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Comment by trymas

6 days ago

> built by foreign multinationals and then expropriated by Chávez in 2007?

If you follow this reasoning - after what happened today - you will get Iran 2.0: Venezuelan boogaloo

I have zero optimism that after this - ordinary Venezuelans will have better outcomes in 10 years time.

Current USA government is some weird klepto-oligrachy. Hates brown people. It’s not doing it out of benevolence to Venezuelans. Venezuelans will get either colonialist resource extraction treatment or some power vacuum will bring just another despot.

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foxglacier  6 days ago

> Hates brown people

You're reading tealeaves to support your own hate-fueled nonsense belief. Correlation doesn't equal causation and all that.

  • the_gastropod  6 days ago

    It blows my mind anyone can hold this opinion after 10+ years of Trump very publicly spewing racist garbage. Let's just review a few recent examples:

    - Claimed Haitian immigrants were eating neighbors' pets

    - Currently claiming Somalian immigrants have setup vast networks of fraudulent daycares

    - While he's worked diligently to stop immigration from, what he calls, "shithole countries" like Somalia, Haiti, and Afghanistan, he's advocated for increased immigration from "nice" or "beautiful" countries like Denmark, Norway, and Sweden. He also specially carved out a special South African Afrikaner refugee status for white South Africans.

    - Habitually calls predominantly non-white opponents "low-iq individuals".

    - Repeatedly called SARS-CoV-2 the Chinese virus, "kung-flu", etc.

    - Told four congresswomen of color (3 of whom were born in the U.S.) to "go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came". A bipartisan resolution was passed in The House condemning these comments as racist.

    - And we can go back a long time ago, and remember the Central Park Five, where he relentlessly attacked five innocent black and latino children, calling for the death penalty for them. Even after DNA evidence proved their innocence, Trump never apologized or acknowledged wrongdoing.

    Each of these you could try to individually explain away as a misunderstanding or whatever. But there's an abundantly clear pattern of racism, not just with Trump, but much of his administration.