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Katherine Aurora @katauroraaa.bsky.social · 22h

🇻🇪🇪🇨Venezuelan Democracy and Human Rights activists Yendri Velasquez and Luis Peche, who fled the Venezuelan dictatorship and refuged in Colombia (refuge request still hasn't been aproved in a year), have been shot by unknown assailants. They are alive. Venezuelan dictatorship main suspect.

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Samantica, The Exiled @samonika.bsky.social · 2d

I got non-political friends saying "fuck this Hasan dude" which I think is an important wedge to get a wider audience aware of Hasan's shit.

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Samantica, The Exiled @samonika.bsky.social · 3d

This reminds me of a meme I made way back when, vis-a-vis Russian pearl clutching.

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Samantica, The Exiled @samonika.bsky.social · 3d

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Samantica, The Exiled @samonika.bsky.social · 3d

fucking hell is something happening?

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Samantica, The Exiled @samonika.bsky.social · 3d

I remember that my grandpa gave me a bunch of his books as a kid. Ironically it was how I started reading about history and ending up disagreeing with a bunch of his stuff.

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Samantica, The Exiled @samonika.bsky.social · 2d

America was, despite all its flaws, a fundational pillar of the rules-based international order. And I fear what will happen once that order falls apart.

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Samantica, The Exiled @samonika.bsky.social · 4d

Chat is it good when the judge starts quoting from the Founding Fathers.

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Samantica, The Exiled @samonika.bsky.social · 4d

I'll take it as a collective win for the people. So...

YYYYYYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH

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Samantica, The Exiled @samonika.bsky.social · 5d

Pretty funny typo I ain't gonna lie

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Samantica, The Exiled @samonika.bsky.social · 5d

Toddler logic applied to the most powerful men in the world.

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Samantica, The Exiled @samonika.bsky.social · 5d

Every single day we are in the "Imagine if Joe Biden did this" territory.

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Samantica, The Exiled @samonika.bsky.social · 5d

Non-zero chances he declares economic war on Sweden if he doesn't get his shiny little award

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Samantica, The Exiled @samonika.bsky.social · 6d

Bibi got Afghanistan'd

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Samantica, The Exiled @samonika.bsky.social · 6d

"We destroyed the cartels from top to bottom"

Big if true.

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Samantica, The Exiled @samonika.bsky.social · 6d

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Samantica, The Exiled @samonika.bsky.social · 7d

Someone should make a video of Trump going to Epstein Island. Those guardrails are going to come up so fast it'll be dizzying.

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Samantica, The Exiled @samonika.bsky.social · 7d

Also, we didn't voted for Chavez to end democracy! Fucking Americans making up stuff about other countries to justify their own slide into authoritarianism.

Samantica, The Exiled @samonika.bsky.social · 10d

Disagree with the first part of that statement. Regime was pushed hard after the elections but it has been certainly pushed harder.

Thought, yeah. It'll be similar to what happened in Iran after the Israeli air strikes. A perfect excuse for a totalitarian crackdown.

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Samantica, The Exiled @samonika.bsky.social · 11d

The british guards got pulled out because the government couldn't pay their standing still license

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Samantica, The Exiled @samonika.bsky.social · 12d

The people on the Caribbean boats would also take issue with the "non-international" part of that statement, but maybe I'm just too woke.

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Samantica, The Exiled @samonika.bsky.social · 12d

Far as I know that isolationism comes from as far back as WWI, since Americans were icky to involve themselves on anything too European. It was also the big reason why the US never joined the League of Nations.

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Samantica, The Exiled @samonika.bsky.social · 14d

This is history textbook stuff right here.

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Samantica, The Exiled @samonika.bsky.social · 15d

These are our Mondays now.