In the 40s some German 23 year old 'kid' stationed in Italy was also under pressure to tie prisoners together two by two, take them to the edge of the river and shoot one in the head so they'd both sink and save the army some bullets. Disobedience was also not an option. Does he get a free pass too?

the administration wants to frame this (bizarrely) as law enforcement. but if law enforcement conducted a raid for a suspect and killed 40 people, including an unknown number of unarmed civilians, it would be treated as a clear disaster like Waco.

As Trump drags us into an Iraq-style war in Venezuela, 312 members of the House — including 115 Democrats — just voted to authorize over $900 billion in military spending.

anyway PSY was right

Five year olds are called young women but 23yo special forces guys who kidnap presidents get called kids.

“He was a dictator” fat nazis in plate carriers abduct your neighbors from the parking lot of target and send them to gulags.

Trump now literally plagiarizing from the neocon playbook on Iraq:

Protest at White House ✊ ✊🏽 ✊🏻 ✊🏾 ✊🏿

like, read an american account of the battle of fallujah, which noted, offhandedly, as if an unimportant detail, that the americans only let fighting-age men evacuate the city of accompanied by family. which is to say, if you were an unmarried man you were designated a combatant in advance.

It's pouring rain in Downtown Los Angeles but protesters are arriving at Pershing Square for a protest against the attack on Venezuela.

some thoughts on all of this madness from earlier in the morning youtu.be/-yUi-0vNlDA

the US military hasn't executed anyone for insubordination / desertion since 1945, like just say no, pussy

so are we still supposed to expect the military is full of good people who will disobey illegal and immoral orders or are they little guys who are under pressure to commit war crimes they can’t resist? sorry i’ve just been getting mixed messages on this from liberals for the past year, and always,

There’s no honor in following illegal orders. You don’t deserve the “thank you for your service.” You aren’t protecting our freedoms, you’re undermining them

Hey, captain, catch!

Democrats would lose an arm-wrestling contest with a five year old

A reminder that gallows humour is for those with their necks in the noose to make, not us watching trying to be smugly dark and edgy.

Anti-war march in NYC, organized overnight. Happening right now, 8th Ave. People care.

One month ago Mark Kelly voted to supply $900 billion to the Trump regime's war machine in exchange for segregation laws for trans people.

I’m at Times Square, where an emergency “No War On Venezuela” protest just took to the street. Easily a thousand people here in real-feel 20°F weather. “No more coups, no more wars, Venezuela’s not yours!” “No boots on the ground no bombs in the air, U.S. out of everywhere!”

Everybody is 12 Theory means the Nuremberg Defense has devolved to being the "I'm a Smol Bean" Defense.

Unfortunately, "get arrested" was that kid's job. It sucks! That kid should have had better options! But the correct thing to have done was "get arrested".

E daqui a 20 anos Hollywood vai produzir um filme contando como foi tão difícil para esses soldados agirem contra a lei do próprio país "in the line of duty" e o quanto eles ficaram tristinhos invadindo um país e matando civis no processo 😭

Dígale que se mate y ya

Chavez in 2009, while being labelled as paranoid, outlines exactly what is happening today.

Kamala and Biden ran on saying that Trump loved Maduro, and that they could be trusted to stop Maduro but Trump couldn't. Dems keep running to the right of monstrosity then acting surprised when people don't vote for them. And their defenders just pretend they never said that shit.

These kids in the military will gleefully mow us down and say they were following orders.

So because you and a bunch of troops are spinless stupid morons raised by bad parents, a whole bunch of Iraqis died. Take that to your grave and plead your case before Satan.

"Either do your job or get arrested" Every trans person is braver than you and your son you spineless little bitch

He could have shot himself or his officer. Sorry, I do not give a fuck about how much pressure is on your death squad sons.

venezuelans about to find out via truth social post that their state funded health care system is being replaced by a health savings account with 150 dollars in it

Chairman JCOS: “Months of planning…” soooo not an imminent threat justifying self-defense

Clinton appointee Judge Alvin Hellerstein has Maduro’s case. Last spring, he barred the Trump admin from removing Venezuelans from the US under the Alien Enemies Act, which he said had been applied unlawfully “These people are being thrown out of the country because of tattoos”

fox news is framing this as liberation for venezuela. they’re showing people in florida celebrating and thanking trump.

looks like someone is about to win the “fell for it again” award

You people are so racist and stupid that the only cure is self-immolation.

This is not true! Most soldiers come from now established military families! The troops are effectively a military caste and it has *very little* to do with a lack of economic mobility.

Spit on service members in the streets and call them baby killers.

The Democrats helped shut down the government and showed you can exercise some real power in the minority. Then they gave it away for nothing rather than extracting concessions. Americans who demand nothing of their elected leaders are some of the most pathetic people in the country.

He's mad she won the Nobel Peace Prize and he didn't. That's it. That's what it's all about. Best part is she idiotically and sycophantically dedicated her prize to him and he still won't back her and prefers to publicly denigrate on a day like today.

The US Senate confirmed this man 99-0.

I don’t love you and I’m not holding your hand: call your Senator and tell them that the must shut down the government on January 30th until this ends, a thing that Democrats have the hard power to do at this very moment.

Trump just said they aren’t talking to Machado cause she doesn’t have the support of the people lmao

You know what? Many Americans have to work weekends. I have to work weekends. These stupid assholes can come in and do their jobs for a weekend and then fuck off to their 270 days of annual vacation.

Thinking about Jean-Bertrand Aristide in Haiti this morning as the news comes in about Venezuela. The word “empire” is not an exaggeration. This is how it regularly defines itself.

Question: how long do you expect the US to control Venezuela and when will there be elections? Trump: We have to rebuild the oil infrastructure first

longtime imperialist collaborator vassal state government #1 handing the united states carte blanche to do whatever it wants with its own institutions lmaoooo

“we don’t need congress for this mission” whoop there it is.