this post was submitted on 20 Aug 2026
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[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 21 points 2 days ago

Venezuela has recently suffered from the kryptonite of socialism: a capitalist regime staging a coup.

[–] kromida@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 1 day ago

The perspective of this meme is making fun of "leftists" that say that true socialism has not been tried, and then the different nationalities punishing them because of the so called oppression they experienced under the system.

[–] agentant@lemmy.ml 13 points 2 days ago

Are we sure Cambodia should be in the line up, especially above Yugoslavia or Vietnam? Also this might be nitpicky but it should be Soviets and not Russians, there were 14 other republics and iirc over a hundred or so distinct nationalities.

[–] RiverRock@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 day ago

This would also work with the "get a hold of yourself" scene from Airplane!

[–] RiverRock@lemmy.ml 22 points 2 days ago

The chauvinism that lies at the heart of their worldview is the underlying assumption that all those foreign people must be A) Doing their own liberation wrong and B) Lying about it

[–] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] EmmiLime@lemmy.ml 23 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Vietnam already slapped them back in 1975

[–] RiverRock@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago

Vietnam in the 70s was just doing that bit of the guy slapping everyone

[–] pineapple@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 days ago

More like trotskyist's

[–] SnailMagnitude@mander.xyz 8 points 2 days ago

Did they run out of superheroes?