• arcterus@piefed.blahaj.zone
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    12 hours ago

    I mean, he’s right? A (questionably) socialist dictator is still a dictator. Maduro was given the ability to rule by decree like a decade ago, and, like Trump, basically has control over every major part of the government.

    Of course, as he says, that doesn’t justify arbitrarily killing people or the long-term embargo on Cuba that has economically crippled the country.

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      6 hours ago

      You really just have to look at it through the oversimplified lens of the Marxist Linanist. If the West does it, it is bad. If anyone else does it, it is good. All the whining about reading theory, that is honestly as deep as it gets.

      Capitalism, when the party does it is good actually. Suppression, imprisonment, and slaughter of the proletariat? If you did it in the name of the party, it’s no vice.