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Maduro declared, “This year and to honor you all... I am going to decree the beginning of Christmas on October 1.”

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[–] [email protected] 62 points 2 months ago

Christmas has come early this year in Venezuela! ...under threat of imprisonment.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 2 months ago

Damn, he really focuses on important issues doesn't he

[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 months ago
[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 months ago

Oh nice he has the same calendar that the shops near me use!

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (4 children)

How is this a better link? Its a different source but what makes the Guardian better?

Ground News lets you at least choose the outlet you read it from.

At least unlike most times this Guardian article is written by them and not just quoting the AP source like most other sites are doing.

("Original AP News Article - Better link than above)

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The original link was popup city on mobile and only 1 short paragraph. I had to Google to find a reasonable summary

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Fair enough! Never browsed Ground.News on mobile so did not know =)

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

The site you posted is damn near unreadable on my phone.

The future fucking sucks. I hate the enshittification of the internet.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

I thought you were exaggerating, but it's a literal nightmare on mobile.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I use ground news too, it's fantastic for getting worldwide news.

Well, I usually pick a source with high factually and post it here, since I figured it was more of an aggregator than a source. I also thought it being subscription based makes it hard for users that don't have the app and/or account.

You could add a "found on ground news" in the body or comments.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Absolute horror on mobile

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago

Thanks maduro, now I can finally dress as an xmas tree for Halloween!!! Fucking idiot dictators.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago

angry datetime developer noises

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

You dropped a T.

Twat

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

No Christmas tree? Straight to jail!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Christmas tree too big? Also jail.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Christmas ball colors reminding USA too much? Double jail

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

C'mon, guys! Maduro totally knows what he's doing! He even talked to Jesus and Christ is all cool with celebrating his 2024th birthday 3 months early, it's totally not the dumbest, least effective smokescreen ever in recorded history!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I mean, Jesus wasn't born on December 25th, that's just a fact that the holiday was already moved to roughly the date of the winter solstice to usurp and syncretize pagan festivals.

Real weirdo move regardless.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

spoilerdafuq?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

Piece of shit authoritarian. What a useless and irritating gesture. You lost the election, time to go.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I want to see people to talk about the war in Christmas be happy with him.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Technically they should want to invade. Unless of course he means it goes for 3 months straight.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

So he's finally decided to embrace retail capitalism?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

The overall latitude and time maps are about to get crazy!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

In the Communist future, the Hallmark channel runs Christmas movies in May. And the stores start decorating in August.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

/s?

Because I'm pretty sure you just described the capitalist present.