Rime posted:

I can't take the opinion seriously of anyone who looks at the most brutal humanitarian crisis in latin america in a generation and still spouts off that bullshit. Millions are starving to death? Nah fam, right wing coup attempt.

A Typical Goon posted:

Millions of people aren't starving to death in Venezuela and it was a literal by definition coup attempt. You're an idiot

eXXon posted:

A Typical Goon posted:

Millions of people aren't starving to death in Venezuela and it was a literal by definition coup attempt. You're an idiot

quote:

GARCIA: Take a typical Venezuelan worker, someone who makes the minimum wage. If he spent every single bolivar from his wage on that cheapest food available, how many calories could he buy in one day? Here is the incredible and frankly devastating answer from Ricardo.

HAUSMANN: This is a calculation that went from buying 57,000 calories a day in 2012 to buying less than 900 calories today.

GARCIA: Nine hundred calories - that's today's Planet Money indicator. Nine hundred calories is all the calories that the minimum wage will get you in Venezuela after working an entire day.

HAUSMANN: Which means that, you know, if a person normally spends over 2,000 calories a day, it means that a worker cannot feed myself, let alone his family. He - and that's assuming he doesn't spend anything in clothing, in transportation, in medicines, in housing, et cetera. So it just gives you a sense of how catastrophic is the collapse in income.

VANEK SMITH: To put that 900 calories in context, in the United States, you can buy more than 100,000 calories in one day on the minimum wage. So Venezuelan people are starving. And Ricardo told us about a couple of other similar statistics that also tell this story.

HAUSMANN: The other thing we did is we measured it just in eggs. How many eggs can you buy? Well, before, you know, in a day you could buy several dozen eggs. Now you can buy two eggs. That's it - two eggs. And that was important for us to calculate because it's not just calories. It's also proteins that people need. So, you know, right now people in Venezuela can buy two eggs. Recently people have calculated, what is the cost of a Big Mac - how long does it take you to work to make enough to buy a Big Mac? And in Venezuela right now, that's a month and a half.

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VANEK SMITH: The inevitable result of this has been that Venezuelans are losing a lot of weight. A survey from three universities in Venezuela found that the average Venezuelan lost 24 pounds last year because they could not afford to eat. And hundreds of thousands of children are at risk of dying from starvation and malnutrition.

incontinence 100 posted:

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A Typical Goon posted:

Millions of people aren't starving to death in Venezuela and it was a literal by definition coup attempt. You're an idiot

Reality Sinner posted:

Let's take it to the venezuela thread people

Reality Sinner posted:

Let's take it to the venezuela thread people

thehoodie posted:

There's a federal election tomorrow, wonder what Goons are talking about in the CanPol thread...

mediaphage posted:

I feel like this is the kind of slogan that sounds good in your head and then you say it out loud.

less than three posted:

It's also just stolen from democratic presidential hopeful Andrew Yang.

xtal posted:

Twirling, twirling towards freedom

infernal machines posted:

Now Magazine endorses... 338 Canada?

quote:

Each of the three progressive party leaders is disappointing and imperfect in their own way. But they also are generally well-intentioned, climate positive and have important perspectives to add. Their platforms actually speak more to what they have in common than what makes them opponents.

Take a look around the world, my friends. From that perspective, Justin Trudeau, Jagmeet Singh and Elizabeth May are an unusually impressive crew. What we need is for these party leaders to be frenemies, not enemies. They actually need each other more than they realize, though for different reasons.

Helsing posted:

xtal posted:

Twirling, twirling towards freedom

vyelkin posted:

lmao


if this is somehow true it's an indictment of the world rather than a compliment to our garbage-tier political class

The Cheshire Cat posted:

Isn't the Liberal slogan some variation on "Not left or right, but forward" too?

The Cheshire Cat posted:

Isn't the Liberal slogan some variation on "Not left or right, but forward" too?

The Cheshire Cat posted:

Isn't the Liberal slogan some variation on "Not left or right, but forward" too?

James Baud posted:

Marxist-Leninist: Humanize the natural and social environment!
Communist: People and Nature before Profit!