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[–] dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com 67 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

Democratic leaders are calling the bombing and kidnapping wreckless acts, not illegal acts. Schumer has never said or even strongly wrote the word "illegal."

Democratic leadership is okay with this illegal war and will do everything it can to legitimize it. Schumer is aligned with trumps oil and imperialist goals

[–] Warl0k3@lemmy.world 19 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Under US law it's probably not illegal given the way trump has framed it, hence why they're not saying it was. It would be too easy to dismiss their criticism if they got such a basic technicality wrong. Side note but I don't know of a relevant international law or treaty preventing this situation either, prior to the orange jackass this wasn't something people considered a concern.

[–] madcaesar@lemmy.world 22 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This is the classic Trump playbook. He looks at shit people wouldn't think of doing since most people are decent human beings and then exploits it.

If he was a basketball coach he'd send his team out with baseball bats because technically there is no written out rule you can't bring in bats onto the court...

It's how he's manage to dismantle so much of our society and decorum.

He's just cancer in human form.

[–] Warl0k3@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

"Ain't no rules says a pedophile can't play basketball"

[–] sik0fewl@piefed.ca 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It only violates international law, which America is immune from.

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[–] FundMECFS@anarchist.nexus 36 points 2 months ago (11 children)

Who cares if he had the authority or not.

What matters is that the people of Venezuela did not consent to his imperialistic actions. Not whether he has authority to make imperialistic actions.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Who cares if he had the authority or not.

Democrats, mostly. If he'd just received permission in advance (a comically easy feat in this pro-war legislature) he could have straight up leveled Caracas and all we'd be reading in the news are "Why Venezuelans deserved it" Op-Eds.

What matters is that the people of Venezuela did not consent to his imperialistic actions.

I gotta disagree. They're already greeting us as liberators. I've received dozens of AI generated videos of Venezuelans clapping and cheering and waving "Give Trump The Nobel Peace Prize Now" banners over freeways full of cars painted like American flags.

[–] Deceptichum@quokk.au 6 points 2 months ago

It also ignores that he clearly did the authority to do it, by virtue of having done it and not being stopped.

Don’t go giving states the authority to do things, and they won’t have any authority to do things.

Authority doesn’t make an act correct.

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[–] Asfalttikyntaja@sopuli.xyz 23 points 2 months ago (12 children)
[–] Warl0k3@lemmy.world 51 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Here's the photographer's Flickr account, you can see the protest was in fact quite well attended.

[–] Deceptichum@quokk.au 3 points 2 months ago

Misread that as “passive”.

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[–] Earthman_Jim@lemmy.zip 9 points 2 months ago (4 children)
[–] Johnmannesca@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)
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[–] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

My uneducated guess:

"ANTIFA is designated as terrorists or something now but...this is an entirely different group and we ALSO are sick of your crap!" Lol

[–] ThunderQueen@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The funniest part is that labeling antifa a terrorist orgnaization is like labeling leaves the best purple. It isnt an organization or group. They know that though.

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[–] KonalaKoala@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

It could be Amphibians Fighting Authoritarianism.

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[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Russia invades Ukraine. USSA invades Venezuela. China invades Taiwan?

This is like the end of "The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly". It looks like the rule of law is losing bigly and the rule of force will be our future going forward unless it all gets burned to the ground in a nuclear frenzy. Fuck these deranged power brokers.

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[–] olenkoVD@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 months ago

It should just say "Trump bombed Venezuela", nothing else.

[–] Gorilladrums@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Can whatever this is even be called a war?

[–] solidheron@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago

Damn that's one scary toad-rrorist

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