First of all, if you believe you might be struggling with depression and you aren’t taking medication yet, consider consulting a psychiatrist. I say this as someone who is currently taking medication for depression. I know it clouded my own thinking in ways that seem absurd looking back.

The empire’s growing need for militarism and showing overwhelming force against countries that can’t fight back is a reflex of geopolitical and geoeconomical weakness. Those areas are precisely where China is advancing, and the CPC can’t jeopardize the well-being of over 1.4 billion citizens to station gunboats on the other side of the world, which would help Venezuela’s situation nowhere near as much as you think.

Of course you are feeling miserable right now, that is a natural reaction to recent events, all of us here in lemmygrad are. However, we can’t throw our hands up and let go of dialectical materialism. Despair is useless for us, let the unpunished crimes fuel burning hatred towards the empire and work for a future where it will fall.

This is not blind optimism, it will still take a very long time and we will see many victims suffer with no way to help them. Even then, I know rationally that the enemy cannot win in the end, because they operate using the sociological equivalent of flat earth theory.

I condemn Maduro for not executing both Guaido and Machado for treason when he had the chance. The “evil dictator” treats his enemies with silk gloves…