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Tech bros: AI is the basis of the next Great Awakening of global humanity, we simply cannot live without this priceless technological superintelligence

Also tech bros: hahaha Grok can make any woman into a naked picture
January 5, 2026 at 11:27 PM
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“What do we call it when a stronger person decides to rob a weaker person because he can? It is just gangsterism. We are the most dangerous gangsters in the world today. Not in the sense of being charming rogues or alluring antiheroes. We are the bad guys.”
We Are the Bad Guys
The swaggering threat to global stability is us.
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January 5, 2026 at 4:26 PM
vetsat.bsky.social
An interesting perspective on current events:
mari-rochelle.bsky.social Mari Rochelle🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 ⚢ 💙🧬☮️🗳️ (she/her) ❤️🧡🤍🩷💜🌶️ @mari-rochelle.bsky.social · 1d
From Rachel Hurley:

Something about Venezuela is not sitting right with me.
This is a long one.
And take this all with a grain of salt, because who the hell am I? I could be overthinking this whole thing.
Something about Venezuela is not sitting right with me. This is a long one. And take this all with a grain of salt, because who the hell am I? I could be overthinking this whole thing. Here's what can be backed up by reporting: 14 days before the U.S. captured Nicolás Maduro, Russia evacuated the families of its diplomats from Venezuela. December 20th. Wives and kids. Quiet, organized, done. Then on January 3rd, Delta Force drops in, grabs Maduro and his wife, and it's over in under thirty minutes. That doesn't seem like a coincidence. Russia publicly condemned the whole thing - called it armed aggression, demanded a UN Security Council meeting, the whole performative outrage routine. But you don't evacuate your people two weeks in advance unless you know something's coming. And if you know something's coming, someone told you. Here's where it gets weirder. Cuba - Venezuela's other major ally - didn't evacuate anybody. Cuban doctors are still there, confined to their quarters, families back in Havana losing their minds because nobody warned them this was happening. China? Same thing. No evacuation, just reactive condemnation after the fact. So Russia knew. Cuba and China didn't. Or at least they didn't foresee any consequences from a US intervention - because sure;y they knew that Russians were leaving. Now let's talk about how the operation actually went down. Venezuela spent two billion dollars on Russian S-300 air defense systems - the kind that are supposed to turn the Caribbean into a no-fly zone for the U.S. military. On paper, these things track 24 targets simultaneously, knock cruise missiles out of the sky at 250 kilometers. Caracas should have been a fortress. The U.S. neutralized all of it in under twenty minutes. Either American military tech is so vastly superior that we can casually dismantle a Russian-backed air defense network before anyone even knows we're there, or those systems were ordered not to fire. Maybe both. But the speed of it - the totality of it - that's what doesn't add up. And if we can do this - why is the Ukrainian war with Russia still happening? Anyway - one helicopter took minor damage. That's it. No U.S. casualties. No significant Venezuelan casualties that anyone's bothered to specify. Vice President Delcy Rodriguez went on TV and said "innocent people died" but never gave numbers, never gave details, and hasn't brought it up again. For a surprise military raid on a hostile capital city, that's remarkably clean. And then there's Maduro himself. He and his wife both surrendered. Not fought to the death, not tried to escape, not holed up for a siege. Surrendered. The FBI Hostage Rescue Team was part of the extraction force - not just Delta, but FBI HRT, the guys who specialize in cooperative extractions. You bring HRT when you're expecting the target to come willingly. The whole transport route screams pre-arrangement. Maduro goes from his compound to the USS Iwo Jima, then Guantanamo, then a nice clean flight to New York where a 25-page indictment is ready to unseal the same day he lands. That indictment was prepared. The grand jury had already done its work. Jay Clayton's signature was on it before Maduro ever got on that helicopter. They knew exactly when he'd be in custody. Here's what I think happened - and again, I'm speculating here, but the pieces fit. Maduro was cornered. His economy collapsed. He lost the 2024 election and the international community recognized his opponent. His former intelligence chief, Hugo Carvajal, pled guilty back in June and started cooperating. That guy would have known everything - security details, schedules, which officers were loyal, which ones would fold. Maduro's wife was indicted. His son was indicted. He was facing life in prison if the U.S. ever got him. actually watched a video of a recent interview that Maduro did where he said that he was ready to work with the US - he was just waiting for them to call. So what if he made a deal? What if Maduro, through back channels, offered to surrender in exchange for a reduced sentence? Maybe witness protection, maybe unfrozen assets, maybe immunity for his kid. The U.S. gets him in custody, gets control of Venezuelan oil, gets a clean regime change without a prolonged war. Russia gets advance warning, pulls their people out, avoids an international incident. And everybody gets to maintain their public positions for domestic audiences. Maduro looks like a victim - kidnapped by imperial aggression, not a guy who cut a deal to save his own ass. The U.S. looks strong - tough on dictators, military dominance, America first. Russia looks outraged - standing up to American hegemony. And Venezuela's power structure stays mostly intact because Trump's not working with the democratic opposition, he's working with Maduro's own vice president. That last part is what really cinches it for me. María Corina Machado won the Nobel Peace Prize. She won the opposition primary. Her guy, Edmundo Gonzalez, won the actual presidential election by a two-to-one margin and got international recognition as Venezuela's legitimate leader. Seventy percent of Venezuelans support the opposition.
January 5, 2026 at 8:40 PM
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Four generations of my family have served our country. Service is in my blood. The President wouldn’t know anything about that.
January 5, 2026 at 6:24 PM
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People are saying the military are following illegal orders because they've betrayed us. But they forget the part where the commanders who would have refused illegal orders are now gone and have been replaced by Trump bootlickers who lie to the troops about the legality of these operations.
January 5, 2026 at 5:43 PM
vetsat.bsky.social
And in today's news that will surprise absolutely no one:

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/05/u...
Supreme Court Increasingly Favors the Rich, Economists Say
www.nytimes.com
January 5, 2026 at 5:31 PM
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www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Trump push to politicize US military ‘reminiscent of Stalin’, top general warns
Maj Gen Paul Eaton says US president’s effort to bend military to his will could have dire long-term consequences
www.theguardian.com
January 5, 2026 at 1:18 PM
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Not being reported my mainstream media: Protesters outside White House against Trump regime illegal action against #Venezuela

#VenezuelaProtests #NoWarWithVenezuela #EpsteinFiles #Maduro #NoWarForOil #FightFascism #FascismInAmerica

youtu.be/WQANbOYb1Qc?...
RAW VIDEO: Protesters Demonstrate Outside The White House Against U.S. Strikes On Venezuela
YouTube video by Forbes Breaking News
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January 4, 2026 at 5:57 PM
vetsat.bsky.social
Interesting theory, but 100% plausible.
January 4, 2026 at 8:23 PM
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Cartoon by @mluckovich.bsky.social.
January 4, 2026 at 12:29 PM
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Official statement from 50501 Veterans. #venezuela
January 4, 2026 at 3:44 AM
vetsat.bsky.social
That's great but you guys really blew a golden opportunity when every billionaire's superyacht was parked off the coast of St. Bart's for New Years...
January 4, 2026 at 3:08 AM
vetsat.bsky.social
What's up Chicagooooo! ❤️
unraveledpress.com unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 2d
Happening now: several hundred people are pouring into Chicago's downtown Federal Plaza.

It's 25 degrees outside.

Organizers are leading the crowd in a chant of, "no boots on the ground, no bombs in the air!"

Two protesters hold a large banner reading, "no war for Venezuela oil."
January 4, 2026 at 3:04 AM
vetsat.bsky.social
It would be pretty hilarious if they can't get a conviction on Maduro because the government's "evidence" is nothing but a bunch of Trump's lies...
thetnholler.bsky.social The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d
There seems to be doubt among experts whether the “Cartel of the Suns” mentioned in the Maduro indictment actually exists: www.bbc.com/news/article...
January 4, 2026 at 3:03 AM
vetsat.bsky.social
Anybody heard from Susan Collins on this Venezuela thing yet? Just curious, since this system also applies to Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries...
January 4, 2026 at 2:53 AM
vetsat.bsky.social
Here's the upcoming excuse for mass deportations of all Latinos, including native American citizens, because they'll be a "national security risk".
January 4, 2026 at 2:16 AM
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thetnholler.bsky.social
The indictment doesn’t mention oil or fentanyl. Just cocaine. (After he just pardoned the president of Honduras)
January 3, 2026 at 10:43 PM
vetsat.bsky.social
"Possession of Machine Guns"? WTF, our AR-15 gunhumping country is actually going to prosecute someone else for gun possession?? 😂
robertscotthorton.bsky.social Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 2d
Maduro's advisors are now closely studying the precedent of Juan Orlando Hernández, the Honduran president and lead cocaine dealer who was pardoned by Trump, to ascertain the amount of crypto they need and the path for paying it.
January 4, 2026 at 2:01 AM
vetsat.bsky.social
Oooooo good point! 🤔
acyn.bsky.social Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 2d
Swalwell: He couldn't run a casino, and now he's going to run a country in South America while he fails to run a country in North America?
January 4, 2026 at 1:54 AM
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January 3, 2026 at 7:30 PM
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I ❤️ @jefftiedrich.bsky.social
jefftiedrich.bsky.social Jeff Tiedrich @jefftiedrich.bsky.social · 2d
look, I may not agree with every decision our president makes, but he is our commander in chief and I will defend to the death his right to be impeached, removed from office, arrested, stripped of his wealth, tried for his crimes and thrown straight the fuck into prison
January 3, 2026 at 5:22 PM
vetsat.bsky.social
Lol don't bother unplugging them, we need to wheel all the servers over to the nearest oceanfront cliff and throw them over.
January 3, 2026 at 5:20 PM
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www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
The ‘Putinization’ of US foreign policy has arrived in Venezuela
Trump is no longer bending the rules – he is demolishing them, with consequences far beyond Caracas
www.theguardian.com
January 3, 2026 at 4:02 PM
vetsat.bsky.social
What a hero...and what a great opportunity to bomb Iran, kidnap their leader, and steal their oil too.
hb-surferboy.bsky.social hb-surferboy.bsky.social @hb-surferboy.bsky.social · 3d
The very same "president" that asked his generals if they could just shoot the American protesters in Washington D.C. during his first term.
January 3, 2026 at 3:56 PM
vetsat.bsky.social
This morning, I'd like to give a big, full-chest FUCK YOU to everyone who didn't vote for Kamala Harris. Not only is there still genocide in Palestine, we've got a bonus genocide ramping up here, and now we're Nazi blitzkreig-ing countries so Trump can steal their resources.
January 3, 2026 at 3:34 PM