September 20, 2026

  • Maeve@kbin.earth
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    Touting the US acquisition of majority control over one fifth of Venezuela’s oil reserves, he claimed the arrangement comes at “no cost to the American Taxpayer … and will substantially lower Gas Prices for all Americans, long into the future.”

    Empire endless war costs US in every way, financially, reputationally, self-worth, health, harmony, happiness, education, environmentally, recognition of inherent value of life…

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      reputationally didn’t seem to matter until recently and i’m convinced that it’s solely because of social media like tiktok

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        Especially old tiktok and probably new Sp*ezzit sending people to alternative platforms.

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          old tiktok is still around, but you gotta jump through a lot of hoops to gain access

          probably new Sp*ezzit sending people to alternative platforms.

          what’s this mean?

  • Jabril [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    This article has several false statements in it. It isn’t a 100 year deal, it’s a 25 year deal, so the extrapolation of 2 billion per year based off Rodriguez saying it would bring 200 billion in revenue is blatantly false. They also quote multiple Venezuelan right wingers in the article and mostly rely on US state department for their information.

    Upon looking at the website further, they also condemn Iran by “standing on the side of the open letter” recently published by Angela Davis et al about Irans political prisoners.

    They also claim Cuba is the only socialist project left.

    Really interesting how reactionaries posing as leftists keep using US state department talking points to manufacture consent against Venezuela and people here eat it up