Re:Venezuela's capital hit by explosions, smoke seen
by calvinmorrison on Saturday January 03, 2026 @08:33PM
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> Close allies
"Allies" like "The West" who take our money, don't have the same beliefs or core values, no shared religion or culture? those "Allies"?
good riddance. I am sick of us propping up failed European states
Re:Venezuela's capital hit by explosions, smoke seen
by NeutralCrane on Sunday January 04, 2026 @01:37AM
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If you don’t think Europe shares our values, I’m curious who you think does?
Re:Venezuela's capital hit by explosions, smoke seen
by BrenBarn on Sunday January 04, 2026 @02:14AM
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Well, these days someone who just looked at the current situation and wasn't familiar with history might guess Russia, Hungary, Turkmenistan or even Venezuela.
Re:Venezuela's capital hit by explosions, smoke seen
by godelski on Sunday January 04, 2026 @04:27AM
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Well if you exclude the politicians then most people share values. I mean we got a bunch of Chinese people living in America and a bunch of Americans living in China. Same is true for a lot of countries and ones where the countries politically are at odds. Yet the people... not so much.
Re:Venezuela's capital hit by explosions, smoke seen
by BrenBarn on Sunday January 04, 2026 @03:58PM
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There's some truth to that, although there can be value differences that aren't so obvious. But it does seem to be the case that power structures select for those most likely to abuse them.
And things have already happened. Close allies have stopped sharing intelligence information with the US. Even if the US doesn't need the info the deterioration of those partnerships is concerning. Or maybe good from the perspective of weakening the global surveillance machine but that's a whole other issue.
Not to mention all the other things that happen that when you put together are more concerning.
People forget, there are no real "big things".
Instead there's just a bunch of little things that come together to look big. As programmers we should be intimately familiar with this. Though normally we're using it in the other direction: taking a big problem and determining all the little problems that come together to create the big one. Working in the assembly direction is much harder than the disassembly direction (far larger solution space) but the concept is still the same.
But I agree with you, this isn't the end. This is definitely a concerning inflection point.