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[–] RedWizard@news.abolish.capital 2 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

It really breaks people's brains to disconnect morality from the law. I'm sometimes at a loss for words when talking to people about the law and just how much of a fabrication it is.

Graham Planter said that a bill failed that would have stopped this from happening. That's not how laws work. They don't stop anything. It's the threats that matter, and who is going to threaten the POTUS? No one apparently.

[–] RedWizard@news.abolish.capital 2 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

They would just say no, he can't. They don't recognize him as the actual president of Venezuela.

Every 20 years there's a new batch of ignorant 20 year olds fresh off the US education system with only a handful of elections under their belts. You don't have to change the story all that often if you never teach history to the kids.

 

cross-posted from: https://news.abolish.capital/post/17280

On Lemmy, your default language is set in your profile. You might have set your language to "English" at some point, and in doing so were not able to comment on threads here, since the only language the comms allowed was "undetermined" which is the default language for all comms and accounts (to my understanding).

Sorry about that!

 

cross-posted from: https://news.abolish.capital/post/17269

Venezuelan journalist Andreína Chávez Alava reports from Caracas after U.S. strikes and the kidnapping of President Maduro, describing how communities are coming together, listening to authorities, and preparing to “resist in the streets” while showing solidarity. She calls the attack “an illegal U.S. bombing against a civilian population” and a clear attempt at regime change, exposing Washington’s goal to control Venezuela’s political life and oil resources. Chávez warns this is just the beginning of a broader U.S. campaign in Latin America, calling it “another Monroe Doctrine” and pledging to “continue denouncing by every means necessary” the assault on Venezuela. #breakthroughnews


From BreakThrough News via This RSS Feed.

 

cross-posted from: https://news.abolish.capital/post/17070

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[–] RedWizard@news.abolish.capital 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

They all labeled the action illegal and a violation of the Constitution, as it lacked legislative permission.

This doesn't mean they are against the action. Sanders said the same thing about Yugoslavia, then voted yes on NATOs bombing campaign that attacked hospitals, schools, and other non military targets.

They want to give their consent to the bloodshed.

Schatz is the only statement that makes his position clear.

Jim McGovern is stating the obvious, that this administration has done nothing to manufacture consent for these actions. Not that they can't be justified, but that Trump hasn't yet justified it.

"Trump’s war against Venezuela is illegal and endangers American military personnel. ... the Constitution requires congressional approval for any military action, and Trump neither sought nor has it."

Only Congress is allowed to endanger "American military personnel". Let's be clear here this action endangers everyone. It specifically endangers Venezuelans. The blowback as a result of this action and the likely continued actions to come, will endanger us, the American working class.

Now watch as a justification is reverse engineered in real time.

Disgusting. My heart goes out to all of Venezuela. Their revolution endured the loss of Chavez, may it continue to endure today.

You love to see it folks!

[–] RedWizard@news.abolish.capital 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

This is imperialism folks. Let's take a look at Nigeria's exports:

Ah, petroleum. How is that managed in Nigeria?

Ah I see, a state-owned oil company that is the only entity licensed to operate in the countries petroleum industry.

But sure, "Christian Genocide". That must be it. Obviously, its not. Instead of taking the soft rout through the IMF, imposing austerity and liberalization policies on the country via development loans, they're taking the hard rout of simply blowing the country up until it destabilizes.

Who is the pot and who is the kettle in your view?

[–] RedWizard@news.abolish.capital 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Amazing how some things still ring true. Especially that last quote. The parallels between Trump, Nixon, and even Reagan are undeniable.

including the Radical Left Scum

Hey it's me! I'm in this tweet!

[–] RedWizard@news.abolish.capital 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Yeah that last paragraph you highlighted is wild by western standards. That's what needs to be done though!

[–] RedWizard@news.abolish.capital 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I didn't say they were all good hedge funds.

 

cross-posted from: https://news.abolish.capital/post/15139

Hey ya'll!

So I've made a change to the posting procedure of the PravdaRSS bot. Instead of checking the list of feeds every few minutes, the bot now checks every hour. It will then queue those posts in its DB and post them over the course of the next hour.

Instead of getting 16 posts all created nearly instantly, you'll see them spread out across the hour. One post every 4ish minutes, instead of 16 posts in less than a minute.

I made this change based on feedback. Because of how it posted previously, some people would experience a wall of posts in their feed, pushing out other posts. This should ensure that news stories are more evenly distributed throughout the hour, and thus not taking up nearly an entire page in the feed.

I can always adjust the timer, make it pull every 2 hours for example, but every hour seemed like a good starting point.

Other updates: I've also implemented a proper user-agent for the system, which should result in fewer publications rejecting the bots attempts to check their feds.

Anyway, hope you all have a great holiday season and a great new year!

 

Sorry for the disruption of service! To keep the details vague, the service that manages the feeds and makes the posts will be offline for an undetermined amount of time. Shouldn't be longer than a few hours. I'll make another post when it is back online.

 

cross-posted from: https://news.abolish.capital/post/12444

I pushed an update tonight that will start filling out the the post body with the full article text on many more feeds.

The next goal after this is to handle feeds that do not provide full text and pull them straight from the publication URL. I'll have to be careful to not be to aggressive when doing that task to avoid getting placed on a black list.

 

I pushed an update tonight that will start filling out the the post body with the full article text on many more feeds.

The next goal after this is to handle feeds that do not provide full text and pull them straight from the publication URL. I'll have to be careful to not be to aggressive when doing that task to avoid getting placed on a black list.

 

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I've added !videos@news.abolish.capital for YouTube feeds with a few YouTube channels added.

You can see what was added here: https://codeberg.org/Abolish-Capital/news.abolish.capital.json

Later new heads!

 

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