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Cake day: August 9th, 2023

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  • Fascist governments throughout history have always been largely incompetent

    Kinda. Fascism requires a different power and economic structure. Particularly in the age of democracy where borders and populations are both more solid and liquid simultaneously. Apparent incompetence is often an attempt at quelling dissent from either the population or regime. They range from smart to dumb, but largely more brutal. Don’t mistake an air fryer for a toaster oven just because they both produce a lot of hot air

    never made things better for the people who voted for it

    Usually, yeah. Concentrating power means fewer people have to be pleased with you to maintain power. That’s why democracy is usually better to its citizenry, you have to please more people.

    They’re great for making rich people even richer in record time though.

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  • So full order of events. US companies invest in Venezuelan oil, they begin pumping and selling oil, Venezuelan government shoos them out to make more money, equipment fails and Venezuela makes less money per year despite owning 100% of the profits, things are fine-ish for decades between the two nations, oil talks begin again, little comes of them, US begins bombing boats that they state without verification are drug boats, trump personally chooses to begin stealing oil from a country decades removed from US involvement in their oil industry. Did I miss anything?