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Post by Deleted on Jan 9, 2017 18:30:20 GMT -5
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Post by robeiae on Jan 9, 2017 18:41:29 GMT -5
I just watched an old episode of MASH last night, wherein Hawkeye and Trapper had to go to the black market to get medical supplies because all there shipments were being hijacked. Military help--whether US or South Korean--was implied as a given. And of course, there are all of those war movies where the supply officer has loads of contraband, which he uses sometimes benevolently, but usually just to make a buck.
Yes, it's fucked up, but it's 100% predictable because of the stupidity of Maduro's policies. If there wasn't an angle available for some people in the military to turn a profit, there'd be less food for everyone in Venezuela.
The fix here is at the top.
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Post by Don on Jan 11, 2017 6:20:06 GMT -5
Yet support for Sanders, a Maduro clone if I've ever seen one, was unprecedented. W.T.F.?
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Post by Don on Jan 11, 2017 6:40:30 GMT -5
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Post by Amadan on Jan 11, 2017 13:58:03 GMT -5
Whether or not minimum wages are a good idea, you need to do more work than point out that they exist in a collapsing economy to establish causation.
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Post by robeiae on Feb 21, 2017 17:39:53 GMT -5
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Post by michaelw on Mar 1, 2017 8:05:29 GMT -5
Maduro sucks. Bring back Chavez!
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Post by robeiae on Mar 1, 2017 8:20:31 GMT -5
If one is going to be one of a series of leaders in a socialist country, it's generally better to go first.
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Post by Don on Mar 1, 2017 10:22:08 GMT -5
This has been largely ignored--imo--by the international community (and the US) for far too long. Of course it's ignored. Venezuela's collapse doesn't fit the narrative. It wasn't all that long ago, in people years, that Venezuela was regularly regaled as a shining city on a hill, or somesuch.
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Post by Amadan on Mar 1, 2017 12:11:35 GMT -5
Of course it's ignored. Venezuela's collapse doesn't fit the narrative. It wasn't all that long ago, in people years, that Venezuela was regularly regaled as a shining city on a hill, or somesuch. Eh. People were happy that Chavez was offering cheap heating oil, but even in their fat years, people were criticizing Chavez and no one thought Venezuela was going to be the next Latin American Tiger.
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Post by Don on Mar 2, 2017 5:52:27 GMT -5
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Post by Rolling Thunder on Mar 2, 2017 6:22:34 GMT -5
What concerns me is that Bernie Sanders has a whole generation fawning over socialism.
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Post by Don on Mar 2, 2017 6:34:37 GMT -5
What concerns me is that Bernie Sanders has a whole generation fawning over socialism. One of the world's greatest mysteries to me is how anyone who has even lightly studied either history or economics can be a socialist. Then I remember who claims responsibility for "education" and it all becomes clear to me.
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Post by Amadan on Mar 2, 2017 10:15:38 GMT -5
Show me where they predicted Venezuela's rise as an economic power? They are cheering for socialism - I didn't deny that happened. I don't consider celebrity opinions to be particularly indicative of general sentiment, and as for the likes of Chomsky, Sanders, and Corbyn - yeah, socialists praise other socialists. Shocker.
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Post by robeiae on Mar 2, 2017 17:21:34 GMT -5
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