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the remaining differences are mostly about aesthetics and not about the use of violence to maintain hegemony

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[–] ynthrepic@lemmy.world 26 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (18 children)

Problem is, Maduro is a figurehead. He's not a mastermind. The regime will carry on without him. Nothing has been achieved by this kidnapping except a threat to Venezuela, and a message to China and Russia that this is how the world works now.

Edit: Also a lot of innocent or mostly innocent people have been murdered. Trump is a literal murderer.

[–] Socialism_Everyday@reddthat.com 19 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Maduro being a figurehead isn't a problem, it's a good thing. The alternative would be the destabilization of Venezuela and the coup by a Milei-like libertarian who would give every inch of Venezuelan soil to US corpos and destroy worker rights.

[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml 15 points 5 days ago

Maduro being a figurehead isn’t a problem, it’s a good thing.

If anything, it clearly shows he isn't the dictator US claims he is, so maybe it's time for the clueless to doubt rest of that mountain of bullshit spewed against him and Venezuela.

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[–] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 17 points 5 days ago (3 children)

There's blue maga people, or at least person, who keeps saying Maduro was just extracted by Trump because they are friends... While completing ignoring the death and destruction if it let's them get one on trump

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[–] 100_kg_90_de_belin@feddit.it 15 points 5 days ago (3 children)

We should bet on how soon Trump is going to kidnap governors in blue states

[–] Saymaz@lemmygrad.ml 17 points 4 days ago

May the US die in the 2nd civil war! 🙏

[–] Grapho@lemmy.ml 11 points 4 days ago

Here's hoping. Seems to be the one way (barring total economic collapse and the breakdown of payment systems) for gringos to get on with balkanizing themselves already.

[–] v0id@lemmy.ml 8 points 4 days ago (1 children)
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[–] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 15 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Was gonna say center should be don't care as long as congress approved but that only applies to the blue maga side

[–] plyth@feddit.org 12 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Did congress approve Libya or Serbia?

[–] Saymaz@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 4 days ago
[–] Juice@midwest.social 7 points 4 days ago (6 children)

Its more like a coin with liberal values on one side and fascism on the other. And when we hold it up to look at one side and describe what we see to someone with different beliefs, all they see is the other side.

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