Tabitha ☢️[she/her]

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Cake day: January 1st, 2023

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  • I think there is some degree of truth to it. For starters, there will definitely be somebody out there who pre-emptively blames the CIA in bad faith for the Legos their toddler left on the floor. And there are places the CIA is trying to infiltrate so hard, it actually was the CIA most of the time, so it would make sense to accuse the CIA. The only value an actual investigation would have is outing the mole. Maduro has the right to be paranoid and the mandate to be vigilant.

    This wouldn’t be Maduro’s fault. The CIA created this environment. I don’t particularly care if Maduro lied about the CIA once or twice. If he’s a villain at all, he’s not the Sauron/Voldemort of this story.




  • local business owners could be pushed into agreeing even if they didn’t want to

    some considerations:

    • Trumps policies for the entire year has essentially been an economic war against small/medium businesses.
    • The economy was already in decline/stagnation, so consumer spending is already down.
    • Less people are shopping because there is a Gestapo roaming the streets.
    • They aren’t really “conceding” anything to the worker beyond a single day of lost profit, where the alternative is eating the cost of running a business on a day there’s a chance of strike-induced low sales plus risk of reputational damage.