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oh look. its exactly what they voted for.
I wonder how long it will be before the Cuban “exiles” (or descendents of) start getting picked up off the streets to keep up the deportation quotas?
Already happened afaik
I worked one shift at a warehouse that had some day labor available, guy I was working with was fresh out of Venezuela. Had my current political views, didn’t want to prod him too much but wanted to learn from a Venezuelan what Venezuela is like. Of course, he spoke fluent English and told me how his parents had paid for an English teacher for him. He said he hated Maduro and the only way to stop him was to kill him. I asked how he was still in power, he said he stayed in power by paying off the poor.
I got it then, and that flows into my understanding that the people I interact with in anyway who are from socialist countries necessarily speak English, and therfore are almost certainly from the middle class or higher. Which is helpful when remembering how “survivors” testimonies of those counties should be read. They are likely not from the working class or poor, and that WILL color their narratives and of course the ones we hear promoted in the west.
Anyway, he and his dad, who was also fighting brain cancer, were struggling finding work. This was a couple years ago, who knows how things have gone but here we see what capitalist america has to offer
Providing for better society/working to improve the material conditions of all = “paying off the poor”
Well, yes.he said he stayed in power by paying off the poor.
The Latin American Right says that about any Left-Wing leader. That the Left only wins because they help the poor too much.
Of course, he spoke fluent English and told me how his parents had paid for an English teacher for him.
AFAIK this is a major tell in Venezuela because bourgeois and petite-bourgeois will talk to each other in English they learned from private sources. They frequently travel to the US, Canada, Australia, etc. as tourists or to invest in rentals. It becomes incredibly suspect when you meet a Venezuelan and their English is really good.
They are likely not from the working class or poor,
Pretty much. I knew this one Venezuelan guy who was always comparing democrats to communists. When you hear him talk about what his family did back in Venezuela, he’d talk about their properties in Miami getting them in trouble with the government so they “had to flee the country.” Dude was suspiciously pale and to no one’s surprise, was also homophobic, classist, sexist, and colorist.
he said he stayed in power by paying off the poor.
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‘Trump nos traiciono’
Te lo mereciste jodia imbecil, que te caguen encima
‘Ay pero los negros!!!’ Ni eres ciudadana jajajaj
Don’t understand
“Trump betrayed us”
You deserved it fuckin imbecile, hope they shit on you! :i-cant:
“Oh but black people!!!” You’re not even a citizen hahahah
Yeaah you see we’re revoking TPS now, did you see the memo about this?
