Tinidril

Time based morality doesn’t make any sense to me

Sure it does. You just start the clock right after your last evil ancestor.

I'm aware. However, in the context of this conversation, I'd still rather be in an an American prison than an Israeli.

Is Canada worse than Israel too? Mexico? Brazil? The rest of South America? And what about Europe that sent all the colonists in the first place? "Worse than Israel" is a pretty damn big group then. It's a dumb way to argue however you slice it.

You must mean the Confederacy. We kicked their asses to end slavery.

You make it sound like America is somehow unique in that regard. All you're really saying is that it's big and was colonized late. The whole world is pretty much populated by the people on the winning side of genocides. Read more books my man.

Who did the Americans fight in that war?

They are the rightwing.

Tell us what a non-authoritarian leader of Venezuela would look like

Presumably they would look not-authoritarian, a description that doesn't fit Maduro at all.

It could well be that, in the face of US policy regarding Venezuela, only an Authoritarian could hold onto the country. That still doesn't make Maduro not an Authoritarian.

it seems to me that leftist leaders are always denounced as authoritarian by North American and European based NGOs and governments.

That's a fair observation but, again, that doesn't mean they are wrong when they say it about Maduro. Maduro is referred to as dictator by Human Rights Watch, the Organization of American States, and other human rights organizations, including some inside Venezuela.

Maduro is a dictator. It's largely the fault of the US that Venezuela has a dictator. If the US succeeds in ousting Maduro, it will almost certainly replace him with an even worse Dictator. All of that can be true with no contradictions.

But there are an estimated 100-400 billion stars in the Milky Way, some of which are hundreds of solar masses, not to mention the Accretion disks of black holes all kicking out radiation. That's gotta add up to something, even with the inverse-square law fall off. The galactic core has unfathomable levels of radiation and puts out its own galactic wind, and some stars have observable bow shocks with it.