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Yeah here's a photo of the French dissolving their empire lol

garbage country run by garbage people and I'm embarrassed to live here

What in the Gestapo is going on in Grand Rapids? Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.

what a lot of people don’t understand is that there is a good chance that the higher echelons of the fascist administration is majority staffed with anti-NATO groypers and christian nationalists. This is an additional positive to invading Greenland, not a negative.

I consider the military bureaucracy going along with this naked attempt to punish free speech another sign that the US military does not deserve the esteem they are held in by the US public.

Just to note, the man being quoted is apparently a serving Lieutenant Colonel in the US Army who works at the Pentagon. This kind of behavior being tolerated by the army isn't compatible with the "Thank you for your service"/"Support our troops" treatment the military has come to expect.

And a reminder that Venezuelans are people. I think Americans forget sometimes (and the administration doesnt care)

The presidential candidate of the united opposition, who the western world deems the duly elected president, is Edmundo González. He would be involved in discussions of a legitimate post-Chavismo government. María Corina Machado is a far-right activist. She wasn't elected and speaks for herself.

Again: I'm gonna remind folks to learn their Confederate and proto-Confederate history, and SPECIFICALLY on a pre-Civil War proto-KKK group known as the Knights of the Golden Circle and their plans for conquest (which at this point are almost a 1:1 match for TFG's) A mini-historical thread: 1/x

I‘m discontinuing my social media use for the foreseeable future and I want to explain why. I woke up in the new year to discover that some guy on here had saved photos I took on New Year’s Eve and used Grok to remove my clothes. I know this because he showed me.

I'm seeing lots of "It's not fair to expect the military not to obey orders" On Here, and fine - that's certainly a position you can take, albeit we hanged people at Nuremberg who used the same defense. But that's not compatible with a fawning, "Thank you for your service" attitude from the public.

Agree or disagree with the merits of the operation, you can't help but be in awe of the German military might described by Minister Goebbels. Chan. Hitler threatened Mościcki for months -- loudly and publicly. And yet German forces caught him and his cronies entirely OFF GUARD. Damn.

There’s no alternative to the military being part of checks and balances if we want a republic and not an elective dictatorship. If an officer is told to do something illegal, they must refuse. Otherwise, the president could order the other branches killed.

In case there’s any doubt what this Regime actually thinks about Venezuelans. They treat Venezuelan refugees who fled Maduro’s brutality like garbage, even sending them to El Salvador. Trump invaded Venezuela for his own power & his cronies’ wealth, not to help Venezuelans.

"If you don't want the military to follow illegal orders, don't give us illegal orders." Ah, the Nuremberg Defense. It's a classic.

Either the military is made up of citizen soldiers who are to be respected for their sacrifice and held responsible, or they are mindless killbots purely in place to follow the whims of the president. Either way, there must be a reckoning for the military.

We are not getting the outcome that Rubio promised or that he promised himself. We are getting the worst possible outcome for everyone except perhaps 4 members of the PSUV ruling clique and a handful of Trump cronies.

And there it is: the Trump administration has no plans to hold elections and will leave the current power structure in place.

An attempt by the administration to try to justify its military intervention in Venezuela by relying on the consent/invitation of other “legitimate” VZ authorities would be controversial to say the least. But they aren’t even trying that, with POTUS throwing the VZ opposition leader under the bus.

This is the best day for Putin and Xi in years. Today, the post-war international order was finally destroyed by its chief guarantor, the spheres of interest for the three autocratic great powers were confirmed, and the USA took over responsibility for a basket case client.

Thank god Chuck Schumer isn’t alive to see this.

I don't have much time for people trying to defend the honor of the US military right now, to be honest.

Local ICE-watchers have done more to protect Venezuelans from fascist thugs than the entire Democratic caucus over the last 12 months.

Every year I lower my opinion of America and my fellow Americans, and every year I discover I haven't lowered it enough.

Remind me to LOL at the people who assured me Bari wouldn't immediately turn CBS into state propaganda.

we did it! a perfectly structured democracy. it's got checks, it's got balances. this thing is made to last. there's only one weakness: bad guys. if somehow some bad guys who don't care about decorum got elected they could basically just tip the whole thing over. luckily such men are unelectable

I wish every oil worker the US sends to Venezuala to "fix" their oil industry a very [HOLY SHIT IS THAT REDACTED]

Real black pilled on the military. The oath means absolutely nothing at all, apparently. Happy to be praetorians, just as long as the check clears.

There's no plan. They kidnapped the head of state of a foreign government and they have no plan at all for what comes next.

Well this is the most JSOC thing to have JSOC'd in a while Add to the list of why the next Dem SECDEF's core qualification must be a commitment to rip out JSOC root and branch Anyone else remember what those dipshits were up to 6 years ago today? Unreformable presidential assassination crew

I’m starting to see special operations forces the way the Founders saw standing armies: having them & investing so much in them makes it entirely too tempting for a tyrant to use them

NYT: At least 40 people were killed in the US attack on Venezuela, including military personnel and civilians.

this is your mission. our pedophile president needs you to jump out of a helicopter to kidnap a head of state and his wife so some oil ceos can make a lot of money. we’ll be watching from a resort in florida that still serves wedge salad and checking how many retweets we get. good luck soldier

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

You ever think about how the Roman Senate kept meeting centuries into the reigns of emperors. Hanging out, shooting the shit, giving speeches, and play-acting that their positions of privilege remained positions of power.

"Madison." Come and try it, you little bitch.

"Don't you fuckers have a war you should be losing somewhere?"

The kidnapping of Maduro inaugurates a highly dangerous era of U.S. empire that for perhaps the first time in an era of mass media is not pretending to be anything other than a violent, extractive enterprise of domination.

I'm baffled by the idea that Nicolas Maduro was somehow load-bearing for the Venezuelan regime. The man was a bus driver. His real "strength" in the context of authoritarian rule was being ruthless. The idea that there's nobody else in the PSUV who's ruthless is infantile.

The Troops do not deserve the massive public blowjob they've been getting for the last 25 years. They're not better Americans than the rest of us.

the tactical success here - that they went in and got him and no troops died - is going to dramatically raise the bar on the shit they think they can get away with at home and abroad and that terrifies me

Jesus O'Bastard.

Europe is so fucking over dude. Trump is about to hand you guys to Putin on a silver platter and you're still groveling at his pedo feet and buying his pedo weapons. Congrats, losers.

I am begging you, as an American, to boycott the Olympics, boycott the World Cup and sanction us

Being an American feels like getting on a school bus and then your bus driver decides to do a drive by

Think about all the speeches Trump has made on military bases where the crowds are foaming at the mouth the entire time, then think about how many Good American Troops are just following orders tonight, then think about all the columnists who said that could never happen.

Americans need to understand that the US military will do anything that Trump tells them to do. Hoping for them to intervene on the side of democracy is a false hope, and a dangerous one.

Apparently there were strikes across Venezuela on military targets overnight in addition to Maduro's kidnapping.