I don’t know if I’m going crazy but looking at the current situation in the world … please tell me that I’m overexagurating

  • Danitos@reddthat.com
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    1 month ago

    I kinda doubt that will happen. For instance, look at Venezuela: Venezuelans are beyond fed up with Maduro’s dictatorship, but there’s nothing they can do against the government forces.

    Governments will do anything they can to prevent a paradigm change.

    • BrainInABox@lemmy.ml
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      1 month ago

      Westerners sure do seem to think they know the feelings of citizens of other countries better than those citizens themselves.

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      1 month ago

      What revolution really takes is soldier’s that are protecting the system being unwilling to kill when the “rebels” are their family and friends.

      If soldiers have love for the people and see common cause more than they fear their leaders then the leader can fall.

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        1 month ago

        Yeah, the rigged ones lol. There’s even mathematical evidence of it being rigged, with votes accounting for exact percentages with just 2 decimal places, for every single candidate.

        Venezuela hasn’t publish the official acts, nor let international observers be present in the elections. There was heavy repression on elections day as well, plus some offices not letting people vote.

        • Nemo's public admirer@lemmy.sdf.org
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          Wasn’t their current president a bus driver who rose up through politics? I had seen a mention of that in some online discussion.

          Also, that the USAmerican govt has issues with Venezuela nationalising their oil and acting as a competitor to the petro-dolla system

          So would they just be a adversary country, which may likely be conservative, rather than a dictatorial one?

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            1 month ago

            Bus drivers can be dictators as well. It’s less about the person and more about the political situation. In Venezuelas case oppression of the opposition and unfair elections