I’ll start, I missed the outdoor cats struggle session so i don’t know what its deal was except a vague idea that outdoor cats were bad, so I’ve let my two cats stay being outdoor cats because I feel bad locking them inside, like I want to give them some experience of freedom to go where they please so they can live more fulfilling lives

Edit: also kruschev is imo a lot better than most hexbear users give him credit for

    • silent_water [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
      30·
      1 year ago

      the problem with this one is that all the libs/chuds have the biggest opinions. it’s hard to struggle over “he’s fine, the US should leave Venezuela alone”

      • MaoTheLawn [any, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
        18·
        1 year ago

        Yeah, I guess so. Selfishly I guess I just wanted to hear people’s takes on it who were better read than me on the situation so I could have some data/resources to look at. I figured that the best way to get that was to do some infighting, lol.

        Takes on most countries are “they’re fine, the US should leave them alone”, I was hoping for further insight.

      • barrbaric [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
        16·
        1 year ago

        Yeah, like, I think it’s pretty difficult to judge how well eg he’s managing the economy when they’re under crippling sanctions. Like okay that means he’s worse than Fidel but christ that’s a high bar.

          • WoofWoof91 [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
            17·
            1 year ago

            the one “failure” that comes to mind was that time a Venezuelan navy guy thought stopping dead in front of an ice breaker was a good idea
            in a vessel that was essentially made of fibreglass
            versus something designed to plow though sea ice
            i get why Maduro went all “this is a grave attack on us” and all that shit, but come on, your navy guy is not the smartest lmao

      • MaoTheLawn [any, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
        14·
        1 year ago

        Hahaha, yeah, it was some gibberish about Guiado, I honestly couldn’t tell if they were saying he was good or bad it was so incoherent.

        Anyway, before I could figure it out my post actually showed as -1 comments due to the deletion.

    • axont [she/her, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
      9·
      1 year ago

      Maduro does shady stuff like he’s involved in drug trafficking, but also his country regularly has its boats robbed and its money stolen by imperialist governments. I doubt he feels good about making money from mafias and drug cartels, but Venezuela has to bring in the money somehow. And imperialist nations have made it their mission to cripple Venezuela as much as possible through economic sanctions.

      If he has most legal avenues of money cut off, it’s only reasonable to expect he’d get involved with shady things. A country has to make money somehow, and at a certain point you have to decide what’s more moral: letting people starve or selling drugs.