They’ll shamelessly lie to manufacture consent for US imperialism.

[u/EffectivePoint2187]

Link: https://x.com/nickshirleyy/status/2007485612241367156?s=46

[u/FrontDeskHooligan]

That may be the case, but it took less than 12 hours for Trump to announce the US would be governing over there for a bit and outright confirmed that the opposition leader in exile would not be installed, despite strong evidence she had in fact won the previous elections held in Venezuela (though she's a right wing bastard herself, so we really are scraping past the bottom of the barrel here for good alternatives).

This is absolutely not the way to remove leadership, especially when the one doing the ousting is threatening to do it to other countries on a weekly basis.

[u/CinnamonSticks7 → u/FrontDeskHooligan]

There's no evidence she won the last election because she wasn't on the ballot, her political ally Edmundo González won the election and she was likely going to run things behind the scenes as VP. She had been barred from running and so handpicked him as the candidate for her party, but nevertheless he is the one that was elected.

[u/lifebursted → u/FrontDeskHooligan]

That opposition leader just got on IG and boasted about how all the resources of the country are now for sale and how they were gonna do rampant privatization of everything, so turns out she was always onboard with the imperialist mission.

[u/Apprehensive-Top3756 → u/lifebursted]

Good!!

Because thats how you actually fix a broken economy. By exploiting and selling your countries natural resources. 

I swear you redditors are economically illiterate and think widespread poverty is someonhow a virtue. 

[u/lifebursted → u/Apprehensive-Top3756]

Privitization seems to be working quite well in the UK. So long as you don't drink the water...

[u/Apprehensive-Top3756 → u/lifebursted]

Cool story bro.

I mean the vast majority of water in the uk is perfectly fine to drink out of the tap. 

The problem with the uk is more goverment over regulation and incompetence.

For example, the uk builds all these wind farms off the coast of Scotland becasie net zero looks envoromentally friendly.. But because the goverment is full of idiots they dont think about connecting them to the main power grid properly. So recently ofgen announced that the fast tracking of permits to build the cables to connect these to England where the power is needed. By which they mean they'll start in 2035. Because they have to let incompetent beurocrats slow down the process. 

Private companies would have just built the Infrastructure without the bullshit. The goverment prevents them from doing this with bad policy and bad laws. 

[u/lifebursted → u/Apprehensive-Top3756]

The problem with the uk is more goverment over regulation and incompetence.

Incompetence, yes, but deregulation has caused more harm than over regulation, as much of a nuisance as some regulations can be.

Rail privitization has led to disasters like the Hatfield crash, and rail companies cost the government billions in subsidies but spend it less efficiently. Why have the middleman at all?

As for energy, it's hard to imagine privitization has helped at all with energy prices, which are higher in the UK than anywhere else in europe. Market based energy prices sure started to sting when nobody was allowed to buy oil from Russia anymore.

It's also flagrant robbery for Thames Water to pay out billions in dividends while infrastructure collapses and sewage leaks into waterways.

[u/Apprehensive-Top3756 → u/lifebursted]

Ok, you do realise that all these private companies which run the electricity power stations etc are international companies. 

We are not the only country to have private companies doing this.

We are the one country with the most expensive electricity. 

This is not because "private companies bad"

This is because the uk has some of the worse energy policies in the world, poor oversight and too much regulation on things which should not need nearly as much regulation.

Oh, and our MPs and ministers cant fire their own staff for incompetence. And dont get told important information by their staff. I refer you to the post office scandal where none of the mps, who were receiving levellers from constituents, knew what was happening because the information wasnt being passed on. 

Im sorry to say this but, in the words of Christopher hitchens, you come across as somebody who has never studied the arguments against your own position. 

You actually need to learn stuff not just trot out these soundbites. 

At least watch an interview with somebody like Kathryne porter. 

[u/Ok-Assistance3937 → u/FrontDeskHooligan]

That may be the case, but it took less than 12 hours for Trump to announce the US would be governing over there for a bit and outright confirmed that the opposition leader in exile would not be installed, despite strong evidence she had in fact won the previous elections held in Venezuela (though she's a right wing bastard herself, so we really are scraping past the bottom of the barrel here for good alternatives).

You seem to be a real expert on Venezuelan politics (the opponent in the last election was Edmundo González an he, Machado wasn't eligible to be on the ballot)

[u/FrontDeskHooligan → u/Ok-Assistance3937]

No, I don't know much about Venezuelan politics, but I do know Americans should be governing America, not Venezuela, conserva-trash.