Okay, let’s say he stole the election just for the sake of an exercise. There are a metric fuckton of regime change examples where the US meddled with the elections of other countries for their own gain. Is Venezuela now the magical example where the US government did it simply out of the goodness of their hearts? Or is this just a convenient scenario where Maduro needed to go and the US just happened to be the ones to do it and that’s somehow totally cool? I mean, fuck the approval of Congress, international law, etc. amirite?

Venezuela’s issues and elections are for Venezuelans to decide, not parasitic imperialist scum. The mental gymnastics to support this one are on an Olympic level of stupid.

[–] cornishon@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

The mental gymnastics to support this one are on an Olympic level of stupid.

Well, yes, but so were the mental gymnastics to support all the previous interventions.

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 weeks ago

There are a metric fuckton of regime change examples where the US [is meddling] with the elections of other countries for their own gain.

fixed it for you.

[–] ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks ago

They want to conquer but without feeling like the cunts they are. Childish people.

[+] Overspark@piefed.social -8 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

He did, but that doesn't excuse what the US did.

[–] Saymaz@lemmygrad.ml 16 points 2 weeks ago

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 weeks ago

Maduro is the democratically elected president of Venezuela. With 51% of the vote, compared to his opposition gaining 43%, the US Empire has tried to rely on manufacturing false evidence against Maduro so their compradors can gain power. This is despite the fact that the Venezuelan electoral process is among the most transparent in the world, with election observers including the opposition. Venezuelans didn’t believe the empire's lies, though, so the empire was forced to engage by force, bombing hospitals and murdering dozens of civilians in the process.

These lies undermining Maduro are the same claiming there is no genocide in Palestine, that socialism is scary and evil, that Trump won 2020, that Saddam had WMD. These lies are undermining a country that nationalized their oil industry, requiring foreign capital to only have a minority stake. For this sin of keeping Venezuelan wealth for Venezuelans, the empire kidnapped him.

[–] AntiOutsideAktion@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 weeks ago

"I'm not excusing what the US did but the excuse they used was valid"

Go fucking vote for John Kerry in 2004.