It’s always interesting to watch these things unfold. I feel like unfortunately the right and MAGA always seem more informed about this stuff. The left leaning spaces had a weird lag where they didn’t realize Venezuelans didn’t like Maduro. The left seems like it just reacts whereas the right are proactive lately
Comment on YSK the Venezuelans community in the US is not representative of Venezuelans as a whole.
cambodia@lemmy.world 4 days ago
What Venezuelans do with Venezuela is their own business.
For many Venezuelans seeing Maduro go is a good thing. At the same time kidnapping a foreign leader is just wrong and will have long term negative repercussions. Both being true doesn’t invalidate each other.
Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Randomgal@lemmy.ca 4 days ago
You gotta be on something if your think MAGA are ‘nore informed’
pachrist@lemmy.world 4 days ago
I don’t know. It depends on how you classify informed. I’d bet they, on average, spend more time glued to a “news” source, so they’re being informed, 24/7, just not with truth.
Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Exactly this.
In my experience the left are resting on they laurels. But in my day to day, people on the right are just now obsessive with current events. People i met on the left are just way more disengaged. They’ll react to things but they’re not doing deep dives like they did in the past. People who want to argue against this should go to any public site where those lines are clear and check out the left leaning conversations vs the right. It’s almost always the right leaning places have much more details and points and opinions whereas the left leaning places are all just insults and saying how upset a commenter.
Not_mikey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 days ago
I don’t think MAGA is more informed on this, they just have a different myopic view. They’re only listening to the Venezuelan diaspora in the US who are almost entirely happy about Maduros ousting.
The reality is Maduro is a controversial figure in Venezuela, just like trump is here. A majority don’t like him, a smaller percentage hate him and some people like him. Ignoring any of these factions and flattening all Venezuelans down to one opinion is why we got here. Trump was buying everything the diaspora was telling him about how everyone over there hates Maduro and we just need to take him out and his whole regime will fall down like a house of cards. Maduros regime wasn’t a house of cards like they were told though and it does have some base that will require a lot more than I think trump is willing to do to topple it.
Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Just an example of what I mean. This is now already at disseminated in multiple right leaning channels and news sources. How many reading this even had this on their radar. Sure there’s misinformation. But also think what information is here and what needs to be researched. Is this mentioned anywhere here in lemmy? Because on the right this is already locked in
jali67@lemmy.zip 4 days ago
It’s amazing how many people cannot grasp that you can dislike Maduro but not support US Warhawk imperialism.
phx@lemmy.world 4 days ago
In other words
If a mob boss murders a drug dealer in order to help expand their “territory”: they’re still both evil criminals and the mob boss should still be charged
altphoto@lemmy.today 4 days ago
One I would have no problem with would be putin. trump can illegally prance putin in girl clothes for a month if he wants. But maybe we know more about Ukraine than Venezuela. Although we can see Venezuela and how most of their houses are not blown up to pieces.
So putin? Anybody?
jali67@lemmy.zip 4 days ago
Somebody needs to remind Trump and his donors of Russian oil
altphoto@lemmy.today 4 days ago
Russia has tons of oil!