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The head of a University in Belgium, who is also a key figure of the Green party, got caught using AI to write her opening speech of the year and not only that, it contained quotes misatrributed to famous people. Like, fake Einstein quotes and stuff. I just think that’s funny as fuck.
As a reminder, the US is not invincible and their Delta force has been defeated before.
- In 1993, the US attempted to carry out the same operation in Somalia as against Maduro, using the same unit, Delta Force, to arrest the Somali vice president. They were waiting for them. A Somali, using rocket launchers, managed to kill 17 members of the Delta Force, including two high-ranking American snipers, wounded 73, and shot down two Blackhawk helicopters. The mission failed. The bodies of American soldiers were dragged through the streets of the capital, Mogadishu, in a historic scandal for the United States.
Source -> https://www.trtworld.com/video/d1966827568b?subType=dailyVideo
Among all the Venezuela chaos some things lost focus, but that law the Brazilian Congress passed reducing the sentence for the coup plotters was vetoed yesterday. Notably it was vetoed on the anniversary of the coup attempt itself.
Congress in recess right now, but their reaction was rather lackluster which makes sense considering it’s been less than a week since a neighbor country was bombed by the USA. Although the Lula admin clearly wants the veto to be overruled for electoralist goals, I suspect the reaction to the Maduro abduction coupled with the extra time for popular organisation and the typical radicalization of discourse in electoral years might be enough for a popular success.
Maduro court case judge is 92 years old.
Dozens of oil tankers from BRICS members Brazil, Russia, China, India, plus Mexico and others are BREAKING THE AMERICAN BLOCKADE and loading Venezuelan oil.
Need more sources
As they should. Venezuela can decide for their own and countries doing business with them should be able to do so. US insanity should be kept to their own.
Whenever you hear about drug traffickers and drug cartels, never forget Gary Webb.
Rome Italy. A comrade there is doing great agitprop
If you have any liberal friend or family that still believes in the US as a “good” force, this book will dispel that fallacy.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2026/01/05/venezuelas-revolution-still-stands-debunking-trumps-psyop/
Basically boils down to:
1. US has very lethal force, that can do targeted attacks/kidnapping. 2. All out invasion is not feasible for USA (check Afg, Iraq, VIetnam) 3. It’s not a coup by his VP, that’s preposterous 4. Revolution still continues 5. Material support offered by Russia and China is not enough 6. Maduro called for diplomacy before, that’s still the official position 7. In the article they discuss the parallel between Russia and Germany during WW1, the same thing is emphasized in this article too.In 1918, Lenin and the Bolsheviks famously signed the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, ceding vast territories to imperialist Germany to save the infant Soviet Republic from annihilation. He was accused of selling out the revolution by the “left communists” in his party, but he compared such a compromise to that of giving up your wallet to an “armed bandit” in exchange for your life. This concession led to the breakup of the alliance with the Left Socialist-Revolutionaries who accused him of “treason.” The Left Socialist-Revolutionaries took up an armed struggle against the Bolshevik government, including an assassination attempt on Lenin as a “traitor to the revolution” that left him badly wounded in September 1918. Two months later, Germany surrendered and the Soviet Republic regained all the territory lost at Brest-Litovsk.
Venezuela facing the same situation. Retreat today to advance tomorrow. (Offer big shares of PSUV to US finance)
This kidnapping happened due to failed regime change, and US fragility to do ground invasion
As a tangent, I also heard USA tried to do naval blockade, but Venezuela circumvented it with the help of Russia. Blockade was not effective. (Again this is not mentioned in the article)
Have you ever wished that you could interact with a stranger whom you used to see somewhere online a lot.
https://web.archive.org/web/20160313063814im_/http://www.revleft.com/vb/member.php?u=15483
I remember reading and enjoying this guy’s posts, but I never got a chance to talk to him and I have no clue how anybody could contact him today — assuming that he remains alive, that is. I would have loved to have met him… sigh. I miss him. I hope that he is doing okay now, wherever he be.
Woke up, no snow. Went to get dressed for 15 minutes, 5cm of snow. Cool, I’ll take the bus. No bus, no info anywhere about of they operate or not. Cool, I’ll take the metro. No metro (underground hello???).
Good luck getting to work. Oh btw, if you are late it’s your fault. It was announced it would be snowing. Oh your bus didn’t appear without any warning? Oh well…
This country crumbles the second something unexpected happens.
I thought EU countries would have more robust worker protections in the case of public transport being disrupted.
Can you not legally call off work if you can’t arrive with public transportation?
How are you all doing?
fucking horrible but thank you for asking anyways
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As good as being a part of a Petite Bourgeois family can be. Not to mention that it is a Latino family, so the reaction is ten fold than normal.
I am also Latina.
Are they quite reactionary? I’m thinking it’s just the specific conditions of my family being Labor Aristocrats or Petite Bourgeoisie leading to such reaction, and not any sort of culture or ethnicity. It’s just so disappointing. They’re extremely individualist, and believe fully in the “American Dream”- to such an extent that, when I make a joke about it (i.e: “You gotta be asleep to believe it”, etc), they get provoked.
Not great, dear American comrade. It’s been a while since I’ve been so full of anger and helplessness towards the imperialist regime, it’s hard to keep in mind that not all of the people in the core are evil.
Anecdotally, here in the belly of the beast those I’ve spoken with have condemned the empire’s aggression. Opinions are split on Maduro, but this isn’t a repeat of US support for Iraq, it’s closer to popular public response to the post-Al Aqsa Flood view of Palestinian genocide. The historic unshakeable faith in the empire as a necessary evil is eroding rapidly, though of course there are countless fash supporting it still.
No, they aren’t.
In my trans group therapy session, everyone was condemning the kidnapping of Maduro and the United States.
Trump’s former Russia adviser says Russia offered US free rein in Venezuela in exchange for Ukraine
https://apnews.com/article/russia-venezuela-putin-maduro-fiona-hill-b26a94ceaba69c6ddd9193e2b31cb97f
Fascists aren’t reliable sources.
Ya it doesn’t make any sense, given they are now defending oil tankers and there was an assassination attempt on putin last December.
Hello, all!
Current situation with the Russian ships:
