HR advocate: 4,500 people killed in Venezuela under Nicolás Maduro

[joshcryer]

23. I have nothing in the game.

Nothing whatsoever. Venezuelan politics don't have any effect on me. I only post the truth on these forums. Facts. I do it because there's a void missing in criticism. If we cannot criticize left leaders then we are lost.

The reason Capriles is going to lose is simple, he's not the chavista. He can't start playing ads until April 2nd, he doesn't have nearly the coffers at his disposal as Maduro has, and generally he cannot penetrate the Venezuelan media as effectively as Maduro. We all hate Citizens United, but when a Latin American "populist" uses unlimited coffers to display his campaign, that's A-OK. It's the happy double standard that is regularly cited on this forum.

I will be mostly silent as Maduro is anointed the next President of Venezuela, and I will sit back and gawk in awe at people championing a homophobic bigot on these forums.

Capriles still has a big group of supporters from 40% of the Venezuelan population or thereabouts.



Your comments against Capriles (which are really knee-jerk opinions that don't merit rebuttal, because every time I have rebutted them you have been silent) are a criticism on the diverse array of people who support him. Not because he's promised to usher in neoliberal policies (a recent conspiracy I debunked here on these very forums), but because he's an excellent manager, and the people in the cities and state under his guide have prospered without the windfall oil profits at their disposal.

I contemplated starting another thread showing Capriles' rallies again across the country, and the tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands who show up to hear him speak, but I realized it was a lost cause. He has no ability to win this thing. None whatsoever. It's not even a David vs Goliath. It's an ant vs an elephant.

The real question should be why so many expend so much effort to argue against things, dishonestly in large part, that aren't going to happen. It is very reminiscent of global warming denialists. They spend so much time harping about how global warming isn't happening, using false data, using deflection, using conspiracy theories, and in the end, nothing is being done about global warming, the status quo remains. Why get so worked up if the status quo remains? Why destroy your integrity with ideological falsehoods and misleading information which is rather easily shown to be false?