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manchego posted:is poo poo able to get through via the mail? They can't open ALL packages to steal poo poo but yeah they do open packages and steal or break stuff out of malice. They also routinely steal stuff out of people's bags at the airport. My dad sends me stuff using a door-to-door service which is 100% secure because they pay off the guards lol
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Side note; the postal system in Eastern Europe runs the same way. Whenever we send hand me downs to my cousins or blankets and poo poo we literally use a Ukrainian mob front parcel service. They cost a lot but their warehouses are guarded by only the finest of paid killers.
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Gaj posted:Side note; the postal system in Eastern Europe runs the same way. Whenever we send hand me downs to my cousins or blankets and poo poo we literally use a Ukrainian mob front parcel service. They cost a lot but their warehouses are guarded by only the finest of paid killers. The mail always gets through or else.
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I pay quite a bit for this one yeah, and it's about a month before we can even start wondering when will it arrive, but it has done so twice for me. The guy mentioned that they used barcodes to track where the package goes, no address or personal data, so only the guys here and the person taking the package to my mom's door can possibly know who is it too. Of course, they are Venezuelans so that can just be habladera e paja (bullshit). Still, it gets there.
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A couple of news from the past few days:
And here's a picture of a (thin-looking) dangerous criminal who was thankfully removed from the crime-ridden streets by the brave public order forces of the revolution in Valencia, Carabobo state for stealing two bag of chips on Monday:  Hugoon Chavez posted:My mom works near the andres Bello and lives near pdvsa la campiña. If any of you caraqueños need an over the counter stuff I could try and get it for you (can't promise it, but I'll try) and you pick them out from my mom's in a month or so. Please don't kidnap her though.  (From a billboard in Caracas. Puertas blindadas means "armoured doors")
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Welp I made the mistake of posting this to reddit and everyone immediately called him a piece of poo poo shoplifter who deserved it 
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That one looks fairly normal, to be honest. This is my personal favorite, from a guy that stole a block of cheese. You can just tell the guy on the left has been practicing the whole letting-my-sunglasses-hang look for a while.
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Keep your gun trained at the cheese block, officer.
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I'm the "Gun-free zone" sign.
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Labradoodle posted:That one looks fairly normal, to be honest. This is my personal favorite, from a guy that stole a block of cheese. Hell, even the cops look ashamed in that one. Bro Dad posted:Welp I made the mistake of posting this to reddit and everyone immediately called him a piece of poo poo shoplifter who deserved it  Was this on a neo-feudalist subreddit? I wouldn't think that criminalizing the poor and hungry (specially in a self-professed revolutionary country!) would be a very popular idea in a lot of places.
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Bro Dad posted:/r pics actually, but then again i dont know the distinction between feudalism and libertarianism The distinction is that feudalism can work in certain conditions. 
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Bro Dad posted:Welp I made the mistake of posting this to reddit and everyone immediately called him a piece of poo poo shoplifter who deserved it Chavismo can not fail, only you can fail Chavismo, and he failed Chavismo.
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so stupid question, but with trump in power, will that change anything with how the US deals with the goings on in Venezuela? like do you think he will try to coup the PSVU and Maduro? I doubt he even knows it exists but i am sure he hawk advisers may look into it.
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Dapper_Swindler posted:so stupid question, but with trump in power, will that change anything with how the US deals with the goings on in Venezuela? like do you think he will try to coup the PSVU and Maduro? I doubt he even knows it exists but i am sure he hawk advisers may look into it. no he knows about venezuela from when he did beauty contests
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Dapper_Swindler posted:so stupid question, but with trump in power, will that change anything with how the US deals with the goings on in Venezuela? like do you think he will try to coup the PSVU and Maduro? I doubt he even knows it exists but i am sure he hawk advisers may look into it. Maybe Putin will trade away Venezuela in exchange for the Baltics.
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Sinteres posted:Maybe Putin will trade away Venezuela in exchange for the Baltics. Trade to who? China owns Venezuela, not the US, and China's already holding the country in very low regard.
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Dapper_Swindler posted:so stupid question, but with trump in power, will that change anything with how the US deals with the goings on in Venezuela? like do you think he will try to coup the PSVU and Maduro? I doubt he even knows it exists but i am sure he hawk advisers may look into it. Trump's not really a neocon, so I doubt invading Venezuela is on his list. He's more likely to eminent domain away everyone living in the Dakotas and frack their land for oil, and the US is too far from Venezuela for him to worry about the impending refugee crisis. NYTimes had a piece about that yesterday, speaking of: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/25/world/americas/hungry-venezuelans-flee-in-boats-to-escape-economic-collapse.html
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Today I went to a supermarket that has everything imported from Colombia, they had three different brands of everything but of course all really expensive, I bought a few different brands of pasta to try them out, the rice looks super poo poo but what the hell it's not like you can find another brand anywhere else. You could buy as much as you wanted too, no limits like those in place for price regulated foods. Place is probably owned by Arias Cardenas or some other military guy.
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El Hefe posted:Today I went to a supermarket that has everything imported from Colombia, they had three different brands of everything but of course all really expensive, I bought a few different brands of pasta to try them out, the rice looks super poo poo but what the hell it's not like you can find another brand anywhere else. You could buy as much as you wanted too, no limits like those in place for price regulated foods. There are a bunch of those places in Caracas – it feels like stepping into a different country. The worst of all is this place called Cine Citta which is one of those decadent restaurants that serves every cuisine and has a supermarket attached to it. I took a look inside and Jesus, the prices. Everything was imported, they even had a medicine cabinet and boxes of toilet paper. I saw a 5kg sack of rice going for over 70k, and that was like two months ago. I shudder to think about what the prices must be like now.
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Labradoodle posted:There are a bunch of those places in Caracas – it feels like stepping into a different country. The worst of all is this place called Cine Citta which is one of those decadent restaurants that serves every cuisine and has a supermarket attached to it. I took a look inside and Jesus, the prices. Everything was imported, they even had a medicine cabinet and boxes of toilet paper. I saw a 5kg sack of rice going for over 70k, and that was like two months ago. I shudder to think about what the prices must be like now. 70000Bs for 5kg of rice is insane, I spent 59000Bs at this place and I bought a bunch of stuff including 10kg of pasta and 4 of rice, but quality might be a little dubious, I think they only import the cheapest products.
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brb fin to try to sneak into venezuela with enough bags of rice to ensure I can safely retire at 40 doesn't sound like I'll need thaaaaaaaaat many
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Punkin Spunkin posted:brb fin to try to sneak into venezuela with enough bags of rice to ensure I can safely retire at 40 LOL good luck converting your currency.
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El Hefe posted:Dollar exchange rate went from around Bs. 1000 for $1 to where it is now at Bs 3500 for $1 in just a few months and its going up and up At least you might be getting denominations of BsF 20'000 next month, by which time they'll still be worth a few bucks for a while. You'll be able to carry messenger bags full of cash to buy a week of groceries instead of rolling suitcases for a few months. Actually, are they still going to bother printing those higher denomination banknotes? I see news from October saying it's going to happen in December, but I can only imagine that won't happen on time, since there's no update since then.
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This letter by Umberto Eco on fascism is so good. http://www.nybooks.com/articles/1995/06/22/ur-fascism/ quote:Ur-Fascism is based upon a selective populism, a qualitative populism, one might say. In a democracy, the citizens have individual rights, but the citizens in their entirety have a political impact only from a quantitative point of view—one follows the decisions of the majority. For Ur-Fascism, however, individuals as individuals have no rights, and the People is conceived as a quality, a monolithic entity expressing the Common Will. Since no large quantity of human beings can have a common will, the Leader pretends to be their interpreter. Having lost their power of delegation, citizens do not act; they are only called on to play the role of the People. Thus the People is only a theatrical fiction. To have a good instance of qualitative populism we no longer need the Piazza Venezia in Rome or the Nuremberg Stadium. There is in our future a TV or Internet populism, in which the emotional response of a selected group of citizens can be presented and accepted as the Voice of the People. Saladman posted:At least you might be getting denominations of BsF 20'000 next month, by which time they'll still be worth a few bucks for a while. You'll be able to carry messenger bags full of cash to buy a week of groceries instead of rolling suitcases for a few months. Nobody has actually seen these fabled new bills, banks aren't paying checks worth more than Bs.20000 (around $6) anyway.
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Baloogan posted:How do jobs pay people? Using bank transfers. For a while now, most people (including me) haven't been using cash unless strictly necessary. The only things I pay for in cash these days are cigarettes, buses, and cabs, and even the latter are switching to bank transfers when possible. At least in Caracas pretty much every business uses points of sale for anything, so we don't have to deal with carrying a ridiculous amount of bills. The problem is that points of sale are hard to come by these days, and I'm guessing a large part of businesses beyond the capital don't have the option to get them at all. So yeah, those people are hosed. More so now, since the Bolivar has lost a staggering 45% (more or less) of its value within the past month (mostly during the last two weeks). At this point I shudder to think what prices are going to look like come January and how people are going to cope with that, even with the new bills. It's also worth noting this is the third or fourth time this year that there have been rumblings about larger bills. Even if it looks like this time's the charm, I'm not going to believe it until I have those fuckers in hand.
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Labradoodle posted:Using bank transfers. For a while now, most people (including me) haven't been using cash unless strictly necessary. The only things I pay for in cash these days are cigarettes, buses, and cabs, and even the latter are switching to bank transfers when possible. At least in Caracas pretty much every business uses points of sale for anything, so we don't have to deal with carrying a ridiculous amount of bills. Thanks for this post.
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What has to happen for VZ to get better? Is it just a matter of it not getting worse? It's crazy to think that Venezuela, that was so happy and beautiful and rich, will end up like Democratic Republic of Congo or something. I mean Venezuela used to have so much, I remember in the 80's we used to eat smoked salmon and caviar on arepas, and not think anything of it; now what little family I have in the country is starving.
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lemonslol posted:What has to happen for VZ to get better? Is it just a matter of it not getting worse? It's crazy to think that Venezuela, that was so happy and beautiful and rich, will end up like Democratic Republic of Congo or something. I mean Venezuela used to have so much, I remember in the 80's we used to eat smoked salmon and caviar on arepas, and not think anything of it; now what little family I have in the country is starving. Baloogan posted:How do salaries work in runaway inflation? The minimum monthly salary in Venezuela today is Bs. 27,092. At the current black market rate (the black market is the most accessible currency exchange system in the country), that works out to about $6.60 US per month. The minimum monthly salary has been increased four times this year for a total increase of 120% since the January. However, given the fact that the inflation rate is expected to pass the 700% mark at by the end of the year and 1,660% next year, the constant increases to the salary are absurdly ineffective. The government also offers a kind food tamp program called the cestaticket which is supposed to supplement the minimum monthly salary, and that is often boosted as well to the same results. We're entering the realm of hyperinflation. The Bolivar is losing so much value so quickly that it's becoming nearly impossible to conduct the day-to-day business of shopping for food. Holding on to Bolivares for the purposes of savings has long become meaningless. The safest bet right now for Venezuelans is to try to immediately convert whatever income they're earning into food or a foreign currency.
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lemonslol posted:What has to happen for VZ to get better? Is it just a matter of it not getting worse? It's crazy to think that Venezuela, that was so happy and beautiful and rich, will end up like Democratic Republic of Congo or something. I mean Venezuela used to have so much, I remember in the 80's we used to eat smoked salmon and caviar on arepas, and not think anything of it; now what little family I have in the country is starving. Of all the problems that rebuilding will entail, brain drain may be the worst. Building up a trained and educated professional class takes an extraordinary long time. Since they have skills that are in globally in demand and the resources to move, they are often the first to leave. Additionally, once they start building a life in a new country they rarely want to go start over a third time. Everything that has happened is particularly crazy when you think that at one point, Venezuela was one of the richest countries on earth, with a GDP higher than most of Europe.
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