what are you saying with the garf?

That its pure projection.

Crack open the first chapter of "Carry" by Toni Jensen (CW: Physical and Sexual violence, among other shit) and you get an eyeful of the very normal behaviors that happen in oil fields and other extractive industries across the US and the impact they have on locals. Migrant communities that lack permanent or elastic social services routinely develop problems of crime, disease, drug-trafficking, sex-trafficking, and every other vice. When locals are bold enough to crack down, they're vilified by state and national leaders as "nanny staters" and chastised for being unfriendly to local businesses. More often, they exist to facilitate the deprecation.

I dont get it, this just seems like a venezuela L

During the cold war, the anticommunist ideological framework could transform any data about existing communist societies into hostile evidence. ... A scarcity of consumer goods demonstrated the failure of the economic system; an improvement in consumer supplies meant only that the leaders were attempting to placate a restive population and so maintain a firmer hold over them. ... What we are dealing with is a nonfalsifiable orthodoxy, so assiduously marketed by the ruling interests that it affected people across the entire political spectrum.

• Michael Parenti

If Venezuela wants to develop their domestic mineral assets, they're Taking Ls by creating mining camps. And if they don't develop their domestic mineral assets, then they're Taking Ls with bad economic policy that's impoverishing their people.