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  • DancingBear@midwest.socialtoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•Does anyone else expect WW3 within the next 1-2 years?
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    10 hours ago

    It’s laughable to argue that the main source of their economic issues are not the sanctions.

    This tells me that you are not arguing in good faith.

    You being from Columbia and having met a few Venezuelan immigrants is anecdotal evidence.

    I also am friends and know some Venezuelan immigrants.

    If someone who went to Harvard and has a trust fund leaves the United States and they tell foreigners what it was like for them growing up, how similar to the average American is their experience… not very similar at all…

    We can help the guy from Harvard but his lived experience is not the absolute truth of all Americans……

    This is what I mean.

    Likewise, if someone was born an orphan in a bankrupt church, their lived experience is not all Americans lived experience…

    Edit: it’s also somewhat reasonable to assume that maduro supporters would not be leaving the country

  • DancingBear@midwest.socialtoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•Does anyone else expect WW3 within the next 1-2 years?
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    1 day ago

    It’s also difficult to get an honest picture of what is happening there as pretty much all western media has blatantly supported the more than a dozen coup attempts by the USA since 2000 alone. Folks who are able to get out are also biased in one way or another. We can empathize with their lived experience and try to help the immigrants without taking their personal experience to be the absolute truth of the experiences of all Venezuelans. But again, most of the issues that affect the citizens are directly caused by US sanctions, not Maduro or the government.

    I can believe that the poor folks would suffer the most so I can’t disagree with you there, but Venezuela is a bad comparison to make, per your original comment I posted to, as far as the point you were trying to make on the orginal thread topic.