I don’t care about Maduro, as far as I’m concerned, they can shoot him if they want. What matters to me is walking through the streets of my city and seeing the faces of fear on my neighbors. The military patrolling to prevent looting due to panic. It’s a collective hangover, a horrible one.

It’s 2016 all over again. It’s seeing despair entering the circulatory system of all Venezuelans, only now it’s more sudden, and we are painfully aware of it.

This is far from improving, and we know it.

    • Soggy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      176·
      4 months ago

      Cool, spread that blame around on every country that legitimizes the US by recognizing its sovereignty and cooperating with its military and every citizen of those countries.

      • 5714@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        5·
        4 months ago

        EU, Russia, China, UN et al cannot legitimately make a constitution for the US. Hell, they even let West-Germany after freaking WW2 have their own constitution for a reason.

        • Soggy@lemmy.worldEnglish
          41·
          4 months ago

          I can’t make a legitimate constitution either, any amendment requires 38 of 50 states to agree! The entire system was built to disproportionately empower rural areas because we “needed” their economic support to break free from Great Britain. (And we had substantial foreign assistance in that endeavor)

            • Soggy@lemmy.worldEnglish
              11·
              4 months ago

              Forgive me if I’m not receptive of people thousands of miles away from me telling me I should go get shot by a fascist government or else it’s my fault they’re evil.

              • 5714@lemmy.dbzer0.com
                4·
                4 months ago

                I’m sorry, if I made you solely responsible for “your” country’s government’s actions, I didn’t keep attention to the handle. As I see it, federal and federating states, the two US parties are co-enabling each other and as a result, no one can really vote about a political system change. AFAIK, peaceful change has happened before, where they had some sort of constitutional assembly. Sure, given the unequal political mobilisation status atm, it seems unlikely, but if such ideas are unthinkable in the rigorous definition of the word, long term or massive violence will be likely, because no system is forever. Again, not your fault or sole responsibility, beyond “your” country identity, read: you as part of 340,110,988 people ± your sociopolitical power. Don’t get shot.