Comment on Explosions heard, low-flying aircraft seen over Venezuela's capital

• MisterFrog@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  If you want to make sure that happens, please show up tomorrow:

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  Let the PM and the cabinet know we won’t accept another US imperialist invasion.

  (That’s who has the power to send troops: pmc.gov.au/…/memorandum-government-conventions-ar…)

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  • guismo@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Just ignore the far right but jobs here.

    Where did you hear about that? Is there a link? I never see any info on planned protests on Lemmy, which is a shame. Is this usually Facebook?

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    • MisterFrog@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      The image in question I yoinked from here (not part of this group): …org.au/…/emergency-actions-hands-venezuela-stop-…

      I just found out about this via word of mouth (well, via chat groups).

      This came about very last minute, I don’t think any one group in particular organised this.

      aussie.zone does not seem to be somewhere for organising (communities need to be approved by the admin). Though haven’t actually tried to make a “activism”/“events” community, so it may well be approved.

      Else, I’ve just had a bit of a search on quokk.au:

      quokk.au/c/events

      Perhaps I’ll encourage people to post there.

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      • guismo@aussie.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Thanks for the links. There’s nothing where I live, but I expected. I’ll keep an eye on quokk.au, although I think that’s basically just one guy.

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  • Eyekaytee@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    standing up for a dictator? what the hell have they put in your drugs

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    • Gorgritch_umie_killa@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      This is not the way to stand up to authoritarianship. Australia has to keep out of this, even thoough it is damaging to do so, it undoubtedly is. There is no clean slate here for Aus. Unless all of south america stand up against US, there is nothing we can do.

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      • Eyekaytee@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Australia has to keep out of this

        I mean it looks like an entirely self contained war between the US and Venezuela that has nothing to do with us but Frog has put:

        Let the PM and the cabinet know we won’t accept another US imperialist invasion.

        Fuck that, they can invade all the way as far as I’m concerned, you want find me standing up for

        The Board alleged that Maduro administration could be responsible thousands of extra-judicial killings, more than 12,000 cases of arbitrary detentions, more than 290 cases of torture, attacks against the judiciary and a humanitarian crisis affecting hundreds of thousands of people.[264]

        en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolás_Maduro#Human_rights

        He is an absolutely vile evil human being, I’ll leave it to you humanitarians to stand up for him

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    • mrcleanup@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      This isn’t about standing up for a dictator or not, this is about a few questions. Trump just suggested the following answers.

      If a country doesn’t like the leader of another country and how they ruin it, can they intervene? YES.

      Does a leader need any sort of approval before they intervene? NO.

      What sort of intervention can they do? BOMBING AND KIDNAPPING ARE JUST FINE TO FORCE REGIME CHANGE.

      This implications of this internally are big enough within the US, but internationally we are setting precedent for these same answers to be used against any country at any time. What would be different about Russia or China doing the same to any country they disprove of? What’s to stop them from using it as a flimsy excuse for imperialism?

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