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Venezuela Crisis Live Updates: Clashes Erupt After Opposition Leader Calls for Uprising
• Clashes between anti-government protesters and law enforcement officers erupted in Caracas on Tuesday after the Venezuelan opposition leader, Juan Guaidó, appeared alongside soldiers at a military base and called for the population to rise up against the president, Nicolás Maduro.
• Mr. Guaidó has urged the Venezuela military to join his side since he declared himself interim president more than three months ago. But it was a new step for him to make the declaration with men in uniform by his side. Still, it is unclear how much of the military supports him.
• The Trump administration, which has backed Mr. Guaidó since he first declared himself interim president in January, expressed immediate support for his latest move. President Trump tweeted, "The United States stands with the People of Venezuela and their Freedom!"
• Video and photos showed at least one instance where an armored vehicle rammed protesters. It was not immediately clear how many people were injured.
See also: Venezuela's Guaidó accused of coup attempt by government
Previously: Turmoil in Venezuela Surrounding Aid Deliveries
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 01 2019, @04:29PM (8 children)
I would mark your post redundant but sadly the message still hasn't sunk in to that NPC's response matrix. Seems like its cycle is set to agitate, I wonder what the spin cycle will look like.
(Score: 2, Funny) by Azuma Hazuki on Wednesday May 01 2019, @05:10PM (7 children)
Give me 10 minutes in a room alone with him and a few yards of razor wire and we'll find out. Probably like that one fatality Kabal does in MK...9, I think?
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0, Troll) by khallow on Thursday May 02 2019, @03:46PM (6 children)
You propose a non-violent means of communication that just happens to use razor wire, right? Or are you resorting to your first resort [soylentnews.org]?
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Thursday May 02 2019, @05:29PM (5 children)
I wanna see how long he can spin without throwing up, and if I can do that ting Kung Lao does only without the razor hat. What's wrong with you? It's for SCIENCE (TM)!
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 1) by khallow on Thursday May 02 2019, @08:30PM (4 children)
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Thursday May 02 2019, @09:11PM (3 children)
AC wanted to know what Bot's spin cycle looked like. I remembered Kabal and Kung Lao have moves that make the opponent spin at several thousand RPM. These, if you are not aware, are not actual people. So yes, that was a joke from the beginning. Why is it you authoritarian types don't actually have a sense of humor? That's the one commonality I notice about all of you: you're basically permanently constipated.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 1) by khallow on Monday May 13 2019, @01:21PM (2 children)
To answer your question, for authoritarians, humor is merely another tool for expressing one's group identity. Further, everything runs through the authoritarian filter. Normal humor, since it doesn't express the right things then becomes a threat to the worldview and is marginalized. All that makes them quite unfunny to everyone else who hasn't bought into the package.
What I find interesting here is how it is my fault that your sense of humor involves razor wire and blindly accusing others of being authoritarian types. It's almost like you ran out of credible things to say and only then, desperately clung to humor to continue the assault.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday May 14 2019, @03:42AM (1 child)
...okay, I guess that sort of comment *is* darkly funny, but you never do anything else. And it's not really my kind of humor; I never got my yuks laughing at the disadvantaged or disabled. But keep on keepin' on; you're nothing if not consistent in the overall tenor (and signal-to-noise ratio...) of your posts.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 1) by khallow on Tuesday May 14 2019, @09:48PM
Try reading my posts sometime.