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Donald Trump has reportedly ended all diplomatic outreach to Venezuela, instructing envoy Richard Grenell to cease all efforts as he grows frustrated with authoritarian President Nicolas Maduro's reluctance to relinquish power.

Trump is also frustrated that Maduro keeps rejecting any ties with drug cartels, The New York Times reported. Officials told the outlet that the administration has drawn up multiple military plans for an eventual escalation.

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[–] Paragone@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

So, militarily-enforced "regime-change" is going to happen in Venezuela, for Trump's regime's satisfaction.

But will militarily-enforced "regime-change" be tolerated when Trump proves "reluctant" to relinquish power, when he disallows the 2028 elections?

Of course not!

2-facedness is shameless, nowadays.

Too bad it's on humankind to do the enforcing-of-correction: the cost is going to be .. close to 99% of the human population, it looks like, throughout the rest of this century, given how bad the balance-of-power ( between corruption vs integrity ) is..

shrug

99% gone or 100% gone: those look to be the only actual possibilities, for next-century, now: corruption's eradicated integrity from sooo much of the world, that it really is the vast-majority position, now.

"Majority-rule" means integrity/justice cannot rule: the 2 "centers" are mutually-exclusive.

So long as herd-style majority-rule outranks integrity, then .. integrity has no right to rule.

Integrity's breaking corruption-majority from ruling, including oligarchy, dictatorship-backed-by-obedient-"votes", etc, would be minority-but-upright rule, which is .. prohibited, by majority-rule, isn't it?

shrug

Natural-selection'll decide, & Universe'll keep the accounting-books accurate.

Universe doesn't "need" our species to live: our assumed entitlement has no power over universe, & it never had any.

If we won't grow-up, then .. our world's remains will serve as a warning to others, of the consequences of indulging-in-toddler-mentality while having global-scale militaries.

Which is a socially-"valid" choice, obviously..

The herd-beasts who lie broken & dying at the bottom of a cliff they just stampeded off of .. their "going along with the herd's opinion" is every bit as valid as humankind's doing the same thing.

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[–] Doomsider@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Yeah it is pretty fucked up. I want to throw up everytime I hear a conservative say the President has a mandate.

Last time I checked no one voted for Miller, a white supremacist, to be running the country. Didn't we used to vet people to prevent this kind of shit.

What fucking mandate!? 90% of deported people don't have a violent record. It was all big fat fucking lie so we can all live out Miller's KKK fantasy.

Repeat after me, no one voted for this shit show. Stop blaming the victims and start messaging the fucking truth.