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i mean, yeah, twitter and facebook and the like should all be banned, but before that, i find it insane how politicians in the west collectively stuck their heads in the sand and refused to tackle large issues while pretending said issues didn’t exist
in a way, it is their fault far right parties even begun gaining traction, so whatever foreign interference wants to come in has it a lot easier
they forgot to mention that the cne (electoral council) hasn’t shown the details of the results either, because the electronic electoral system has been hacked and is inaccessible since the day of the elections (though i’m not certain on when it went down). the head of the cne (which is also a member of maduro’s party) declared maduro victorious and some numbers to go along with that, but couldn’t show the details due to the hack, which also makes you wonder where the numbers even come from, since after that declaration the opposition organized an effort to collect the pictures of the results of each polling station taken on the spot by the observers, have those digitized and uploaded on a website, and it showed a landslide victory for the opposition. whose numbers are real? i’m willing to bet the opposition’s numbers are closer to the truth due to the massive protests that erupted after that. i should also point out that, contrary to what the video wants to make you believe, venezuela’s economic woes began just before the sanctions began being targeted at industries by the orange twat, because the price of oil crashed and the government started printing to try to make up the difference, and there came hyperinflation. the economy was already going down the drain by the time the orange chimpanzee started throwing sanctions left and right, which did in fact tank the economy harder. keep in mind that under maduro, there were also some political fiascos, such as the constituent national assembly shitshow, crime spiraling out of control (seeing the place i was born in in lists of most dangerous places in the world was quite the thing), or, you know, general corrupt authoritarianism. i’m sure chavez was actually popular, as he did help the poor, famously with the missions in the slums, and all that after the austerity of the chaotic 90’s, even if he did centralize power in the president, because as long as the oil flowed, it didn’t matter much. but he died, and maduro followed, and the oil stopped flowing. i think it’s likely that if maduro was ever popular at all in the country, he wasn’t for long. also, yes, the opposition has been historically dogshit, and it largely still is. the current leader is a hypercapistalist dipshit, and the presidential candidate chosen to replace her after she was barred from running is kinda, just, there? i think? but, because presidential systems are absolute garbage, venezuelans have to choose between the continuation of the same corrupt system that has made them go through hell for a decade, or an uncertain future, and folk have chosen to hold onto that uncertainty, because in it there’s at least a chance of a better future.
i just wish i didn’t have to stumble upon folk online supporting maduro just because he claims he’s a socialist. yea, american imperialism is and has been terrible, and it’s probably playing a role here, but don’t just wave off the protests as just an extension of american imperialism, as the people have had agency in this tale, and they are sick and tired of the chavist system.
ugh, sorry for the rant
i just hope that we won’t have to talk about the folk currently living there in the past tense, too
if i am not mistaken, the genoese colonies in the black sea were a mix of conquest and purchase following the fourth crusade and the consequent fall of eastern roman power in the region, with the purpose of dominating trade, going from the black sea to the aegean islands (such as mytilene, on the map) onwards to liguria
as for theodoro, it was a monarchical city state that popped up from the break up of the golden horde trying to put it in a simple manner, after the fourth crusade, theodoro exchanged hands a couple of times, but every time the hold over it was weaker and weaker, which led to the city mantaining eastern roman law and practices and, eventually, independence, kind of making it an eastern roman rump state theodoro was also notable for its large gothic population, which survived as a distinct ethnicity up until roughly the 18th century
pretty sure tana is not modern azov city, as google maps shows the ruins of the former several kilometers north of azov