i don't think this and Russia's war in Ukraine have very many similarities.

seeing the amount of disruption after not even 3 weeks into it being closed, it being closed for 6 months may actually be an existential threat to the US.

this was a very logical move by her. the sanctions were still very new (started by Obama in 2015-16), and Trump seemed very bribe-able right then. it would have been a dereliction of her duty to the people of Venezuela to not give it a shot. if it had worked, it would have prevented a lot of pain for Venezuelans, and likely much less of the social instability that Maduro is getting blamed for.

also, archive link

and the time necessary to dig into a bunch of dubious claims by a politician who is likely lying to you is beyond what's reasonable for a person working a full-time job with a family or anything vaguely resembling a social life

this is how you get no-call/no-shows

clearly foreign adversaries are trying to sap and impurify our precious bodily fluids

infosec dot exchange. they gleefully welcomed feds on there

i don't consider anti-communist NATO "leftists" to be on the left. if you are palling around with Vaush, it's pretty clear what's up.

one of those "why i left the left" people. like, clearly was just riding the wave of popular sentiment from Bernie running, and now pushing some very reactionary shit

the coolest part of the ruling is that congress gets to decide what "insurrection" means re: the 14th amendment. get ready for a whole lot of red baiting targeting the most centrist of dems so that they can be "credibly accused" of insurrection.

you come onto the Posters Instance, and complain about people posting about one of the most postable topics in existence

sometimes it's difficult to know where to look for good material on a subject, especially as search engines get inundated with seo approved llm generated garbage. discussions are a great way to spread around well written arguments and relate them to current topics, and i think we owe it to each other to share the good material we find.