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by amrocha 9mo ago
Maduro won fair elections in 2013 observed by neutral observers. Sanctions were placed by Obama in 2014.
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by amrocha 9mo ago
They’re pretty good as far as I know, my country didn’t receive any of those but I’ve visited countries in Africa that have received them and they’re getting really great infrastructure and knowledge sharing from them!
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by amrocha 9mo ago
The global south would argue that there’s been nothing benevolent about pax americana.
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by amrocha 9mo ago
It’s disingenuous to talk about Maduros popularity without mentioning the brutal sanctions placed on it by the US, which caused the crisis in the first place.
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by amrocha 9mo ago
That debt issued by a central bank to its government to productively utilize real resources is not inflationary and not really “owed” to anyone. It’s an accounting detail. In response to you saying that there is no free lunch since debt is
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by amrocha 9mo ago
Read up on the cases you posted. The UK deliberately ignored the EU ruling. You probably know how to read but research might not be your forte.
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by amrocha 9mo ago
Does it matter?
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by amrocha 9mo ago
We don’t need to nitpick. I think it’s obvious that saying I don’t know anyone with this opinion != nobody has this opinion.
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by amrocha 9mo ago
I don’t think that’s reasonable at all. Can you imagine a world where a government could spend infinite money without any problems? If you can’t, then why would someone else think that? If you thought my understanding of macroeconomics was
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by amrocha 9mo ago
Who’s we? I’m guessing you’re not a general in the US military, so I don’t know why you’re inserting yourself into this decision. Do you think a nuclear war would be good for you? Obviously not, so you shouldn’t want your government to thre
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by amrocha 9mo ago
I never said anything about lending infinite money, don’t straw man me. The constraint is on real resources, which China has plenty of, regardless of how much debt they have. The financial situation is an accounting detail. China could deci
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by amrocha 9mo ago
Yes, I am, and yes I don’t particularly mind the immigrants. Even if I did mind them, venezuelan immigrants are preferable to the US military invading my neighbours. The TIAR? The one that says an attack on one is an attack on all, which bo
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by amrocha 9mo ago
The brazen callousness with which you advocate for the spread of nuclear weapons and the subjugation of other nations’ sovereignty is disgusting. You’re probably one of the worst people I’ve ever interacted with.
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by amrocha 9mo ago
What the fuck do you think China is going to do next time the US does an “exercise” in the china sea? What the fuck do you think Iran is going to do next time Israel acts up and the US supports it?
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by amrocha 9mo ago
I hope the rest of south america doesn’t let this stand. Heavy sanctions on US, maybe even military intervention. The US can’t go to war with an entire continent.
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by amrocha 9mo ago
You’re not convinced that the US invading other countries and deposing presidents is bad? In a world where nuclear weapons exist?
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by amrocha 9mo ago
Sure, and after all these cases what happened? Prisoners still can’t vote, people are getting arrested for peacefully protesting holding signs, and the Rwanda ruling was overruled by parliament and the only reason the plan was stopped is be
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by amrocha 9mo ago
You can wait and see, or you can open the window and look outside. I know what I already saw.
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by amrocha 9mo ago
Not sure why you think China is Orwellian and the US isn’t when ICE is literally kidnapping people off the streets. Wake up mate, the Orwellian is coming from inside the house.
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by amrocha 9mo ago
Not sure where here is for you. But anyway, even if you can win a battle you can’t win a war. If a government wants to do something, it will regardless of how any individual person, rich or not, feels about it. It just so happens that most
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by amrocha 9mo ago
I’m not a lawyer, and many of these cases are not famous enough to be reported on in a format easily understandable to a layperson. I’m also not going to read through case resolutions to respond to a hacker news comment. I did take a cursor
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by amrocha 9mo ago
I think we’re saying the same thing here? Yes I agree, both superpowers are very similar.
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by amrocha 9mo ago
That might all be true, but at the same time most people don’t care or prefer wireless earphones.
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by amrocha 9mo ago
Your opinion is valid, but irrelevant. The above comment said that you’re a minority and that they’ve never met a person irl that shares your opinion. I can say I’ve also never met anyone who shares that opinion. Also of note is that I used
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by amrocha 9mo ago
I would say that’s an extension of the idea that rich people run the US government, which runs global organizations such as the world bank, which runs these ISDS courts. China is just big enough to be able to ignore these global orgs.
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by amrocha 9mo ago
There actually literally is a free lunch. Debt owed to the government by itself isn’t real. Assets and infrastructure are real. It doesn’t matter how much you think China is in trouble financially, at the end of the day they still manufactu
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by amrocha 9mo ago
This is such a myopic comment to me. Name me a single country where a rich person goes against the government and wins? You just don’t see it happen much in the US because the government is run by rich capitalists, but pretty much every cou
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by amrocha 9mo ago
I don’t even disagree with you about the system incentives. I hate capitalism just as much as you! But I still trust the institutions around me to keep me safe. Obviously that depends on where you live, I wouldn’t feel the same way if I sti
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by amrocha 9mo ago
This post has been a wake up call. I need to be more careful who I bother responding to. This reminds me of the time I found out there’s a ton of libertarians here that think drivers licenses are oppression.
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by amrocha 9mo ago
I would still trust a cessna way more than any plane built or modified by a single person.

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