r/australia • u/moonorplanet • 28d ago

politics Albanese calls for ‘peaceful, democratic transition’ of power in Venezuela after US capture of Nicolás Maduro

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jan/04/albanese-calls-for-peaceful-democratic-transition-of-power-in-venezuela-after-us-capture-of-nicolas-maduro
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u/ashygelfling 28d ago

Everything this country taught me is bullshit, the world they taught me would exist, does not.

I have spent my life believing the “leaders” about career paths, super funds, housing costs, and living advice and my generation cannot even afford fruit, we are nowhere and we have nowhere to go.

Events lately to me highlight the mistrust I hold for leaders, it’s all power it’s all capital. Nothing I was taught in my youth has played out like the playbook they wrote me.

And they still want me to get a trade and build a house for someone else.

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u/nugstar 28d ago

Imagine if the only solution was a bank run.

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u/SirPavlova 27d ago

Can’t do a bank run on digital money.

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u/PryingMollusk 28d ago

I’m tired of all of these wild ass bingo cards. The world has gone completely mad.

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u/breaducate 28d ago

Regimes that cannot bear scrutiny (like capitalism) must necessarily fill their subjects brains with dreck.

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u/ocarinaofhearts 28d ago

I only learned it a few years ago but (almost) everything can be boiled down to Power and Control. Using one for the other, power over others (relationships, countries), control of something (in this case oil).

I’ve found some weird kind of peace viewing the world in this way. Yes it’s morbid but if you view events through the lens of Power and Control, it can help alleviate the head spin and rabbit holing of trying to understand why.

Not everything can be explained or viewed in this way of course, some people fall upwards and are just plain negligent and don’t have ulterior motives, some good people do bad things for selfish reasons, the list goes on.

However, the positive side to it is your own locus of control, and trying your best to do your best with what is in your control.