One of those people would be wrong.

Let the Battle of the Bubbles, COMMENCE!!!

“Ad Hominem” just means you are insulting the person rather than addressing their argument. Like, calling someone stupid, instead of explaining why what they’re saying is stupid.

You didn’t choose the life you lived in the past, so you have no obligation to let it define you. What you choose to do, “going forward” is what you can base your identity on. There is a period of transition ahead of you, while you let your “new past” evolve out of your present actions…but eventually you will have enough of it behind you to honestly say that your own choices are what define you, now.

Pigs will eat anything.

I love that today is my birthday.

Water at the beach is salty.

Yeah. That’s just called “murder”, then.

That seems legit. Go ahead and give them your Social Security number, and see what happens. What could go wrong?

When was the last time a 3rd party candidate won more than 5% of the vote?

This perfectly encapsulates just how stupid Trump is on economic policy.

Because they don’t answer to the people trying to murder them you fucking moron.

Oh and by the way literally the only people saying the election was illegitimate are the people trying to murder them.

Are you saying the Venezuelan population is trying to murder them? The Venezuelan people are the ones who need to see the results of their own elections. Without that, the government has no legitimate claim to power. That’s the entire point in setting up a system that can be verified independently. There is no ambiguity here. Either the results say he won…or they don’t. So, the only reason they are refusing to show people the results, is because he lost. Period.

You clearly have no idea what you’re talking about, so you’re backing up your bullshit with insults, thinking that’s a valid argument. It isn’t.

None of your arguments are valid unless you can address the giant hole in your argument when it comes to those results not being released. That is the only thing that matters. You cannot make the claim that the Maduro government is legitimate anymore, when they have refused to provide the evidence that they won. Everything else you can say to try and defend him, is just hollow and pointless, without that.

Even making the argument that the US is wrong to question the election results falls flat, when the results are so obviously in question. All you’re doing is showing me that you are not arguing in good faith. You are defending the indefensible.

Except there was no regime change in Iran. They just rattled their swords for the crowd, which is all they’re doing now.

And for the record, the US has a long history of losing to so-called “weaker countries”, when asymmetrical warfare is involved. The only war they actually managed to “finish” recently, was the invasion of Iraq…and that was largely because the Iraqi population wasn’t actually trying to fight back. Venezuela would not be the same.

And I’m not trying to say this would be a smart move by Maduro…just desperation. Right now, half the population in Venezuela don’t even believe the government when they say there’s an American fleet parked offshore. The government has been saying shit like that every other week for the last 12 years, and it always turns out to either be totally overblown, or straight up bullshit. People there just aren’t buying into the propaganda like they used to. Which is never a good sign for a dictatorship that relies on fear mongering, in order to maintain loyalty.

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Lol! 1st of all…he lost the last election by 2/3 of the vote. Venezuela has one of the most transparent elections systems in the world. It was designed to provide verifiable proof of outcome, in order to guarantee the results were legitimate.

All the government had to do, in order to validate their claim on power, was to publish the results. That way, they can then be independently verified, and everyone would know who really won.

Except, they didn’t do that. It’s been almost two years, and they still haven’t released those results. Why?

If you are such a galaxy-brained genius, and Maduro is such an unimpeachable Paragon of truth and honesty…explain that. They have the results…they just aren’t letting anyone else see them? “Trust me, bro” is not how that system was intended to work.

Dude. Venezuelans know enough about their own country’s political climate to know when things are not as they seem. This is especially true when 2/3rds of the country voted against him in the last election. It’s pretty hard to gaslight that many people, all at once. If it was “close”, people wouldn’t all be looking around at each other saying, “What the fuck just happened?”

And if you want to talk about how bad the sanctions are, maybe explain why everything Maduro does in response to those sanctions, actually makes things worse for regular Venezuelans? Every policy he puts in place, makes it even harder for people to buy things, or to save money, or even just to find work.

You tell me. What do you know about what people are going through there? I don’t know anyone who thinks what Maduro has done, has made anything better for them. He’s had over ten years to make some kind of progress…but all he’s done is abandon all the policies that actually helped people, and implement new ones punishing people just for trying to get by on their own.

At first, they were angry…but that was before Maduro took over. Now they just wish someone would get it over with…just hopefully without a lot of collateral damage. The shittiest part about it all is, most people there now, look at Trump like he’s the one that’s going to save them.

How fucked up is that? Things there have gotten so bad, that people even think Trump is offering something better.

You clearly haven’t spoken to very many Venezuelans, have you? I have lots of extended family there, and I can assure you, they don’t support Maduro. The only people that still do, are either being bribed or extorted.

There aren’t very many “true Chavistas” left. And the ones that are still there, also don’t unanimously support Maduro. Chavez was inspirational. Maduro is just incompetent.

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I actually had that one saved on my phone. This isn’t the 1st time I’ve made the argument that Maduro is a bad leader.