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Constant Hamprince
Oct 24, 2010

by exmarx
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Borneo Jimmy posted:

Here's an interesting in-depth article on the opposition
http://venezuelanalysis.com/analysis/11464

Guys I'm pretty sure BJ is dead of cocaine overdose and left a python script running somewhere that posts venezuelaanalysis.com articles to any D&D thread with 'Venezuela' in the title.

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Constant Hamprince
Oct 24, 2010

by exmarx
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He's a limp GBS shitposter slumming it in the most easily trolled subforum on SA.

Constant Hamprince
Oct 24, 2010

by exmarx
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Hugoon Chavez posted:

For gently caress's sake.

Predicted VZanalysis spin: "Sure, we imprisoned him for imaginary crimes, but at least we made the entire process blatantly obvious so people wouldn't think he's a bad guy!"

Constant Hamprince
Oct 24, 2010

by exmarx
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Chuck Boone posted:

Vladimir Padrino Lopez, the Minister of Defense, has confirmed that the airplane's two crew members have been found dead. The airplane crashed in the Elorza region of Apure state.

$35 million US dollars splattered all over the rainforest, Jesus. Weird that neither of the crew members managed to eject, there's only one other instance known of a crew member dying in a Su-30. I'd speculate that it's the usual problem of pilots not getting enough training time, odds are the Venezuelan Air Force doesn't have a whole lot of fuel money that isn't getting embezzled.

E:

Chuck Boone posted:

One of the accused in the case was an air force captain named Laided Salazar de Zerpa. Her lawyer, Carlos Javier Salazar, said that the two officers killed in Thursday's crash, Ronald Ramirez and Jackson Garcia, gave expert testimony during the Golpe Azul trial. Salazar said:

Well I guess that would be why their ejector seats didn't work. :stare:

Constant Hamprince fucked around with this message at 22:57 on Sep 19, 2015

Constant Hamprince
Oct 24, 2010

by exmarx
College Slice

beer_war posted:

Guys, the likelihood that Borneo Jimmy is receiving PSUV funding and / or training is extremely high.

These days I'm pretty sure PSUV funding comes in the form of little reddish-brown slips of toilet paper with simon bolivar's face on the front

Constant Hamprince
Oct 24, 2010

by exmarx
College Slice

Borneo Jimmy posted:

Ah the lazy "If you think it's so great why don't you live there" argument. For the record I would certainly be interested in seeing the revolutionary collectives working to make a better Venezuela first hand. Of course you seem quite in favor of U.S. intervention, wouldn't you like to live somewhere that has experienced the benefits of benevolent U.S. policy, like Iraq, Libya, or Syria?

Return to GBS.

Constant Hamprince
Oct 24, 2010

by exmarx
College Slice

When you can't even write up a paragraph to accompany the vzanalysis drivel you only make it obvious that your heart's just not in it, Jimmy. You could at least source something from RT, spice up that bland chavista agitprop with some exotic Kremlin FUD.

Constant Hamprince
Oct 24, 2010

by exmarx
College Slice
Maduro's just trying to fill the Bolivarian dream of a lifetime presidency and a hereditary legislature. You know, for the People.

Constant Hamprince
Oct 24, 2010

by exmarx
College Slice

Borneo Jimmy posted:

http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2013/07/20137717429632532.html


And when the Venezuelan government tries to control the violence spilling out from Colombia's civil conflict, the opposition cry about "racism", ignoring the 1,000s of political refugees given a home in Venezuela.

Jew-baiting is a terribly way to troll D&D Jimmy, you'll just get them to start agreeing with you!

Constant Hamprince
Oct 24, 2010

by exmarx
College Slice

HorseLord posted:

They need to get on this sharpish but they're too trot to.

If there's one Stalinist policy that would save Maduro's popularity it's more likely the one where he executed members of his own party en masse.

Constant Hamprince
Oct 24, 2010

by exmarx
College Slice

ALL-PRO SEXMAN posted:

You are a shameful human being.

More of a shameful RSS feed at this point.

Constant Hamprince
Oct 24, 2010

by exmarx
College Slice

M. Discordia posted:

This is what leftists in Western countries were like during the height of the Soviet period -- there are no purges, there is no gulag, any day now my band of English grad students will rule this excuse for a society, etc.

Check out some more European politics threads, dude. That is what leftists in Western countries are like right now.

Constant Hamprince
Oct 24, 2010

by exmarx
College Slice

Borneo Jimmy posted:

Funny thing is Chuck when I pointed out the systematic killings of Chavistas by paramilitary gangs, you dismissed it as simply part of Venezuela's crime statistics. Yet when a politician with deep connections to organized crime gets killed by unidentified assailants, why you guys have clearly determined it's political intimidation without any facts to support that theory.

I thought it was a false flag attack? Careful Jimmy, or Diosdado will take away your fancy computer.

Constant Hamprince
Oct 24, 2010

by exmarx
College Slice

Chuck Boone posted:

In short: Diaz's killing fits an established pattern of violence against the opposition. In the absence of evidence, I don't think it's unreasonable to suspect his assassination is part of that trend. The killings you referred to are, in my mind, unconvincingly attributed to the so-called "paramilitary campaign" against Venezuela, which I simply see no evidence of.

My bolivars are on him being gunned down in a confused six-way shootout between the CIA, Mossad, the World Bank, the DEA, the Freemasons, and the reptilians, all of who believed he was a double agent for one of the others. Tune in to Con el Mazo Dando for details.

Constant Hamprince
Oct 24, 2010

by exmarx
College Slice
Colombian death squads, opposition-affiliated gangsters and the CIA teaming up as part of a devious master plan to make it absolutely impossible to find toilet paper in Caracas.

Constant Hamprince
Oct 24, 2010

by exmarx
College Slice

Labradoodle posted:

Personally, I'm waiting to hear his thoughts the day after the opposition gains a majority in the assembly:

"Guys, did you know that Venezuelans have to queue up for food and there's a critical shortage of medicine? It's outrageous. This sort of stuff never happened until yesterday when the opposition won the election."

I'm afraid it will be more along the lines of him praising Maduro's 'Anti-Terrorism Operation' after PSUV rigs the vote.

Constant Hamprince
Oct 24, 2010

by exmarx
College Slice

Chuck Boone posted:

Freddy Guevara said on an interview with VTV shortly before the election that he found it telling that the National Assembly did not call for investigations into the case of Cilia Flores' nephews, or the allegations that the Banca Privada D'Andorra was laundering drug money for PDVSA.

It's only a matter of time before investigative committees are formed and dirty laundry starts coming to light. There's more than a handful PSUV officials (Hugo Carvajal and Diosdado Cabello to name two, both of whom won seats on Sunday) sweating buckets right now.

I've heard talk that RCTV, the beloved television station Chavez closed in (2008, I think?) might be coming back. Exciting times in Venezuela.

Will Con El Mazo Dando get renewed for another season? I need closure after Diosdado proclaimed his undying love for the plastic club, not knowing that it was actually the club's evil twin sister :ohdear:

Constant Hamprince
Oct 24, 2010

by exmarx
College Slice

Borneo Jimmy posted:

Interesting because because the government just handed over control of ANTV to the workers.
http://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Venezuelas-State-owned-Media-Channel-Grants-Ownership-to-Workers-20151208-0045.html


Obviously this would prove to be an obstacle for the opposition to get more right-wing, conservative voices on the airwaves.

If only he would give them houses as well! Alas, the people must be punished for their disobedience.

Constant Hamprince
Oct 24, 2010

by exmarx
College Slice
Borneo Jimmy subtly calls opposition policies bullshit by claiming that telesur is a good source of them.

Constant Hamprince
Oct 24, 2010

by exmarx
College Slice

Borneo Jimmy posted:

Looks like Henry Ramos Allup isn't all that well beloved by his sugar daddy
http://www.telesurtv.net/english/opinion/WikiLeaks-Reveal-What-the-US-Really-Thinks-of-Henry-Ramos-Allup-20160106-0049.html


Not to mention his connections to Venezuela's violent past
http://venezuelanalysis.com/news/11799


But raising the prices on goods, repealing worker protection laws, and privatizing public services will totally help the poor like it has in uhhh...

You're not even trying anymore.

Constant Hamprince
Oct 24, 2010

by exmarx
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e_angst posted:

Well, yesterday I was having a conversation on Facebook with two radial socialist slam poets (Americans, natch) who were 110% on board with Maduro and the Chavistas, and completely bought into the "economic war" idea. All problems in Venezuela right now are the result of CIA-sponsored disruption programs and/or US currency manipulation intentionally designed to cripple Venezuela. (This conversation came up after one of them posted on Facebook: "The best most successful socialist leaders in the world have been South American. If you can't praise Allende, Chavez, Morales, or Castro you probably should just admit you love Sanders, NOT Socialism. ‪#‎NotAsWokeAsDudeBrosThink")


(Real wages during Salvador Allende's tenure)
I don't think you can call Allende's successful by any metric, his domestic policies lead directly to the economic crisis that gave Pinochet the opportunity to overthrow him.

Constant Hamprince
Oct 24, 2010

by exmarx
College Slice

Woolie Wool posted:

gently caress, if I were a respected general officer in the Venezuelan military, I would be plotting my coup attempt right now.

The Venezuelan military is in the business of cocaine, not revolution.

Constant Hamprince
Oct 24, 2010

by exmarx
College Slice

Poison Jam posted:

Being disabled (quite literally unable to get off my backside), unable to work and being poor as poo poo. Otherwise I would do that. Wait I'm in England so they would send him straight back, I just remembered why you have a reputation

Don't mind MIGF. He's... uh... just kind of like that. Don't take it personally.

Constant Hamprince
Oct 24, 2010

by exmarx
College Slice

Chuck Boone posted:

How many of those Che Guevara t-shirts do you think someone like that has to own before they earn the right to tell people in Latin America who should govern over them?

At this point Borneo Jimmy is just layers and layers of Che Guevara T-shirts worn over top of each other. He's Guevaras all the way down.

Constant Hamprince
Oct 24, 2010

by exmarx
College Slice

OfficialGBSCaliph posted:

Lmbo it's trolling for borneo Jimmy to have dumb opinions but literally saying 'the left' is made up 100% of hipsters and sociopaths is a good, thread approved opinion.

How dare people in this thread bismerch the name of internet leftism. Godspeed random GBS guy!

Constant Hamprince
Oct 24, 2010

by exmarx
College Slice

OfficialGBSCaliph posted:

Are you alright?

I'm having a rage-induced heart attack right now because of the posts you made on the internet.

How are you?

Constant Hamprince
Oct 24, 2010

by exmarx
College Slice

OfficialGBSCaliph posted:

We still haven't forgotten you calling the Conservative Party suckers of left wing dick, better not post again for a few days

'We'? Is there a tankie IRC or something?

Constant Hamprince
Oct 24, 2010

by exmarx
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OfficialGBSCaliph posted:

People who have read the thread :) chill friend, I'm no Marxist.

Save your denials for San Pedro, comrade. Coronel Discordia's men are already on their way.

Constant Hamprince
Oct 24, 2010

by exmarx
College Slice

wdarkk posted:

:crossarms: How?

Also deficit as a % of GDP of over 100%, worst in the world.

Most economic metrics aren't designed to handle what happens when you run a country as an enormous Forex scam

Constant Hamprince
Oct 24, 2010

by exmarx
College Slice

TheFallenEvincar posted:

Assuming one looks at Venezuela and sees the implementation of socialism. To see that youd have to be coronel discordia or Sean Penn

In comparison to all the real implementations of socialism like

Constant Hamprince
Oct 24, 2010

by exmarx
College Slice

fnox posted:

I can't believe my luck that this Brexit poo poo is happening 2 weeks before I leave Venezuela for Sweden using my UK passport.

Your UK passport will still work for the EU for months, and if you're worried about getting sent back to VZ don't be; not to put too fine a point on it but by the time the UK actually formally leaves anyone from Venezuela will likely qualify for asylum.

Constant Hamprince
Oct 24, 2010

by exmarx
College Slice

Chuck Boone posted:

Still, one of the CNE rectors (Tania D'Amelio) said today that the CNE would need 20 days to "confirm" the validation. In essence, the CNE needs 20 days to validate the validation, even though it already has validated the validation :psyduck: Kafka couldn't have come up with something better if he tried.

Sneak preview of the CNE's announcement on July 17: "We need another three weeks to do, uh, to check to make sure that the rectors are validated as, uh, not being CIA agents from Colombia. Yeah, it's that."

E: "Looks like 50,000 more signatures are forged, they're clearly written in the American alphabet.

Constant Hamprince
Oct 24, 2010

by exmarx
College Slice

Nitrousoxide posted:

North Korea, a country known for its threats of nuclear war, slave labor, cults of personality, famine, nearly 0% economic growth for 40 years, no internet access, and arrests of the press, and government officials for perceived slights to the great leader.

But at least it's not right wing.

Realtalk North Korea is arguably the world's only surviving fascist state, it's just that Korea, especially North Korea, is so ethnically homogenous that they have no minorities to mass murder so aside from calling Obama a monkey in poorly translated KCNA articles it's hard to differentiate them from boilerplate Stalinism.

Constant Hamprince
Oct 24, 2010

by exmarx
College Slice
Just let MIGF do MIGF, he isn't hurting anyone so long as you don't respond.

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Constant Hamprince
Oct 24, 2010

by exmarx
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Plastic_Gargoyle posted:

Which, despite what FlightAware indicates, is almost certainly a Venezuelan Air Force flight. Which is odd, because most militaries, particularly those in countries with such volatile social situations, don't tend to broadcast where they're moving their aircraft around to. Is there any particular reason Maduro or other higher-ups would be traveling to Managua, if that is indeed what this is?

Military aircraft or not it needs to have a transponder if it's going to be interacting with air traffic control at civilian airports.

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