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[–] 37 points 1 week ago (8 children)

Cool, so my gas prices are lower right?

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  • [–] 44 points 1 week ago

    Nope. It just means now trump has oil to sell, and the higher the price (say... matching European pricing) the more money he steals.

    Trump is a one trick pony - greed. Nothing he does is outside of that parameter.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 week ago (4 children)

    For about three minutes until it runs out. The US consumes something like 20 million barrels per day. This is a drop of piss in the ocean.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 week ago (3 children)

    I'm probably misremembering, but isn't Venezuelan oil really heavy shit, too?

    If that's the case, it's not like we can just put in our cars.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    Yeah, it's pretty dense compared to shale oil. But it's also what many refineries in the US were built to extract, given that hydrofracking is a relatively new process.

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  • [–] 33 points 1 week ago (5 children)

    On a positive note, making Venezuela a 51st state would mean DC and Puerto Rico would finally get a better shot.

    Simultaneously, it would tarnish the entire concept of statehood, introducing the specter of imperialism into it's definition.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    Agree on increasing the odds that Puerto Rico and DC have for statehood, but don't think it tips the balance.

    I'm not so sure that the entire concept of statehood would be tarnished though; Vermont, Texas, and Hawaii were all independent countries before they became states, and that's even before you start discussing whether North America was ruled by Native Americans before the Europeans and later Americans pushed them aside and declared their own sovereignty.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    Don't forget New Mexico. From Wikipedia:

    "Upon Mexican independence in 1821, New Mexico became an autonomous territory that saw an 1837 Rebellion against the central government, with increasing economic ties to the United States. After the Mexican–American War in 1848, the U.S. annexed New Mexico as part of the larger New Mexico Territory, which was central to U.S. westward expansion. New Mexico was a territory for 64 years before it was admitted to the Union as the 47th state on January 6, 1912."

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  • [–] 19 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    He conquered and invaded Venezuela and stole their oil. Not much outrage out there for that blatantly corrupt russia-like move. Is the world broken or are the billionaire-owned media companies that good?

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  • [–] 11 points 1 week ago*

    They started the year with this. Then we did dumb shit to Cuba, and he and elon were outted as pedophile fucks, so he started shit in iran.

    It's been 11 months of absolute shit and chaos since, and the fat fucks in the US news have not stopped kissing his ass.

    Nah theres no outrage for Venezuela, we can't stop and catch our breath, we're dumbstruck in shock as a unit over here as to why no one not one soul, can do anything to stop this awful mother fucker.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 week ago

    There's just such an overload of news that many people in the mainstream forget. People should also be outraged that Trump deployed the national guard in several states and that ICE murdered people in Minnesota and also still does but has gotten better at hiding it. When everything has become insanity it's hard to focus on everything that's going on

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  • [–] 18 points 1 week ago*

    LOL, 1M barrels. So, just over an hour's worth of oil? Assuming we can even refine it?

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  • [–] 15 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    What makes him think Venezuela would even vote for him if they were a state? Not to mention you're going to have a really hard time deporting all those illegal immigrants (brown people) once you make 32 million Venezuelans citizens.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    So that means Venezuelans will get USA citizenship right?... Right?

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  • [–] 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

    His idiot voters don't even realize that making Venezuela a state would give its people voting rights. They would need to understand the difference between state and a US territory to realize that. And for that they would need basic reasoning ability.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    Wait wait, I thought he wanted Greenland as the 51st state?

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  • [–] 9 points 1 week ago (5 children)

    Gosh. I hope Canada and Greenland don't get mad. I know both of them look forward to being (86☼47) - #51.

    I've heard they were both clamoring at the UN to be the number one draft pick for US position #51.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 week ago (4 children)

    Canada should be terrified of the US right now. Almost all of Alberta's oil is bitumen...the same crap Venezuela is having stolen from them right now. Alberta is next.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    I have very little doubt that the US is involved in pushing Alberta separatism propaganda for exactly this purpose.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago

    I don't know about terrified, but "prepared" comes to mind. Trump is working on behest of the Saudis as far as the oil thing goes.

    The Saudis have hired trump, and hence American "muscle". So yeah - be nervous and get prepared.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    He does realize that making Venezuela the 51st state would make all those brown people who don't speak English actual US citizens? I mean. Obviously he doesn't, but you know...

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  • [–] 9 points 1 week ago

    I didn't give him permission to make Venezuela a state

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  • [–] 8 points 1 week ago

    1 million barrels of thick sludge. Definitely just as easy to refine as middle eastern light crude.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 week ago

    Fuck this bullshit. Our system needs to spit him out and grind him into the ground and remove every trace of this asshole from society.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    Dude, nobody wants to be the 51st state of America.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 week ago*

    US spent 20 years demonizing the party and army in Charge of Venezuela. Kidnapping president, and providing enough bribery to VP to pass down to army, while opposing elections where their puppet opposition that even gave Trump their nobel peace prize. There never was any freedom ideology whatsoever. Only colonialism.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 week ago

    One million barrels of stolen oil.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 week ago

    What’s that? 10 mins of gas for east coast?

    Phhffffttt

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  • [–] 4 points 1 week ago

    Oh great, first we had to share a union with fascist states and now he wants to add a red-fascist state under duress? Fuck that, just sign their asses up for NATO and call it good.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 week ago

    Wowie wow wow!!

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  • [–] 3 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    Fun fact: the human body is made of 75% water. Except for Trump. He's made of 75% hot air.

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