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#TheTrump Administration just pulled off the impossible, extracting Nicolas #Maduro from #Venezuela without taking ANY loss of any kind, we are seeing two big reactions. #Democrats and the Legacy Media are big time mad! They’re coming out in force to defend a murderous, narco-terrorist dictator, which is pretty hilarious. Celebrations ERUPT In Venezuela As Millions Fly American Flags On The Streets! MSM Lied To You Again! 100percentfedup.com/celebratio…
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And why is it just the cup? No one cares about the holy plate? The holy table? The holy olive oil bottle? (they had olive oil to go on the bread I'd think)
I mean in a way all of those things could also be relics. And maybe they are?
Many things are relics. Like famous paintings and limited edition sneaker drops.
An identical replacement with a different history is still "fake."
I don't know about any energy. But I think knowing the original is gone, or that someone else has it, or it's destroyed makes me sad. It's a little stab of grief because I don't think anyone else would understand why these little bits of junk matter.
And maybe they don't understand and that's also sad.
Having the same object represents a struggle to keep an object ... it represents people caring.
so this ends up being kind of a tricky and subtle psychology that i've gotten to practice firsthand
i grew up playing a lot of DOS/PC games as a kid. i owned a dozen of them, all bought with summer jobs and allowance money from ages 12-17
in my late teens, i got rid of a bunch of them. tossed some, sold others.
in my late 20s, i became intensely sentimental about that dozen games i owned as a kid. i deeply regretted getting rid of them, and spent the next 10+ years tracking down copies of each game.
now here's the interesting part: common sense is that these aren't really "my" games that i grew up with. they don't have my teacup stain on the cover, the same kidscrawl on the back of the manual, or the dozen of other details that made them "mine". and for a long time that was true - they were just anonymous copies of the same game that i bought from someone else
and then another ten years passed. i could no longer remember whether or not these were my "real" copies from when i was a kid, or ebay replacements i had bought decades later. as soon as they entered that grey zone, they suddenly became mine again.
i've seen the same thing happen with books and cd's and old electronics. they don't possess souls or magic or spirits. they're ultimately things that become the foci of memories, but possess nothing inherently.
sure, this has limits - some things can't have copies like a parent's ashes - but i suspect most people's memories are for surprisingly commonplace (and not-unique) things.
In fact I take the radical position that the more people repair and replace part of the ship... the MORE it's "The Ship of Theseus" because of that investment of time and of defining what it is.
If it were buried in the sand and perfectly preserved by forgotten? Then it might just be "a ship" with no name.
"Trump announces that U.S. forces have carried out “a large scale strike against Venezuela” overnight and have captured (kidnapped) President Nicolás Maduro and his wife and flown them out of the country."
Congressional approval? The regime couldn't care less.
News conference today at 11 a.m. by dear leader from Mar-a-Lago, congratulating himself for the "glorious war" for "peace" on earth, in the new year. 🚁 💥 Live updates at cnn.com/world/live-news/venezu…
Republican leaders are on board and ready with some 'Jiggery-Pokery' nonsense to justify the "kinetic action" in Venezuela, calling it an act of self-defense.
The NYT has its faults, many of them, but its editorial board has been consistent in calling out the lawlessness of this White House.
"We will hold out hope that the current crisis will end less badly than we expect. We fear that the result of Mr. Trump’s adventurism is increased suffering for Venezuelans, rising regional instability and lasting damage for America’s interests around the world. We know that Mr. Trump’s warmongering violates the law."
yes you can, how many awards do you need to give out before you realize the reality of intellectual analysis the average person can comprehend? They took the jab for a donut bro. Enjoy every day you get, we are in for one wild ride ahead.
For all the folks wringing their hands in fake moral outrage over Pres. Trump’s action on Maduro, you have ZERO understanding of the geopolitical significance this action for not just Venezuela but for Western Civilization..
lol, lmao. Okay I’m going to explain this hack because it’s pretty clever. Non-technical people should know that this is a fun thing that a user created and there’s nothing wrong with it per se, but it’s not exactly standard RE: bsky.app/profile/did:plc:hrxxv…
Sooo it’s combining two different systems: feeds and labelers. Feeds let people make their own algorithms. Labelers let people do their own personal moderation
The creator of this needed a way for you to tell their feed, privately, when you want to follow a user Bluesky doesn’t let you communicate with a feed quite like that, but it DOES let you send reports to labelers privately
So they set up a labeler so that you “report” the user you want to follow. The “labeler” treats the report like a “follow” and then shares that with the feed. So then, when you visit the feed, it shows the posts of people you “reported”
Plantar Fasciitis pain is currently eating up the pie chart of my attentional resources, but it would take too many attentional resources to quantify the effect.
Take-away from DT’s remarks; *”display of American military might” *he has difficulty reading, and after he extemporizes, finding where he left off on the page *the US will run VEN” until a transition to someone in lockstep with the US is installed *no concern whatsoever for the legality of an internat’l kidnapping nor for an invasion w/o Congressional approval (meaning WH legal has so advised DT) *hence (or maybe just generally) no concern for the US again playing بلطجي العالم
A new trial of Syrian war crimes suspects has opened in Koblenz, Germany. It's the first since the fall of Bashar al-Assad, and the first ever to charge starvation as a war crime.
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Trump’s assault on Venezuela has reignited questions over the real motive behind the escalation, as US lawmakers point to regime change and Caracas’ vast oil wealth, exposing how energy, power, and ge...
A country that ignores another country's sovereignty could find its own sovereignty ignored someday.*
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*(Just sayin—seems inevitable when there are no regards for rules, norms, or laws. The bully country's major weaponry might delay this for a time, but it seems that country will eventually be bullied back.)
What's he gonna do— *force* U.S. companies to invest in Venezuelan oil infrastructure?
Also, has he heard of supply and demand?
Furthermore, the article mentions that trump said "the U.S. would keep some of the proceeds (the US oil companies make) 'in the form of reimbursement for the damages caused us by that country.'"
Does anyone else feel *really* uneasy about what is happening (on principle, such as for the reasons I've mentioned), regardless of your feelings about Maduro?
@_L1vY_ The sovereignty of nations is purely decorative, there's no such thing as rules-based international order, and the law is whatever the fuck some rich assholes make up on any given day.
Trump said that past Venezuelan governments "stole our oil" (presumably Venezuela's nationalizing of its oil industry, making US companies less privy to it).
So he feels the oil belongs to the US, I guess— US oil companies & the US government who has the power to take it.
This is NOT about narco-terrorism. Let's remember that #trump recently pardoned the former leader of Honduras who was convicted by a jury after a three-week trial.
Heck, yes! I haven’t watched Trump for a lonnng time, but I watched about 15 minutes today & found his weakened mental acuity really alarming — so who is pulling the strings on this illegal action? Raiding a sovereign country & kidnapping a president (even that one) WITHOUT even the Gang of 8’s knowledge solidifies 47’s title as dictator, as far as I’m concerned. There’s no law he respects, no motive but greed, no awareness of the value of anyone on this planet but himself. That’s the scary part for me, my family, and everyone else at his mercy — and we have no champions in SCOTUS or Congress. 😱
How many “Oopsies!” and do-overs did we read about during the DOGE debacle? They undid almost as much as they did-did. They’re even now rehiring through the front door as they’re laying off others through the rear door — not to mention the many, many lawsuits the gov’t has lost due to errors and sheer incompetency (and illegal acts).
The DC clusterfuck will now extend to the rest of the hemisphere.
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Good night kings, God bless America 
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