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I did it the moment they decided not to defederate from Meta. I don't like admins who can't take decisive actions to protect their users (and apparently seem to bend their knees to any big corpo out there)

McConnell on Ukraine proxy war: "We haven’t lost a single American in this war. Most of the money that we spend, is spent on replenishing weapons, so it’s actually employing people here."[paraphrased] in c/worldnews@lemmy.ml

[–] Marxine@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

It's not necessary to have a military base or troops in order to threaten the sovereignty of a country. This is not only a bad faith argument, but it's incredibly braindead as well.

And if you're insistent on semantics, yes, the USA deployed troops for a "joint training" with Brazilian troops during (far-right USA backed) Bolsonaro's government.

McConnell on Ukraine proxy war: "We haven’t lost a single American in this war. Most of the money that we spend, is spent on replenishing weapons, so it’s actually employing people here."[paraphrased] in c/worldnews@lemmy.ml

[–] Marxine@lemmy.ml 14 points 2 years ago (3 children)

In 2014, Brazil, the coup on Dilma Roussef from the Worker's Party received backing from the USA. In 2018, the unlawful conviction of Lula from the same party, was not only backed but also had strategical support from the USA through instructions on how then judge Sergio Moro should conduct the trial and how he should work with and favour the prosecution, even by the use of fake witnesses and evidence.

They also had the heaviest of hands against Nicolas Maduro in Venezuela a few years later.

So the USA never stopped meddling and forcing their way on South America, really.

Cooking Up Contingency Plans in c/rpgmemes@ttrpg.network

[–] Marxine@lemmy.ml 43 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Unfortunately:

half of zero is still zero, and
since one can't go below 0HP there's no HP pool to take health from.

As someone who had to DM more than I'd like, no dice, mate.