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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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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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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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Sparkles and rainbows?","removed":false,"published":"2025-12-06T21:15:48.628969Z","deleted":false,"ap_id":"https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/comment/18150733","local":true,"path":"0.18149277.18149336.18150733","distinguished":false,"language_id":0},"creator":{"id":168403,"name":"Fredthefishlord","banned":false,"published":"2023-06-14T19:44:15.674341Z","actor_id":"https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/u/Fredthefishlord","local":true,"deleted":false,"bot_account":false,"instance_id":171},"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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I thought i was done thinking about the world","removed":false,"published":"2025-12-06T19:08:42.410984Z","deleted":false,"ap_id":"https://lemmy.ml/comment/22617598","local":false,"path":"0.18149277.18149336.18149403","distinguished":false,"language_id":0},"creator":{"id":22244817,"name":"RiverRock","banned":false,"published":"2025-11-23T16:43:39.378650Z","actor_id":"https://lemmy.ml/u/RiverRock","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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I try to do my best to correct that former behavior now that I know better. *[Masses, Elites, and Rebels: The Theory of \"Brainwashing\"](https://redsails.org/masses-elites-and-rebels/)* remains critical reading. ","removed":false,"published":"2025-12-06T19:13:38.046588Z","updated":"2025-12-06T19:14:29.037466Z","deleted":false,"ap_id":"https://lemmy.ml/comment/22617648","local":false,"path":"0.18149277.18149336.18149403.18149439","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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But the people you're arguing with are working with that definition, which is why I took the time to clarify. Thank you for appreciating my effort post though lol","removed":false,"published":"2025-12-07T02:31:22.615483Z","deleted":false,"ap_id":"https://lemmy.ml/comment/22623073","local":false,"path":"0.18149277.18149336.18150733.18150818.18151083.18152940.18153412.18153513","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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The definition liberals use is both new and entirely vibes-based. It is useless for anything but bringing geopolitical conversations to a screeching halt with murky equivocations. The Marxist definition exists to clarify, while the liberal definition exists to obscure. It's the \"socialism is when the government does stuff\" of international relations.","removed":false,"published":"2025-12-07T02:27:29.510511Z","updated":"2025-12-07T02:38:34.361522Z","deleted":false,"ap_id":"https://lemmy.ml/comment/22623024","local":false,"path":"0.18149277.18149336.18150733.18150818.18151083.18152940.18153412.18153477","distinguished":false,"language_id":0},"creator":{"id":22244817,"name":"RiverRock","banned":false,"published":"2025-11-23T16:43:39.378650Z","actor_id":"https://lemmy.ml/u/RiverRock","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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Anyone suggesting that nato provoked it is on something ","removed":false,"published":"2025-12-06T21:49:03.495149Z","deleted":false,"ap_id":"https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/comment/18151094","local":true,"path":"0.18149277.18149336.18150733.18151006.18151094","distinguished":false,"language_id":0},"creator":{"id":168403,"name":"Fredthefishlord","banned":false,"published":"2023-06-14T19:44:15.674341Z","actor_id":"https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/u/Fredthefishlord","local":true,"deleted":false,"bot_account":false,"instance_id":171},"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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This group of countries uses this alliance to prevent the global south from going against it and liberating themselved from foreign plunder via overwhelming financial domination. The way imperialism tends to work in the modern day is countries like the US, France, Germany, UK, etc expropriate vast wealth from countries in the global south, similar to how capitalists steal value created by the working class. \n\nNATO is as \"defensive\" as the Iron Dome in Israel. These countries export genocide and terrorism on the third world, expropriate huge sums of wealth, and then \"defend\" against anyone that pushes back against that. 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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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Skill issue.","removed":false,"published":"2025-12-07T01:22:41.163110Z","deleted":false,"ap_id":"https://lemmy.world/comment/20885648","local":false,"path":"0.18149277.18149587.18149752.18153084","distinguished":false,"language_id":37},"creator":{"id":182290,"name":"drmoose","display_name":"Dr. Moose","banned":false,"published":"2023-06-15T05:49:28.776834Z","actor_id":"https://lemmy.world/u/drmoose","local":false,"deleted":false,"bot_account":false,"instance_id":65477},"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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Long term, obviously no corruption and high revenue/profit per barrel has its advantages. 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[You can't.](https://youtu.be/uThpIDlfcBQ)","removed":false,"published":"2025-12-07T02:19:52.324486Z","updated":"2025-12-07T02:21:31.181449Z","deleted":false,"ap_id":"https://lemmy.ml/comment/22622967","local":false,"path":"0.18149277.18149587.18149752.18153084.18153425","distinguished":false,"language_id":0},"creator":{"id":22244817,"name":"RiverRock","banned":false,"published":"2025-11-23T16:43:39.378650Z","actor_id":"https://lemmy.ml/u/RiverRock","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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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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You guys are just doomer losers simping for dictators because your minds are too small to imagine a real victory.","removed":false,"published":"2025-12-07T02:40:01.222533Z","deleted":false,"ap_id":"https://lemmy.world/comment/20886281","local":false,"path":"0.18149277.18149587.18149752.18153084.18153155.18153582","distinguished":false,"language_id":37},"creator":{"id":182290,"name":"drmoose","display_name":"Dr. Moose","banned":false,"published":"2023-06-15T05:49:28.776834Z","actor_id":"https://lemmy.world/u/drmoose","local":false,"deleted":false,"bot_account":false,"instance_id":65477},"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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I said that it's weak mentality to say \"ends justify the means and sacrifice justice and freedom for the sake of fighting a foreign oppressor\" - maybe that's easier to understand? Weak people, weak minds, skill issue.","removed":false,"published":"2025-12-07T02:36:53.288630Z","deleted":false,"ap_id":"https://lemmy.world/comment/20886255","local":false,"path":"0.18149277.18149587.18149752.18153084.18153425.18153557","distinguished":false,"language_id":37},"creator":{"id":182290,"name":"drmoose","display_name":"Dr. Moose","banned":false,"published":"2023-06-15T05:49:28.776834Z","actor_id":"https://lemmy.world/u/drmoose","local":false,"deleted":false,"bot_account":false,"instance_id":65477},"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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We get it from what our governments say, our corporate media say, and our NGOs (which are funded by our governments & corporations) say. These are the very same governments & corporations that want to vassalize Venezuela and pillage its resources. They are—all day, every day—working to manufacture our consent, or if not consent then at least acquiescence.","removed":false,"published":"2025-12-06T20:20:04.737307Z","deleted":false,"ap_id":"https://lemmy.ml/comment/22618565","local":false,"path":"0.18149277.18149945.18150152","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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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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