I know I’ve expressed dislike for the guy in the past, but seriously? I thought for even something like this, he would at least have a good take on it.
Yeah, this bothers me
Honestly it doesn’t quite matter to me if the election victory is ‘legitimate’. My opposition to US-backed coups (both dems like Chris Murphy and repubs like John Bolton admit in public that they tried & failed to coup Venezuela) is not contingent on its target being socialist, progressive or democratic
BadEmpanada can defend himself from critique by claiming he’s just being factual, but even the fucking Majority Report had more principle in stating they didn’t know for certain because they weren’t experts on Venezuela, and more importantly putting front and center their opposition to US regime change
When you have Kamala Harris supporters arguing a more principled anti-imperialist position than you, you know you’ve fucked up
I think his point is supposed to be “don’t argue Maduro won the election if you don’t actually believe or even care about the genuine-ness of the results”. But he’s purposefully inflammatory about it.
