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this post was submitted on 30 Oct 2026
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It was getting downright embarrassing around here how one would get pounced on, told to shut up (literally) and showered with abuse for having the gall to suggest that maybe Delcy Rodriguez didn't have the best interests for the revolution in mind when she was opening up Venezuela to foreign capital (US imperialism) and giving warm compliments to the US president responsible for her predecessors illegal kidnapping and torture. It wasn't possible to have any conversation rooted in dialectics without being told you were an instigator (a word no doubt used to get around the no fed-jacketing rule) non-dialectical anti-materialist, among other worse insults. I would hope those holdouts, are now off sulking in a corner where they belong rather than filling up these threads with their bile and flecks of spittle, maybe even doing some very needed self-crit and learning how to look beyond their own egos and personal desires, but I doubt it.
Though as others have mentioned here, sometimes it still does suck to be right. For all their disgusting abusive behavior, I wish the cope clique had been right, and that Delcy was akshually just hiding her power level and building up the revolution behind the scenes while only putting on an elaborate show for Western imperialism by... readily acceding to all their demands. But no, real materialist analysis predicted this was the most likely trajectory even months ago, and sure enough, here we are.
I was called a "white supremacist" for my position on Venezuela
https://hexbear.net/comment/7509233
also a funny one because you link to a thread where I don't call you a white supremacist. really continuing to prove me right about refusing to read the words before deciding what they mean
Just block them and move on. They have nothing other than moralizing and bad faith insults. They deny what they said, and contort your words into "SO YOU THINK ALL VENEZUELANS SHOULD DIE?!" There's no winning with these cloying and terminably unintelligent people who mistake walls of gishgalloping circular text for analysis. They were wrong and will be wrong next time, nothing to do but block
This really is the best thing to do, yes. Part of the problem is that there was a whole loud clique of them, some of whom I actually did appreciate their analysis on other topics. Fortunately their attempts to silence anyone who didn't buy into their Delcy-5D-chess-theory seems to have significantly diminished now that reality has apparently sunk in, at least for a number of them. But I did block the worst one who was full on harassing me and making it outright impossible to have a conversation especially in the newsmega, the same one who called you a "white supremacist" because you weren't sufficiently sycophantic to a leader selling out her country to imperialism. And judging by the fact I can see a "1 more reply ->" button beneath both mine and your comments, that when clicked doesn't load another comment, I'm guessing it's that same pathetic blocked harasser still throwing a tantrum about this, still attacking me every time I de-lurk to comment. But now that I don't have to read their slander and vitriol, it's actually pretty funny.
Anyway, I appreciate your thoughtful analysis on Venezuela and in general. If it weren't for you and a couple other commenters who would calmly stand up to the polyannish nonsense cohort and offer a more realistic if sobering perspective, I would have ditched the newsmega entirely, which would have sucked because it really is a great resource on the whole.
still getting ratioed on this topic every time but you block everyone you disagree with so now it seems like you are in an echo chamber bigger than your skull for the first time. and if you think I'm being petty go read what this user has said to me in the past and put the pearls back in the bedside table
its all public here so people who know how to read can go and see every exchange, which show undoubtedly that you and your friends have made up shit since day one and that you have consistently made up and intentionally misinterpreted what the rest of us say to justify ignoring us. you have been consistently ratioed in these exchanges, been proven to be making things up, and shown that you have almost no idea about the topic. this has been happening for almost 10 months. you even almost got banned for crashing out at another user over fucking Mamdani. pathetic
its funny that you mention being told to shut up because in that thread you accused me of doing that and I actually didn't. you just make things up and lie about people here and Venezuela and are clutching pearls at getting called out