You mean like the US now with Venezuelan oil?

Roll time back and think about that country since the progressives took power.

Killed and captured the oil industry resulting in the decline of GDP and standards of living.

Great example to prove my point

And what exactly is your point? You stated one side of the history but not the other. One can only conclude that you're implying "not communist" is good, when in fact that's just nonsense.

That's deeply reductive and really not what HackerNews is supposed to be about

HackerNews isn't supposed to be a communist propaganda forum.

But the progressives seem to have to jam their socialist religion into everything!

Very reductive again

Deeply ironic given the news out of Venezuela…

Mamdani is actually a democratic socialist, it's just that this distinction doesn't exist in US english.