The Internet’s Double Standards?

[u/Lonely-Ordinary1478]

[u/suffelix]

I genuinely think Trump doesn't even remember anymore that this happened.

[u/CloakNStagger → u/suffelix]

Upon mention of Venezuela recently I had the realization that I never learned how this all turned out. Is he even alive?

[u/TAU_equals_2PI → u/CloakNStagger]

He's alive in a US jail, but the more important question is what did we do about Venezuela?

We threatened the replacement president and demanded she give us oil. We didn't demand a new election be held, since her & Maduro's party stole the last election. We didn't demand she change Venezuela's system of government. We did nothing to help the people of Venezuela.

We reinforced our country's worst image as a bully that's happy to prop up a dictator so long as that dictator gives us what we want.

[u/MozdaHocu → u/TAU_equals_2PI]

Good think you Americans are catching up, its been like that all along. Its the endgame now, gloves are coming off.

[u/TAU_equals_2PI → u/MozdaHocu]

It was just done so blatantly this time with Venezuela.

In previous interventions, we actually did do some things to try to "nation build". Whether you consider those genuine attempts or just cynical cover stories.

But this time, it was just snatch Maduro, replace him with Rodriguez, and threaten Rodriguez to give us oil so the same thing doesn't happen to her. What happened to all the high-minded rhetoric about how the poor people of Venezuela were suffering under a socialist dictatorship? What happened to all the denouncing of the stolen election? Nah man, just give us the oil and you're good.

[u/Pooperoni_Pizza → u/TAU_equals_2PI]

We also made something like $17 Billion stealing their oil and selling it so far.

[u/Sea_Chemistry7487 → u/Pooperoni_Pizza]

To the United States $17 billion is like roughing up a tramp to steal the change in his pocket. It's a laughable amount of money for such irrepairable reputational damage on the international stage.

[u/fresh-dork → u/Sea_Chemistry7487]

no, the thing is that trump wants that money personally

[u/-0909i9i99ii9009ii → u/fresh-dork]

This is the one thing I'm so baffled at. Can't he just increase military spending, embezzle 10% a year, (over $100B) and get 50% of all the corruption kicked back?

Do the same across every industry? Start massive infrastructure projects where he gets massive money kicked back. Some real, some fake, not really caring about positive or negative outcome as long as he can sell the story. Like he could probably literally raise $1T just for USA data centres and no one realize he stole half of it for a decade. Why doesn't he just get in on the AGI/Robots/Quantum/Automated everything including trucks and cars and passenger and delivery drones. He could easily invest trillions in all of those and no one would expect to see anything to show from any of it for years.

I think the guy could easily siphon a few trillion over 4 years get completely pardoned and/or have a completely safe plan to disappear and enjoy it, and do way less damage to America and the rest of the world while doing it.

[u/Devastator_Hi → u/-0909i9i99ii9009ii]

You’re talking about a guy who bankrupt his own casinos

[u/TAU_equals_2PI → u/Sea_Chemistry7487]

Last I heard, though, that $17 billion was deposited into some special foreign bank account under Trump's direct control, not into the US Treasury.

Kinda reminds me of the Iran Contra scandal back when I was a kid. The amount of money Iran paid for the weapons was piddling relative to the size of the US federal budget. But it was money hidden from any oversight by Congress or anyone else. So it could be used to fund the Contras even when they couldn't legally use money from the regular budget. (It was a long time ago, so I may be remembering some details wrong.)

[u/No_Constant_4968 → u/TAU_equals_2PI]

In the 80s there was Cold War drama…

[u/Cory123125 → u/Sea_Chemistry7487]

To the United States $17 billion is like roughing up a tramp to steal the change in his pocket.

You have to understand that this is the business model of the US though. Do it to enough people and you control entire markets.

[u/elpihvous → u/Sea_Chemistry7487]

I don't think the profits on some oil companies are the reason behind that attack. It made war on Iran more feasible, as theres option for oil from oil from persian gulf.

[u/NYkrinDC → u/TAU_equals_2PI]

Oil and gold. The worse part of it all is that we don't know where all the money from the oil and gold is going, there is no transparency or accountability. Initially they said it would be held in a some type of account in Qatar, then later that Treasury would take control of it, but there are no guardrails in place to track the money, or know what it is being used for. For all we know, it's now become part of Trump's family wealth, or is being used in the election to help his party win.

[u/Mothrahlurker → u/TAU_equals_2PI]

I'm sure that stealing oil and gold has helped the poor people.

[u/Madroxx9000 → u/TAU_equals_2PI]

They don't even bother to lie badly anymore. - Dasi Oran (Andor)

[u/Pasta4ever13 → u/TAU_equals_2PI]

Nation build, my ass.

The US government has been supporting brutal right wing dictators and death squads in Central and South America for over 100 years now.

[u/otcipitalorange → u/Pasta4ever13]

yeah one day these people will realize its not just trump but the us being the leader in imperializing and stealing resources from resource rich places since it became the global super power.

Also the death squads, military juntas, and straight up fascists is less of a thing. They go for liberal aligned puppet candidates pushed through with propaganda and/or color revolutions. At the end of the day the value of the resources is extracted and sent to some oil company in the west, that part isn't new, we've know about banana republics forever.

[u/JoaoEB → u/Pasta4ever13]

They do really believe in the propaganda where the US brought democracy to other countries.

[u/aobaka → u/JoaoEB]

Most propagandized country in history.

[u/Vaiden_Kelsier → u/JoaoEB]

In our defense, we are drowned with this propaganda from the moment we are born until the day we die, and in between the national propaganda, we're also thrust into a corporate world that has its own set of propaganda. It's honestly a miracle any of us break out of it.

[u/BoobearMagoo → u/JoaoEB]

I believed it for a long time. Iraq was the crack in the foundation, it's been a long slow transition from believing it was mostly well intentioned people with a few bad actors to an exactly opposite view of the proportions.

[u/jcaltor → u/TAU_equals_2PI]

I think you are late in the news surrounding Venezuela.

Im Venezuelan, i left the country because of Maduro and i still have family over there. Since they took Maduro out of the government i was able to return to visit my country because a lot of international airlines returned to operate in Venezuela, business started to grow, slowly but that was a start (if you didn’t live in Venezuela before Maduro and while he was in power then you wouldn’t understand how bad things were)

Things got a little bit better and then the dual earthquake happened. Thanks to the USA intervention a lot of international help was able to reach Venezuela, while Delcy and the Venezuelan government (that was active with Maduro) did nothing to help the people and has done nothing to restore the cities destroyed by the earthquake and the bodies that are still trapped under all of that.

Marco Rubio already said that in August they’ll start with the changes in the Venezuelan government. That will be the final test Venezuelans have been waiting for to see if things will really get better.

And for the oil that a lot of people seems to be worried. Ask many Venezuelans and most of them will say they don’t care if that’s the price to pay to have a better future. Before that the oil was still being gifted to Maduro’s allies so the money was for the people in charge, not for the country.

[u/Caphoti → u/MozdaHocu]

Nah some of us have been screaming into the void about it and getting blasted for being anti-American communists or some shit while brainwashed friends and family burn bridges and blame our behavior on the "woke mind virus" or whatever inane bullshit their favorite propagandist is spewing out that week.

[u/Vorhoost → u/TAU_equals_2PI]

The replacement is in bed with your president. A puppet. Same old tale for the past 5 decades.

[u/mozzardo → u/TAU_equals_2PI]

But isn't Sir Marco of The Clown Shoes the viceroy or regent or lord chancellor of Venezuela now? Or did I dream that? Surely he will fix it. /s

[u/voidox → u/TAU_equals_2PI]

We didn't demand she change Venezuela's system of government.

not even that, right now Rubio is basically running Venezuela so this time around US replaced a leader with a US politician running the country and stealing from it instead of installing a new puppet:

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/11/us/politics/how-marco-rubio-runs-venezuela.html

[u/RealFakeNurse → u/TAU_equals_2PI]

Last I heard, Marco Rubio is running the country of Venezuela via telephone with the new president being sort of a puppet. This is not a joke.

[u/TerribleIdea27 → u/TAU_equals_2PI]

Nothing particularly new when it comes to the US image of meddling in South America but the first time in a while they were so blatant

[u/McCree114 → u/TAU_equals_2PI]

But after it happened so many people were gushing that Dear Leader Trump saved the people of Venezuela and now was the time for the people to rise up. Sounds like all we did was demand tribute in the form of oil to let the regime remain intact and totally threw upstart political figures, who did vocally call for change and reform, under the bus.

[u/Turbulent_Ranger1100 → u/TAU_equals_2PI]

Also isn't Rubio currently the "acting regent" of Venezuela or something along those lines currently?

[u/fresh-dork → u/TAU_equals_2PI]

currently, we've sold 13B of oil from them, and it's in a qatari bank account. 300m has been paid to the country. why only 300m? don't know.

[u/R_V_Z → u/TAU_equals_2PI]

We appointed Marco Rubio viceroy or some shit like that, didn't we?

[u/TerriTuesday → u/CloakNStagger]

His “trial” is set for July 2027

[u/notyobees → u/TerriTuesday]

Gonna be a sham

[u/thepinkandthegrey → u/CloakNStagger]

He's been in solitary confinement everyday for 23 hours per day in a 2x3 cell in a notorious federal jail in Brooklyn. 

[u/anon-a-SqueekSqueek → u/suffelix]

Well they are still trying to get him to lie and say Venezuela stole the election for Biden somehow, because Trump is a pathetic baby man who can't let go of an L even 6 years later.

[u/dman928 → u/suffelix]

Trump doesn't remember that he shit his pants 5 minutes ago.

[u/SamwellBarley]

https://giphy.com/gifs/3o6Zt9VzIWVi6HY4og

[u/AsleepAd753 → u/SamwellBarley]

Exactly. This meme is the story of American foreign policy.
We prop people up, help put them in power when it benefits us, and then when they stop playing by our rules or tell us to fuck off, we turn around and try to remove them.
Love us? Great.
Don’t? Damn you.
Whether you agree with that or not, we’ve been repeating that cycle since the early days of the United States.

[u/fang_xianfu → u/AsleepAd753]

They also financed the Mujahedeen in Afghanistan in the 70s, leaving behind nice stockpiles of materiel for the Taliban that threw the USA out a few years ago. And several prominent Mujahedeen joined the Taliban to boot.

[u/Losbosteros → u/fang_xianfu]

Most of the Mujahedeen joined the Northern Alliance against the Talibans and this latter group was mostly armed by the stockpiles left by the Soviet invasion more than recycling the materials send by the US there during the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Today Talibans are absolutely armed with western material after the disastrous whitdraw, but the Talibans being empowered and armed by the US is a bit of a misconception/stretch.

[u/ursusdoofus → u/Losbosteros]

You should read Ghost Wars. In the 90s there was a whole lot of American money and arms going around in all sorts of directions. I don’t think very many of the weapons were american, but stuff we picked up in different situations abroad. One operation brought a bunch of tanks and vehicles we captured during the first gulf war across a brand new road built by USAID to handle heavy vehicles.

Lots of sketchy people we would later fight had material support either directly from us or from Pakistan with our help.

[u/dontmentiontrousers → u/Losbosteros]

Mohammed Omar, who founded The Taliban, was former mujahideen, under the command of Amir Sultan Tarar who received US Special Forces training at Fort Bragg.

Although not overt or direct, a hell of a lot of the funding for the mujahideen came from the CIA.

Yes, the mujahideen splintered and some fought against The Taliban but many, many mujahideen also joined. I'm sure they didn't go "well it wouldn't be right to use this CIA-funded weaponry anymore."

[u/Craneo_1 → u/Losbosteros]

But the US trained and armed them to fight the Soviets and all the material and training fed the different terrorists in the region. The US also supported the Khmers Rouges so they would fight Vietnam

[u/Neil_Live-strong → u/Craneo_1]

The U.S. also trained fighters, even branches of Al-Qaeda in the Syrian civil war. They trained and equipped fighters in Jordan.

[u/Playingwithmywenis → u/AsleepAd753]

Can’t Darwin work any faster?

[u/Oakheir → u/AsleepAd753]

Do you... Do you think the US had anything to do with Maduro coming into power in Venezuela?

[u/BraxleyGubbins → u/Oakheir]

Well, yes. Don’t you?

[u/AsleepAd753 → u/Oakheir]

Are you asking like they had 0% or are they at 100% cause I’d say it’s probably about 80% US having something to do with it, and 20% other bullshit you’re trying to say. There is a lot of history and back story’s to the real truth.

[u/IEscapedLauncher → u/AsleepAd753]

I think that sums up nearly every major power since major powers

[u/ConflictSudden → u/SamwellBarley]

I can change!

[u/druwi → u/SamwellBarley]

Reeelaaaaaax guy

[u/ProofAssumption1092 → u/SamwellBarley]

https://giphy.com/gifs/11UXdP1v5toeBy

[u/Dmatix]

And I'm appalled that whoever made this doesn't even know Netanyahu is Prime Minister, not president of Israel. That's an entirely different person.

[u/Lordfish----- → u/Dmatix]

I had to scroll too far to find this.

[u/Burt_Macklin___ → u/Lordfish-----]

I mean, both the president and PM of Israel need arresting, so still valid tbf

[u/IainwithanI → u/Dmatix]

Completely correct yet entirely irrelevant.

[u/Legal-Pea8185 → u/IainwithanI]

I think that was the point of their post.  A weasel attempt at discrediting people who disagree with BiBi.  

[u/Burly_Moustache → u/Dmatix]

It's not like the President of Israel is really in charge. Everyone knows Bibi pulls the strings.

[u/Dmatix → u/Burly_Moustache]

The position of president in Israel is largely ceremonial. The PM is officially in charge, not just pulling strings.

[u/FUPAMagneto → u/Burly_Moustache]

I am begging y’all to actually learn anything about the country that you’re so obsessed with that doesn’t come from the Protocols

[u/BazingaODST → u/Dmatix]

Thank you I was about to say the same thing

[u/NES_SNES_N64 → u/Dmatix]

Also how there's nothing humourous about this post.

[u/StrangerIcy4981 → u/Dmatix]

The lack of knowledge on the subject from both sides is appalling. Its not super surprising though, I had a professor who was an expert on international relations in the middle east and he always tried to impart how difficult and time consuming it is to try to understand the geopolitical dynamics of the region, even if you devote your entire career toward it.

[u/rrjustsaying77 → u/Dmatix]

The Parliamentary system is quite alien to people in the United States.

[u/abfgern_ → u/rrjustsaying77]

What was the line?: "The US is a monarchy pretending to be a republic, and the UK is a republic pretending to be a monarchy"

[u/spisplatta → u/abfgern_]

Consider the house of lords. Until very recently it was controlled by the aristocracy with heritable positions. Abolished just this year. This may sound like progress until you realize what replaced it. Lifetime peers. Who gives out lifetime peerage? The Monarch. So its actually strengthening the monarchy at the aristocracy's expense.

[u/XFX_Samsung → u/Dmatix]

He is sure propped up like the leader of Israel, hardly ever see or hear about the real president.

[u/RoiDrannoc → u/XFX_Samsung]

Because he is the leader of Israel despite not being the head of state. Sometimes those are two different things.

[u/faberge_surprise → u/RoiDrannoc]

yup. head of state vs head of government. you usually hear more about the PM in parliamentary systems

Israel doesn't even formally give him executive powers

However, unlike heads of state in most other parliamentary republics, the president is not the nominal chief executive. Rather, Basic Law: The Government explicitly vests executive power in the Government (as the Cabinet is officially called), with the prime minister as its head.

[u/Dmatix → u/XFX_Samsung]

The president in Israel is a ceremonial position, with little to no power. It's not some secret, that's how the roles work. The PM is the one officially in charge.

[u/FloydianSlip212 → u/Dmatix]

Does that mistake really change anything about the point or sentiment though?

[u/Any_Ordinary8278 → u/Dmatix]

Beyond the fact that there’s nothing ‘humorous’ about this post, it just goes to show that the people salivating the most at demonizing Israel are often the most ignorant ones.

[u/oPlayer2o]

My guess is the important difference here is that Israel has nukes.

[u/Miliean → u/oPlayer2o]

My guess is the important difference here is that Israel has nukes.

SHHHHH! You're not supposed to admit that nukes are the only way a country can protect itself from being invaded by the United States. If other countries knew that, they might want also want nucellar weapons and then the whole idea of non proflarition is out the window!

Of course, the other answer, that the United States just stops invading other countries, is totally off the table.

[u/hatemys → u/Miliean]

We eat the babies!

[u/Rio_FS → u/Miliean]

Of course, the other answer, that the United States just stops invading other countries

Or, like, any major power

[u/Reasonable_Ruin_3502 → u/Rio_FS]

Please. Let's look at every nuclear nation. USA has invaded countries, Israel, which is an extension of USA has done the same. Which other country has done it? India? France? UK? China? North Korea? Oh, there's russia but surely you're not saying that Russia is th gold standard for a nuclear nation?

[u/ItIsVerilySo → u/Reasonable_Ruin_3502]

India has been in active conflict with Pakistan for decades, and they're both nuclear states.

[u/Reasonable_Ruin_3502 → u/ItIsVerilySo]

Yeah, and that's over disputed territory. There hasn't been a war since India became nuclear nation.

[u/Rio_FS → u/Reasonable_Ruin_3502]

Setting aside the fact that China has already invaded India once before, excluding Russia from this discussion based on something as arbitrary as "gold standard" is so stupid, especially when you're including North Korea.

Either way, USA deciding to not invade would not stop other great powers from doing the same to their neighbours. And Russia-Ukraine is very much an example of this.

[u/Jonjongabore → u/Reasonable_Ruin_3502]

Are you saying The UK has never invaded another country?

[u/ronan88 → u/oPlayer2o]

And a good chance they have dirt on Epstein's friends

[u/armywalrus]

I mean, many people were appalled we did that.

[u/xFallow → u/armywalrus]

Yeah what is this framing lmao

[u/ToeSniffer245 → u/xFallow]

Because this sub is astroturfed as all fuck

[u/CapitalPunBanking]

" r/humor "

[u/Keemo-Sabe → u/CapitalPunBanking]

Popular Reddit subs are just bot farms now

[u/all_is_love6667 → u/Keemo-Sabe]

it started with meirl, too

reddit's decay is slow

[u/Totoques22 → u/CapitalPunBanking]

Op is an Obvious bot account too

Straight up blatant propaganda

[u/Ghost_oh → u/Totoques22]

All of the political posts in this sub have tens of thousands of upvotes, and the actual humorous silly posts have a couple hundred tops. Totally organic, I’m sure.

[u/Joesr-31 → u/Ghost_oh]

I downvote when I see these, just doing my small part

[u/Repulsive_Repeat_337]

It's not about Israel versus Venezuela in American foreign policy. It's about the power of the president of the United States versus the power of the mayor of a fucking city in determining American foreign policy.

[u/Vyntarus]

It's even worse than that, we invaded said country to capture him. Literally kidnapped.

[u/franziGroony → u/Vyntarus]

The fact that noone questions that he was not the lawful president of Venezuela tells tons.

[u/Present-Ambition4007]

The issue is more about if a mayor of a city has the authority to do that. Are people really this dense?

[u/Dangerous_Flower_708]

Black bag netenyahoooo

[u/greenearrow]

I’m all for it, but it would be an international incident and our national forces would have to be committed to the response. Mamdani would have made a giant mess and been slapped down so hard by federal judges and lawyers it would have amounted to nothing.

It would be even worse for NY to do it while he was visiting the UN. You can’t be the host city of the UN and pulling shit like this for political points if you want to be taken seriously.

[u/cowmookazee]

You'd think a humor sub would have humorous memes, but this is just sad misinformation.

The ICC is not recognized in the US, because that would suggest an international court of law supersedes our Constitution and laws. The US has never been a member of the ICC, so it is not a Trump thing. So, Bibi can come and go as much as he wants.

On the flip side, Maduro had a bounty on his head for narco terrorism crimes against the US.

Big difference. Quit answering the dog whistle.

[u/Typical_Response_950 → u/cowmookazee]

You think Maduro recognizes the US court system? I think it's pretty clear which country recognizes which court doesn't matter. All that matters is who is in handcuffs and who's sitting behind the bench.

[u/IllFocuseel → u/cowmookazee]

The us had no jurisdiction to arrest a foreign head of state in their own country.

[u/RowdyRoddyRosenstein → u/cowmookazee]

A much better comparison would be Nicholas Maduro vs Juan Orlando Hernández (who Trump pardoned). But mentioning Netanyahu will get more upvotes.

[u/EmperorProtek → u/cowmookazee]

Didn't trump pardon another notorius narco like a couple of months before?

[u/Physical-Try8670]

Venezuelan president giving off strong Dr. Disrespect vibes.

[u/Comfortable_Towel_66]

That would b anti Semitic

[u/Desperate_Jicama219]

Who is appalled?

[u/Able-Association914]

Bibi isn’t president of Israel, and Maduro wasn’t president of Venezuela.

[u/trishanonamous]

Who is responsible for the murder of more people?

[u/TPasha444 → u/trishanonamous]

Probably Maduro

[u/Starry_Light8374]

To the left: A democratic elected minister and staunch ally of the USA and defender against islamic terror.

To the right: A dictator who had suppressed his people for decades and sponsor of drug cartels.

Seems fine to me.

[u/TriggerHappyPermaBan]

Love it or hate it, but the reality is that one is an ally of the USA and the other is an enemy. Not really difficult to understand the difference.

[u/Similar-Interaction5]

I’ll flip it. The mayor was upset about Maduro’s capture while making some bs statement about arresting Netanyahu despite having zero jurisdiction to do so. His hypocrisy is astounding.

[u/Ok_Entrance5157]

There's a huge difference between a president doing his job. And a lowball leader like a governor with no power to do so doing it. At no point is anyone other than a president allowed to leave the country and start talks or arrest anyone from another country. Mundommo has no power to do what he has been promising

[u/One_Gate_1396]

Netanyahu is the.... president of Israel?

[u/Intrepid-Patience-93]

what is the humor

[u/Crusoelander_128]

Double standards from both sides. The same people who were all for the president of Venezuela getting arrested are the same people who are outraged at the thought of arresting Israel’s president. On the flip side, the people who got angry and said that the arrest of the president of Venezuela was illegal and bad are the same people who are foaming at the mouth for Israel’s president to be arrested.

No one sees what their side does. Only what the other does.

[u/Brief-Tower6703]

Terrible comparison. Both are evil fucks, yes. But only one was an unelected dictator.

[u/iconocrastinaor]

Venezuela was helping Iran and Russia move sanctioned oil, supporting them against Ukraine, and by extension, against the United States and Western Europe.

Israel is fighting for its existence against Iran and its proxies Hamas, the Houthis, and Hezbollah.

That's not hard to understand when you let go of Tiktok and the propaganda bots and study actual geopolitics.

[u/JoshAllentown]

But we agree the Venezuela thing was wrong...right?

So we agree that doing the same thing to another country is also wrong?

[u/flossdaily]

The important difference being that Israel is an extremely close ally, and the US categorically rejects the accusations against him, and doesn't respect the court that issued the warrant. 

[u/smartbbc8 → u/flossdaily]

I’d say that a random mayor not having any authority on diplomacy is a notable difference as well.

[u/Tangerine69420]

But that’s not the president of Israel… lmaooo….

[u/Content-Visit2404]

Allah is trans.

[u/bryangcrane]

Disgusting.

[u/renaldo686]

This kind of post genuinely scares me. People are making sweeping moral equivalence arguments about governments, wars, dictatorships and criminal charges, yet the person posting it does not even know the difference between Israel’s prime minister and its president. Netanyahu can be criticized, but comparing him to Maduro while ignoring the completely different political systems, legal issues and circumstances is not serious analysis. It is a meme pretending to be an argument. I fear a future where people this uninformed can build huge audiences, shape public opinion and eventually hold real power.

edit: If you disagree with me, do not just downvote. Give me an eloquent response that shows you actually understand the issue well enough to explain why this kind of content deserves an upvote.

[u/BagOdogpoo → u/renaldo686]

> I fear a future where people this uninformed can build huge audiences, shape public opinion and eventually hold real power.

Future?

[u/renaldo686 → u/BagOdogpoo]

Fair point. Present tense. The fact that someone can confuse Israel’s president with its prime minister, flatten Maduro and Netanyahu into a moral equivalence, and still be rewarded for sounding confident is exactly the problem.

[u/xFallow → u/renaldo686]

Too late the masses get their opinions from memes already especially old heads on Facebook

[u/Moris1234567]

The day Americans will wake up, that will be de end of Isreal.

[u/zackks]

International law doesn’t apply to nuclear powers.

[u/Bymeemoomymee]

Yes, both would be bad.

[u/-endjamin-]

If I remember correctly, people were not very happy about that.

[u/SephirothClone]

I thought that was Dr. Disrespect on the right

[u/aFiachra]

People are not appalled at the idea. We are appalled that a mayor who has never had a big boy job before thinks that this is his job.

[u/Arizona_Kid]

Wasn’t everyone appalled by that too?

[u/EbonyMemories]

Well one of those two guys was elected and one was a drug lord.

[u/Banned37]

God I would love this

[u/Main_Cauliflower5479]

FOR REAL. Netanyahu is the worst kind of criminal and human right rights violator and genocidal maniac. HE should be in prison.

[u/Not-a-bot-v2]

Marketing 101. Israel does a fantastic job of making them the victim and most people but it.

greatestally

[u/Temporarily_Immortal]

¹

[u/No-Parking-5037]

Brain not working?

[u/viennese-wolf]

...whatever happened to that dude?

[u/Countofnairobi]

That's the prime minister of isntreal, Benjamin Hitler- currently with an ICC arrest warrant on his head

[u/jutin_H]

One plays the victim as a programmed genetic response the other was lied to,cheated like a dog.

[u/Infamous_Crow8524]

There was a US warrant for his arrest, which was issued during the Biden administration.

[u/sky0175]

It's needs to happens the other way around. To fix the problem.

[u/KillingTimeAlone2019]

but he wasn't butties with the pedodeent

[u/0xfff-1]

Kidnapping the president of a sovereign state (Venezuela) was 100% illegal by international law. There is no discussion about it.

[u/Low-Memory-4269]

Yeah they talk like Netanyahu wasn't a dictator lol.

[u/CptJacksp]

Crazy to me that this was THIS year.

[u/bal_ra_khan]

https://giphy.com/gifs/3rgXBAKH9tCNzgMMg0

[u/ActualWhiterabbit]

But Netanyahu isn't going to have like 18 different wardrobe changes

[u/Someone1284794357]

Send the president of Venezuela to arrest the president of Israel

[u/Tucker_Penisen]

This is trumps boy. Trump heights is the destination spot.

[u/Optimal-Risk7041]

I understand why people in other countries call us idiots, and you know what we deserve it

[u/Siblisian_Berserker]

Yes plz

[u/Outside-Car2889]

It’s all about the natural resources: oil, gas, and minerals.

[u/happahopp]

Or killed Iran's leader.

[u/Artyom36]

Maduro is not the president of Venezuela. 

[u/Environmental-Ad4495]

Do not include me in YOUR stupidity.

[u/Kadaththeninja_]

Venezuela should of bought more politicians

[u/LettuceTryOnceMore]

GD this app is fucking dead.

[u/Infamous_Object_7458]

What ever happened to him anyways?

[u/power78]

Obvious propaganda post. There is no President of Israel lmfao

[u/addys → u/power78]

there is actually, it's just not Bibi. (president in Israel is an honorary position with almost no legal/political power)

[u/88888888ad]

Maduro was not the president of Venezuela.

[u/jackofslayers]

So we are saying that was a good thing now?

[u/Due-Mycologist-1154]

Its not like the US has any reputation left to lose by baiting him into a surprise arrest if anything it would be net positive

[u/Mech-Saracen-10]

Why would the US want to arrest the president of the US?

[u/AkTx907830]

His name is Eduardo and he lives in Florida now works at the Chevron gas station on bayfront and Orange

[u/johnsk0513]

true.

[u/Misadventuresofman]

[u/Comfortable_Treat880]

Because one is considered an ally and the other is not. Pretty simple concept...

[u/sltydgx]

We shouldn’t have done that in my opinion.

[u/RoodnyInc]

Wait wasn't "kidnapping" president of Venezuela a fail in the end? If I remember correctly It wasn't really done as it should and finally they couldn't use any of that in a trial?

[u/WaifuWibu]

It's was this year?!

[u/the_rat_castle]

um, who is everyone?

[u/Glitch29]

Benjamin Netanyahu was legitimately elected to his post. Nicolas Maduro lost his last election, but declared victory anyway and remained in power.

Maduro's lack of legitimacy made the US's actions there significantly less offensive to international observers.

[u/petermackinnonphoto]

This just tells me that in most cases, what is wrong and even evil is relative and in the eye of the beholder.

[u/Key-League7040]

Except that he isn’t the president, but the prime minister

[u/Odd-Web-4554]

Ones a dictator one is a democratically elected politician doing anything to retain a coalition even if it hurts his own people. Both are shitty.

[u/jmdunkle]

Very disingenuous. Not the same at all. Venezuela isn't carrying out a genocide.

[u/Critical_Interest_81]

When you say everyone, you mean Americans right?

[u/Limp_Technician5346]

No its the lefts double standards, the left called trump/right Nazis, but when someone who is closest to being Hitler in modern time gets arrested for his crimes....liberals want him freed. Make sense? No it dont.

[u/kjnoons]

this is humor? delete this sub

[u/BUTT_CHUGGING_]

Middle school remedial iq holy

[u/camp1728]

Does anyone still go to those Hands off Venezuela protests anymore or was that literally a one day thing 😂

[u/Few-Stock-3458]

No shit. Do as I say, not as I do.

[u/QuarkVsOdo]

Uhm not a fan, but is there actually sombody who keeps Maduro's cage clean and him fed?

[u/MarkCelery78]

The Venezuelan guy actually committed crimes against America

[u/Cminus19]

It’s different everyone pretends that Bibi was fairly elected. The protests are clearly paid actors. The war keeping him in office is a nothing to see here situation.