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[–] 63 points 11 months ago

"You can't just say the airspace above Venezuela is closed"

"I didn't say it, I declared it"

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  • [–] 54 points 11 months ago

    ahh. so invasion it is.

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  • [–] 50 points 11 months ago (8 children)

    Trump, in a Truth Social post said: “To all Airlines, Pilots, Drug Dealers, and Human Traffickers, please consider THE AIRSPACE ABOVE AND SURROUNDING VENEZUELA TO BE CLOSED IN ITS ENTIRETY.”

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  • [–] 72 points 11 months ago (7 children)

    He said "consider". How thoughtful of him to start a WAR on social media AND without congressional approval.

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  • [–] 32 points 11 months ago (5 children)

    That's exactly how you'd expect him to do so.

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  • [–] 9 points 11 months ago (4 children)

    It's getting hard to predict the stupidity lately.

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  • [–] 11 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

    Unfortunately the US has allowed president's to effectively start wars since the 1973 War Powers Resolution Act. It allows any US president to engage in a conflict for up to 60 days without congressional approval.

    60 days is a long fucking time, once the military is involved congress knows it can't just pull out of a country. So we always stay

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  • [–] 36 points 11 months ago

    Nothing like a good ole fashion invasion of an oil producing country to lift holiday spirits /s

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  • [–] 35 points 11 months ago (7 children)

    they’re trying to build a prison

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  • [–] 21 points 11 months ago (5 children)

    FOR YOU AND ME TO LIVE IN!

    Fuuuuuuckkkk I miss SOAD, I miss those bands that really had a message back then, the songs that would rile you up, make you think, make you realize... RATM!

    What would be a modern version of this?

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  • [–] 17 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

    Protest music is still ongoing, if not stronger than ever. Hell, even Morello is politically active, look at his merch line

    Grandson - Brainrot

    Grandson - Self Immolation (honestly this whole album is bomb)

    Green Day - F Off (2025)

    Pussy Riot - Putin's Ashes (2023)

    Garbage - No Horses (2017)

    DJ Shadow + RTJ - Nobody Speak (2016) (bit older but just as relevant)

    Pussy Riot - Make America Great Again (2016)

    Art is and will forever be a form of protest

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago (2 children)
  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Man, if only the music itself could appeal to me. Their lyrics are ok.

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago

    I get that. It's not on the same level as RATM, the lyrics hit, but it's more of just talking shit than a full message. RATM brought you into a world. RTJ just kinda takes pot shots. It simply doesn't have quite the impact.

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  • [–] 33 points 11 months ago (9 children)

    Does he think that's up to him?

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  • [–] 35 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    Who is gonna stop him?

    Congress and SCOTUS will pat his head and tell him he is a good boy.

    No other country or combination of countries can stop the US military if it backs him. Honestly I don't see anything stopping him except the US military at this point and that would be extremely improbable.

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  • [–] 7 points 11 months ago (4 children)

    Airlines should just ignore Trump. The only way he can enforce this is by shooting down civilian airliners.

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago

    The entire airspace in the Caribbean in front of and above Caracas has been saturated with ratio interference radiation for days now. The few planes still flying are having trouble with comms, GPS and radio referenced navigation. There are other ways to enforce this crap without shooting rockets. It's a shit show.

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  • [–] 20 points 11 months ago

    You don't have jurisdiction over what another country does, Pedo. How are people not complaining more about what this rapist is doing here??? Attacking another country--- this is Russian shit. He thinks because his master can try to shit on its neighbors that he can too!

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  • [–] 14 points 11 months ago

    By surrounding, does he mean the entire planet?

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  • [–] 9 points 11 months ago

    So that's why he pusses Ukraine to give up land..

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  • [–] 6 points 11 months ago

    The usual "Trump says" garbage.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago

    Incoming class action lawsuit by airlines?

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    [–] 98 points 11 months ago (11 children)

    How can one country declare another country's airspace closed?

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  • [–] 5 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    What? Do you really think the US would enforce that by shooting down civilian airliners?

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    Yep. When you have two aircraft carriers in their airspace, you make the laws.

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  • [–] 14 points 11 months ago* (1 child)

    These aren't "laws". They're war crimes committed by a fascist regime.

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  • Sure, but realistically, we are unfortunately now in another “might makes right” geopolitical era without any ostensible veneer of equity or justice. Personally, I thought most of the developed world was moving past that, but it seems we are not, and that makes me sad.

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  • [–] 56 points 11 months ago* (6 children)

    He said it in a truth social post, which has all of the legal standing of a juicy fart

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  • [–] 15 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    No no no, he DECLARED it! That's as good as a law or something right?

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    [–] 55 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    Venezuela is a developing country, has the world's largest known oil reserves, and has been one of the world's leading exporters of oil.

    Well that explains it

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  • [–] 26 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Obvious imperialist warmongering is obvious.

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  • [–] 12 points 11 months ago*

    I see the bad moon arising….

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  • [–] 7 points 11 months ago (4 children)

    My aunties all live there. Are they all going to die in a hellfire attack?

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  • [–] 6 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    No. They might get shot by occupation forces instead.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    Given they are over 80 and blind I doubt that.

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    [–] 6 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    Are we really going to let this fucking lunatic lead the US into an insane war?

    Enough is enough. He's an existential threat not just to the US but to the entire world. He needs to be removed from office, immediately.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago

    Really working for that Nobel (Air) Peace Prize.

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    [–] 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

    Anything including a unnecessary war to distract from the Epstein files, the fact Trump's a rapist and pedophile, inflation, tariffs, unemployment, and recession.

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