Re:Venezuela's capital hit by explosions, smoke seen
by rdiddly on Saturday January 03, 2026 @01:58PM
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If it's fair game to do this in Venezuela, it's fair game here in the US.
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Re:Venezuela's capital hit by explosions, smoke seen
by petcat on Saturday January 03, 2026 @01:59PM
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That's not really how power works
Re:Venezuela's capital hit by explosions, smoke seen
by rdiddly on Saturday January 03, 2026 @02:00PM
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Just sayin
Re:Venezuela's capital hit by explosions, smoke seen
by 1718627440 on Sunday January 04, 2026 @09:39AM
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If that is you actual view of society, than you reject the concept of law itself. Just because people are able to act against the law (and get away with it) doesn't make law obsolete. In fact if they wouldn't act against it, there would be no reason to have a law.
Re:Venezuela's capital hit by explosions, smoke seen
by terminalshort on Saturday January 03, 2026 @03:37PM
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There is no "fair game" in geopolitics
Re:Venezuela's capital hit by explosions, smoke seen
by rendang on Saturday January 03, 2026 @02:46PM
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If the US ever came under the rule of socialism or another kind of tyranny, I'd happily welcome any foreign power who came to overthrow them
Re:Venezuela's capital hit by explosions, smoke seen
by badosu on Saturday January 03, 2026 @03:37PM
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Isn't that the case though? Where's the separation of powers or the rule of law in the US?
To be clear, I'm not favoring any kind of such action, just holding the honesty of the statement.
Re:Venezuela's capital hit by explosions, smoke seen
by alluro2 on Saturday January 03, 2026 @04:34PM
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Socialism = tyranny? Wow. I guess you prefer the freedom of being bankrupted if you get injured, and getting taken by masked men from an unmarked van if you got some tan on your vacation, and then dropped to El Salvador.
Re:Venezuela's capital hit by explosions, smoke seen
by terminalshort on Saturday January 03, 2026 @06:10PM
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I would choose civil war over being ruled by socialist any it's not close.
Re:Venezuela's capital hit by explosions, smoke seen
by taveras on Saturday January 03, 2026 @06:35PM
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Would you elaborate on your definitions for “being ruled” and “socialist”?
Does that mean you would prefer violent rebellion over a United States president with social liberal public policies?
Would you have taken up arms under either of the Roosevelts?
Extremism and violence tend to go hand-in-hand.
Re:Venezuela's capital hit by explosions, smoke seen
by terminalshort on Saturday January 03, 2026 @06:53PM
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Did I say "social democrat" or did I say "socialist"?
Re:Venezuela's capital hit by explosions, smoke seen
by JumpinJack_Cash on Monday January 05, 2026 @11:28AM
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And to be fair nearly happened in July 2024 as the last item of a long list of incident involving U.S. Presidents starting from Lincoln all the way up to the July 2024 episode and of course the last successful hit being JFK in 1963 and the last successful injury being the one suffered by Ronald Reagan