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Pener Kropoopkin posted:A hallmark of The Paranoid Style is to act like left-liberals are actually Stalin. Ah yes, the "you are for free lunches at school so TF you are literally Stalin"
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Nebakenezzer posted:Because the first article on the Guardian I saw about Venezuela had the ex-mayor of London Ken Livingston saying that Chavez hosed up when he didn't straight up murder the oligarchs in Venezuela He's not wrong.
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Nebakenezzer posted:Guys I'm interested in what's going on down thar, so I went to the Guardian and the Economist (I know, but when not peddling their stupid ideas they do good international reporting IMO) and well, I didn't get very far you should have a read of what ken livingston has got up to the last couple of years its really fun
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*looks at a Latin American civil war* guys, as a middle class norte, I am uniquely qualified to tell you what is truth or falsehood from my literal ivory tower
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"Obviously the people from the country are going to be the platonic ideal of objectivity" is one hell of a take considering gusanos and Ana Navaro are people that exist. Like independently of how bad Maduro might be.
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Good morning and blessings to all Venezuela. I'm Captain Juan Caguaripano commander of the David Carabobo Operation. I am accompanied by the 41st brigade, I am accompanied by officers and troops of this glorious unit of the true Venezuelan army forger of freedom, as well as active and reserve troops of all the police components. Men and women brave lovers of peace and freedom, we declare ourselves in legitimate rebelliousness, united today more than ever with the brave Venezuelan people to repudiate the murderous tyranny of Nicolas Maduro. We clarify that this is not a coup d'etat this is a civil and military action to re-establish the constitutional order, but more to save the country from total destruction, to stop the murders of our young people and relatives. As institutional military members, we recognize and respect the National Assembly (It's like Venezuelan congress) but we demand that it recognize and respect the will of the people to get rid of the tyranny, and honor the heroic memory of young people like Neymar, Geraldin, Fernalete, (Venezuelan who died during the protests) and others, that with shields of paperboard but with hearts of steel offered their lives to teach the venezuelan people how to defeat the fear. Gentlemen of the National Assembly, it's time to stop hidden agreements between tyrants and traitors. We need honest politicians that aren't corrupt and that won't betray the venezuelan people. We demand the immediate formation of a government of transition. And free general elections with independent public powers, we ask our brother-in-arms to rise up against this murderous regime and to disobey corrupt generals who do not represent the honor or dignity of our armed force, do not be the shame of our family, we invite All venezuela to go to the barracks to join us in this liberating party. And to receive, in a peaceful and orderly way, the citizens of your locality, where hostile activity against the civilian population will be considered a military objective, and we'll go against it with all the firepower of our allied forces throughout the country, Venezuela, God is with us. And from today live the freedom and the tyranny dies. https://twitter.com/Ricard0B0livar/status/894212920850210816 (they all got owned)
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logikv9 posted:people still play WoW?? Yes.
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get that OUT of my face posted:as more socialists have turned their backs on venezuela in recent years, one accusation that i hear from them is that it's always been less socialist and more peronist. i've done a little bit of reading and the comparison holds up on the surface, but i'd rather hear from someone who knows more 70% of the economy is private state sector is less than in France he should have expropriated the expropriators faster
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Nebakenezzer posted:Guys I'm interested in what's going on down thar, so I went to the Guardian and the Economist (I know, but when not peddling their stupid ideas they do good international reporting IMO) and well, I didn't get very far he is not wrong
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and the transition to Not Real Socialism is complete
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Fallen Hamprince posted:and the transition to Not Real Socialism is complete The venezuelan economy is literally closer to that of the US than to that of scandinavian soc-dems, let alone the USSR.
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i dunno what to call it when someone fails at socialism, but im sure its hypocritical either way to say maduro fails at socialism
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lollontee posted:i dunno what to call it when someone fails at socialism capitalism
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lollontee posted:i dunno what to call it when someone fails at socialism, but im sure its hypocritical either way to say maduro fails at socialism Socialism of the 21st Century
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Fallen Hamprince posted:and the transition to Not Real Socialism is complete here you go my dude, let fox news explain to you things you cannot use your sharp radical centrist brain to parse http://www.foxnews.com/world/2010/07/18/socialism-private-sector-dominates-venezuelan-economy-despite-chavez-crusade.html
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nationalize the eggs
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someone please stuff hamprince in a locker
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:capitalism Disagree, imposing price controls to make basic goods cheaper and ignoring if the producers of such things can make money under price controls is not capitalism
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Nebakenezzer posted:Disagree, imposing price controls to make basic goods cheaper and ignoring if the producers of such things can make money under price controls is not capitalism Failing to do socialism means you're still capitalist, chump.
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Actually, they're failing to do capitalism, and therefore doing feudalism
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Wrong again, dcuck.
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Uh yeah a failed system based on petrodollars is the same as a government system based on decentralization and ownership of human beings But enough about capitalism
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Nebakenezzer posted:Disagree, imposing price controls to make basic goods cheaper and ignoring if the producers of such things can make money under price controls is not capitalism Capitalist countries use price controls in times of crisis regularly.
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Nebakenezzer posted:Disagree, imposing price controls to make basic goods cheaper and ignoring if the producers of such things can make money under price controls is not capitalism Keynes was not a capitalist a hot take
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Send the tankies to Venezuela.
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Vey Nay Zwei Lei
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venezuela on fire so what
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another awesome day in totally-not-a-dictatorship-land https://twitter.com/alexandraulmer/status/895734579713200129
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Fallen Hamprince posted:another awesome day in totally-not-a-dictatorship-land oh good
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qnqnx posted:Send the tankies to Venezuela. the revisionists are already in charge of Venezuela
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qnqnx posted:Send the tankies with t-34s to Venezuela.
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Top City Homo posted:70% of the economy is private
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get that OUT of my face posted:lol so it's not even peronist, it's the same klepto-state that it's always been with lip service to socialist ideas. but as long as you talk the talk, tankies will look the other way if you don't walk the walk he still did socdem stuff and helped fight poverty so he is better than neolib austerity
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*in neolib centrist voice* Thousands of poor and disabled people dying due to austerity is completely different
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Good news, we finally have our objective evidence of the shittiness of the Olympics if there were any doubters
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Yeah Rio got in some real deep poo poo the last couple of years. One of the state universities even got shut down this semester because they are completely broke.
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the ESPN article linked in Gizmodo is bigger and more comprehensive than the gawker family's usual "here's a link to the story, a rundown of its contents, and a couple paragraphs of us editorializing" format. other highlights:
the olympics are the worst and the IOC is worse than FIFA
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