In case you're wondering why he'd admit to that, his first tweet in this thread was "Trump is very bad because he sucked at overthrowing Maduro and thus empowered an evil dictatorship"
Drumpf=Putin=Communist energy
Real "I was researching this story for a year and he just...tweeted it out" energy
IS MAKING A COUP FAIL BY MY INCOMPETENCE WHAT YOU LIBS CALL "PRAXIS"?
You know we're getting big when this has been posted no less than 3 times today.
Good post.
I think it's mostly just the algorithm being really bad right now. Nothing on the frontpage is older than 6 hours which feels incredibly wonky. I prefer a slower paced homepage.
Reddit's system works better.
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Homepage -- Up to 24 hours content.
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Rising -- Up to 1 hour content
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New -- I will never log off zone.
We need to slow the homepage right down and bring in something inbetween New and the 24 hour cycle of the homepage.
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Nah it's fine, I think he meant that there's enough activity that people can miss stuff again, good repost o7
These people are psychopaths, no shits given what a rightwing coup will do to the population, it's all about control and geopolitical plays for resources.
There is a bunch of sock emojies in replies indignant that people think the coup would harm Venezuela. Wild stuff.
"US government? Fascist and bad. Coups perpetrated but this fascist government? Cool and good for people in countries targeted."
Real "getting banned from twitter for telling a sitting senator to kill himself" hours
Friendly reminder that Connecticut is CIA ground zero and desperately needs the Bastille treatment.
Journalists and opposition politicians tend to get murdered during a coup.
"Not doing a coup makes Trump bad" - Journalists and members of the opposition party.
I wish they were always as open and as stupid as this, saves us the hassle of giving the benefit of the doubt.
I read this and I was so fucking mad the entire afternoon.
If you wanna lose braincells here you go https://twitter.com/ChrisMurphyCT/status/1290656452835713025?s=19
You see if Chris Murphy were president, he would quite simply tell the second and third largest military powers in the world to cut it out.
I don't actually remember much anarcho-interventionism on Venezuela. At the start of the Bolivia coup there were some "no, this one is the will of the people" anarchist voices, though.
is "we" the US or "we" as in a group of us senators with administrative approval?
we the epic good guys politics of the status quo in america just trying to do our jobs, but unfortunately there's a dang cheetoh in the white house
my initial inclination is that this administration has taken the thin veil off of decades of imperialism and that the toothpaste can't go back in the tube...
but goddamn the libs seem not to notice. they just want to go back to 'competently' arranging coups across the globe. its very discouraging
can someone point me to a source really diving into what happened in venezuela? ive heard abby martin's interview on rev left so i sort of get the idea that the far right opposition sabotaged maduro in many ways only to then play victim and with the help of sanctions make it look like maduro is a "dictator".
i dont wanna feel like im speaking out of my ass tho...
Something to keep in mind whenever people talk about how the election was illegitimate is that the OPPOSITION asked the UN not to send observers.
Some good stuff here.
Radio War Nerd had a more balanced take on Maduro, interviewing Ignacio Portes, Argentinian journalist.
thanks for this, havne't heard the interview but the read through the other stuff and itsinformational. do you know whats up with the claim that people were told they'd be cut off gov assistance/fired if they didnt vote for maduro? seems kind of a strange thing to claim since a lot of opposition parties... boycotted the election???
Hmm, haven't heard that claim specifically. The funny thing is that Maduro's right wing opponents would probably cut or lessen those benefits, so voting for them kind of would entail that, maybe you heard a propaganda spin of that logic? Like look at this NYT coverage: they frame it in such a scary way. He's "controlling" the food, he's "enticing" the poor to vote for him in exchange for food. Another way of looking at it is that Maduro is promising benefits to the poor, who in austerity governments...don't get much help? Is that a bad thing? Of course, with the economic crisis, there are Venezuelans who are malnourished, not discounting that.
There's so much propaganda, it's hard to keep track. Another good thing to watch is this critique of John Oliver's segment on Venezuela by Mike Prysner, as an example of the misinformation. Also this and the links in the comments.
i was thinking about this article where a guy claims he was fired for not voting for maduro
https://apnews.com/68ba256d98b04beab8f1d04ec7c33acb/Venezuelan-state-worker-becomes-voice-against-voter-coercion
i heard the claims that he said something along the lines of 'if i dont win your benefits will be cut' but like, thats because his opposition party are running on a platform of austerity so thats, yeah, just true.
i had someone claim to me that the people who voted for him got food and those who didn't vote for him didn't get food, and tried to explain that it has to do more with the makeup and class of people who support him to no avail.
Oh huh, hadn't read that story. I really recommend the RWN episode I linked above, because it does seem like there are some not great things that Maduro's gov't has done, it's just that it's not like they are more corrupt than the surrounding countries. A lot of US leftist discourse on Venezuela is one sided because the goal is to fight against all the propaganda and repeated coup attempts, which is good in that it might convince some Americans to not celebrate how their gov't keeps trying to start a civil war there, but bad in trying to figure out what exactly is true.
there was also some story about cuban doctors who wouldn't treat people until they agreed to vote for maduro. idk, the whole thing is fishy to me though im sure the govt has done some fishy things.
thanks for the links, im watching the prysner video right now and will get to the rwn one tomorrow.
Lol, that one sounds more made up than the others. If you have a job, your bosses know you and watch over you daily, so they could try and sway your vote, but if you're treating someone it's not like you're gonna follow up on who they voted for. Seems weird to me. Also, love how the Prysner video is age restricted for no conceivable reason, while the John Oliver clip he's critiquing isn't. Hmmmmm.
