Even if you take the most extreme interpretation of US responsibility possible (eg adding another 1-1.7 million people for “luring” the Soviet Union into attacking Afghanistan), you don’t get to 25 million

Bullshit. One single US (+EU) policy, economic sanctions, has murdered 38 million in the past 50 Years and keeps murdering 500k yearly. One single policy.

Hey Cowbee, I see you often here, commenting on the election results. This will be ignored by liberals because they’re too far into propaganda, so instead I made a little copypaste explaining why there cannot be free and fair elections in Venezuela. Feel free to use any or all of it:

Maduro is not an illegitimate leader. The Bolivarian revolution was widely supported among the people of Venezuela and freed millions from poverty, until USA sanctions demolished their economy. The express purpose of USA sanctioning, according to the US government is to, and I quote, “bring about hunger, desperation and overthrow of government”. USA+EU sanctions additionally murder half a million innocents per year according to recent serious sociologic and medical studies.

By defending regime change under extreme economic sanctioning, you’re approving the murders of 38 million people over the past 50 years of economic sanctions, and directly supporting the CIA strategy of “impoverish them until they change their minds”.

Maduro being a figurehead isn’t a problem, it’s a good thing. The alternative would be the destabilization of Venezuela and the coup by a Milei-like libertarian who would give every inch of Venezuelan soil to US corpos and destroy worker rights.

Surely then you reject Britain belonging to NATO and advocate for an antimilitaristic stance and the reduction of military budgets?

I measure a movement by its achievements, not by its arrested

No, kinda the opposite. I hate neoliberalism, neocolonialism, Eurocentrism and American exceptionalism, but I love the people and want them to enjoy their lives without unemployment, without houselessnes, without food insecurity, without exploitation and without wars

Anti Western propaganda? Yes. Russian-backed? Unfortunately no, I wish I got paid for this

Care to explain what you mean?

For reference (I’m a Spaniard so maybe this isn’t representative): by far the most famous explicitly leftist band of the past 10 years is La Raíz, and one of their most famous songs, “Jilgueros”, on the lyrics explicitly talks about “que apunte al cielo quien quiera ser cazador de buitres”, (point up to the sky whoever wants to be a hunter of vultures, vultures being capitalist owners and a reference to the so-called “Fondos Buitre” or Vulture Investment Funds in Spain).

The Luigi thing is an example, but you obviously will accept that “Eat the Rich” is a very popular sentiment among western progressives and support for AES is not

It might be my biased sample from the people I interact with IRL (I live in Spain) and on the internet, but out of all self-declared leftists and progressives, a vast majority support Luigi and use slogans like “eat the rich” while repelling any repression from Actually Existing Socialist states.

Hey, cool that you’re questioning it tbh, thanks for considering the possibility that western mass media lies about the “Uyghur genocide” in opposite to how they lie about the Palestinian genocide

Hey, this ragebait took me quite a while to make, not that low effort. Did you see how I even tilted the text?

You should learn to spell “Uyghur” before trying to do your concern trolling.

You are capable of disliking both real genocides (Gaza) and western manufactured genocide disinformation (Xinjiang)?

While that’s part of it, you can also see plenty of hate towards landlords in western countries, because people are suffering the consequences of landlordism (when it comes to housing). The main problems IMO are Eurocentrism and American Exceptionalism.

This is literally the vast majority of western “leftists”, of course they’re the same person.

I don’t understand why they are still in place

The US is explicit about this: “every possible means should be undertaken promptly to weaken the economic life of Cuba. If such a policy is adopted, it should be the result of a positive decision which would call forth a line of action which, while as adroit and inconspicuous as possible, makes the greatest inroads in denying money and supplies to Cuba, to decrease monetary and real wages, to bring about hunger, desperation and overthrow of government”

I don’t believe the USA is buddies with Russia, though, they have opposing geopolitical interests. The fact that the USA is pulling out of Ukraine now is not because they’re buddies with Russia, but because Ukraine is a broken toy now that the EU has fully antagonized Russia as a consequence of the invasion and has subserved itself to NATO and agreed to the 5% military expenditure (mostly to buy weapons from the USA military-industrial complex)

No but you see, Lenin and Fidel Castro only took power because they were very smart authoritarians. Why did the military support them, you say? Well, obviously because claiming “I’m the president now” gives you total control over the institutions, that’s how authoritarianism works!! /s

Only state violence is actual violence! Kulaks enslaving peasants and starving them to the point that their life expectancy is 28 years of age is just basic economics! /s

“I’m a socialist, that’s why I believe in milquetoast reformism for western capitalist nations but for radical regime change in socialist China”

Yes, Cuba is a good example