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.
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Despite his best efforts to shit upon anyone who even lightly attempts to interact with him (his best and worst trait), his "takes" are very often correct. People might not like specific phrasing and sort of "hedging" around his opinions of certain nations and/or leaders, but if you focus on his core statements, he agrees with most people who frequent lemmygrad/hexbear.
He's not even saying Madura staying is good or bad, btw. He's just saying that as far as he can tell, and from videos and such he's seen from people in Venezuela, the election was rigged. His point (this is me translating from Asshole to English) is: "who cares? It makes sense that given Madura's mistakes, which cannot be blamed solely on the US, people who aren't all that engaged in the political process want a different guy. Any guy. Even voting for right wingers." Which makes sense if you apply that logic to other nations where voters will vote to punish leaders during times of hardship even if the resulting change of government worsens things.
That said, I don't know dick about Venezuela and will be withholding much opinion besides "always be extremely skeptical of US media and state department- but do not totally discount them. They only lie most of the time. Sometimes if truth is more effective they'll tell the truth." Hopefully time will reveal, with proof, the full situation.
Evidence?
What did he mean by rigged? Was it that people didn't actually vote for maduro or was it just that maduro had an advantage?
If anything, the opposition had a wild advantage with all the private media being behind them
I could probably rewatch it, and perhaps he wrote more on Twitter/his YT channel little blog area (whatever it's called), but his evidence seemed to be, imo, circumstantial. Sort of like "normally this thing happens" (release of results and a tracking of how votes happened to my understanding) "it did not happen this time. That is weird and suspicious. Combined with Madura's failures (in BE's opinion: I really don't know enough to hold much opinion), it seems likely he would lose and the hiding of the results suggests wrongdoing."
He also mentioned some state suppression "worse than" the disappearances under the Argentinian dictatorship. That doesn't seem like a statement he would make lightly based on his past videos/comments regarding the right wing crimes in Argentina.
So, if he's exaggerating or just lying... it'll be disappointing. I know people hate his abrasive personality (sort of by design by him to keep people away), but I do find his mainline videos interesting. Mostly just historical stuff about places I haven't read much about or debunking some popular liberal stuff.