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Genuinely why are people calling maduro a dictator? (hexbear.net)
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I understand that people just hegemonically accept venezuela as authoritarian, but what are the exact arguments and ideas people have? What are the facts?

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[–] Damarcusart@hexbear.net 6 points 2 months ago

(3) it causes some cognitive dissonance and uncomfortable feeling when people imagine it is false,

I think this is a huge part of it for a lot of people. It's much easier for someone to just not think about things and pretend that the "bad guys" "deserve it" rather than question whether the US is really the force for good in the world that they've been trained to believe.