Difference between “apologists” and people against imperialist intervention as a solution.

-The person you replied to. Doesn’t sound like they’re talking about Maduro. If you want me to say Maduro bad then sure, Maduro bad. Happy now? Still doesn’t excuse anything the US has done to Venezuela since he took over.

You’re the only one talking about Maduro, we’re talking about US aggression against Venezuela.

Ah, yes, support moderate imperialist action and moderately brutal sanctions to moderately impoverish Venezuelans. Very moderate indeed.

The fucked up part is: Science has already come up with a magical solution, plenty in fact; we’re just failing to implement them. Renewables, and especially solar, are developing at an incredible pace and in a better world would already be the main source of energy worldwide. The only technology missing from this equation is the guillotine.

Neither, the idea is that the impact of the Romans is strongly felt even millennia after their fall, so it makes no sense to expect Africa to “get over” colonialism within the span of a few decades, yet that’s exactly what colonialism apologia does.

Thus approximately 15.7% of all incarcerated are in the USA.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incarceration_in_the_United_States

It seems it peaked at around 25% in 2009, but has been declining since.

Every time someone pushes for Medicare for all they get there asses kick in the election.

Can we get a list of those multiple times? Also to be clear a strong majority of the US population wants universal healthcare as of 2024.

Wouldn’t the market just expand to absorb the extra demand?

According to betteridge’s law: No.

Holy bootlicking batman. You already had your argument dismantled elsewhere so I won’t do so myself, but what the fuck how delicious does the boot have to be for you to so persistently defend such blatant cruelty? This is “you don’t know why those IDF soldiers shot children in the head” levels of apologia and you should think deep and hard about why you’re doing this.

We have no idea what actually transpired here, but there’s no viable chain of events that would make it acceptable to evict a 93 years old. Full stop.

These clauses don’t apply to the rich.

Clearly the meme is referring to rebellions against the interests of the country in question. So since they brought up Ireland: How supportive were the British of the Irish war of independence? What about the IRA during the Troubles? How does France react when its neocolonial empire in Africa is disrupted? Before 2023, what was your average European’s image of Palestinian resistance? What’s the verdict on the Houthi “rebels” again? And so on. With some exceptions, these supposed liberatory ethos are thrown out the window the moment they become inconvenient.

Don’t join the army and don’t be a cop, especially not in 2025. Odds are you’ll be sent to beat up protesters.

Background people not smuggies, immersion broken.

Gee, I wonder if there’s a formative event in the early 90s that could’ve had some effect on this. Maybe a decline in quality of life that would make people liable to embrace a rightwing dictator. Perhaps neoliberals could be involved? Nah, no way.

how is this take any different than the u.s. propoganda that would say very similar shit about communism.

It’s true, that’s how it’s different. There’s nothing “complicated” about how Britain installed the Shah in Iran or America helped Saddam wage a war with Iran that killed half a million people. Some things are just fucking evil.

C’mon you can’t bring up Ireland as representative of the West when they’re the OG colony. By that metric the West is anti-Zionist.

High-quality ragebait, upvoted.

As a wise man once said: Things will have to get worse before they get better. The average American will need to suffer a lot more before they’re ready to think about taking their guns to protests, let alone using them.