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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Debate & Discussion > Latin America: the fires immediately died down, because they needed socialism to burn
 
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R. Mute
Jul 27, 2011

Typo posted:

According to D&D the solution to economic and political problem in every country is to just go more leftwards

The less they know about the issue the more true this is
Well, Typo, I think that coups, military dictatorships, a sudden massive shift to the neoliberal-ist ideology, etc are actually probably going to have a negative effect on the quality and effectiveness of your administration so it seems kind of odd that the OP both complains about this and supports what happened.

Maybe Chile is some sort of weird exception though and coups are super-good there.

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R. Mute
Jul 27, 2011

Berke Negri posted:

Chile's coups were kind of decent, you know, relatively speaking. So there's that, I guess.
Like an Armenian genocide versus Holocaust kind of thing?

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R. Mute
Jul 27, 2011

 Thanks for the meta-discussion, Typo.

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R. Mute
Jul 27, 2011

joepinetree posted:

In loving depressing news, congress in Brazil has approved a constitutional amendment that freezes public spending for the next 20 years and ties it to inflation. In a naked electoral maneuver, they made a concession that spending on education and healthcare will only be frozen after 2018, the next presidential election.
Haha, what? Really? Like an actual constitutional amendment? How many votes did that need?

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R. Mute
Jul 27, 2011

 Jesus Christ 366 vs 111 votes. RIP Brazil. Very RIP.

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R. Mute
Jul 27, 2011

 That small subset of bad guys will still be serving time, though, right?

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