Rodriguez gives no date for vote despite pledging elections at UN


This is completely in line with the previous PSUV position. It's not even a concession. They have always maintained that they have free and fair elections. She is the rightful legal successor to Maduro, and she is promising to uphold the existing democratic norms of her country. That she isn't taking an outwardly hostile tone towards the nation which enjoys total military superiority over them during a diplomatic mission at the UN may come across as a betrayal to certain ultra-leftists in the US, but it would seem that the Chavistas in Venezuela do not share the same view.

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[–] 5 points 1 day ago (1 child)

I was not accusing you of anything, I was talking about replies like this one:

https://hexbear.net/comment/7484530

If you are saying that in order to metaconversationally reject this kind of rhetoric as not being a valid or productive objection, I also need to provide a detailed and compelling case in support of one conclusion or another in the conversation itself, then I can't really help you.

The vast majority of the time I deliberately try to stick to very narrow claims that I think are clearly provable or else are so one-sided that there is no meaningful counterargument because, among several other things, I actually don't like the idea of being on here all day writing essays about stuff that I'm not very certain about, and furthermore I believe that an individual claim can stand on its own merits without some sort of social performativity about how to be a Good Communist. No one in the fucking world should take how to be a Good Communist from me "modeling" it, and I'll leave the "why" up to the reader, but I still have the ability to argue on the merits of a specific point and so that's what I do. This is likewise not false humility but an earnest belief.

Insofar as you presented actual arguments, I respect your position even if I don't share your optimism, and what you said falls outside of the scope of my objection. If I miscommunicated on this point, I apologize.

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    Please, I have spent more time responding to comments genuinely explaining my positions and showing the evidence that supports them more than I have been condescending. The difference is in the way people speak about it, plenty of people express concern about what they are hearing without jumping to conclusions based on nothing material. Every time I have questioned people's positions they produce nothing but allusions and vibes. Every time I provide my analysis, rebuttal, or follow up questions, they are ignored. This has been going on for months and now I feel totally validated in pushing back against those same people who still refuse to engage with the points that many people have brought up, but still repeat their same baseless accusations. At this point they are openly erasing the lives of millions of chavistas and saying they literally don't exist as an organized movement because of what they are perceiving to be unilateral comprador in delcy Rodriguez. this is white supremacy, preemptively justifying the deaths of the people who they think should have been sacrificed if they were really revolutionary. It is wholly manufacturing conset for the abandonment of people who need our support and it is disgusting and deserves pushback

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