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Regarde Aduck
Oct 19, 2012

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Grimey Drawer

Laphroaig posted:

What is the over/under on Venezuela just descending into a full-on "Fascism with Chavista Characteristics" scenario as the petro state fails due to the price of oil staying at sub $40 a barrel, while being simultaneously diplomatically isolated due to the US re-establishing normal relations with Cuba?

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Looks like Maduro's government is 14 for 14 to my eye.

This is all western governments. While it's true it's also very broad. The overton window of the globe moved right with the 2008 economic crash. Consider what major Western nation isn't a hotbed of traditionalism? And the great migrant crisis of 2015 means most of Europe is now ready to kill every brown person that looks at them funny.

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Regarde Aduck
Oct 19, 2012

c l o u d k i t t e n
Grimey Drawer

El Hefe posted:

if there's a thing socialism's good at is making everyone equally miserable.

Indeed, Norway is a terrible place to live.

Regarde Aduck
Oct 19, 2012

c l o u d k i t t e n
Grimey Drawer

Mnoba posted:

turns out a starving populace appreciates hard truths, support, and pretty obvious answers to their plight rather than hand wringing, what if's, and an extreme minority support in failed governement system that can't keep a loaf of bread on the shelf.

lolllllll yeah that's what Trump and Bolsanaro care about. They're certainly not going to exploit this situation and gently caress Venezuela for a lifetime.

Regarde Aduck
Oct 19, 2012

c l o u d k i t t e n
Grimey Drawer

Noshtane posted:

I'm trying to grasp why you are so incessant on injecting USA BAD into EVERY facet of the Venezuelan situation, like the US is a single minded organism with the sole purpose of loving up Venezuela.
Instead of considering that the endemic corruption Venezuela is a result of abhorrent PSUV policies and Maduro hollowing out the justice system, like how the Venezuelan goons unanimously report, you like an idiot insist on adding USA BAD without a shred of evidence to back you claims.

His evidence is US foreign policy during and since the cold war. America fucks with countries. It fucks with it's allies, it fucks with its enemies. It has one simple objective and that is optimization of markets. That means easy access to the resources of other nations and the best way to ensure that is privatization of everything. I'm not going to provide you with evidence of this because it's common knowledge. I wouldn't need to back this up in a report why the gently caress would I back it up for the likes of you?

Regarde Aduck
Oct 19, 2012

c l o u d k i t t e n
Grimey Drawer

536 posted:

Lol the youtube guy isn't allowed to film anymore in venezuela. I wonder why when obviously everything is fine ?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTt-HzqzVYk

No one said everything is fine. How can it be fine when the most powerful country in the world is waging economic and espionage based war on it?

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