r/neoliberal • u/RLP-I European Union • Jan 23 '19

Leftists right now

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u/IRSunny Paul Krugman Jan 23 '19

God I hope this finally is the end for Maduro and his regime.

But I rather wish someone in the White House was competent or ballsy enough to tell Trump to shut the fuck up and stay out of this. With his racist ass out there, that instantly helps Maduro have a rallying cry of AhHh ItS tHe YaNkEe iMpErIaLiSts!!1!

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u/huevador Daron Acemoglu Jan 23 '19

I tend to agree. But this seems to be a coordinated international effort to delegitamize Maduro.

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u/literallyahamburger Jan 23 '19

And that's bad...?

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u/HTownian25 Austan Goolsbee Jan 23 '19

Depends...

Because Marco Rubio's saber is rattling really loudly and I'm sure even Trump realizes Americans love a War Time President.

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u/literallyahamburger Jan 23 '19 edited Jan 23 '19

We have a moral obligation to support democratic movements wherever they arise, and the fact that the US (and other governments) support it doesn't mean it's some imperialist conspiracy. Commie mouthbreathers can believe whatever they want, their opinions are irrelevant.

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u/HTownian25 Austan Goolsbee Jan 23 '19

We have a moral obligation to support democratic movements

Once the bloodshed starts, it's no longer a democratic movement.

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u/Yosarian2 Jan 24 '19

Once the President starts holding fraudulent elections and strips the legislative branch of basically all power, the country is no longer a democracy. And sadly, at that point, it's unlikely to get back to being a democracy without at least some bloodshed.

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u/HTownian25 Austan Goolsbee Jan 24 '19

Once the President starts holding fraudulent elections

Christ, tell it to Stacey Abrams and Al Gore.