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    9. Joementum2024 on

      I’m not sure if this makes sense nor am I sure that it holds up to scrutiny, but I feel like left-wing/socialist dictatorships tend to be more party-based when it comes to overall power/structure and are usually sturdier, while right-wing dictatorships tend to be more personalist and tend to collapse after the primary leader either steps down or dies in office

      Using several post-WW1 dictatorships as an example, that didn’t fall explicitly due to WW2:

      • The Soviet Union saw their socialist dictatorship continue for a very long time throughout multiple leaders. The same can be said for their satellite states in the Warsaw Pact, but many of them were forced to be socialist by the USSR and ultimately fell after Gorbachev decided to stop intervening in them

      • Vietnam and Cuba remain dictatorships as well, both with their power concentrated within their communist parties

      • The Chinese Communist Party has remained in power for long after Mao died, and there is zero sign of any weaknesses right now in China that may cause their downfall

      • The Francoist dictatorship in Spain pretty much ended right after Franco died, with the country transitioning to liberal democracy within several years

      • Portugal’s long-running right wing dictatorship fell to revolution a few years after Antonio Salazar died

      This is obviously not a fully 1:1 thing, but I think it’s how you get countries where their dictatoral powers are really moreso concentrated in their ruling parties than an individual person, which is how they tend to be more stable over a long period of time

      This brings me to Venezuela; if what winds up happening is Maduro’s VP taking power and the US doesn’t intervene further (itself a big question mark), I’d be surprised if anything substantial changes, since the PSUV seems rather entrenched at this point and can easily give power to somebody else and continue like normal afterwards. This is also what numerous other socialist dictatorships have done, and Venezuela themselves did the same thing from Chavez to Maduro

    10. BackgroundRich7614 on

      A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry is one of the best blogs to learn about history and how the world use to/does work. Very interesting and it worth a look.

    11. G3_aesthetics_rule on

      Marina Machado and the rest of the Venezuelan opposition have their work cut out for them: if they ever want a shot at freedom, they will have to achieve what is now surely near unachievable: make Delcy Rodriguez *dance*

    14. prince_ahlee on

      > Gov. Walz to likely drop out of 2026 MN governor’s race: report

      https://www.fox9.com/news/gov-walz-likely-drop-out-2026-mn-governors-race-report

      🙁

      Contrary to the sub’s opinions, I genuinely think he could’ve made a great candidate in 2028. He was very endearing and a great messenger, even if a bad debater. The right wing conspiracy machine laser focusing on you, including accusing you of murdering your closest friends, probably destroys you until it’s not even worth it to stand up anymore.

    15. Extreme_Rocks on

      [In which the NYT glazes itself for having called Trump and him picking up the phone.](https://archive.ph/JRZ6k) And of course, once again the media shows how it missed Trump by comparing it with their grudges from
      Biden for not picking up their phone calls:

      > Mr. Trump has been talking to reporters for decades, dating back to his time as a real estate developer in New York. And we know that he likes to be accessible — not just to reporters, but to lawmakers, staff, friends and foreign leaders. It is certainly a different style than that of his predecessors.

      > As a point of comparison, during my four years covering Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s presidency, I never had an interview with him. And I tried! In fact, while I was working on a book about the 2024 presidential election, I was stonewalled in my efforts to interview Mr. Biden after he left office. I eventually reached him directly on his cellphone, and after a short interview, his aides changed his phone number. I wrote about that experience in July of last year.

      !ping FAILING-NEW-YORK-TIMES

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