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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • Not particularly. Read up on it from an unbiased source and you’ll notice that most vital humanitarian items (medicines, food, vaccines, etc.) are exempted. While luxury and consumer items are mostly untouched as well. It’s actually private personal accounts and industrial transactions of the politically affiliated capital owners, that support the current government, that are sanctioned. Also oil sales specifically. The sanctions were also gradually reduced for almost two years during negotiations, then completely halted after a partial agreement in October last year.

    The, “us sanctions are killing Venezuelan people” is actually a global left propaganda piece. The Chavista government was killing Venezuelan people and stealing money way before the US instated sanctions.



  • Our hyperinflation crisis pre dates US sanctions by about 3 years. People were dying of hunger on the rural towns way before the US sanctions. I mean, fuck the US, but they aren’t particularly the reason we are fucked up beyond recovery. And to call them brutal is an exaggeration. They are actually some of the mildest, milk toast sanctions that a country might impose on another. The rich in power still ride around in US made Lamborghinis, Fortunners and Teslas. While the rest of the population works for $5 a month.





  • Labs are now trained to avoid the positive-negative nomenclature, as it implies diagnosis which most lab tests are incapable to do on their own. Only licensed medical professionals can diagnose. Nowadays it’s reactive or non-reactive, and other words depending on the kind of test. Specially with modern treatments, lot’s of people live with HIV but would be nonreactive in all tests if they’re under treatment. They still would be infected with the virus but won’t be detected by labs, and probably would never get ill.