• GarbageShoot [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    2 months ago

    It’s so annoying. I already had a liberal proactively bring the election up as though it wasn’t an open and shut case, as though it’s not just the even-more farcical version of what happened just like 5 years ago. There was a flurry of unsubstantiated accusations, because those are easy to make, and then reactionary media treats those accusations as though they were credible, and eventually proper investigations find that the accusations are so much hot air, but that can’t happen quickly enough to prevent the manufactured crisis of the accusations.

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      2 months ago

      The Iraq weapons of mass destruction lie is the rule, not the exception.

      When USS Maine exploded, both Spain and US Navy comission said it was accident, but media pushed for war.

  • Unhinged Stopa 🏳️‍🌈@sopuli.xyz
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    2 months ago

    I mean sure, the US has its own reasons to get involved with venezuela, but this video is making it seem like Chávez and Maduro were only trying to help people all along, and the US just wanted to benefit from the oil, which doesn’t make sense if you take into account we’ve been living in a dictatorship for 20 fucking years. Maduro actually changed the law so he could stay longer in power. He LITERALLY stopped the main opposition leader, Maria Corina Machado, from entering the elections and STOPPED international observers from entering Venezuela (Like PP (a Spain political party) in order to better sell the lie that people are want him to stay. The election results should have been made available one hour after the elections finished, but they became available several ours later because they were bussy sending to prision people who were inside the CNE who actually wanted a democratic decision to be made.

    On top of that, they issued a detention order to Maria Corina Machado for allegedly hacking the elections from North Macedonia.

    So yeah, even if the US has its own reasons for helping VENEZUELAN PEOPLE, I’d say let them.