With brash threats aimed all around the region, the president and his team made it clear Venezuela might be just the beginning, sparking fear across the Western hemisphere.
  • floofloof@lemmy.ca
    54·
    7 days ago

    So that’s Venezuela, Nigeria and Somalia the USA is currently attacking, plus Colombia, Cuba, Mexico, Greenland and Canada they’re explicitly threatening to attack, and Trump has talked about taking Panama too. Nine countries the USA is invading or threatening to invade. People of the USA, you need to rid yourself of these Nazis before they destroy your country and start a world war.

    • Medic8teMe@lemmy.ca
      78·
      6 days ago

      It’s no use. People have been screaming this for almost a year now and it just keeps progressing while the only people who can really do anything about it sit at home on their couch and watch television.

  • danekrae@lemmy.world
    31·
    6 days ago

    If you are an American: You need to make a cost benefit analysis in your head. For the worlds sake.

    How many people are you willing to let die, how much goodwill are you willing to let go of, how much worse will you let it get for your countrymen before you actually act?

    If you ever wondered how you would have acted in nazi germany; this is how…

    • HasturInYellow@lemmy.world
      161·
      6 days ago

      What do I do though? Do I just show up at maralago with a sharp stick?

      Do you really think this is going to end in any way but armed resistance in mass? How do I start that?

      I’m serious. Give me a good idea. Please.

          • Rentlar@lemmy.ca
            11·
            6 days ago

            In escalating order, start from where you’re comfortable then advance from there:

            Ensure the people around you aren’t oblivious to what’s going,on and if they’re aware, then not just buying the administration’s lies or taking their actions and statements at face value.

            Protest to show widely that randomly kidnapping foreign leaders is not what average Americans approve of. Meet people that are open or ready to organize with you.

            Forming mutual aid organizations to plan how to react if the federal government tries to come after you or your neighbours. Ex: if you run a business, lock the door at the first sign of ICE, like whistles, and refuse to allow entry without a warrant.

            Boycot the supporters of the administration. The more co-ordinated and widespread, the more effect it will have. Hell, Canadians got Jim Beam’s factory to shut down for a year.

            Raise a strike fund and strategically withhold your labour. This, used well, might be the only thing needed to bring down this government so you wouldn’t need to resort to anything further.

            Use your knowledge and expertise to create parallel systems and infrastructure to the ones being abused by this administration. New communications networks, a new health organization that actually gives proper health advice, communal safety groups and welfare, research funds to replace those that the feds threaten, so on and so forth.

            Raise a bail fund and plan civil disobedience. The action would involve things that aren’t violent, but may or may not be illegal (or something that is legal now but declared illegal by the administration). The actions would be intended to slow down and obstruct the administration’s priorities. Example: federal tax avoidance/objection, throwing your trash in front of a federal building in a way that just so happens to create a blockade, refusing to comply with policies you believe are unconstitutional.

            Edit: wrote protest twice

            • HasturInYellow@lemmy.world
              6·
              6 days ago

              Thank you friend. I am doing several of these things already. It feels like nothing. Perhaps a mutual aid group is next.

          • MBech@feddit.dk
            3·
            6 days ago

            Yes murder. That murderous fuck is going to get a lot of innocent people killed if someone doesn’t start shooting fascists soon.

  • HubertManne@piefed.socialEnglish
    8·
    6 days ago

    I mean its just like ukraine. take crimea and no one does anything. cool then try to take the rest. if no one says boo to that then maybe poland. nothing but hand wringing with venezuela so yeah he is going to keep on going. I mean its not like other countries are going to stop protecting us ip or anything else that might cause the big corps to actually work against him than for him.

  • ZiggyTheZygote@lemmy.ca
    7·
    6 days ago

    I’m sure he would annex us to take our water and the many resources we have. Who’s going to stop him? Russia or China? Or Europe? No one. The best we can hope for is the TSA (T stands for terrorist) would crumble from within.

  • Lemminary@lemmy.world
    1·
    6 days ago

    While Trump is approaching his final term seemingly racing the clock and focused on short-term results, autocrats around the globe able to play a longer game could benefit from rising tensions between the U.S. and a number of its neighbors.**

    I can’t find a good reason why he would target US allies and shit all over the continent other than it’s a win-win situation for him: he pleases Russian mob daddy and distracts from his own child trafficking scandal. He was probably sold the idea that his name would be forever engraved in history and his eyes glowed.