It was.
― The Vangelis of Dating (Tom D.), Sunday, 10 March 2019 22:26 (five years ago) link
Mobile ilx makes me even more of a dumbass than normal
― Simon H., Sunday, 10 March 2019 22:35 (five years ago) link
Thread title makes it sounds like it some sort of fun ironic game to place bets on a potential war/civil war and I think it sucks.
― Van Horn Street, Sunday, 10 March 2019 22:52 (five years ago) link
i agreenone of this is funny nor is it idly amusing
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Tuesday, 12 March 2019 15:51 (five years ago) link
It sucks but many of you are basically backing a lot of pro-coup rhetoric. I wouldn't worry about a thread title that was written years before this year's events.
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 12 March 2019 17:36 (five years ago) link
Wanting free and impartial elections in Venezuela is not exactly backing pro-coup rhetoric, nor is it pointing out that Maduro's regime constitutes a coup itself.
― Van Horn Street, Wednesday, 13 March 2019 19:16 (five years ago) link
The United States doesn’t need to invade the country. It just needs to target the bank accounts, Miami properties, and kleptocratic networks exploited by these corrupt Venezuelan officials
https://thinkprogress.org/venezuelas-kleptocratic-partner-in-crime-america/
― Frederik B, Thursday, 14 March 2019 12:40 (five years ago) link
Currently: imperialist mouthpiece cosplaying as news station MSNBC has the wife of Venezuelan opposition leader Guaido labeled as "Venezuelan First Lady" - which is categorically, undeniably false - on live national TV. The actual Venezuelan First Lady is legendary Cilia Flores. pic.twitter.com/35DvPsUIxY— basura (@HalfAtlanta) March 27, 2019
― Simon H., Wednesday, 27 March 2019 16:09 (five years ago) link
maduro is going to allow aid to enter
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/29/world/americas/red-cross-venezuela-aid.html
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Friday, 29 March 2019 19:34 (five years ago) link
Is this the time for Fred to shine? Reports of a coup under way (it's in The Guardian front page anyway)
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 30 April 2019 11:48 (five years ago) link
Looks like it.
― Ned Caligari (Tom D.), Tuesday, 30 April 2019 11:59 (five years ago) link
People on Twitter are dismissing. Tbh it's all based on a video from Guaido's account.
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 30 April 2019 12:06 (five years ago) link
There’s about twelve soldiers. The idea seems to be to use it as a trigger to get people out onto the streets rather than actually being able to do much militarily.
― ShariVari, Tuesday, 30 April 2019 12:13 (five years ago) link
marco_rubio_cumface.gif
― michael keaton IS jim thirlwell IN ‘foetaljuice’ (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 30 April 2019 12:13 (five years ago) link
Government claims it's under control, and I'm inclined to believe them. Does not seem as if the people has risen up.
― Frederik B, Tuesday, 30 April 2019 12:33 (five years ago) link
Look at the baby cry
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 30 April 2019 15:06 (five years ago) link
One of Venezuela’s best journalists reporting that today’s action was planned for another day, and had strong military support - but they had to bring it forward because Guaido’s arrest was imminent, and then the military backed out https://t.co/65PLT8tbLZ— Brian Winter (@BrazilBrian) April 30, 2019
― Frederik B, Tuesday, 30 April 2019 17:35 (five years ago) link
kinda feel like if maduro was gonna arrest him he’d have done it by now
― michael keaton IS jim thirlwell IN ‘foetaljuice’ (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 30 April 2019 17:43 (five years ago) link
well he definitely be getting arrested now so we'll never know
― findom haddie (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 30 April 2019 17:43 (five years ago) link
if that "strong military support" was really strong, it seems to me it wouldn't back out at the first hint of difficulty.
― A is for (Aimless), Tuesday, 30 April 2019 17:49 (five years ago) link
A lot to unpack in that tweet.
Just love how that was the top story in The Guardian website for the afternoon, whereas there was very little by comparison on Twitter -- and that what you got from Twitter was more accurate in the end.
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 30 April 2019 18:03 (five years ago) link
it's a big story. is there another coup attempt going on that i missed?
― findom haddie (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 30 April 2019 18:04 (five years ago) link
Bolton and Guaido seem about as good at bringing peace to Venezuela as Kushner and MBS has been at bringing peace to the Middle East...
― Frederik B, Tuesday, 30 April 2019 18:08 (five years ago) link
Well so far the 'coup' is a video of Guaido's saying stuff with a few soldiers in the background that was posted from his twitter. That isn't news, unless you mean there is something else.
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 30 April 2019 18:09 (five years ago) link
xp to Jim
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 30 April 2019 18:10 (five years ago) link
Are we sure they are soldiers, or are they just dressed like soldiers?
― A is for (Aimless), Tuesday, 30 April 2019 18:10 (five years ago) link
When I think of democracy the first thing that comes to mind is guns and tanks, yes. https://t.co/GUJ2wtzzIr— Doug Henwood (@DougHenwood) April 30, 2019
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 30 April 2019 18:11 (five years ago) link
also the masses of the people on the streets around important centers of power including the ministry of defense and la carlota air force base.
― findom haddie (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 30 April 2019 18:12 (five years ago) link
https://s1.latercera.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/vene4-700x450.jpg
"nothing happening"
(or actually opposing groups of civilians confronting each other, national guard out water-cannoning people and shooting teargas. gunshots
― findom haddie (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 30 April 2019 18:13 (five years ago) link
Are these masses of people quantitatively or qualitatively different from the masses who were rallying for Guaido a couple of months ago?
― A is for (Aimless), Tuesday, 30 April 2019 18:16 (five years ago) link
Thanks Jim, literally it was just that video of Guaido for much of the time. Seeing a bit more now..
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 30 April 2019 18:21 (five years ago) link
Looking at that tank running at ppl, and from that it looks like the coup attempt will fail..
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 30 April 2019 18:23 (five years ago) link
― A is for (Aimless), Tuesday, April 30, 2019 11:16 AM (fourteen minutes ago) Bookmark
guaido specifically directed his supporters to that specific air force base (and other places) and his supporters and chavez supporters are there clashing. the national guard is also there
― findom haddie (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 30 April 2019 18:32 (five years ago) link
el pais has live video streaming https://elpais.com/internacional/2019/04/30/actualidad/1556618727_875831.html
it's not very illuminating but certainly shows that events are taking place
― findom haddie (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 30 April 2019 18:36 (five years ago) link
Sounds like the same popular stalemate as before, with the armed forces still on the side of Maduro as the decisive make-weight. Maybe another Iraqi Kurdish uprising or Hungarian uprising of 1956 in the making?
― A is for (Aimless), Tuesday, 30 April 2019 18:37 (five years ago) link
If really Maduro cared about his people he would have at least have internationally monitored elections by now.
― Van Horn Street, Tuesday, 30 April 2019 18:42 (five years ago) link
don't worry guys, america's best and brightest minds are on the case
― officer sonny bonds, lytton pd (mayor jingleberries), Tuesday, 30 April 2019 18:43 (five years ago) link
don't worry everyone Erik Prince is gonna sort this out
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-venezuela-politics-erikprince-exclusi/exclusive-blackwater-founders-latest-sales-pitch-mercenaries-for-venezuela-idUSKCN1S608F
― Simon H., Tuesday, 30 April 2019 18:51 (five years ago) link
the el pais live streaming is interesting, in a low-key way. listless protestors throwing stones from behind the cover of a wheely bin, equally listless national guard firing tear gas from an overpass while their colleagues josh around in the background
― findom haddie (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 30 April 2019 19:36 (five years ago) link
no successful coup today.
Insta-conspiracy theory: Maduro knew the CIA would be sounding out military officers to participate in a coup, so he obligingly provided them with some.
― A is for (Aimless), Tuesday, 30 April 2019 19:58 (five years ago) link
VENEZUELA: US Secretary of State Pompeo tells @CNN @wolfblitzer that Maduro was ready to leave Venezuela this morning, but dissuaded by Russia - @kylieatwood— Conflict News (@Conflicts) April 30, 2019
― ShariVari, Tuesday, 30 April 2019 21:54 (five years ago) link
Genuinely impressed anyone could say that with a straight face.
Guaido's 'UK representative' has just repeated it - with a straight face - on Newsnight.
― Ned Caligari (Tom D.), Tuesday, 30 April 2019 22:08 (five years ago) link
Maduro is very obviously working within the sphere of Russian’s influence.
Now I doubt with this military support that he will ever leave.
― Van Horn Street, Tuesday, 30 April 2019 22:48 (five years ago) link
Lol doubt even The Guardian is saying this but you do you.
Maybe if I read this if I can get past the headline.
Former bus driver Nicolás Maduro clings to wheel in Venezuela https://t.co/UKri7OzEbx— The Guardian (@guardian) April 30, 2019
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 1 May 2019 07:35 (five years ago) link
Kissinger or the Dulles brothers woulda gotten the coup done like *snap*
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 1 May 2019 12:16 (five years ago) link
you couldn't ask for a clearer indication of america's decline
― michael keaton IS jim thirlwell IN ‘foetaljuice’ (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 1 May 2019 12:23 (five years ago) link
It's the 2nd Anniversary of Fyre Festival—See What the Key Players Are Up To Now
― calzino, Wednesday, 1 May 2019 12:26 (five years ago) link