USAmericans have shown a complete inability to rise up against their government.

You realize, surely, that they chose the government.

For them miserable fucks to vote for the Democrat candidate.

For China to stop being a fucking asshole and start being a world leader instead. They would be handed the title so easily if they just did the bare minimum of a powerful, civilized country.

1. Recognize Taiwan as an independent country and start actually advancing a rules based world.
2. Stop flooding the world with cheap state-subsidized junk.

Those things are literally all they would need to do. We would drop USA like a sack of rotten potatoes.

I’m hoping that Zed Editor will become worth the money some day. It’s currently a bit lagging compared to Cursor, unfortunately.

Okay, but seriously now. That would mean huge government spending cutbacks in every sector except defence in order to fund increased military spending. Are the canadians going to stomach that when the risk is still in the air?

We in Finland have faced Russia for decades, everybody knows in their heart that Russia is a huge threat, and still people whine about the austerity that is largely happening due to Russia.

Eh, seeing as the world completely failed to push back in any serious way when Putin annexed Crimea with a worse justification and a 100x weaker military, why exactly would we do this now?

Now, when/if does the same in Greenland soon enough, it’s gonna be a different story. Probably. At least NATO is going to be a bit fucked.

I’m not going to defend Trump, just saying that that’s exactly how it works when you’re at the top.

It all happened so easily that we cannot yet dismiss the idea that Venezuela’s military were told about it and they 100% allowed it to happen.

Sure, and Elon Musk is not a nazi

but she wasn’t going to cut all funding to israel

That is true, however if this is all the military action that happens there, the civilians are going to get off pretty easy on this one.

I know this is a big if at this point, but it is one possibility.

You’re really begging for downvotes with this comment

Fortunately I don’t give a fuck about downvotes. I don’t even see them so they might as well not exist.

how do you see this situation playing out?

Seems to me that Venezuela hasn’t reacted in any way to this. So unless that changes, it seems to me that they’re gonna just take whatever USA is going to do them.

The same would have happened to Ukraine if Russia had succeeded in what they tried to do there.

Trump admin tries to install Machado as US puppet government in Venezuela.

Why Machado? Genuine question here, I didn’t realize she was a serious option for this. I would think that the person who actually won the elections in 2024, Edmundo Gonzalez, would be the more realistic option.

I think it’s gonna be either

6. Venezuela finally gets rid of communism for good and is going to prosper.

or

7. Venezuela finally gets rid of communism, but it’s replaced with thieving oligarchies and they are not going to prosper.

If we look at history, 6 happened to most eastern bloc countries and China, 7 happened to some eastern bloc countries and Russia itself. I don’t know enough about Venezuela’s internal politics to tell which is more likely there.

Seems like a rather clean and successful operation, not unlike Russia’s similar attempt 4 years ago. Shows what a properly powerful military can do, I guess.

Maduro has supported Russia’s illegal conquest in Ukraine, and is an oppressive dictator, so I’m not shedding any tears for him.

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Lemmy folks? Ok buddy.

I’m sure it’s possible, but it’s also a total dice throw with nobody responsible watching over the result. And the potential consequences of unsafety are pretty bad.

If money can buy fame etc and he clearly has plenty, perhaps it’s a lack of caring about it. Would seem consistent with his behavior overall in the last couple of decades.

I would agree with that sentiment, but seems like peoples’ actual experiences are a bit different: https://jeena.net/lemmy-switch-to-piefed

Possibly a testament of how software architecture can be more important than any lower level technical decisions.

Insane toxic trolls are insane toxic trolls regardless of how virtuous you might think their “cause” is.

Wow. So brave.