Oh fuck it’s Rainer coming at us. Gonna give this a read and see how far off base he is. This guy went full on PatSoc and started going after PSL in a totally disingenuous way and I can’t trust anything he’s written since.
I stopped reading him after his MAGA communism meltdown, he totally lost the plot, and especially after Trump presidency didn’t materialised anything even remotely resembling left shift in republican workers.
After digging through to the actual context…in the podcast interview he left the interviewers with a weak position on Cuban and Venezuelan leaders and whether he considers them dictators. His office followed up with a more well laid out position on the issue.
" I want to be clear on where I stand. I believe both Nicolas Maduro and Miguel Diaz-Canel are dictators. Their administrations have stifled free and fair elections, jailed political opponents, and suppressed the free and fair press. And yet, our federal government’s long history of punitive policies toward both countries, including extrajudicial killings of Venezuelans and the continuation of a decades long blockade of Cuba, have only worsened these conditions. Democratic socialism is about dignity, justice and accountability. And above all, it’s about building a democracy that works for working people, not one that preys on them."
He doesn’t profess to be a communist so I’m not sure why the linked article is expecting him to align with communism. He’s said several times, including in the above statement, that he’s a democratic socialist.
Wow impressive so Zohran did a “both sides”. That sure doesn’t sound Liberal at all.
When both sides are fucked what’s wrong with saying it instead of picking a side?
Oh look, another liberal doing the both sides thing right in the thread about their idol doing the same thing. How unoriginally ironic
Again, if both sides suck ass, why should I stand by either? What’s your suggestion?
He doesn’t profess to be a communist so I’m not sure why the linked article is expecting him to align with communism. He’s said several times, including in the above statement, that he’s a democratic socialist.
The problem is that Maduro is actually the real democratic socialist. Maduro didn’t come to power as a result of a revolution, he won elections. He doesn’t govern a one party proletarian dictatorship, he governs in a parliamentary multi-party liberal democracy. He hasn’t established a centralized command economy, he has established a system of decentralized democratic worker communes.
Zohran calling him a “dictator” only shows that it is Zohran who is deceiving his supporters about who and what he is - an imperialist aligned socdem who chose to reinforce imperialist slander about real socialist leaders.
This slander isn’t just harmless speech, it’s an active weapon in the propaganda war waged by the imperialist apparatus to justify wars, invasions, bombings, regime change, and mass murderous sanctions against socialist states. These words kill.
By saying what he said he has made himself co-culpable in the crimes of imperialism against the people of Cuba and Venezuela, he has blood on his hands now.
They are mad that he beat the donor class, they are doing anything and everything to undermine him, throwing mud at the wall until something sticks… which it hasn’t
Sure seems that way when a weird article like this creeps up.
This passes for ‘news’ here? What a low quality sub
More like a low quality reader if you don’t see that the comm is called “United States | News & Politics”, it’s not solely about news but also general political articles and discussion.
