I don’t care about Maduro, as far as I’m concerned, they can shoot him if they want. What matters to me is walking through the streets of my city and seeing the faces of fear on my neighbors. The military patrolling to prevent looting due to panic. It’s a collective hangover, a horrible one.

It’s 2016 all over again. It’s seeing despair entering the circulatory system of all Venezuelans, only now it’s more sudden, and we are painfully aware of it.

This is far from improving, and we know it.

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            Oh christ. You know damned well that I was saying that your talk about handouts makes you sound like a member of the US republican party.

            In addition to that, you now sound like a condescending prick.

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              I have no problem with free education and healthcare and those on unemployment benefits, but a terminally online tankie don’t really deserve it…

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                I have no problem with free education and healthcare and those on unemployment benefits

                But you’ll oppose anyone who tries to make that a reality.

                “terminally online” is just what centrists say when they want to pretend that being out of touch is a virtue.

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                  But you’ll oppose anyone who tries to make that a reality.

                  Huh? Oh sorry, we already have those basic rights in Europe. But it doesn’t make me a terminally online tankie 😂

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                    Oh sorry, we already have those basic rights in Europe.

                    And oppose them everywhere else. Good work.

                    But it doesn’t make me a terminally online tankie

                    You learned one insult and apply it to everyone to your left.