Venezuelans who come to the US tend to be wealthier, in order to be able to get here, and have enough issues with their country in order to leave, issues that they will usually blame on the leadership.

None of this is to say Maduro has majority support, he doesn’t by most accounts, or that they don’t represent a sizable chunk of Venezuelans who don’t like Maduro, but that his support isn’t as non-existent over there as it is here.

It’d be like if Trump took over the US and you only got your views on what Americans think from expat communities in Canada. They would probably cheer his death, even if it was by a foreign empire, but that wouldn’t be representative of average Americans who probably wouldn’t like the foreign intervention, even if they don’t like Trump.

  • El Barto@lemmy.worldEnglish
    72·
    3 days ago

    And again, you don’t know Venezuelans, since there are plenty of them who are Italian and Portuguese descendants, and they are as entitled as the white race they represent.

    I’m telling you, man. I know what I’m talking about because I know my people. I have all the context.

    • foodandart@lemmy.zip
      11·
      2 days ago

      So… they’re olive-skinned southern Europeans.

      Unless they can pass as northern WASPS, and they do not have “ethnic” sounding names, they can try and act as white as they want. However, it will only be a matter of time.

      President Drumpf is angling for the 4th Reich and self-loathing acolytes like Steven Miller will happily oblige.

      elbarto777 my friend, I know MY people as well.

      • El Barto@lemmy.worldEnglish
        11·
        2 days ago

        So… they’re olive-skinned southern Europeans.

        There you go. That’s the phrase that tells me that you don’t know what you’re talking about.

        Good-bye.

        • foodandart@lemmy.zip
          1·
          2 days ago

          Uh-huh. And you’re being blind to how the people in this administration are thinking. Your white-passing Venezuelans are on borrowed time.

          Let me add that Trump has only groused about the lack of Scandinavian and Germanic - that is, minty-green white northern europeans - coming to America.

          Decades ago, people were mocking this kind of thinking. (Can’t find the videos aywhere, but scroll the page and take note of the BUSH ads that were spliced into that particular episode. The third one in particular. I remember seeing it the night it aired.)

          We laughed our asses off at the absurdity of it all, now it’s become political reality and I am not laughing anymore.

          Take care.