• tigermountain@lemmy.world
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    Fuck this bullshit. Our system needs to spit him out and grind him into the ground and remove every trace of this asshole from society.

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    On a positive note, making Venezuela a 51st state would mean DC and Puerto Rico would finally get a better shot.

    Simultaneously, it would tarnish the entire concept of statehood, introducing the specter of imperialism into it’s definition.

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      Agree on increasing the odds that Puerto Rico and DC have for statehood, but don’t think it tips the balance.

      I’m not so sure that the entire concept of statehood would be tarnished though; Vermont, Texas, and Hawaii were all independent countries before they became states, and that’s even before you start discussing whether North America was ruled by Native Americans before the Europeans and later Americans pushed them aside and declared their own sovereignty.

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        Don’t forget New Mexico. From Wikipedia:

        ā€œUpon Mexican independence in 1821, New Mexico became an autonomous territory that saw an 1837 Rebellion against the central government, with increasing economic ties to the United States. After the Mexican–American War in 1848, the U.S. annexed New Mexico as part of the larger New Mexico Territory, which was central to U.S. westward expansion. New Mexico was a territory for 64 years before it was admitted to the Union as the 47th state on January 6, 1912.ā€

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      Why do people keep discussing the nonsensical bullshit the Orange Turd spouts as if it was a serious concept?

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    Oh great, first we had to share a union with fascist states and now he wants to add a red-fascist state under duress? Fuck that, just sign their asses up for NATO and call it good.

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    1 million barrels of thick sludge. Definitely just as easy to refine as middle eastern light crude.

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    What makes him think Venezuela would even vote for him if they were a state? Not to mention you’re going to have a really hard time deporting all those illegal immigrants (brown people) once you make 32 million Venezuelans citizens.

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      Those 32 million would be permanently detained in a ICW facility working for corporations for 75 cents a hour.

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    He conquered and invaded Venezuela and stole their oil. Not much outrage out there for that blatantly corrupt russia-like move. Is the world broken or are the billionaire-owned media companies that good?

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      There’s just such an overload of news that many people in the mainstream forget. People should also be outraged that Trump deployed the national guard in several states and that ICE murdered people in Minnesota and also still does but has gotten better at hiding it. When everything has become insanity it’s hard to focus on everything that’s going on

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      They started the year with this. Then we did dumb shit to Cuba, and he and elon were outted as pedophile fucks, so he started shit in iran.

      It’s been 11 months of absolute shit and chaos since, and the fat fucks in the US news have not stopped kissing his ass.

      Nah theres no outrage for Venezuela, we can’t stop and catch our breath, we’re dumbstruck in shock as a unit over here as to why no one not one soul, can do anything to stop this awful mother fucker.