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Re:Venezuela's capital hit by explosions, smoke seen by JumpinJack_Cash on Sunday January 04, 2026 @11:08AM (#46489268)
> > This is a society that knows what it wants, knows how to function as a democracy, but has not been able to for decades.

Really? The Venezuelan community online (eg. /r/Vzla and /r/Venezuela) communicate using memes and rather unintelligent discourse.

It's not enough to want democracy, democracy and stability happens when there is an engagement in collective thinking , whereas disorder and chaos happens when people don't want to work and don't think things through

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Re:Venezuela's capital hit by explosions, smoke seen by oblongsquare69 on Sunday January 04, 2026 @03:54PM (#46492085)
> The social media posts of on a web forum represent the ideological position of an entire nation.

I believe it’s naive to assign Reddit and social media “discourse” any importance. Anything else is an exercise is confirming your already held bias.

Why does the post on a website by some people (who says they are even Venezuelan?) allow you to make the claim a nation “ doesn’t think thing through”?

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