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Here is a critical view that should be taken seriously

If capitalism is a brutally and violently enforced inequality, being authoritarian is a very mild characteristic. An army is authoritarian. Capitalism works as a club of dictators, as each corporation is one. There is no such thing as a democratic corporation, even when the dictator decides to share some ownership, the structure is a dictatorship.

What falsely poses as democracy is a condition where the terrorized are in peace with the monopoly of violence (the state) because they see no other option for survival. Outside of W.Europe and N.America most people see democracy as the absolute hypocrisy by western media.

You can separate capitalism from fascism as one side of the coin with the other. Capitalism invented fascism to defend it when the nation/state couldn’t anymore, against labor and unionism of late 19th century. From paid thugs shooting strikers to off duty cops carrying assassinations, torture and terrorism, to the evolution of a pseudo-ideology to take over Germany and attack the Soviet-Union, which in their eyes was the source of the problems western industrialists faced. Fascism grows from inside the very nature of capitalism and it is inseparable.

First they came for “antifa” and when it is all done and finished they will again come for “antifa” …

Because it is capitalism we are talking about and its fascist nature of brutally and violently enforcing inequalities (of all sorts)

Imagine your kids lying dead in an airliner crash plainly due to lack of proper maintenance and there is no agency investigating whose fault it was, just corporations covering each other’s butt up.

No justice just pure capitalism

Gradually this entire society is going to be pushed towards a civil war where male wasps will win and blame the war on everyone else. Already Trump has empowered the militant right and winked an eye to do attrocities in the form of paramilitary reaction against people mobilizing to strike, protest, organize.

This whole scenario is the US managing its defeat in Ukraine where the entire NATO went against Russia and lost, on one side, on the other side it will politically shift blame for the declining and collapsing $/oil economy that is imploding mainly due to its declining industrial and raw material base.

Industrial capital leading a banking federation is what capitalism’s core is. The “west” thought through the banking/oil choke hold it can control industrial capital which has now shifted together with the world’s primary raw material sources. So we have a collision course of two capitalist adversaries with the US not willing to accept defeat to avert a large scale war.

But if nobody can be wise enough to lead and beat some sense into the US/EU/UK elitism material conditions will. And the bubble of living and surviving on the blood and sweat of the rest of humanity without a cost will be violently coming to its end. In US/UK/EU, due to this condition politics range from right-wing pro-capitalism to ultra-right-wing pro-capitalism all against humanity.

Poor Israel is realising this western ally is collapsing on its own and is taking measures to be able to survive this phase of global war caused by the US/UK/EU

flat earth on a flat universe, MUFA make-the-universe-flat-again

If she has to pay for it then she can bring anyone she wishes into her apartment … with payment come rights.

Is it true or is it false news that he was top recipient from USAID to sell people cheap? I see stories discrediting the initial report propped by Musk, Amazon, … and actors denying it.

I think it is stagnating. people having more access to technology based gadgets but the only thing that changed is earth abuse to support production of gadgets. So not only is it not saving us, it is literally killing us.

That is what I “always” thought, motorcycling will get me and I wouldn’t want to live without being able to ride … but then it happens, you don’t and you get to live with what you never though you would be. …

Some friend came along today and had Frank Sinatra “my way” playing for a ring, immediately I searched the tube and found Sid Vicious’ “my way” and played it back … he never got old. I guess they can take our lives away but we get to keep the mind young if we want… and look back to see if we are happy with choices, even the worst mistakes.

The weirdest feeling is that the older you get the more you feel time is accelerating … you get older faster and faster after a certain age.

The realization that I may never live to see capitalism collapse

The quantities of oil Venezuelans sleep on top is what makes oil an issue, not the US economy. The US economy is heavily developed and influenced by oil interests.

You have anti-capitalist parties running in elections in Venezuela, do you know of one in the US?

I didn’t know that being naive in politics is an insult, many people discussing politics are. But if you think there can be a capitalist government without corruption then “naive” is the mildest characteristic one can throw at you. Was Bolivar naive for turning against the Spanish imperialists?

You said you are “from” Vz I never said a thing about the US as being associated with it. You can be Chilean and I can be from Nicaragua, and we would still be talking about the US when discussing politics.

I can be from Vietnam and you would be from Eritrea, still the US is something we would discuss.

There is no capitalism without corruption

Democracy has not existed ever, it is a pseudo name for a facade of industrialists and bankers by controlling all media to pretend to allow people to choose “cheap” representatives. The US is so perverse it legalized corruption, called lobbying. Washington DC quadrupled in population in a couple of decades due to lobbying. They decide, you are just convinced your representatives decided.

And it is only called democracy as long as there is 0% chance of capitalism being overthrown. 100% capitalist democracy with high percentage of tax-base going into anti-communism subversion and war.

Either you are naive or you are a propaganda bot spilling doubt on a non-issue. If Maduro had given 90% control of oil extraction and sales to US oil companies he would have been granted the Nobel/Oscar price for democracy.

Now that is corruption! Everywhere else but Venezuela

Susan Singer can give you a clue https://mastodon.online/@slsinger/113959054222615036

There can never be capitalism without corruption, it is the nature of the system, so get over it and find a valid rational argument

Sane idiots that defend democracy in Venezuela were very happy with the violent overthrow of a truly democratic government in Ukraine, killed, persecuted political opposition, forced elected officials into exile, banned half the political parties, and incorporated a neo-nazi brigade financed by the CIA as part of Ukraine’s military. Zelensky’s term had been up for a long while and refuses elections. But Maduro is the bad guy we should be concerned about. Ukraine’s largest oil/gas co. was run and mostly owned by Biden’s son. BBC and CNN said the majority of people were pro-NATO/EU, even though the majority had voted for the toppled government that opposed NATO and EU memberships.

No, these people are not naive, or childish, they are paid propaganda trolls just as the US blog https://venezuelanalysis.com/ is. If election results haven’t been published how did this blog get its data? Wild imagination?

massive oil resources American oil companies would be able to access

Most of them claim the oil was theirs and Chavez took it away from them and nationalized the oil industry. I am surprised they have survived as long as they did. Venezuela’s prime oil market had always been the US, who else could buy so much oil?

US Oil companies own right to explore all the deposits in gulf of “Mexico” for decades. Mexico gets a tiny rent for this and government officials burn it all up between them.

So your problem with Maduro’s government is that is corrupt, and which Venezuelan or any other government hasn’t been corrupt? Chavez and Maduro 's crimes are summarized by taking back the stolen resources (oil) that was handed to US/EU oil cos. Whether the people saw a benefit from this or not you must be in Venezuela now and before Chavez to realize the difference. Hardly anyone disputed that for the bottom third of the population Chavez was a saint that treated them like humans instead of slaves. And that is what the US/EU governing officials and the oil company media are jumping up and down about. They want their oil back. Isolating them from markets to sell oil, to purchase equipment for drilling and refining oil, has had its economic effects. They have too much oil and nowhere to sell it to, and when they do they can’t buy anything from international markets as they are blocked by US/EU. BRICS has been the only alternative but half of BRICS don’t even need oil.

99% of the most vicious military dictatorships in Americas were sponsored, supported, and held up by the US as part of their anti-communist activity. Suddenly they are all concerned about Venezuela’s quality of democracy. The largest Spanish speaking media outfits in the Americas are owned subsidiaries of US media corporations, do you really expect people to have an educated views of who to vote for?