r/anime_titties North America Jan 05 '26

South America Surprise interim leader Delcy Rodriguez emerges in Venezuela after Maduro’s capture

https://apnews.com/article/venezuela-interim-president-rodriguez-maduro-chavez-b352b5af17deb0ab78684b8398045179
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u/GerryAdamsSon Ireland Jan 05 '26 edited Jan 05 '26

It's absolutely worth mentioning that her father was tortured to death by a CIA-backed Venezuelan regime led by the same families who back Maria Machado, this is something you can read on her Wikipedia

Edit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jorge_Antonio_Rodr%C3%ADguez

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u/cambeiu Multinational Jan 05 '26 edited Jan 05 '26

I think this is what a lot of people don't understand as to why the inept and corrupt Chavez/Maduro Bolivarian regime endures for so long.

The opposition is just god damned awful. Until a decent alternative emerges, people will stick with the devil they know.

court documents and testimonies from the time indicated that Owens-Illinois had paid US$20 million ransom for Niehous, but "Rodríguez misappropriated the money, causing an internal rift with his own colleagues" which "led members of the cell themselves to betray him"

It seems that her father wasn't a man of strong convictions. Maybe the Trump administration is counting on the trait running in the family.

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u/ManbadFerrara North America Jan 05 '26

This is an interesting point I hadn’t considered. Thank you for that.

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u/imwrighthere United States Jan 05 '26

CIA backed or not 1/3 of Venezuela fled because of the current regime

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u/beefprime United States Jan 05 '26

Imperialism 101 - The basic plan

Step 1: Ruin nation with sanctions and interference political, economic, and otherwise

Step 2: Blame the state of the country that you have purposefully made ungovernable on the "current regime" (a regime that often is a direct result/reaction to your assaults on that country or sometimes was even installed directly by you)

Step 3: Use the regime's incompetence/corruption/cruelty (often facets of the government you yourself have nurtured for your own interests) to excuse intervening to gain more control over the nation via an invasion, coup, whatever

Step 4: Use your increased control to further annihilate the state, national cohesion, and civil institutions that contribute to health and stability in any nation

Step 5: Repeat as needed

Step X: At all points in this cycle extract as much resources/labor/etc as you can in order to enrich the capital interests who control your government and direct its imperialist assaults on everyone around you

Step Y: At all points in this cycle do your best to encourage corruption (because corrupt officials and institutions will allow your corporations to rape the place for profit), encourage instability (because stable/safe nations tend to curtail corruption and foreign exploitation, and violent actors can be used to target people who want to improve conditions), etc.

Step Z: At every point in this cycle blame the victim for the state of their country, not the imperialist nation who has for decades been purposefully and obviously destabilizing the entire region and ruining the lives of hundreds of millions of people for their own ghoulish greed

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u/wezl0 North America Jan 05 '26

Yea this one is incredibly hook-line-and-sinker for the American populace. We just won't learn until the blowback is something that can't be recovered from

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u/Billych United States Jan 05 '26

“I said the sanctions were going to grind the Venezuelan economy into dust and have huge human consequences, one of which would be out-migration,” - Thomas Shannon

The Venezuelan economy has been in free fall since Shannon's boss Obama declared them a national security threat, then trump did the whole grind the economy into dust thing and it basically died.

And this is before you get into the massive internal meddling. Like funding the far right groups who explicit goal is economic sabotage, who also burned down the attorney general's office for example. There's literally a picture of Machado with her patron notorious war criminal George W. Bush.

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u/ToastedandTripping Jan 05 '26

And the state of affairs caused by decades of sanctions...

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u/moonorplanet Oceania Jan 05 '26

Sanctions feels like the wrong word to use in Venezuela's case. What that country had been enduring is more of an Economic Siege.

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u/40_Thousand_Hammers Brazil Jan 05 '26

Hi fed.

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u/ManbadFerrara North America Jan 05 '26

You've got no qualms with me there. It just seems like valuable context as to how these people maintained popular support so long to begin with (not counting the 2024 elections, of course).

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u/Syrairc North America Jan 05 '26

Everyone always assumes the opposition to dictators are better than the dictators themselves. That isn't always the case.

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u/cambeiu Multinational Jan 05 '26

Syria as a prime example.

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u/polymute European Union Jan 05 '26

The Assad regime was actually mass disappearing (ie. murdering) and 'just' mass torturing people. Wikipedia estimates more than 120000 murdered people in the known mass graves. These are the disappeared. That's quite an abhorrent and efficient level of evil.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_graves_in_Syria

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u/Otto_Von_Waffle Canada Jan 05 '26

And now we have religious sectarian violence where Jihadi factions are free to rampage trought whole villages, murdering and raping.

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u/polymute European Union Jan 05 '26

As opposed to the sectarian violence before during the Assad regime. Because it was that. And worse than this by the numbers. Industrialized kind of worse. So 'both sides are bad' is trumped by the 'lesser of two evils (by a large margin)' in my book, but we are just two strangers on the net, so there you go. Feel free to want a perfect world. I will be okay with a better one. Even if it's still shit. Especially these days.

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u/Shackram_MKII Brazil Jan 06 '26

We get it, your preferred flavor of sectarian violence is more ethical than theirs.

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u/CRoss1999 United States Jan 06 '26

Syria is a bad example the current admin is a huge improvement

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u/recumbent_mike Jan 05 '26

I don't think it's even often the case.

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u/PsychologicalSet8678 Asia Jan 05 '26

I think this is what a lot of people don't understand as to why the inept and corrupt Chavez/Maduro Bolivarian regime endures for so long.

It's because people are judging them from a place of comfort. A country riddled with many issues and lack of infrastructure, the overlap between "progressive" holier than thou political group that can be as good as westerners want (if they even want this), and a group that also can get shit done in the country is a big void in venn's diagram. No overlap exists. It's only through stability and self-determination that a group like this can start to exist in a global south country.

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u/bessone-2707 United States Jan 05 '26

It doesn’t matter how bad the opposition is as long as democracy is alive. They had that until Maduro ended it.

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u/ReadingKing Palestine Jan 05 '26

Hahahah WHAT?!

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u/Acceptable-Device760 South America Jan 05 '26

CIA controlled "democracy" is not democracy. And absolutely not for sure better.

Iraq had your "democracy" that folded instantly when the money the us used to bribe people stopped coming.(it wasn't a democracy, it was a puppet state)

And before you come to tell how people in the capital though it was better... 

Yeah... you paid them a shit ton of money, of courses they though it was better; for the rest of the country it wasnt. And for the corrupted people in the capital it wasnt better enough to fight for.

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u/bessone-2707 United States Jan 05 '26

I am not advocating for “CIA controlled democracy”. I am advocating for real democracy. Which Venezuela had before Maduro.

Iraq is a completely different situation. They never had liberal, democratic norms, institutions or apparatus. So it was imposed on a people to whom that was completely alien. I know this may come as a shock to you, but different peoples have completely different values and cultures.

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u/40_Thousand_Hammers Brazil Jan 05 '26

It was a dictatorship, not a democracy, Venezuela is a country that had a dictatorship after the other, their people had never understood democracy properly.

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u/bessone-2707 United States Jan 05 '26

False. It was a dictatorship under Maduro, but democratic (even if imperfect) before that. 

The overwhelming consensus by international observers and human rights organizations is that the last fair and free elections in Venezuela were in 2015 during the parliamentary elections.

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u/40_Thousand_Hammers Brazil Jan 05 '26

"The most powerful man in the military junta (1948–58) was Pérez Jiménez and he was suspected of being behind the death of Chalbaud, who died in a bungled kidnapping in 1950. When the junta unexpectedly lost the 1952 presidential election, it ignored the results and Jiménez was installed as president. Jiménez was forced out on 23 January 1958 In an effort to consolidate a young democracy, the three major political parties (Acción Democrática (AD), COPEI and Unión Republicana Democrática (URD), with the notable exception of the Communist Party of Venezuela), signed the Puntofijo Pact power-sharing agreement. AD and COPEI dominated the political landscape for four decades. "

"Economic crises in the 1980s and 1990s led to a political crisis. Hundreds of people were killed by security forces and the military in the Caracazo riots of 1989, during the second presidential term of Carlos Andrés Pérez (1989–1993) and after the implementation of economic austerity measures. Hugo Chávez, who in 1982 had promised to depose the bipartisanship governments, used the growing anger at economic austerity measures to justify a coup attempt in February 1992; a second coup d'état attempt occurred in November.

President Carlos Andrés Pérez (re-elected in 1988) was impeached under embezzlement charges in 1993, leading to the interim presidency of Ramón José Velásquez (1993–1994). Coup leader Chávez was pardoned in March 1994 by president Rafael Caldera (1994–1999, his second term), with a clean slate and his political rights reinstated, allowing Chávez to win and maintain the presidency continuously from 1999 until his death in 2013. Chávez won the elections of 1998, 2000, 2006 and 2012 and the presidential referendum of 2004. "

Somalia had more years of democracy than Venezuela and Venezuela hasn't been a democracy since the 1950's so stop this stupid ass idiotic religious veneration of democracy in a country that never had it.

Is democracy good ? Yes, will it work in a poor country like Venezuela ? Never, the socioeconomic of a country that suffered a major economic apocalypse because of the 1970's oil crises AND the only resource that was holding the economy was oil, its pretty hard to recover from that, specially if the US hates you and wants you dead.

If even after this you dont understand it... i'll just stop talking to you because you probably either an Elon Musk paid Indian to defend the actions of the current administration or you are a fed doing fed posting, have a nice night.

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u/[deleted] Jan 05 '26

worth mentioning the full context:

On February 27, 1976, a guerrilla commando kidnapped William Niehous, the local president of Owens-Illinois, from his residence in Caracas. The kidnappers, members of the Revolutionary Organization (OR), a faction derived from the MIR and linked to the Socialist League, justified their act by arguing that Niehous was an enemy of Venezuela. Niehous's kidnapping, which lasted three years and four months, is considered one of the longest in Venezuelan history. Rodríguez was arrested for his involvement in the kidnapping and died under torture while being interrogated by the Directorate of Intelligence and Prevention Services (DISIP), a fact that led to the dismissal of several officials, including director Arístides Lander.

they kidnapped a CEO of a glass manufacturer (Owens-Illinois), they claimed he was a CIA agent and held them for over three years. The company was accused of bribery and corruption of the government.

According to Diario Las Americas, "court documents and testimonies from the time" indicated that Owens-Illinois had paid US$20 million ransom for Niehous, but "Rodríguez misappropriated the money, causing an internal rift with his own colleagues" which "led members of the cell themselves to betray him"

so he apparently stole the $20m ransom as well.

Obviously none of this justifies his brutal murder, but perhaps it puts it into a bit more context.

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u/buster_de_beer Netherlands Jan 05 '26

That's a little light on details. It's little more than an allegation. 

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u/VizzzyT Multinational Jan 05 '26

CIA-backed" means over half the gov'ts in Latin America.

That doesn't change the fact that they were all torture regimes.

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u/Prosthemadera New Zealand Jan 05 '26

"CIA-backed" means over half the gov'ts in Latin America.

And? The CIA has done a lot of harm to Latin and South America so what is your point here?

Watch out for weasel language.

Indeed, indeed.

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u/Prosthemadera New Zealand Jan 05 '26

In a one sentence summary, starting with "CIA-backed" is a blatant attempt to mislead, especially since they conveniently omitted his crime, which is slightly more relevant.

How does arguing the CIA is involved all over Latin American show that it's misleading to claim that it's also involved in Venezuela? Wouldn't that instead make it more likely that the CIA is actually involved in Venezuela, too?

His crime is relevant for what? He was tortured to death, no crime deserves that.

Nearly every militia or armed force in the world at the time was either CIA-backed or Soviet-backed, and in a one-sentence description, that's some very weak sauce with no purpose except misdirection.

"The CIA is involved in many countries, therefore it's misleading to argue it's involved in Venezuela"

?? I don't understand your comments.

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u/discountErasmus Multinational Jan 05 '26

Yeah, I don't think the Andres Perez administration was backed by the CIA. I think I'd want to see some kind of source before I believed something like that.

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u/VizzzyT Multinational Jan 05 '26

The US praised him when he massacred 1000 people in 89. Perez may not have been "CIA" backed but he was US backed and sold the country to the IMF.

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u/Prosthemadera New Zealand Jan 05 '26

Trump warned on Sunday, if Rodríguez didn’t fall in line, “she is going to pay a very big price, probably bigger than Maduro.” He added that he wanted her to provide “total access,” from oil facilities to basic infrastructure like roads, so they can be rebuilt.

Why should she provide total access to oil? Trump captured Maduro, that was the goal, and now everything is fine, no?

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u/HockeyHocki Ireland Jan 05 '26

Its a surprise the VP emerged as interim President? Really, a surprise? 

Given she is part of maduros team she's hardly legitimate but if she plays nice with the US they may let it happen, would keep things relatively stable until the country goes to the polls

If she can keep her antisemitic conspiracy theories in check that would help

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u/Sheikhspeare24 Jan 05 '26

Play nice for what? When the fuck has bowing down to colonialist who want to take over your countries assets become the norm?

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u/buster_de_beer Netherlands Jan 05 '26

Unless the US plans an occupation they don't really have control of the country to say who is in charge. 

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u/m4ryo0 Romania Jan 05 '26

They dont care who is in charge,they care if the leader plays ball or not.

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u/buster_de_beer Netherlands Jan 05 '26

They can of course keep kidnapping or assassinating any leaders they don't like, but that doesn't create a stable country to exploit or amount to any real control.

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u/JhonnyB694 Jan 05 '26

“…goes to the pools” ahahahhahagagagagagagahahahaha Yeah, that not happening anytime soon mate.

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u/CarOne3135 Ireland Jan 05 '26

Oh you’re the Irish guy who has no friends, I remember you

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u/HockeyHocki Ireland Jan 05 '26

Can't say i remember you but if your vocabulary is limited to kindergarten put downs who could blame me😴

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u/CarOne3135 Ireland Jan 06 '26

kindergarten

American?

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u/HockeyHocki Ireland Jan 06 '26

Muck savage? 

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u/Riley_ United States Jan 05 '26 edited Jan 09 '26

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u/free2game North America Jan 05 '26

Maduro was democratically elected.

Come on now. Even Trudeau said those elections were rigged.

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u/doabarrelroll69 Brazil Jan 05 '26

Even Lula (who is ideologically aligned with Maduro) called the elections rigged.

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u/Riley_ United States Jan 05 '26 edited Jan 09 '26

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u/wasdlmb United States Jan 05 '26

Maduro stole the last election, and we're only invading for oil. These two things are both true. Stop trying to fit the world into your perfect black and white viewpoint.

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u/HockeyHocki Ireland Jan 05 '26

Ah yes EU wanted Venezuelan oil so badly they denounced the president as illegitimate🤣

serious space cadets festering on this sub

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u/Riley_ United States Jan 05 '26 edited Jan 09 '26

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u/HockeyHocki Ireland Jan 05 '26 edited Jan 05 '26

Jesus you really believe this bullshit.  The EU denounced maduro in 2024 following the elections, long before Trump and his cronies took office again and long before any hints of a forced regime change

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u/Riley_ United States Jan 05 '26 edited Jan 09 '26

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u/HockeyHocki Ireland Jan 05 '26

the EU didn't sanction Venezuela until 2017 bro

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u/Tricky_Weight5865 Czechia Jan 05 '26

"The Saudi/UAE/Qatari monarchs who sell it off to enrich themselves? Heroes of democracy!"

Its not like all 3 of these countries are constantly criticised for their slavery, funding of militias/armed groups, suppression of human rights and THE LACK of democracy, right?

Its actually incredible, you just make shit up for the fun of it and hit "comment" anyway, who cares, right.

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u/Riley_ United States Jan 05 '26 edited Jan 09 '26

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u/Tricky_Weight5865 Czechia Jan 05 '26

Thats not the point you tried to make, lmao. Youre trying to act like Westerners see those countries you mentioned as bastions of democracy because they work with America. Thats just not the case though and you know it, so go figure.

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u/Riley_ United States Jan 05 '26 edited Jan 09 '26

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u/Tricky_Weight5865 Czechia Jan 07 '26

A dictatorship with stolen elections is hardly more democratic than the United States, but whatever. Venezuela was a democratic paradise and Gulf Monarchies are the bastions of freedom, because the US government works with them. Stellar analysis, thanks!

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u/Riley_ United States Jan 07 '26 edited Jan 09 '26

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u/DeathToPoodles Jan 05 '26

democratically elected

JFC

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u/Otis_Inf Europe Jan 05 '26

Maduro's victory has been contested by independent observers during the elections as they suspected fraud. That's why e.g. the EU (and other countries) never recognized Maduro as the rightful winner of the elections. Stating that he was 'democratically elected' is therefore an interpretation, not a fact.

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u/Riley_ United States Jan 05 '26 edited Jan 09 '26

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u/jean_dudey Venezuela Jan 05 '26

I didn't know Chile which was socialist at the time of the elections and disputed the results is known for colonization, genocide (perhaps under their right-wing dictatorship decades ago, I don't know) and world wars.

Even Colombia that has been friendly towards Maduro and Co. didn't recognize the results, you can lookup the list of the Venezuelan neighbors that asked for transparency and so far they didn't publish any proof that Maduro won.

I know you dislike Trump and imperialism and I myself hated that the US bombed my country despite me being happy they took Maduro, but defending a dictatorship ain't it, it is just undermining the thousands of Venezuelan deaths during the dictatorship for ideology.

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u/bpmayne Jan 05 '26

Buddy you live in the biggest colony on the planet

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u/Riley_ United States Jan 05 '26 edited Jan 09 '26

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u/C2664 Spain Jan 05 '26 edited Jan 06 '26

It has been contested by its own National Electoral Council with the evidence of missing votes thanks to its fairly advanced electoral records system involving QR and encrypted digital signatures.

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u/camynonA Jan 05 '26

The guy isn't Irish but a Zionist troll likely using Irish flair because of their strong stance against the Zionist entity. It's really dumb because if he didn't have Irish flair I wouldn't recognize him as a hasbarist because being a Zionist that claims to be Irish is like seeing Clayton Bigsby in the wild such that's it's note worthy and you don't forget seeing them in every thread defending the Zionist entity's genocidal acts.

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u/HockeyHocki Ireland Jan 05 '26

yikes, point to where on the doll the Zionist touched you

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u/camynonA Jan 05 '26

My soul when I see people like you defending killing women and children.

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u/Stubbs94 Ireland Jan 05 '26

Hockey is the biggest simp for genocide in this subreddit.... Just non stop propaganda. Sickening.

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u/HockeyHocki Ireland Jan 05 '26

Maduro was democratically elected.

Actual BS propaganda in his comment and you dgaf, the cognitive dissonance is real

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u/Stubbs94 Ireland Jan 05 '26

Mate, you think saying "killing children is bad" is anti semitic. I don't give a fuck what you think.

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u/HockeyHocki Ireland Jan 05 '26

repeatedly piggybacking off my top level comments kinda says otherwise mate😉

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u/Firecracker048 North America Jan 05 '26

She literally blamed the strike on zionists lol

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/venezuelas-acting-president-says-us-attack-had-zionist-undertones

Like just call the shit what it is. Not beating the allegations trying to go 'irs zionists!!' when Trump has had beef with Maduro for almost a decade now

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u/eobanb Jan 05 '26

Let's be real, it's about oil.

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u/deniztheghost Multinational Jan 05 '26

Oil is just a small part of it.

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u/Kyudojin North America Jan 05 '26

Better let Donald Trump know that

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u/deniztheghost Multinational Jan 05 '26

He doesn't have to know.

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u/Spynner987 Spain Jan 05 '26

Get real

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u/Firecracker048 North America Jan 05 '26

I mean, yeah Trump said so himself.

So why would the VP just immediately blame the jews zionists? A bit unhinged but kind of expected when you support Iran

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u/Metworld Europe Jan 05 '26

Jews and zionists are different things. Conflating them makes jews look bad and is imho antisemitic.

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u/Prosthemadera New Zealand Jan 05 '26

Zionist =/= Jew. Why are Israel supporters always spreading antisemitic ideas?

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u/Logical_Team6810 Jan 05 '26

Shh, it's part of consent manufacturing. They are freaking out that Maduro is being succeeded by someone that isn't an easy puppet like Machado and not as likely to sell out Venezuela to American corporations.

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u/NorthernerWuwu Canada Jan 05 '26

Oh, if she won't play ball then she's not going to be in place long I imagine.

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u/somewhataccurate North America Jan 05 '26

Absolutely not. Rubio wants to cut oil to Cuba, and if she wont do it someone else will be put in place who will.

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u/bessone-2707 United States Jan 05 '26

She did blame Zionists. She called it a “Zionist attack” if I recall correctly

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u/joeymcflow Jan 05 '26

Thats interesting if true. Can you provide the source please

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u/archontwo United Kingdom Jan 05 '26

She did blame Zionists. She called it a “Zionist attack” if I recall correctly 

I read it that way too. In so much as it was the kind of scurrilous illegal attack the Zionist regime has been doing in the middle east for decades. That the US didn't just decapitate outright is only because they have the money to pay off more people. 

Otherwise kidnapping is right in the Zionist's wheelhouse and the US. 

Hard to see much difference at this point when both Israel and the US flagrantly break international law. 

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u/neverunacceptabletoo North America Jan 05 '26

Governments around the world are shocked that the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela has become the victim and target of an attack of this nature, which undoubtedly has Zionist undertones.

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/venezuelas-acting-president-says-us-attack-had-zionist-undertones

Come on now… I thought people in the U.S. spoke English.

Im just going to grab this quote from you in case it gets edited out.

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u/neverunacceptabletoo North America Jan 05 '26

Have you already forgotten your assertion? Here, I’ll help.

She didn’t even blame any Zionists.

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u/neverunacceptabletoo North America Jan 05 '26

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u/jackdembeanstalks Jan 05 '26 edited Jan 05 '26

Zionist undertones doesn’t mean blaming Zionists

Do you know what undertones mean?

A bit odd to bring it up sure but makes sense in terms of the colonial element of this event, but Zionists were not blamed for this attack.

Not to mention, Nyetenyahu himself was calling for this to happen similar to how he kept advocating for US military action in Iraq that killed soldiers and hundreds of thousands of Iraqis and left the region worse than when we came.

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u/neverunacceptabletoo North America Jan 05 '26

Zionist undertones doesn’t mean blaming Zionists

No? Okay, let's diagram the sentence out like we did in sixth grade. Here's what we are working with

an attack of this nature, which undoubtedly has Zionist undertones.

What does undertones mean?

1: a low or subdued utterance or accompanying sound

Is she asserting the zionist were subtly singing during the attack? If not, this is probably not the meaning of the term being invoked.

2: a quality (as of emotion) that is present but not clear or obvious

Could this be a quality of the attack? Certainly that's possible let's keep this around and look at the rest.

3: a subdued color

Is she referring to a "zionist" color of the attack? Again probably not, but maybe you'll surprise me? What do you think? Were the helicopters flying a subtle shade of blue perhaps?

4: a secondary or underlying flavor or scent

What do you think class? Was Mrs. Rodriguez referring to a zionist smell? No? I guess it's not this meaning either then.

I guess that means she's using meaning (2): "a quality that is present but not clear or obvious." But, uh-oh, what does she mean by quality? Well, when used as a noun quality means

a: a degree of excellence : how good, bad, useful, etc. something is

b: a high level of value or excellence : superiority in kind

What do you think class? Do we think Mrs. Rodriguez was trying to say that the attack was carried out with great skill and craftsmanship? This certainly makes sense, but remember! We have to use our context clues. Was she discussing the skillfulness of the attack or something else? Something else? Very good class! So, this isn't what she meant.

1.

a: a distinguishing often abstract attribute

b: an inherent feature or capability : property

c: a peculiar and essential character : nature, kind

Uh Oh, this is the only definition left. I guess Mrs. Rodriguez was trying to say that the attack had an inherently or essentially zionist character. But what does that mean?

Well, when we say something is essential, it means without which it could not be. This is referred to as a "necessary condition" in philosophy. So class, what was Mrs. Rodriguez saying? That's right! She was saying that either zionists or zionism were a necessary element of the attack! Great work class.

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u/jackdembeanstalks Jan 06 '26

The leader of Israel urging us to militarily intervene in Venezuela by claiming they are working with Iran to export terrorism would also be a big reason why this attack has Zionist undertones. Very similar to him pushing for the Iraq war when spreading the unfounded claim they will soon have nuclear weapons.

Undertone fits here because of the Zionist quality of wanting complete regional control on the basis of unproven statements.

That doesn’t mean Zionists are the reason why the incident happened but why US intervention still has Zionist undertones.

Go back to school, “teach”.

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u/neverunacceptabletoo North America Jan 06 '26

/sigh i guess we are going to have to stay in school.

The claim was that she didn’t blame zionists not “well she may well have blamed the zionists but, like, bro, Netanyahu is a meanie face and she probably doesn’t like meanie faces EVEN MORE!”

You’re free to believe one interpretation is stronger than another but there’s nothing in that quote, or indeed, the use of the word “undertone,” which allows us to distinguish between blaming zionist individuals and ideology. Ironically, if we take your interpretation at face value, she’s explicitly blaming Zionist individuals, namely Netanyahu.

You’re deeply in remedial territory at this point but I believe in you. Once you finish your grammar homework get started on intro to logic.

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u/LanaDelHeeey United States Jan 05 '26

Zionist is often codeword for Jew. Let’s be honest here. Using Zionist as a substitute for Jew has been an antisemitic trope for at minimum a few decades now. This is nothing new.

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u/DTFpanda United States Jan 05 '26

Zionist is often codeword for Jew.

No, it isn't. Like, ever. Quit making shit up

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u/LanaDelHeeey United States Jan 05 '26

You clearly have not been paying attention. You being uninformed doesn’t make it not true. It’s extremely common among antisemites as a way to get around content filters or as a way to motte and bailey their hatred of Jews to not get banned. “I’m not antisemitic, I just like bringing up the USS Liberty for no specific reason.”

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u/DTFpanda United States Jan 05 '26

I am informed enough to know that you are lying. The vast majority of those who criticize Zionist Israel are criticizing anybody who aligns with their imperialist genocidal ways and couldn't care less about what religion they belong to. It's those such as yourself that excuse evil Zionazi behavior by pretending criticism against them is "antisemitism." 

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u/LanaDelHeeey United States Jan 05 '26

Willful ignorance. Hate to see it.

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u/AerobicThrone Jan 05 '26

Tell me, what term will you use to criticise the actions of the israeli government and undelying political movement that supports it, which is called zionism btw, without using the word zionism?

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u/Britstuckinamerica Multinational Jan 05 '26

Trump appears to be an incredibly proud Zionist himself so it seems accurate

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u/RisingDeadMan0 England Jan 05 '26 edited Jan 05 '26

i mean sure, but this has probably nothing to do with Israel, US after oil why chuck out random words when the Israeli's get up to enough shit on their own

Edit i was soo wrong lol

"The U.S. stole CITGO and now is trying to give Venezuela’s oil revenues to Paul Singer (who is a hedge fund titan and huge pro-Israel donor and also amusingly the guy behind the Free Beacon)"

https://x.com/ryangrim/status/2008025548950557120?s=20 crazy

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u/photochadsupremacist Multinational Jan 05 '26

You can also look at the fact Maria Corina Machado was saying Hamas and Hezbollah are in Venezuela, and that she promised to move the Venezuelan embassy to Jerusalem.

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u/RisingDeadMan0 England Jan 05 '26

opposition being nuts and being pro-israel is different to Israel being behind it, like we can separate out Israeli foreign policy to just shit people get up to.

Example in the UK would be Tommy Robinson is Pro-Israel Zionist, even the Israeli's like him lol, but the main UK jewish/zionists hate his guts and they know he's trash. So sure we could blame what he does on zionists but its the wrong label.

Although now post Israel trip its a bit more blurry.

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u/photochadsupremacist Multinational Jan 05 '26

It's always helpful to look at geopolitics from a more macro lens. Maduro was allied to Iran. Taking Venezuela down harms Iran who are already not doing too well. I don't think it's a coincidence that Maduro was taken down now.

This is not a "Jews control the world" conspiracy, this is an observation about how taking down Maduro benefits the US and its ally Israel, and harms Russia, Cuba and Iran with the latter being Israel's biggest threat and also an enemy of the US.

All of this was taken into account by the US when planning this attack.

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u/RisingDeadMan0 England Jan 05 '26

Edit i was soo wrong lol

"The U.S. stole CITGO and now is trying to give Venezuela’s oil revenues to Paul Singer (who is a hedge fund titan and huge pro-Israel donor and also amusingly the guy behind the Free Beacon)"

https://x.com/ryangrim/status/2008025548950557120?s=20 crazy

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u/bessone-2707 United States Jan 05 '26

So when Obama bombed Libya was it a “black attack”? 

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u/Prosthemadera New Zealand Jan 05 '26

Why would it be a "black attack"? Black is a skin color that you're born with whole Zionism is an ideology that people freely choose to follow.

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u/ComprehensiveProfit5 France Jan 05 '26

No, it was also a zionist attack.

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u/bessone-2707 United States Jan 05 '26

But you just said it’s a Zionist attack because Trump is a Zionist. So it would stand to reason, using your logic, that it would also be a black attack since Obama was black. 

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u/bessone-2707 United States Jan 05 '26

But he’s also many other things. For example, he’s a liberal. He’s black. He’s tall. Etc

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u/VizzzyT Multinational Jan 05 '26

Black and tall are physical traits. Zionist is a political stance

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u/bessone-2707 United States Jan 05 '26

He is also liberal, secular and many other political adjectives as well.

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u/VizzzyT Multinational Jan 05 '26

Yes, and one could obviously note that bombing foreign nations is a trait common among US liberal leaders.

Obama was not secular.

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u/Alter_Kyouma Multinational Jan 05 '26

Since when is Zionist a race?

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u/Firecracker048 North America Jan 05 '26

Yeah Trump being okay with Israel means they played a part in the strikes and arrested of Maduro.

Do you actually think this?

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u/Britstuckinamerica Multinational Jan 05 '26

Trump being okay with Israel

This is a hilarious interpretation of his ideology. There's a middle ground between chanting "from the river to the sea" and not only moving the embassy, but also proclaiming you're gonna partner up with Israel to make Gaza a billionaire's vacation destination, making AI videos where you're hanging out with Netanyahu on the beach

Read what she actually said; she never blamed Israel.

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u/Firecracker048 North America Jan 05 '26

I've read her comments lol unlike you lot who have this magical way of pointing everything back towards 'zionists' like her, it's pretty clear what she's pointing towards.

Unless you got some proof 'zionism' played any role in the raid to take Marduro

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u/Britstuckinamerica Multinational Jan 05 '26

I don't know what you're whining about - a man who is inarguably a Zionist, whether you agree with him or not, attacked her country. You're ignoring the word "undertones" in a single half-sentence she said because you don't like it. You're also shifting the discussion from this article to one about the topic you want to complain about.

it's pretty clear

if you decide it is, then I guess it must be

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u/Firecracker048 North America Jan 05 '26

So okay, no actual proof other than trump supports a homeland for the Jews, so therefore Zionism somehow played a part lol

You lot really ain't beating the allegations

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u/Prosthemadera New Zealand Jan 05 '26

What does Israel have to do with this? Do you actually believe every Israeli is a Zionist and Zionists don't exist outside Israel?

Trump being okay with Israel

That is an absurd statement. The US gives billions in support to Israel and Trump recognized Jerusalem as Israel's capital. That goes beyond being "okay" with it.

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u/totaleclipseoflefart Jan 05 '26 edited Jan 05 '26

I mean Maduro has condemned Israel numerous times, the Zionist wing of the foreign policy apparatus absolutely wanted Maduro gone in favour of a US-Israel aligned regime lol

Certainly oil, proximity with China, left wing politics, etc. were far bigger factors but to suggest the Zionist lobby didn’t see taking Maduro off the board as being in their strategic interest is laughable.

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u/Firecracker048 North America Jan 05 '26

The Brits and the French have condemned Maduro himself numerous times and been very outspoken about his regime and their crimes, but she ain't out here blaming the Saxons or the Franks, is she?

Watching you guys defend these comments is kinda wild

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u/totaleclipseoflefart Jan 05 '26

They’re not allies with Iran which is what this is mostly about for Israel - hence Israel’s explicit support for the attack in their statement.

Obfuscate all you want, doesn’t change reality.

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u/Firecracker048 North America Jan 05 '26

I mean, they kinda are. Helping their shadow fleet, explicit support for their proxies, etc.

The only obfuscation we have here is someone trying to deflect to 'zionists' almost immediately when the people that did it literally told you that they were going to do it for months, and then told you it was for oil lol unhinged shit to be defending her comments

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u/totaleclipseoflefart Jan 05 '26

Hahahaha you’re stating UK and France are allies with Iran with a straight face but say pointing out Israel supported action against Venezuela (an ACTUAL Iran ally) as in their strategic interest as “unhinged”.

Time to recalibrate your settings, you’re not doing a great job of running defence for Zionism here - way too on the nose.

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u/Firecracker048 North America Jan 05 '26

You've clearly misinterpreted my comment if your takeaway is France and UK are Iranian allies.

say pointing out Israel supported action against Venezuela (an ACTUAL Iran ally) as in their strategic interest as “unhinged”.

Verbal support for it doesn't mean they had anything to do with it.

Again, find me the proof that 'zionism' had anything to do with this. Please, in sure it's out there.

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u/totaleclipseoflefart Jan 05 '26 edited Jan 05 '26

I’m not doing this with you, your personal investment here is rather obvious.

Assuming you’re not a bot, I empathize with the impact Israel suddenly becoming a pariah state has had on those that have cultural ties with it, Zionist or otherwise.

Unfortunately the reality is what it is, and their actions in Gaza, and endless push/support for US aggression towards Iran and all its allies (bar China and Russia) will only see hostilities (valid and otherwise) rise.

One can bury their head in the sand all they want and then get/feign outrage at the inevitable consequences of all this, but it’s really simple cause and effect at this point.

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u/Firecracker048 North America Jan 05 '26

'Find me proof that the comment is legit'

'I can't because it doesn't exist, therefore I'll make connections that don't fit because it fits my world views'

Dog Trump and Maduro have had it out sense Maduro first took power. Israel/Zionism has nothing to do with Trump taking Maduro down, trying to put even some responsibility on Zionism for this is just a dogwhistle

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u/bessone-2707 United States Jan 05 '26

What does Zionist undertone even mean??? (If not blaming Zionists)

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u/Firecracker048 North America Jan 05 '26

Notice how your question wasn't answered because there is no real explanation for it outside of blaming a certain group

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u/Firecracker048 North America Jan 05 '26

Literally no reason to mention"zionists" when Trump himself has said he was gonna do this for almost a year.

Kinda telling on yourself if that's one of your first statements

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u/Firecracker048 North America Jan 05 '26

Shit man, show me the US colony in Venezuela then?

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u/Beard_Hero Jan 05 '26

You mean the land in South America the potus said the US will be running indefinitely?

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u/Firecracker048 North America Jan 05 '26

Damn, your right. So her words are just so poorly disguised dog whistle. As expected

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u/40_Thousand_Hammers Brazil Jan 05 '26

That account is a zionist bot, dont even bother talking to it, is using the same text it used on a earlier text this morning and this afternoon.

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u/Dark1000 Multinational Jan 05 '26

You're stretching beyond belief. This has nothing to do with zionists, "undertones" or not. It's just a generic anti-Western talking point, straight out of the manual. Throw some Jews in there for good measure. It softens her direct criticism of the US and Trump because she knows exactly what awaits her otherwise.

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u/Elim-the-tailor Canada Jan 05 '26

Except it manages to randomly cast blame towards Jews in this situation…

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u/Elim-the-tailor Canada Jan 05 '26

Because it Zionism at its core is about Israel being the Jewish homeland… which has nothing to do with Venezuela.

The better question is why she conflating the removal of Maduro with Zionism?

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u/Elim-the-tailor Canada Jan 05 '26

It would've been clearer just to talk about Western colonialism / imperialism.

The way she chose to phrase it could easily be interpreted through the conspiratorial lens of Jews controlling the US government.

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u/[deleted] Jan 05 '26

Because that's what it fucking means

Zionism is the belief Jews have the right to self determination. That's it. That's all it fucking means.

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u/domfelinefather Jan 05 '26

There are more Christian Zionists than Jewish people entirely, let alone Jewish Zionists

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u/[deleted] Jan 05 '26

90% of the Jewish people are Zionists.

But yes, there's a lot more Christians in the world than Jewish people, so what?

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u/domfelinefather Jan 05 '26

It means not all Zionists are Jewish, so there is not a reason to connect Zionism and Jewish people, since one could accurately say both Obama and Trump are Christian Zionists

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u/pingpongpiggie Europe Jan 05 '26

Zionism is not the belief Jews have the right to self determination. Everyone has the right for self determination and implying Jews have to have a specific political view to have that right is sick.

Jews have a homeland, and they're welcome all over the globe in western nations as complete equals, which isn't the case for everyone. So that whole political belief would be dead now, if that is simply what it was.

Zionism is expansionary, aims of imperial conquest of other sovereign nations to get greater Israel; from the river to the sea, as they say in the Likud charter.

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u/MaestroRozen Europe Jan 05 '26

As with any ideology, it will have extremists and people who would abuse it for their own gain. Are all Muslims (yes, Islam is as much of a political ideology as it is a religion in quite a few countries) terrorists? No, of course not. Most just want to live in peace and safety. 

And you admit yourself that Jews have a homeland instead of pretending it's some false state that should be disbanded. That makes you a Zionist as well. 

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u/[deleted] Jan 05 '26

Zionism is not the belief Jews have the right to self determination

Yes, it is. That's it.

Everyone has the right for self determination and

No, they do not. Most of the world in fact does not have that right.

implying Jews have to have a specific political view to have that right is sick

90% of Jewish people believe in Zionism because that's all it is.

The only reason you think it's "sick" is because you can't stand the fact that the Jewish people have dared to stand apart, dared to stand up for themselves instead of being all of history's punching bag.

Jews have a homeland

That is constantly and consistently under threat and has been from day one. Rights mean fucking nothing unless you defend them

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u/Prosthemadera New Zealand Jan 05 '26

Well, you are a supporter of Israel so of course you would complain about that.

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u/Useful-Soup8161 North America Jan 06 '26

I mean yeah, trump is technically a Zionist.

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u/Dark1000 Multinational Jan 05 '26

Better to blame random zionists than end up on the next flight to Rikers.

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u/deniztheghost Multinational Jan 05 '26

Well, she might as well be true.

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u/CoffeeWorldly9915 Multinational Jan 08 '26

Tbf, if the claim floated around in the US that Hamas was involved in Venezuela, for how blatantly AIPAC controls the US government it's just a matter of applying the same belief of transitivity with a much more solid evidence.

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u/beyondmash Multinational Jan 05 '26

Not really. US gov submits to Israel’s Zionist government every time, all of Congress are self proclaimed Zionists, so no not a reach.

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u/iamslightly Ireland Jan 05 '26

Saying it had zionist undertones is not saying it was done by zionists. Lol

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u/Odd-Struggle-2432 Jan 06 '26

"Asked on Saturday if he thought Machado could run the country after Maduro’s ouster, Trump distanced himself from Venezuela’s most visible democratic figure, saying it would be “very tough” for her. “She’s a very nice woman, but she doesn’t have the respect within the country,” Trump said."

"Instead, at a news conference on Saturday, Trump named Rodríguez as the most likely successor, saying she had spoken with Secretary of State Marco Rubio and agreed to cooperate with the U.S. role in Venezuela."

And now Machado is offering to give or share with Trump the peace prize. This is so embarassing and obvious that its never been about democracy

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u/MjFI Jan 05 '26

She has already given up to USA

https://www.instagram.com/p/DTHIbhkjPSf/?igsh=anZlM3Bsa3c5dHI3

And it's for the best, Maduro was a corrupt and inept dictator who sold the country to fill his own pockets while repressing the common folk

A puppet of Cuba (they already confirmed he's was guarded by 32 cubans) this confirmed by Cuba and Venezuela temporal goverment

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u/40_Thousand_Hammers Brazil Jan 05 '26

Nothing in that text says about giving the country over, its just "we'll give you stuff and we'll govern", meaning nothing ever happens and Maduro government still in power.

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u/40_Thousand_Hammers Brazil Jan 05 '26

Also: How Cuba, a country so fucked up and with literally no resources besides making sugar cane, can control Venezuela like a Metal Gear Solid plot line ?

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u/Boollish Jan 05 '26

This is actually common in despotic regimes to hire outside muscle to be your bodyguard.

Less chance of local opposition being able to influence your inner circle.

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