group of privileged people criticize him. All criticism against him is from similar cringe groups of people. The meme in a nutshell. A non sequitur.\n \nMaduro absolutely is an authoritarian. As is Trump. I don't agree with either one of them. But Trump absolutely means to fuck all the way off when it comes to continuing to meddle in South America. Argentina and Venezuela have enough problems of their own. 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The way his party allocates power as a matter of internal affairs, may be another story.\n\nPlease, let’s not talk in absolutes. This notion that any and all narratives that you deem negative are part of a grand conspiracy just isn’t true.\n\nI implied in my original reply that I believe Maduro may be benevolent, along the lines of Castro. I don’t really have a problem with dictators…the problem with dictators is they’re usually fascists. 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Have you read or listened to Maduro’s speeches or read Chavismo literature? Did you ask working class Venezuelans they consider these “decrees” to be extra-legal are or whether they are popular among them? Or did it come from Five Eyes sources, their telling of events?\n\n> the problem with dictators is they’re usually fascists.\n\nIn the modern era, dictators dictate with the consent of the bourgeoisie. And yes, that is fascism. In stark contrast, the Maduro government is a thorn in the side of both the indigenous bourgeoisie and the foreign imperialist bourgeoisie.","removed":false,"published":"2025-12-06T20:59:17.212808Z","deleted":false,"ap_id":"https://lemmy.ml/comment/22619127","local":false,"path":"0.18149277.18149945.18150152.18150376.18150565","distinguished":false,"language_id":37},"creator":{"id":951432,"name":"davel","display_name":"davel [he/him]","avatar":"https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/a6f7fe29-6f9a-46df-a4b8-ca4390741012.jpeg","banned":false,"published":"2023-07-08T15:31:23.821976Z","actor_id":"https://lemmy.ml/u/davel","bio":"All text lovingly hand-crafted with 100% organic em dashes.\n\n|||\n|---|---|\n| Pronouns | he/him |\n| Datetime Format | [RFC 3339](https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3339) |\n\n### Imperial shill watchlist\n\n\n|Username|Start|End|\n|-|-|-|\n|Sepia@mander\\.xyz|Nov. 2025|–|\n|Scotty@scribe\\.disroot\\.org|Aug. 2025|–|\n|Hotznplotzn@lemmy\\.sdf\\.org|Jan. 2025|–|\n|randomname@scribe\\.disroot\\.org|Jan. 2025|–|\n|Anyone@slrpnk\\.net|Jan. 2025|Apr. 2025|\n|0x815@feddit\\.org|Jun. 2024|Dec. 2024|\n|thelucky8@beehaw\\.org|Apr. 2024|Jan. 2025|\n|0x815@feddit\\.de|Apr. 2023|Jun. 2024|\n|tardigrada@beehaw\\.org|May 2022|Dec. 2024|","local":false,"deleted":false,"bot_account":false,"instance_id":195},"post":{"id":35321846,"name":"My Venezuelan friends say Maduro is a dictator","url":"https://lemmy.ml/api/v3/image_proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcrazypeople.online%2Fpictrs%2Fimage%2F358e9ad4-5a6a-46ee-a351-6148bf4325be.jpeg","creator_id":21536693,"community_id":1673,"removed":false,"locked":false,"published":"2025-12-06T14:16:50.060902Z","deleted":false,"nsfw":false,"thumbnail_url":"https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/pictrs/image/33f0bc31-2509-40bb-aaec-9a4b9edead14.webp","ap_id":"https://crazypeople.online/post/11824857","local":false,"language_id":0,"featured_community":false,"featured_local":false,"url_content_type":"image/jpeg"},"community":{"id":1673,"name":"memes","title":"Memes","description":"#### Rules:\n\n\n01. 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Liberals just think it's true because they've created a system where people who were already corrupt gain power.\n\n>The only true answer is not play,\n\nYeah man, people should just \"not play\" real life. Fuck me, Western liberals really are the most privileged fuckers: all just a game to them.\n\n>You’ll notice that there are no real arguments that he isn’t a authoritarian/dictator. \n\n???.\n\nOther than the arguments people are making that he was democratically elected. 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Bravo!","removed":false,"published":"2025-12-06T22:59:49.725451Z","deleted":false,"ap_id":"https://piefed.world/comment/2844215","local":false,"path":"0.18149277.18149945.18150644.18151389.18151810.18151859","distinguished":false,"language_id":37},"creator":{"id":19110636,"name":"Eldritch","display_name":"Eldritch","avatar":"https://media.piefed.world/users/vo/ls/vols6BIAW2e64pL.png","banned":false,"published":"2025-07-08T23:33:28.157068Z","actor_id":"https://piefed.world/u/Eldritch","local":false,"deleted":false,"bot_account":false,"instance_id":246203},"post":{"id":35321846,"name":"My Venezuelan friends say Maduro is a dictator","url":"https://lemmy.ml/api/v3/image_proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcrazypeople.online%2Fpictrs%2Fimage%2F358e9ad4-5a6a-46ee-a351-6148bf4325be.jpeg","creator_id":21536693,"community_id":1673,"removed":false,"locked":false,"published":"2025-12-06T14:16:50.060902Z","deleted":false,"nsfw":false,"thumbnail_url":"https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/pictrs/image/33f0bc31-2509-40bb-aaec-9a4b9edead14.webp","ap_id":"https://crazypeople.online/post/11824857","local":false,"language_id":0,"featured_community":false,"featured_local":false,"url_content_type":"image/jpeg"},"community":{"id":1673,"name":"memes","title":"Memes","description":"#### Rules:\n\n\n01. 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You regurgitate [imperial core hegemonic “common sense,”](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_hegemony#Social_domination) believing that you don’t need to back any of it up with evidence because ~it\\ is\\ known~*it is known*^it\\ is\\ known^, while we bring bookshelves of evidence & arguments for our positions, which you won’t engage with.","removed":false,"published":"2025-12-06T23:22:57.987600Z","deleted":false,"ap_id":"https://lemmy.ml/comment/22621144","local":false,"path":"0.18149277.18149945.18150644.18151389.18151810.18151859.18152082","distinguished":false,"language_id":37},"creator":{"id":951432,"name":"davel","display_name":"davel [he/him]","avatar":"https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/a6f7fe29-6f9a-46df-a4b8-ca4390741012.jpeg","banned":false,"published":"2023-07-08T15:31:23.821976Z","actor_id":"https://lemmy.ml/u/davel","bio":"All text lovingly hand-crafted with 100% organic em dashes.\n\n|||\n|---|---|\n| Pronouns | he/him |\n| Datetime Format | [RFC 3339](https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3339) |\n\n### Imperial shill watchlist\n\n\n|Username|Start|End|\n|-|-|-|\n|Sepia@mander\\.xyz|Nov. 2025|–|\n|Scotty@scribe\\.disroot\\.org|Aug. 2025|–|\n|Hotznplotzn@lemmy\\.sdf\\.org|Jan. 2025|–|\n|randomname@scribe\\.disroot\\.org|Jan. 2025|–|\n|Anyone@slrpnk\\.net|Jan. 2025|Apr. 2025|\n|0x815@feddit\\.org|Jun. 2024|Dec. 2024|\n|thelucky8@beehaw\\.org|Apr. 2024|Jan. 2025|\n|0x815@feddit\\.de|Apr. 2023|Jun. 2024|\n|tardigrada@beehaw\\.org|May 2022|Dec. 2024|","local":false,"deleted":false,"bot_account":false,"instance_id":195},"post":{"id":35321846,"name":"My Venezuelan friends say Maduro is a dictator","url":"https://lemmy.ml/api/v3/image_proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcrazypeople.online%2Fpictrs%2Fimage%2F358e9ad4-5a6a-46ee-a351-6148bf4325be.jpeg","creator_id":21536693,"community_id":1673,"removed":false,"locked":false,"published":"2025-12-06T14:16:50.060902Z","deleted":false,"nsfw":false,"thumbnail_url":"https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/pictrs/image/33f0bc31-2509-40bb-aaec-9a4b9edead14.webp","ap_id":"https://crazypeople.online/post/11824857","local":false,"language_id":0,"featured_community":false,"featured_local":false,"url_content_type":"image/jpeg"},"community":{"id":1673,"name":"memes","title":"Memes","description":"#### Rules:\n\n\n01. 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Are you referring to the bit at the end, where GrammarPolice made a couple of posts on MWoG that you commented on? I think it's fair to call that out.","removed":false,"published":"2025-12-06T23:14:22.842682Z","deleted":false,"ap_id":"https://lemmy.ml/comment/22621018","local":false,"path":"0.18149277.18149945.18150644.18151389.18151810.18151859.18151988","distinguished":false,"language_id":0},"creator":{"id":6238908,"name":"Cowbee","display_name":"Cowbee [he/they]","avatar":"https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/c18ce632-5fb5-4888-8226-3dc55a07acc4.jpeg","banned":false,"published":"2023-12-31T19:47:40.358778Z","actor_id":"https://lemmy.ml/u/Cowbee","bio":"Actually, this town has more than enough room for the two of us\n\nHe/him or they/them, doesn't matter too much\n\nMarxist-Leninist ☭\n\nInterested in Marxism-Leninism, but don't know where to start? 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