<b>They:</b> Maduro was a dictator. <b>Me:</b> Fuck off. <b>They:</b> What?!? Don't you care that Maduro wasn't a nice guy? <b>Me:</b> No. Nothing you think you know about Venezuela is true. Nothing you think you know about Maduro is true. <b>They:</b> But the Venezuelans... <b>Me:</b> You don't care about the Venezuelans. You care about low gas prices. <b>They:</b> But Venezuelans are celebrating... <b>Me:</b> The only people greeting the U.S. as liberators are oligarchs, plunderers, and assholes. Or the clinically deluded. Like you. <b>They:</b> FOX News said... <b>Me:</b> Look, there's Lucy. She's holding a football. Why don't you try and kick it? <b>They:</b> But they're all drug dealers... <b>Me:</b> They're not. And it's irrelevant. <b>They:</b> You love drug dealers? <b>Me:</b> No. You love drug dealers. The Sacklers<fn> are still billionaires, advertising regularly on your favorite news sources. <b>They:</b> But we're just protecting Americans... <b>Me:</b> No. You're cheering on the plundering of the world for the U.S.-American elite. <b>They:</b> But Trump said... <b>Me:</b> You have no principles. You have a daddy. You should be ashamed of what a pathetic sucker you are. You're in a cult. Go try to kick another football. I bet he doesn't pull it away this time. <b>They:</b> But the NY Times wrote... <b>Me:</b> Everything you know about the world has been told to you by people who hate not just you, but anyone who has anything. They want to plunder the world. <b>Me:</b> You're just a dupe who hates the enemy du jour. Everything you think you know about anything has been told to you by people who represent their own interests. They don't even have to work very hard. You make it easy. You're a cheap lay. <hr> Partially, though not really, inspired by: <media href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S62y_IPwI7Y" src="https://www.youtube.com/v/S62y_IPwI7Y" source="YouTube" width="560px" author="HasanAbi" caption="'Don’t you think Maduro was bad?'"> <hr> <ft>Later, I read in <a href="https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/01/05/roaming-charges-preliminary-notes-on-a-kidnapping/" author="Jeffrey St. Clair" source="CounterPunch">Roaming Charges: Preliminary Notes on a Kidnapping</a>, <bq>The fact that <b>the biggest drug pushers on the planet for several decades</b>, whose product killed 10s of thousands every year, <b>never ended up having their mansions bombed or [being] carted off in chains</b>, tells you all you really need to know about the bipartisan hypocrisies of the alleged war on drugs. <b>I refer to the Sacklers, of course.</b></bq></ft>