THREAD: I'll fact-check all the viral misinformation about the US military operation in Venezuela in this thread This image, purporting to show the US military arresting Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, is AI-generated. According to Google's SynthID detector, it was created using Google AI.

Awesome I thought maybe I needed to eat something and wound up eating so much I’m having trouble breathing and my heart is skipping beats.

Trump could drop nukes on London and Chuck Schumer would still be on cspan saying “now’s the time to work with republicans on the rising cost of beef”

If impeachment was just a useless performative gesture the Dems would be doing it already. The fact that they aren’t is telling.

Impeach, convict, remove.

Don’t listen to word one from anyone in Congress who isn’t attempting impeachment right now.

“But I NEED ‘I was just obeying orders’ to be a valid legal and moral defense, or I’ll hang!”

'Hands off Venezuela' -betrays the speakers own helplessness, a sad little demand dressed up like tough talk, unpleasant implication of sexual violence, innocence and victimhood 'Death to America'! -actionable, solves problems for many countries at once, actually makes people upset

Ah, the Israeli Self-Defense Gambit

Lost my shit for a moment.

I’m sorry I’m not ok.

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.

you simply do not have to preface your statements about this with “but Maduro sucks” whether or not Maduro sucks is entirely beside the point - we invaded another country and grabbed their leader with no justification other than “we wanted to” don’t give them cover on it

So angry I feel sick.

please chip in to help my friend bell with essentials

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.

Bombing another country and kidnapping its leader would also be wrong with Congressional approval. The outrage, and call for impeachment, should be over the evil and illegal outcome not merely the failure to follow the prescribed process.

This all seems pretty unbecoming of a FIFA Peace Prize winner

You should be embarrassed to be a member of congress and issuing anything other than impeachment resolutions. You're in the model UN. They should give you legos and a propeller hat

Also you have to pay a fortune to be allowed to get off the bus.

The world must boycott the World Cup and the Olympics. It is both the only moral choice and will actually get the attention of these dead-eyed clout demons.

hey remember when a bunch of middle-aged drunk korean lawmakers climbed the locked gates to the national assembly to hold an emergency session after the president gave illegal orders to the military, all of which ended with said president being sentenced to prison

if you are talking today about how bad maduro was and were alive, at all, during the run-up to the iraq war you are potentially the dumbest person to ever live

The democrats are just 2003 era bush republicans and they love this illegal invasion and violence The Clinton dead Enders sure love illegal regime, change and illegal military actions as much as any bush arrow republican. Remember when Hillary supporters tried to claim the Debbie wasnt a fascist

The Venezuelan domestic opposition to Maduro is about to learn that Trump doesn’t give a fuck about what they want or about Venezuelan law and sovereignty and sees them as just more subhumanoids to purge.

I'm not saying this lightly but I'm watching Trump's speech and he clearly sounds like he's had a stroke.

Fucking cartoon villainy in real life.

We need to prosecute the US "free press" after this is over as much as Trump regime officials

none of this is legal. none of this is normal. feel free to tell anyone who says otherwise to fuck off.

The sheer cognitive dissonance it takes for USians to shriek "ACAB but the poor widdle imperial goons had no choice and respect the troops and and and" always belied such a rank, foul hypocrisy. Cops are bad because they hurt USians, who are people, but soldiers hurt foreigners, so who cares.

Anything but unilateral, militant opposition to our country invading a sovereign nation and capturing their head of state is unacceptable. Wringing your hands about any element of this makes you an imperial toadie. Get up, get organized. We have to stop this *now*

As a @liberalcurrents.com reader, I know the invasion of Venezuela may not just be about oil; it's also TV brain & gender.

imagine if you broke into your neighbour's house, beat them up and imprisoned them in your basement and the BBC's reaction was "ooh, risky"

We're pretty fucked for our lifetimes+ if everyone responsible for this admin's ghoulish anti-democratic crimes isn't prosecuted, preferably in international court. You can float by for a while with no teeth to your rule of law when there are social norms, but those are gone

While this is true, the reality is the President has is currently committing crimes even worse than what's in the Epstein files *right now in front of our very eyes*. I hate to say this, but the Epstein files (and its censorship) are moot, Trump has clearly moved on to bigger, darker criminality.

I do have a litmus test for my candidates now and it's that I want them to be genuinely pissed off, not pretend pissed off

no money for health care but unlimited money for death and destruction. how American.

What a time to know anything about the history of American imperialism and its consequences

It doesn’t matter what the fuck Maduro’s personal moral status is, this was illegal in every way possible. The Trumped State had NO right.

Reading the Maduro “indictment” I’m suddenly reminded of WHY Gitmo existed and Obama didn’t shut it down. It’s because you can’t KIDNAP people, based on “evidence” you violated rights to obtain, and bring them to trial in U.S. courts.

Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts. Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.

"Cognitive amplifier tools" son it's a Teddy Ruxpin that makes teenagers commit suicide.

ahehehehe I’m coughing blood

The median position needs to be "abolish ICE," the vanguard left should be more "burn down the DHS, salt the earth, restore protections & path to full citizenship for EVERYONE who suffered from these pricks' depradations (& is still, you know, around & WANT to be here).

One funny thing Elon Musk figured out about the media is if, instead of providing comment to reporters, you email back an automated reply saying "go fuck yourself," the reporters will just invent their own plausible-sounding defense of your conduct to balance their stories instead of punishing you

Elon Musk's accomplishments over the last year include starving thousands of people to death (and laughing about it) and creating Hitler AI that undresses children (and laughing about it). Is it time to do something about billionaires yet?

Absolutely incredible