Sammy Sofa
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Focus, Tom. Give us one reason you think Maduro should stay in power that isn't "it sticks it to the US." Just one. -
Really can't see your way around that big "dictator brutalizing his own people"-sized blind spot, can you?
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Dictator killing and torturing his own people? Well, he flipped off the US, so that's OK! Pointing out that dictators tend to meet ugly ends when the people they subjugate have had enough? "YOU BLOODTHIRSTY MONSTER!!!!"
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As always, the wild Tankie thinks it's impossible for the non-whites to have any kind of autonomy. Same as it ever was.
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It's a bad thing to prop up a dictator that preys on their own populace! It's bad when anyone does that! This isn't a complicated concept! There is not legitimate justification for what Maduro is doing now, and there was no justification when he did it five years ago. There might be a reason why his biggest regional allies (Mexico, Colombia and Brazil) are finally turning on him, and it's because his dictatorial corruption is beyond the pale. No amount of sweaty Maduro-spewed anti-US rhetoric that gives you a quivering little boner comes even remotely close to justifying what he's trying to get away with. Solely blaming the sanctions for millions of Venezuelans fleeing the country or being plunged into famine is insultingly simplistic; HE'S TAKING ADVANTAGE OF THE SITUATION TO MAKE EVERYTHING INFINITELY WORSE. He's a horsefeathers criminal that Venezuelans, and their regional neighbors, want out of office. Right now they're giving him the diplomatic path out; if he keeps this up he's probably going to end up choosing an Italian-style exit instead.
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Learn to read, you goddamn trash bag. Most of your sources on this are little more than Tankie blogs that prop up dictators so long as they think it makes the US look bad. Multiple countries and organizations observing and vetting these elections, including ones that MADURO horsefeathers INVITED IN, have piles of evidence that he lost. Your only argument is little more than variations of, "NO WAY, THE US MUST HAVE FAKED IT!"
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Typical Tankie horsefeathers. Can't graduate the brain cells above anything better than "the US just wants to take their oil, maaaaaaaaaaaaaaannnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn!" Meanwhile complete ignores the far more active influence of China, Iran, Russia and Cuba in South America, ESPECIALLY in Venezuela under Maduro. But nope, it's only because the US wants to take baths in the delicious, yummy oil, num-num-nummers. Grow the horsefeathers up and stop supporting dictators you horsefeathers child.
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/aug/06/venezuela-election-maduro-analysis You're a horsefeathers Tankie.
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Yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah, you're going to dismiss any opposition that isn't vocally anti-US as Maduro is. By the inane standards you've set a literal horsefeathers dictator is the preferable option so long as he's "not backed by the US." You straight up don't believe that a majority of the Venezuelan population would not support him or vote against him solely because you want the anti-US guy to stay in power and that's it. You flat out don't give a horsefeathers about what he's actually doing because the only thing that matters to you is he's anti-US. You chastise everyone else for falling for propaganda while you're carrying water for a goddamn dictator arresting his own people for daring to commit the "crime" of speaking out against him.
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It means you're willing to support totalitarians so long as you deem them sufficiently anti-US/anti-West. You're also basically saying it's impossible for Venezuelans (or other Central/South American peoples) to legitimately oppose Maduro. "Sorry Venezuelans, you just have to put up with a corrupt dictator vanishing his political opposition off of the streets because he also makes the US Big Mad!"
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You're twirling off into Tankie territory (with a heaping helping of infantalizing the people you claim to be speaking on behalf of. It's the Tankie version of "those primitive brown people couldn't have possibly created those pyramids; it must have been ALIENS!!!")
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Swagger:
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I feel like some boring old freak like George Will probably dusts that off from time to time.
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Wait, why are you talking like only the US is calling him out for this? Multiple countries in Central and South America are condemning him, too. If you're going to just quintuple down and say that those countries are also too irreparably damage to ever hold foreign policy opinions that aren't warped by US interests, or are straight up in the US' pocket...well, just don't bother. You've gone full conspiracy theorist on this, where all evidence is somehow invalid, and all absence of evidence is somehow proof. Maduro is a ridiculously corrupt dictator who is trying to steal the election and is crushing people underfoot to do so, period. There is nothing the US has done or is doing that justifies any of his actions, or any kind of support for him.
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We're all just dancing around what is clearly most acceptable and not at all creepy term:
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It "works out" that way because literally your only argument against the Venezuelan people wanting him out is that it could only possibly be because any opposition to him must be orchestrated by the US. Nevermind he's literally horsefeathers disappearing people for speaking out against him and challenging his theft of the election: https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/article/2024/aug/08/venezuela-nicolas-maduro-contested-election-protests-detention
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But here, if it makes you feel better...also from the Oxford Dictionary:
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Bottom line, you argument for Maduro staying in power is little more than "it's good because the US doesn't like it!"
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Argumentum ad dictionarium!
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A real C- flex if there ever was one.
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It really isn't. Maduro is a completely and hopelessly corrupt petro-gangster. Having "nothing could ever possibly be worse than the US/West/NATO/Global North doing ANYTHING" as your go-to is a completely self-defeating argument. And I'm not endorsing the US doing anything about Maduro; I'm just saying that wanting Maduro out because he is insanely corrupt and bad is pretty much objectively correct.
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Nobody's saying the US isn't a huge problem. The answer to Ukraine isn't to just let Russia do what it wants, and the answer to Venezuela isn't to let Maduro to get away with what he wants. Swapping one bad actor for another isn't the solution you seemingly think it is.
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You're basically doing the same thing as all of your Ukraine rants; you're willfully ignoring the super obvious rampaging elephant in the room and it completely undercuts any good point you have to make.
