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Spotted this interesting looking shrub by the pavement. What is this?Gardener (All For Gardening)
De Amerikaanse inval in Venezuela laat één ding duidelijk zien: neem Trumps uitspraken over Canada en Groenland bloedserieus. De Verenigde Staten zijn in verval en ondermijnen daarmee juist de liberale orde die zij zelf ooit hebben opgericht.
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Amerika is een land in (moreel) verval - Hidde Bouwmeester
Stelt u zich eens het volgende voor: een president die zelf bepaalt welke journalisten vragen mogen stellen en wie niet. Een president die beslist welke demonstraties legaal zijn en welke niet.Hidde Bouwmeester
The hard right know exactly what they are doing. This war isn’t a lie, it’s a bribe.
It’s a signal to power: there is loot on the table. Venezuela isn’t a talking point, it’s a payout. Oil, contracts, leverage, chaos converted into profit. That’s why it works. Not because people believe it, but because the right people benefit from it.
Once you stop assuming politics is about persuasion and start seeing it as deal-making between elitists, the behaviour makes sense. The spectacle is for the public. The offer is for insiders.
This is how the #deathcult operates: not through truth or lies, but through incentives. When extraction is the reward, outrage doesn’t stop it - it lubricates it.
If you want to resist this, stop arguing about whether the story is believable. Start asking who gets paid, who gets access, and who gets to loot. Basic grassroots journalism #OMN
That’s where the power is.
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WTF?
The #Trump admin “captured” #Venezuela President Nicolás #Maduro & his wife & flew him out of the country in an insane nighttime operation that was accompanied by a flurry of strikes following months of escalating pressure on the #oil-rich #SouthAmerica nation.
The US is now deciding next steps for Venezuela, Trump said Saturday on Fox News, adding, “We’ll be involved in it very much.”
The legal authority for the attack was not clear. [there is none]
he said would make Venezuelans “rich, independent & safe.”
how about the US first? i'd like to feel independent and safe...
Thank you for this thread.
Shit is fucked up and bullshit, but a thread on the details of it is welcome.
By the end of this weekend every single world leader will have come up with a plan to THWART THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICAs military.
We now have a WORLD PROBLEM and Trump now is a huge glowing target FOR THE ENTIRE WORLD.
Not because everyone loves Venezuela but because TRUMP IS NOW A THREAT TO THE ENTIRE WORLD.
Someone is going to have to make a military action against us now. THEY HAVE TO. TRUMP FORCED THIS.
I'm pretty sure Fidel Castro punked the shit out of Jimmy Carter by doing that. Carter opened up blanket citizenship for any Cuban who wanted to leave, so Castro emptied his prisons and mental wards into Miami. That's the beginning of the movie "Scarface".
Trump hasn't updated his OS since about 1980 and it shows.
When asked how much running #Venezuela, potentially for years, will cost, #Trump said: “It won’t cost us anything.”
His claim that the #US won’t have to spend any money because it will be “reimbursed” by the #oil the US will take “out of the ground” is a total fantasy.
This will cost the US billions.
#law #Congress #WarPowers #criminal #Maduro #abduction #LandGrab #sovereignty #WarCrimes #theft #piracy #InternationalLaw
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The news conference is over. Despite multiple questions about how #Venezuela will be run, no details were provided.
#Trump repeatedly said “we’re gonna do” this & “we’re gonna do” that, but never gave info about HOW.
There were vague allusions to #MarcoRubio & Pete #Hegseth & a “group” but no specifics.
This is nuts.
#law #Congress #WarPowers #criminal #Maduro #abduction #LandGrab #sovereignty #WarCrimes #oil #theft #piracy #InternationalLaw
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Trump should send ICE to run the country. Hustle 'em on a plane and dump their sorry asses in country. Patriots there can a solve a problem for us at the same time.
Oops, prolly should have read the fine print on that signing bonus.
Trillions maybe.
Afghanistan: What has the conflict cost the US and its allies?
How much has been spent on foreign military intervention in Afghanistan over the past two decades?By Reality Check team (BBC News)
#Trump also completely dismissed the idea of working with opposition leader & #NobelPeacePrize winner #MaríaCorinaMachado who actually won the last presidential #election in #Venezuela. Instead he said #MarcoRubio was in contact with Maduro’s VP #DelcyRodríguez. If this was even slightly about #Maduro being an illegitimate president, Rodríguez would also be illegitimate. This is so transparently about #oil it’s ridiculous.
#law #abduction #LandGrab #sovereignty #WarCrimes #InternationalLaw
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Trump’s suggestion that Maduro’s VP, #DelcyRodríguez, would help the #US run the country literally came as #Venezuela state TV was playing a clip of her denouncing the US #military operation.
“Faced with this brutal situation & this brutal attack, we do not know the whereabouts of President Nicolás #Maduro & first lady Cilia Flores,” Rodríguez said. “We demand immediate proof of life for President Maduro & the first lady from the government of President Donald #Trump.”
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#Trump spoke more about #oil than anything else. I don’t think I even heard him mention #democracy a single time. He vowed to fix #Venezuela’s oil infrastructure & said the #US plans to sell it to other countries [again, how is this legal?].
“We’re in the oil business. We’re going to sell it to them,” Trump said. he said oil companies will pay for the rebuilding of Venezuela’s oil infrastructure, & the wealth will pour in.
#law #abduction #LandGrab #sovereignty #WarCrimes #theft #piracy
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Secy of #State #MarcoRubio said the “capture” of President #Maduro & his wife from #Venezuela was a “law enforcement” operation as a rationale for not going to #Congress, yet #Trump said the #US will now run the country & said “We’re not afraid of boots on the ground,” neither of which would be the result of a #LawEnforcement action.
Also AG #PamBondi was not included in the news conference announcing what would absolutely be the most significant #prosecution of her career.
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Nice coverage. "Law enforcement" operation my ass.
As Ruby Keeler's friend said of the lord that hosted serial sex parties, which they attended, who denied he hosted them, "He would say that, wouldn't he?"
Conflicting reports
Um… The VP of #Venezuela #DelcyRodriguez is currently in #Russia, 4 sources familiar with her movements said Saturday, after #Trump said #Maduro had been seized by US forces after an attack on the country & US Secy of #State #MarcoRubio was in contact with her & that she had been sworn in to the presidency.
#law #Congress #WarPowers #criminal #abduction #oil #LandGrab #sovereignty #WarCrimes #ExtrajudicialKillings #theft #piracy #InternationalLaw
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It’s a “Freedom Fracas” not a war.
A “Special Operation”
A “Police Action”
A “Military Intervention”
A dominionist resource grab
A colonialist obligation
An excuse to grab more power and control because no one even attempts to stop them.
Conflicting reports.
#Rodríguez addresses the nation [apparently in #Venezuela]
In a televised address to the nation that lasted less than 15 minutes, #DelcyRodríguez demanded the #US free #Maduro & calls him the country’s rightful leader, but left open the door for dialogue with the US.
#law #Congress #WarPowers #criminal #Trump #abduction #oil #LandGrab #sovereignty #WarCrimes #ExtrajudicialKillings #theft #piracy #InternationalLaw
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#Venezuela VP #DelcyRodríguez, speaking on state television in Spanish, reiterated calls for the release of #Maduro & his wife.
She called for calm & unity to defend the country amid Maduro's "kidnapping" & said Venezuela will never be the #colony of any nation.
Rodríguez spoke from #Caracas with her brother, national assembly head Jorge Rodríguez, interior minister Diosdado Cabello & the foreign & defense ministers.
#law #Trump #abduction #oil #LandGrab #sovereignty
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#DelcyRodríguez was defiant as she spoke on live television. “If there is one thing that the Venezuelan people & this country are clear about,” she said, “it is that we will never again be slaves, that we will never again be a colony of any empire, whatever its nature.”
“There is only one president in this country, & his name is Nicolás #Maduro Moros,” Rodríguez said.
#law #Congress #WarPowers #criminal #Trump #abduction #Venezuela #oil #LandGrab #sovereignty #InternationalLaw
#DelcyRodríguez, spoke flanked by powerful military officials & other key government leaders as she denounced the #UnitedStates’ actions. As she introduced each figure on live television, they nodded toward her in a show of deference as she demanded that #Maduro was the rightful president of #Venezuela. The display of force & unity undermined President Trump’s earlier comments that Washington would work with Rodríguez to run Venezuela.
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#DelcyRodríguez added that #Venezuela was open to having a respectful relationship with the #Trump admin, but only within the framework of international & Venezuelan #law. “That is the only type of relationship I will accept, after they have attacked & militarily assaulted our beloved nation,” she said.
#Congress #WarPowers #criminal #abduction #oil #LandGrab #sovereignty #WarCrimes #ExtrajudicialKillings #theft #piracy #InternationalLaw
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#DelcyRodríguez was sworn in as #Venezuela’s new president Saturday, but she repeatedly said that #Maduro was Venezuela’s “only president” & even the text on Venezuelan state TV labeled her as vice president. When she ended, the state broadcaster immediately said that Rodríguez was the VP who had just made clear that Maduro was Venezuela’s president.
#law #Congress #WarPowers #criminal #Trump #abduction #Venezuela #oil #LandGrab #sovereignty #WarCrimes #theft #piracy #InternationalLaw
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In an interview w/ NYT, secy of #state #MarcoRubio said he was reserving judgment on #DelcyRodríguez’s comments, in which she denied she planned to work with the #US.
“We’re going to make decisions based on their actions & their deeds in the days & weeks to come,” he said, referring to ofcls in the interim #Venezuela govt. “We think they’re going to have some unique & historic opportunities to do a great service for the country, & we hope that they’ll accept that opportunity.”
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I have zero sympathy for any bastard dictators and Venezuelans are better off without him.
The #UN #Security Council will convene an emergency meeting on Monday morning to discuss #US strikes in #Venezuela. #Russia, #China & #Colombia asked for the meeting after Venezuela’s mission to the UN wrote a letter to the Council president requesting the meeting to condemn & stop US strikes on the country. Secy Gen António Guterres is expected to address the #UNSC Monday. He said in a statement earlier that all sides must uphold #InternationalLaw & the #UNcharter.
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Plane carrying captured Venezuelan
President Nicolás #Maduro & his wife, Cilia Flores, has arrived at Stewart Air National Guard Base in NY.
The Venezuelan leader is expected to face drugs & weapons charges in Manhattan federal court next week.
#law #Congress #WarPowers #criminal #Trump #abduction #Venezuela #oil #LandGrab #sovereignty #WarCrimes #ExtrajudicialKillings #theft #piracy #InternationalLaw
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#law #Congress #WarPowers #Trump #abduction #Venezuela #oil #sovereignty #WarCrimes #InternationalLaw
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At least 40 people were killed in Saturday’s attack on #Venezuela, including #military personnel & #civilians, according to a senior Venezuelan official who spoke on condition of anonymity to describe preliminary reports.
#law #Congress #WarPowers #criminal #Trump #Maduro #abduction #oil #LandGrab #sovereignty #WarCrimes #ExtrajudicialKillings #theft #piracy #InternationalLaw
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Far more than a first lady, #CiliaFlores is one of #Venezuela’s most powerful #political figures. She built extraordinary #influence over decades while largely operating from the shadows. Flores shaped a #judicial system in which nearly every major decision ran through her & embedded state institutions with relatives & loyalists, acc/to journalists, analysts & former officials. At the same time, they noted, her family amassed vast, unexplained wealth.
A lawyer from a lower middle class background, #CiliaFlores began her political rise in the 1990s, becoming close to #HugoChávez — the former president who was #Maduro’s mentor & predecessor — while he was imprisoned after a failed #coup attempt in 1992. She steadily climbed the ranks of Chávez’s socialist movement, known as #chavismo, becoming a central figure in #Venezuela #legislature.
#law #Congress #WarPowers #Trump #abduction #oil #LandGrab #sovereignty #WarCrimes #InternationalLaw
#CiliaFlores & #Maduro have been partners since at least the late 1990s, when both were lawmakers. They married in 2013, the year he became president. After Chávez’s death, she was widely seen as critical to consolidating & sustaining Maduro’s hold on #power, bringing a loyal #political base & deep institutional #influence.
#law #Congress #WarPowers #criminal #Trump #abduction #Venezuela #oil #LandGrab #sovereignty #WarCrimes #ExtrajudicialKillings #theft #piracy #InternationalLaw
Within #chavismo, #CiliaFlores commands both respect & fear, said Roberto Deniz, a Venezuelan investigative journalist who has reported extensively on the Flores family.
“She is a fundamental figure in #corruption in #Venezuela —absolutely fundamental— & especially in the structure of #power,” said Zair Mundaray, who worked as a snr prosecutor under both #Chávez & #Maduro. “Many people consider her far more astute & shrewd than Maduro himself.”
Though she stopped holding formal government posts after 2013, #CiliaFlores retained immense behind-the-scenes authority. She is often described as a key architect of #Maduro’s political survival.
“Within #chavismo itself, they know the real power that Cilia Flores has, more so than perhaps the general public,” Deniz said.
#law #Congress #WarPowers #criminal #Trump #abduction #Venezuela #oil #LandGrab #sovereignty #WarCrimes #ExtrajudicialKillings #theft #piracy #InternationalLaw
#CiliaFlores is also widely believed to wield decisive #influence over #Venezuela’s #justice system. Many #judges & senior officials are thought to be loyal to her or have been placed through her networks. The #judiciary is considered thoroughly politicized, having failed to issue a single ruling against the state in more than two decades.
#law #Congress #WarPowers #criminal #Trump #abduction #oil #LandGrab #sovereignty #WarCrimes #ExtrajudicialKillings #theft #piracy #InternationalLaw
“It is a completely politicized, flawed, #corrupt judicial system, & #CiliaFlores bears a great deal of responsibility for what the Venezuelan judicial system has become,” Deniz said.
Investigative journalists have documented extensive #corruption involving the #Maduro-Flores family, including misuse of public funds & business links with sanctioned foreign businessmen. One investigation showed the family effectively taking over an entire street of luxury homes in Caracas, the country’s capital.
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A federal indictment unsealed on Saturday charged #CiliaFlores, along with #Maduro & son, with collaborating with drug traffickers.
“She has been basically co-governing the country since he came to #power, & in many ways is the strategy or power behind the throne,” said Risa Grais-Targow, the #LatinAmerica director for Eurasia Group, a political risk consultancy. “She’s been key to his staying power, but also now his downfall as well.”
Inside job.
CIA operated military junta headed for Venezuelan rule.
Secy of State #MarcoRubio sidestepped questions from ABC host George Stephanopoulos on Sunday about which #LegalAuthority the #US had to conduct its actions in #Venezuela. #Rubio said the US has “court orders” to quarantine Venezuela’s #oil, which he argued would freeze the #economy “until the conditions that are in the national interest of the United States & the interests of the Venezuelan people are met.”
#geopolitics #law #Congress #WarPowers #Trump #Maduro #abduction #LandGrab #sovereignty
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When Stephanopoulos asked whether the #US is running #Venezuela right now, #Rubio pointed to the #oil embargo & said the US will use it as leverage until “the people who have control over the levers of power in that country make changes that are not just in the interest of the people of Venezuela, but are in the interest of the United States.”
#geopolitics #law #Congress #WarPowers #Trump #Maduro #abduction #LandGrab #sovereignty #WarCrimes #ExtrajudicialKillings #piracy #InternationalLaw
A day after #Trump declared that the #US planned to “run” #Venezuela for an unspecified period, #Defense Dept ofcls said there were no US #military personnel in country.
But a force of 15k troops on land in nearby countries & on a dozen warships in the #Caribbean “remain in the region at a high state of readiness, prepared to project power, defend themselves, & our interests in the region,” Gen. Dan Caine, Joint Chiefs of Staff chair, said Saturday.
Day 1 went according to plan. Was there a detailed plan after day 1?
#LatinAmerica experts said that the US is probably underestimating the challenge of governing #Venezuela.
“Credible estimates of the number of boots on the ground required range from tens of thousands to well into the hundreds of thousands,” said Adam Isacson, a scholar at the Washington Office on Latin America. “In Panama in 1989, the occupying force was 27,000, & Venezuela is 12X the size & 6.5X the population — with a much broader array of armed & criminal groups.”
#geopolitics #law #Trump
"A day after #Trump declared that the #US planned to “run” #Venezuela for an unspecified period, #Defense Dept ofcls said there were no US #military personnel in country."
"there were no US #military personnel in country."
And this is the crux of it right now
Trump is used to throwing his weight around in the United States, where he can call in SWATting and bomb threats from his psychotic followers, where he can call in Bongino and his ICE thugs over night
He can do nothing of the sort in Venezuela
How is he going to "govern" a country with its own politics, populace and armed rebel squads
Wall Street is sending down a bunch of analysts in a month to work out a plan
Are they all going to be wearing tactical plate body armor?
What sort of force (SEAL Team 6?) is Trump going to send down to provide cover?
Nope.
All Trump and Hegseth need to do is to "project power"
Just like a video game
He said if elected he would make Americans rich, independent and safe.
I can't afford the price of a steak in the grocery store, and millions of people lost their healthcare coverage on January 1st.
I also check the social security website every month to make sure my direct deposit was completed and for the correct amount.
I hope the people of Venezuela are smarter than the Americans who voted for Trump and the rest of us who are basically doing nothing to get rid of him.
I want to ask you though how exactly is the United States actually in control of Venezuela other than having kidnapped the head of state and his wife?
They don’t seem to be any US forces or infrastructure of the US administration in the country whatsoever. And there’s this bizarre back-and-forth going on between the vice president and the White House.
And we’re still keeping up the oil sanctions. None of it makes any sense to my little brain.
Needs a character called Knutsakk to go the distance.
(Just pronounce it in Scots; it's a synonym for Bawbag.)
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@mrundkvist@archaeo.social @quixoticgeek@v.st @cstross@wandering.shop "saknussem" has to mean "scrotum" in at least one language somewhere, surely?Daburu Dar (Mastodon)
It was a very witty sitcom that ran for 11 seasons, with Kelsey Grammar in the lead role, playing a pretentious radio psychiatrist. Grammar is a pretty awful human being, but a great comic actor.
I tend to assume everyone has heard of Frasier. It was one of the most popular comedy shows on American TV. It was a spinoff of Cheers, where Frasier and his wife Lilith were a minor recurring characters.
US forces attack on Venezuela. Donald Tusk took the floor. “New Situation”
US forces attack on Venezuela. Donald Tusk took the floor. "New Situation"BYTESEU (Bytes Europe)
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MAGA's Tangerine Demon has sleep-walked us into another war for the Oil Barons. This is the lunatic that thinks he deserves the Peace Prize. 🤦♂️
At least 7 explosions and low-flying aircraft are heard in Venezuela's Caracas
"At least seven explosions and low-flying aircraft are heard in Venezuela’s capital, Caracas. It was not immediately clear what was behind the explosions."
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#SimonTisdall in #TheGuardian
"#Trump’s unprovoked resort to violence [in #Venezuela] is not so very different from #Putin’s actions in invading #Ukraine. Both have illegally attacked a neighbouring country and sought to remove its leadership. For #China’s #XiJinping [wrt] #Taiwan, Trump has just set a precedent he may one day gladly follow.
It’s high time #Starmer and other #European leaders publicly recognise him for what he is–a global warmaker, a universal menace."
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Today an illegal coup in Venezuela, but where next? Donald Trump talks peace but he is a man of war
The world will be anxious, and rightly so. For a man so bent on a peace prize, Trump appears to revel in conflict, writes Simon TisdallSimon Tisdall (The Guardian)
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Psst: this poll still has 8 hours to go! Have you voted yet?
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Comprendre la logique de l’économie fasciste
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A musician in Canada has had a concert cancelled after he was falsely identified as a sex offender by a Google AI overview.Max Pilley (NME)
The United States is a gangster state at home and a rogue state abroad
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US captured Maduro in Venezuela – if Trump did the same to Putin and Khamenei, I’d give him the Nobel Peace Prize
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in reply to witchescauldron • • •One thing that most contemporary models of power fail to address is the fact that the ruling class is significantly more powerful today than it was in the 1800s. Globally, in Western Nations the state can make up to 60% of GDP in the bureaucratic state has much tighter control over everyone's day-to-day lives then was possible for most of History.
Through that lens, it becomes pretty self-evident that the capitalist class is a pawn of the ruling class, a lot of the calls to focus exclusively on the capitalist class and get more power to the ruling class are self-evidently futile. Historically speaking, we have examples like imperial China, where the state didn't like the power of the merchants, and so pounded down that class. The result was never more itarian society, it was a more stratified one with those aligned with the state becoming more powerful and everyone else becoming less.
In that sense, what we see in Western societies today is in some ways extremely similar to what we saw in imperial China: individuals end up paying outrageous amounts of resources to trai
... show moreOne thing that most contemporary models of power fail to address is the fact that the ruling class is significantly more powerful today than it was in the 1800s. Globally, in Western Nations the state can make up to 60% of GDP in the bureaucratic state has much tighter control over everyone's day-to-day lives then was possible for most of History.
Through that lens, it becomes pretty self-evident that the capitalist class is a pawn of the ruling class, a lot of the calls to focus exclusively on the capitalist class and get more power to the ruling class are self-evidently futile. Historically speaking, we have examples like imperial China, where the state didn't like the power of the merchants, and so pounded down that class. The result was never more itarian society, it was a more stratified one with those aligned with the state becoming more powerful and everyone else becoming less.
In that sense, what we see in Western societies today is in some ways extremely similar to what we saw in imperial China: individuals end up paying outrageous amounts of resources to train their children hoping that they would get picked as mandarins, bureaucrats who lived as part of the state, because once they became those powerful bureaucrats, their entire families could be taken care of through corruption.
Even in allegedly Democratic states, what we see is a sort of ouroboros of the powerful. The state spends money on its allies, a chunk of that money gets returned to the powerful within the state who then use that money to enrich themselves but more importantly to entrench their own power. Meanwhile some working class schlub is paying 50% of his last dollar to the state, while the state still racks up massive debt nobody intends to pay back in this generation. Those systems don't go away, and they don't even necessarily get diverted when someone else wins an election.
Through this lens, left versus right becomes irrelevant because what really matters is the divide between the powerful and the powerless. It ultimately doesn't matter if you are trying to give power to the mega Rich who benefit from removing agency from the individuals under them, or the mega powerful who benefit from removing agency from the individuals under them, what actually makes the world better is giving power to individuals who would not otherwise have power.
This ends up aligning a lot with the principles of things like the fediverse or other forms of social web, because these technologies take power away from governments or mega corporations and puts a very limited amount of power into the hands of individuals who have sovereignty over themselves in a way that they wouldn't if regulated by either the state or by the megacorporations. That's also where someone like me is deeply skeptical of attempts to centralize control of the fediverse. We take something that is distributed and where each man is in control of his own micronation, and risk producing a new caste of mandarins who exercised disproportionate control over the powerless.