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Maduro won fair elections in 2013 observed by neutral observers. Sanctions were placed by Obama in 2014.

They’re pretty good as far as I know, my country didn’t receive any of those but I’ve visited countries in Africa that have received them and they’re getting really great infrastructure and knowledge sharing from them!

The global south would argue that there’s been nothing benevolent about pax americana.

It’s disingenuous to talk about Maduros popularity without mentioning the brutal sanctions placed on it by the US, which caused the crisis in the first place.

That debt issued by a central bank to its government to productively utilize real resources is not inflationary and not really “owed” to anyone. It’s an accounting detail.

In response to you saying that there is no free lunch since debt is always owed to someone.

Read up on the cases you posted. The UK deliberately ignored the EU ruling. You probably know how to read but research might not be your forte.

Does it matter?

We don’t need to nitpick. I think it’s obvious that saying I don’t know anyone with this opinion != nobody has this opinion.

I don’t think that’s reasonable at all.

Can you imagine a world where a government could spend infinite money without any problems? If you can’t, then why would someone else think that? If you thought my understanding of macroeconomics was different from yours and you were genuinely curious, it would have been a good idea to start by asking questions. Or if you thought I was an idiot you could have just ignored me. But you chose to assume an obviously ridiculous premise to my comment and reply based on that. That’s the definition of a straw man argument.

If you still care to know, the constraint on government spending is real resources (and whether they can be usefully utilized of course).

I don’t know about the real estate situation in China, and I don’t know if it was financed by private debt or public debt, so I can’t comment on it.

Who’s we? I’m guessing you’re not a general in the US military, so I don’t know why you’re inserting yourself into this decision.

Do you think a nuclear war would be good for you? Obviously not, so you shouldn’t want your government to threaten to start one. And you shouldn’t support your government when they signal to the world that the only way to be safe from interventionism is to develop nuclear weapons. Or when they signal to other superpowers that they don’t respect international treaties, or the sovereignty of other nations.

I never said anything about lending infinite money, don’t straw man me.

The constraint is on real resources, which China has plenty of, regardless of how much debt they have.

The financial situation is an accounting detail. China could decide to write off all debt it owes to itself tomorrow, and literally nothing would change.

Yes, I am, and yes I don’t particularly mind the immigrants.

Even if I did mind them, venezuelan immigrants are preferable to the US military invading my neighbours.

The TIAR? The one that says an attack on one is an attack on all, which both USA and Venezuela are members of? Fat lot of good that did to protect them.

But I don’t know why I bother to reply to you when given your “farmers with sticks” comment it’s clear that you’re a racist asshole.

The brazen callousness with which you advocate for the spread of nuclear weapons and the subjugation of other nations’ sovereignty is disgusting.

You’re probably one of the worst people I’ve ever interacted with.

What the fuck do you think China is going to do next time the US does an “exercise” in the china sea?

What the fuck do you think Iran is going to do next time Israel acts up and the US supports it?

I hope the rest of south america doesn’t let this stand. Heavy sanctions on US, maybe even military intervention. The US can’t go to war with an entire continent.

You’re not convinced that the US invading other countries and deposing presidents is bad? In a world where nuclear weapons exist?

Sure, and after all these cases what happened?

Prisoners still can’t vote, people are getting arrested for peacefully protesting holding signs, and the Rwanda ruling was overruled by parliament and the only reason the plan was stopped is because the PM changed.

You can wait and see, or you can open the window and look outside. I know what I already saw.

Not sure why you think China is Orwellian and the US isn’t when ICE is literally kidnapping people off the streets. Wake up mate, the Orwellian is coming from inside the house.

Not sure where here is for you. But anyway, even if you can win a battle you can’t win a war. If a government wants to do something, it will regardless of how any individual person, rich or not, feels about it.

It just so happens that most western “democracies” are run by rich people, so they can avoid all that unpleasant business by just running the government in the first place.

I’m not a lawyer, and many of these cases are not famous enough to be reported on in a format easily understandable to a layperson. I’m also not going to read through case resolutions to respond to a hacker news comment. I did take a cursory look at the examples you wrote though.

I will admit that my original statement lacks nuance, which makes it easy to nitpick.

Having read some of your cases though, a pattern emerged: it’s usually supra national organizations adjudicating these cases, and the nations are not bound by the rulings.

For example, in Hirst vs UK it was ruled that it’s a violation of human rights to deny prisoners the vote, and yet the UK government deliberately ignored that ruling and as a result prisoners still can’t vote in the UK. Not to mention that when this case was brought up in a UK court it was dismissed.

I think we’re saying the same thing here? Yes I agree, both superpowers are very similar.

That might all be true, but at the same time most people don’t care or prefer wireless earphones.

Your opinion is valid, but irrelevant. The above comment said that you’re a minority and that they’ve never met a person irl that shares your opinion. I can say I’ve also never met anyone who shares that opinion.

Also of note is that I used to care a lot about sound quality, and owned very expensive wired IEMs until 2 years ago. I was annoyed when I switched to a phone without a jack, but now I’m used to it and don’t particularly miss it.

I would say that’s an extension of the idea that rich people run the US government, which runs global organizations such as the world bank, which runs these ISDS courts.

China is just big enough to be able to ignore these global orgs.

There actually literally is a free lunch. Debt owed to the government by itself isn’t real. Assets and infrastructure are real.

It doesn’t matter how much you think China is in trouble financially, at the end of the day they still manufacture a third of everything in the world.

This is such a myopic comment to me.

Name me a single country where a rich person goes against the government and wins? You just don’t see it happen much in the US because the government is run by rich capitalists, but pretty much every country is the same.

I don’t even disagree with you about the system incentives. I hate capitalism just as much as you!

But I still trust the institutions around me to keep me safe. Obviously that depends on where you live, I wouldn’t feel the same way if I still lived in Brazil.

Last time I went to a doctor was about 3 years ago. They diagnosed me in 5 minutes, and took another 10 to treat me and write me a prescription. It was great, I loved it.

Sounds like you have this trust issue with lots of different areas of your life, it might be worth reexamining your own perspective. Or maybe you just have to move to somewhere that you do trust.

This post has been a wake up call. I need to be more careful who I bother responding to.

This reminds me of the time I found out there’s a ton of libertarians here that think drivers licenses are oppression.

I would still trust a cessna way more than any plane built or modified by a single person.