• TankieTanuki@lemmy.world
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    10 days ago

    Since you’ve linked to my post, maybe you lemmitors can help answer one of the questions posed in it:

    Can I get a quick rundown on what Maduro has done to be labelled as a “brutal dictator” by the liberal media?

    • Glide@lemmy.ca
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      10 days ago

      I mean…

      Maduro was widely considered head of an authoritarian government characterized by electoral fraud, human rights abuses, corruption, and severe economic hardship. Between 2013 and 2023, Venezuela dropped 42 places in the Press Freedom Index.[24] According to estimates by the United Nations (UN) and Human Rights Watch, under Maduro’s administration thousands of people have died in extrajudicial killings and seven million Venezuelans were forced to flee the country.[25][26][27]

      It continues, but there’s no value in copy-pasting a whole Wikipedia page here. Just go there yourself and follow the citations. You’re welcome to dismiss whatever news articles and sources you find on whatever grounds you want, but if you want to know the reasoning, no one is working to hide it from you.

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      10 days ago

      What liberal media? It’s all owned by maga, but then with a name like that I just bet you’re totally commenting here in good faith of course. Fuck it, I’ll bite a little. How’s about refusing the peaceful transfer of power for starters?

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        10 days ago

        How’s about refusing the peaceful transfer of power for starters?

        I’m starting to think Maduro was right about that. Turns out the Yanks really were trying to take over Venezuela!

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          10 days ago

          Oh so he is a dictator but it’s ok now. Don’t get too tired carrying around those goalposts.

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            10 days ago

            Trump kidnapped a head of state. If he gets away with it, he’ll keep doing it with other heads of state.

            Centrists are ok with setting that precedent as long as it upsets the “tankies” they hate.

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                10 days ago

                I’m not one, but from the outside looking in, it appears as though the only actual requirement is a deep abiding love for genocide.

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                  10 days ago

                  the yanks do love their violence.

                  tho where are you from? since outside of the US, outside of shit stain countries, what’s so wrong about centrism?

                  I suppose you could call me a centrist, I’m not bound to any party

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                    10 days ago

                    I’m from the US and the deliberate worthlessness of centrists over the course of decades got us here.

                    Their unwillingness to oppose fascism enabled the fascists.