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Exactly like American Cubans

And most groups really. The dynamics are often the same. We see the folks who were wealthy and discontent enough to leave. It can’t be overstated how expensive it can be to move to the US from some places. People have to save for years just for the airfare.

You spelled Gusano wrong

And Turkish people in Europe.

Uncritically accepting anything is always a problem. In this case, American Venezuelans are not representative of their entire home country, as OP says. But on the other hand they likely know more about Venezuela than the average American, so I wouldn’t reject what they have to say categorically either.

Its been years since I left my country (not Venezuela) and I love it.

Still, I like to joke that people that leave a country (like myself) are weird or phrased slightly differently they're statistically not representative. I've noticed that I have a habit of meeting a small number of people from a country and overgeneralising and that's particularly error prone when they're traveler's I've met somewhere or expats

It's scary that so many people uncritically accept any opinions as fact

isnt that an issue with social media as a whole, most people using social media are idle rich or otherwise low-skilled/desk job types with loads of free time on their hands to be on social media.

the proper working class tends to use social media minimally, generally just using it to keep in contact/up-to-date with extended family

It’s amazing how many people cannot grasp that you can dislike Maduro but not support illegal US Warhawk imperialism.

The Dutch immigrant groups I've been part of have also been scarily right wing. I don't bother anymore.

Dear Europe,

It seems it's now ok to depose a criminal leader by force. Just sayin. Hint.

-Americans

It doesn't matter what style of Marxist ideology is attempted, they will all lead down to the same path of authoritarianism, mismanagement, and corruption. The ideologies and underlying framework are fundamentally flawed.

That being said, I don't appreciate the false dichotomy. There's clearly more, and way better options than a corrupt tyrannical leftist state or a corrupt tyrannical right wing state put in by the US. There's no reason anyone should support either because they're lesser of evils when there are paths to pick something that's not evil at all.

I feel like I'm a rare breed of anti-communist that also isn't anti-leftist.

I was born in PRC, I hate the CCP for both it's politics and on a personal level (2nd child born under One Child Policy, which they tried to "terminate" me)

That said, I, as an immigrant to the US, I also despise the far-right. I never supported the republican party I always supported Democrats, despite me being pro-gun (cuz I'm not a single-issue voter), and more specifically, I support progressivism, like I liked Bernie the moment I heard about the Medicare 4 All and that sort of stuff (but wasn't old enough to vote at the time). Like why the fuck would I support an ideology that wants to deport me? Lmfao. I know my history, I know of the Chinese Exclusion Act. Don't want that shit to happen again.

I like Mamdani (I'm not a New Yorker anymore, used to live in NYC), cuz I know he ain't a communist (as in the authoritarian stuff). A Democratic Socialist is not a communist.

I have nuance, normie don't understand shit and instantly defaults to campism.

Point to me which statement I made was ill informed or propagandistic. I never said Maduro has majority support, I said the opposite in fact, or that everyone over there loves Maduro. Just that they don't to a person hate him like the Venezuelans do over here and warning people not to take their opinions as representative of Venezuelans as a whole.

Many news outlets are showing cheering crowds in south Florida as a sign Venezuelans are happy for this. Like I said in the original post, yes they do represent a large chunk of Venezuelans who hate Maduro and left. The opinions of Venezuelans who like Maduro and stayed are noticeably absent though and they represent another large chunk of the population.

I never said to outright dismiss there opinions, just to know that it's biased and to be aware that there are differing opinions, how is that propaganda?

Never said they were all millionaires, only that they tend to be wealthier. In general immigrants from developing countries are on the higher end of income from the country they emigrate from.

Also 7.9 million Venezuelans did not cross the Darien gap, most Venezuelan migrants stayed in South America in neighboring countries like Colombia, Brazil and Ecuador. Those that could afford it did make their way to the US but not all of them crossed the Darien gap and could've taken alternate safer and more expensive routes, if not legal routes including hopping on a plane.

I fail to see how it's any of those things you just mentioned, I didn't say don't listen to Venezuelans or even don't listen to the Venezuelans in the US, I'm pointing out the biases that that group possess and telling people not to overgeneralize and think "all the Venezuelans here are cheering, so every Venezuelan must love this" . Saying that emigre Venezuelans are representative of Venezuelans as a whole would be racist, classist, xenophobic etc.

So poly sci says that all russians love putin? And kim jung un (or whatever his name is) is the most popular leader in the world?

The only thing this is about is Trump getting PERSONAL control of the oil, so he can be as wealthy as his friends the Saudis.