More than “mildly infuriating”, this is deeply depressing.

(And seeing TikTok two times there don’t make things better…)

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    Venezuela is one of those countries that just constantly seems to be in a bad state. I can’t imagine living under a government that disrespects its people.

    As it turns out unalienable rights are totally alienable

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      And I wonder whose fault it is for turning and keeping it in a state of perpetual decay 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

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      It’s in a bad state now because of the sanctions placed upon it. It was in a bad state before because of capitalist rule.

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      For a colonial power, Spain was a real douchebag. The effects of that douchebaggery seem to have real staying power.

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        There are plenty of other former Spanish colonies that are doing much better than Venezuela

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        A colonial powers in the Americas were real douchebags. They genocided the natives, then went to another continent to enslave people and bring them over. All this was for sugar and tobacco. Millions of deaths and enslaved so some people in Europe could smoke cigarettes while they have sweets. It couldn’t get much worse than that.

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          It’s not about the sweets and cigarettes it’s just about the wealth acquisition. Same then as it is now. Companies are still using slave and otherwise coerced labor to extract all kinds of wealth from foreign countries.

          If any countries try to take control over their own economy by closing it to Western “investment” they get wrecked by the world bank and invaded or sanctioned by the US and/or its allies.

          Global capitalism is neo-colonialism.