Turns out she has been on the Venezuelan political scene for quite some time.
October 10, 2025, María Corina Machado won the Nobel Peace Prize for ‘promoting democratic rights’. The Nobel committee congratulated her and praised her “tireless work” for democracy in Venezuela. Ironically, on April 11, 2002, Machado signed away democratic institutions in an attempt to overthrow a democratically elected government, and twenty-three years later, she is the flagbearer of Western democracy.
Pretty short article, worth a read.
If anything her actions have been completely vindicated by history. How far can you go to prevent a dictatorship from destroying your country?
Foreign led coups are really good for democracy acktually
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You would denounce a foriegn coup of Trump right?
I would actively welcome and celebrate it.
Were in a fascist state led by a cabal of pedos who bow down to Putin and Netanyahu, starting arbitrary wars, and conducting an ethnic cleansing on its own people.
we already had a foreign coup.
Alright just checking your adherence to pricinples tbh
Not sure about principles, yhea, foreign coups are bad. but the US us in such a state that I don’t think another foreign coup could make things worse. especially for immigrant communities (stuck in the greencard process, did it all legally, but the system has been halted for so long it puts me at a serious risk of being disappeared).
The jews in Germany were probably glad there was a foreign intervention to end the nazis.
You cannot possibly be serious, that anyone should defend that man on the pretense of any principled stance. He is ‘at best’ the most useful idiot in American history (which is saying something) and more likely he belongs on a short list of the worst people to come out of the 20th century.
Principles? I would not piss on the man if he caught flame. I would not stop him from solving the puzzle box from Hellraiser. Nobody owes him any measure of decency or common feeling, and he is no rightful claimant to the sentiments of humanity. He is an avowed malignant narcissist with no love, no charm or sense of humour, no empathy, no wit, and nothing but proud scorn for his many victims. You could hardly create a more loathsome being from whole cloth, and any ill that befalls him is a genuine cause for joy. Under no circumstances should you allow your principles to comfort him.
So you have at least one or two cases for supporting interventionism
I am not sure if I understand the attitude of your comment.
“Vindicated by history” to me suggest that given the current situation, you think Machado has done the right thing back in 2002 when she supported a coup against Chavez, a democratically elected leader. However, the question “how far can you go” implies to me that you question whether what she did was worth it or ethical? So it’s not clear to me what your stance is.
This is an amazing take. Does Nickelodeon still give awards? Because homey, you deserve it.
Not so far as to do their work for them, that’s for sure.