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Before anyone starts telling us how they are attacking a legitimate president and that the people will defend it, take your time to find your closest Venezuelan
by bsjaux628 9mo ago
Before anyone starts telling us how they are attacking a legitimate president and that the people will defend it, take your time to find your closest Venezuelan (there are 8 million around the world, so don't need to look to far) and ask him how he feels about this, you will find that happy is part of their emotions.
- ogogmad 9mo agoAre they Venezuelans living in Venezuela? I think the ones you have to worry about are the ones still living there. Additionally, might it be that every dictatorship is hated by most expatriates? I think that that was the case for the 2 (or 3) countries that the neo-cons invaded, and I don't remember any of those invasions turning out well. Reckless.
- VBprogrammer 9mo agoI imagine, purely as a thought experiment, if you asked a sample of US expats what their reaction to the "forced removal" of the current president from office you'd get a similar response.
- ErneX 9mo ago8 million is a lot in a country that around 30 million population. Plus the opposition won the 2024 election by a landslide, but it was stolen by Maduro. The overwhelming majority wants the regime to end.
- celticninja 9mo agoSo that juatifies this attack does it? How many dead Venezuelans does it justify?
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- mrbombastic 9mo agoI don't see a single comment in this thread praising Maduro, I have basically never heard anyone express this sentiment in these discussions: "Maduro: Democratic leader, universally loved by his ever grateful people for standing up to the autocratic regimen of the USA" the argument is that regime change and military intervention in foreign conflicts have led to disaster time and again.
- unethical_ban 9mo agoLet me strap on my vocabulary filter for this site and say very diplomatically that what you typed is completely, entirely incorrect, a caricature, and is not relevant.
- svara 9mo agoYou wrote out a fantasy here that says more about what content you seek out than anything else.
- dwb 9mo agoI found two, and happy is not part of their emotions.
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- swiftcoder 9mo agoThis is a bit like asking Cubans in the US how they feel about Castro. The ones who left don't tend to be the most ardent supporters of the regime...
- lm28469 9mo agoJust because you don't like your government doesn't mean you want the US to come and deliver your next US flavored dictator