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He was the illegitimate president, he stole the last elections. Plenty of evidence of it. Add to that all the human rights crimes they committed (national guard death squads who killed in the thousands on the poorest areas of the country just to name one). This was investigated by the UN, led by Michelle Bachelet (former president of Chile).

that being said, if your method of removal is also illegitimate, it doesn't really help the situation

Where do attempts to steal the election land on the spectrum of

|not ok to kidnap - - - - - - - ok to kidnap|?


Ok to kidnap

But we did not depose his regime, we just stole him. Not like the US could reliably depose a foreign regime anyway, but this shouldn't be accepted as an excuse.

He indeed was an illegitimate ruler, but that is completely unrelated to what we did.


I’m not debating that. But as Venezuelan I’d like to put that in context. Because it’s important as well. For us even if you think it’s weird it is a glimmer of hope. A bit of justice even if the regime is still in power.

I want to reject such complicated feelings because I don't want the mild support of what our Administration did, and the intrinsic violation of Venezuelan sovereignty, but real life is complicated and things are complicated.

I just want better. But we so rarely get that.

Good Luck. Hopefully we are done with our meddling for now.


Immense majority of the country wanted him out. This is not even an argument at this point. You could argue Chavez was very popular for the most part, but Maduro? Even the communist party of Venezuela wanted him out.

an immense majority wanted him kidnapped by america? either you've inadvertantly shifted the goalpost or i'll need something to back that up, because i find that hard to believe.

I can speak just for myself and all my relatives and friends who wanted him out. I’d hoped it could be through other means but I’ll take this. Hopefully this leads to a transition and we get back to having a normal country like we’ve been yearning for so many years now.

Go ask a Venezuelan if you know one. We tried everything and only received violence. Personally Maduro got what he deserved. The regime is still there I know but it’s a bit of justice.


Plenty of evidence of huge human rights crimes under the Maduro regime, investigations made by United Nations. He also stole the elections.

You can disagree with how he was removed but don’t give the guy legitimacy please, he’s a thug.


They killed like 32 Cuban bodyguards.

I mean they could instead fire them, at least they can opt to this.

Going by age, wouldn't that be breaking the law? Can't imagine they'd get more than a slap on wrist for it though, so kind of surprised they even bothered with the offer.

If it’s just by age I’d guess yes, but they always have the option to do mass layoffs including these folks + others.

In Spain there’s something similar called “prejubilación” (apologies for the Spanish link but the Wikipedia entry does not have an English version):

https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prejubilaci%C3%B3n


The article explains what is extracted.

The article waffles on forever and gives some generic advice.

Meanwhile, Bitwarden themselves state that end users were almost never affected: https://community.bitwarden.com/t/bitwarden-statement-on-che...

You had to install the CLI through NPM at a very short time frame for it to be affected. If you did get infected, you have to assume all secrets on your computer were accessed and that any executable file you had write access to may be backdoored.


No it doesn't?

Yes it does, under technical analysis. I don’t want to paste it here when it’s laid out in the article…

It seems to be describing what the Checkmarx vulnerability allows to be done on a GitHub Actions runner?

IIRC they mentioned they do.

Not the M5.

It eventually will. But OP never asked about M5 specifically.

No, but OP was comparing the pricing of brand new laptops, so it was implied that they wouldn't be M1/M2 hence not supported by Asahi.

Eventually in this context might be 4+ years from now.

AFAIK Asahi development needs some hypervisor features for reverse engineering macOS drivers that only exist on M1-M3 and were removed on M4+. So yeah, it may be several years until they get support (or never, if nobody steps up to do it).

You are probably not swiping up from down enough.

PDVSA exists since 1975. What you referred to wasn’t the 1st oil nationalisation that happened in Venezuela.

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