• geneva_convenience@lemmy.mlOPM
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    1 month ago

    So people can just throw out claims without evidence and when they get debunked they get to make the same claim over and over again?

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      1 month ago

      They didn’t make the initial claims, they were just pointing out that your source was questionably relevant given it’s age. Nobody has re-presented any debunked claims here.

    • arcterus@piefed.blahaj.zone
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      1 month ago

      sigh

      No, the conditions are just not the same. Chavez was actually popular, whereas Maduro’s rule has been marked by civil unrest for a number of reasons, but one of the main is the absurd inflation rate. Some of these problems were inherited and just got way worse when he took power, but he hasn’t fixed them, so that he keeps winning elections is more than a little suspicious.

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        1 month ago

        Venezuela is among the top countries for economic growth in the last year. They aren’t without problems, but Maduro was doing well.

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          And? Are you saying most people are gonna keep voting for the status quo in such a situation just to stick it to the US? Is it somehow justified if a ruling government rigs elections or something similar simply because they are in opposition to the US government? You realize the world isn’t just black and white, right?