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[–] hello_hello@hexbear.net 65 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

They really should have killed him in Caracas. Westerners don't remember what Gaddafi looks like but now Maduro's face is going to be plastered on every mass media screen for months on end as the major news story opening the year.

Venezuela va a resistir

[–] KuroXppi@hexbear.net 53 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Same as Israel publishing the sinwar-victory footage thinking that it made the resistance look cowed and weak. There is greater courage in maduro's left slipper than the entire assembled DEA in that image

[–] hello_hello@hexbear.net 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

And now they can't touch a hair on his head at all. I really don't understand the doomer posting here. Maduro is safer in the US than in Venezuela.

[–] buckykat@hexbear.net 49 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Nobody has ever died mysteriously in a New York jail

[–] hello_hello@hexbear.net 17 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Executing Epstein literally didn't do jack shit either in terms of silencing any sort of narrative or coverage, it probably had the opposite effect in the grand scheme of things if we are speaking in terms of the Streisand effect. Executing a world leader in his own jail cell and staging it as a suicide would mean that no other world leader or political figure would surrender in the same position and would also risk bolstering the Venezuelan resistance among the people even further than it already has.

This is compared to murdering him in Venezuela where they could say it was the fog of war and Maduro was killed accidentally or after resisting arrest or some made up shit that gets libs forgetting everything the next day.

The hexbear doomerism would be even worse if Maduro was murdered like Allende.

[–] purpleworm@hexbear.net 12 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Allende killed himself to escape arrest, I'm pretty sure.

[–] XiaCobolt@hexbear.net 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Using the Ak47 Fidel Castro gave him.

[–] purpleworm@hexbear.net 10 points 3 months ago

I feel like that's comically symbolic of the failures of demsocism.

[–] hello_hello@hexbear.net 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

My bad, in any case, maduro being alive is going to backfire on the US, theres no way to squash this from the news and the national consciousness since it's now apparently an ongoing court case.

[–] XiaCobolt@hexbear.net 10 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

There was long-standing speculation that Allende was killed by the Coup and suicide was an excuse but I think after examining forensics and various witness testimony, his family believes it was suicide (but you know coerced by wanting to avoid torture and execution).

[–] purpleworm@hexbear.net 6 points 3 months ago
[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 15 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Can't kill war prisoners. If you kill war prisoners your enemies will never ever ever surrender against you ever again. It is absolutely essential to treat war prisoners with the highest degree of respect and treatment in order to encourage enemies you have already defeated to surrender. Taking 100 men in alive is better than losing 10 of your men to kill 100 men who stage a last stand. Not to mention the information those prisoners then also give up as well.

[–] Evilsandwichman@hexbear.net 16 points 3 months ago

If you kill war prisoners your enemies will never ever ever surrender against you ever again

Trump literally murdered Qassem Soleimani after requesting diplomatic talks; the government's enemies SHOULDN'T surrender, ever

[–] krolden@lemmy.ml 13 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] hello_hello@hexbear.net 15 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Maduro is still a head of state and this wasn't a decapitation strike abroad. They basically have one of the worlds most visible hostages who they now can't get rid of. They literally kidnapped his wife for no good reason.

The US feels content showing him off in photos that make him look good so I have some suspicion that they genuinely believe that this law and order arresting spectacle is actually them winning.

[–] SickSemper@hexbear.net 12 points 3 months ago

Or MDC in particular

[–] LeninWeave@hexbear.net 51 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Maduro speaking in the hacker voice. "I'm in."

[–] blobjim@hexbear.net 19 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

lol I'm just hearing it in his own English voice 😄

[–] SchillMenaker@hexbear.net 45 points 3 months ago (2 children)

This man has been in the hyperbolic rizz chamber.

[–] NinaPasadena@hexbear.net 32 points 3 months ago

He's been wearing antirizz weights on his ankles and wrists

[–] Mindfury@hexbear.net 25 points 3 months ago

He has achieved autonomous ultra drip-stinct

[–] Beaver@hexbear.net 43 points 3 months ago

I disavow any negative commentary I have made about Maduro and retroactively become a stan.

[–] godlessworm@hexbear.net 41 points 3 months ago

the faces are only blurred bc the trump regime wants to hide that maduro mogged all these dudes

[–] purpleworm@hexbear.net 36 points 3 months ago

On a personal level, I need to respect him doing what little he can to encourage his people as he has been cast into the belly of the Great Satan.

[–] Ferrous@lemmy.ml 33 points 3 months ago

"My name is ASAC Schrader"

[–] Commiechameleon@hexbear.net 31 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Was blown away to see his arrest while flipping through the tv at the hospital. I can only hope he lives on through his unjust detention. Definitely killed it in this pic though, looking good. stalin-approval

[–] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 31 points 3 months ago

This is our "stand back and stand by"

[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 20 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

"Goodnight. Happy New Year."

[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 20 points 3 months ago

Coolest flip flops and socks drip ever

[–] Fossifoo@hexbear.net 4 points 3 months ago

Did they really just take a selfie with that "strongman"?