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Top City Homo
Oct 15, 2014


Ramrod XTreme

consumed by normies posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGrqLLtyyLQ


reminds me of early syrian civil war stuff tbh

so cia funded fascists are trying another coup
good to know

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Top City Homo
Oct 15, 2014


Ramrod XTreme

Fallen Hamprince posted:

*some disgruntled cop drops a couple of hand grenades on the venezuelan supreme court from a stolen helicopter*

worldly intellectual Top City Homo: "Clearly the nefarious hand of La Cia is at work here."

clearly a scrub tier pleb like u can't u see the intricate woven web of the nefarious cia-men, but I do

:smug:

Top City Homo has issued a correction as of 01:56 on Jun 29, 2017

Top City Homo
Oct 15, 2014


Ramrod XTreme

Fallen Hamprince posted:

i spent several years in a remote Williamsburg monastery learning how to ironypost from an elder SDS hippie only to betray and murder him on orders from the Biden '08 campaign.

i once equivocated support for two slightly different liberals as well

Top City Homo
Oct 15, 2014


Ramrod XTreme
he is a refined MGIF and less annoying

Top City Homo
Oct 15, 2014


Ramrod XTreme


why aren't they guillotining their politicians yet?

Top City Homo
Oct 15, 2014


Ramrod XTreme
looks like north korea really is best korea

Top City Homo
Oct 15, 2014


Ramrod XTreme

Fallen Hamprince posted:



can't have a bad GINI if u gulag all ur statisticians

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpcmfjFN8OI

Top City Homo
Oct 15, 2014


Ramrod XTreme

Larry Parrish posted:

Well, I mean, remove the head of state and the rest of the population is equally impoverished

there is dignity in poverty

:smug:

Top City Homo
Oct 15, 2014


Ramrod XTreme
there will be insane civil unrest in brazil

is my first thought

but then i thought what if the new tactics of the capitalists is to turn the poor into counter revolutionary lumpenproles like in Guatemala?

Top City Homo
Oct 15, 2014


Ramrod XTreme

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

petit bourgeois is always reactionary

idealized peasant proprietorship or skilled laborer pseudo guilds are still the original cause for people going "gently caress the capitalists" so mutualism and syndicalism will have to exist on the way to communism

the petit-bourgeoisie will fall away by themselves so there is no need to target them.

but yeah central planning is the only way out of this garbage world

but still the fact that there is a low key dirty war going on in south america is shameful as gently caress

Top City Homo
Oct 15, 2014


Ramrod XTreme

Fallen Hamprince posted:

a once relatively rich but declining nation, stricken with poverty and police violence, whose strongman leader reacts with increasing authoritarianism as his support shrivels away to a hard core of true believers

i see what you did there heh

:smugdon:

Top City Homo
Oct 15, 2014


Ramrod XTreme
yes a bumbling social democrat is worse than the neolib fascists being lined up to take over

Top City Homo
Oct 15, 2014


Ramrod XTreme

get that OUT of my face posted:

as more socialists have turned their backs on venezuela in recent years, one accusation that i hear from them is that it's always been less socialist and more peronist. i've done a little bit of reading and the comparison holds up on the surface, but i'd rather hear from someone who knows more

70% of the economy is private

state sector is less than in France

he should have expropriated the expropriators faster

Top City Homo
Oct 15, 2014


Ramrod XTreme

Nebakenezzer posted:

Guys I'm interested in what's going on down thar, so I went to the Guardian and the Economist (I know, but when not peddling their stupid ideas they do good international reporting IMO) and well, I didn't get very far

Because the first article on the Guardian I saw about Venezuela had the ex-mayor of London Ken Livingston saying that Chavez hosed up when he didn't straight up murder the oligarchs in Venezuela

I think then I went for a bike ride

he is not wrong

Top City Homo
Oct 15, 2014


Ramrod XTreme

Fallen Hamprince posted:

and the transition to Not Real Socialism is complete

here you go my dude, let fox news explain to you things you cannot use your sharp radical centrist brain to parse


http://www.foxnews.com/world/2010/07/18/socialism-private-sector-dominates-venezuelan-economy-despite-chavez-crusade.html

Top City Homo
Oct 15, 2014


Ramrod XTreme

Nebakenezzer posted:

Disagree, imposing price controls to make basic goods cheaper and ignoring if the producers of such things can make money under price controls is not capitalism

Keynes was not a capitalist

a hot take

Top City Homo
Oct 15, 2014


Ramrod XTreme

qnqnx posted:

Send the tankies to Venezuela.

the revisionists are already in charge of Venezuela

Top City Homo
Oct 15, 2014


Ramrod XTreme

get that OUT of my face posted:

lol so it's not even peronist, it's the same klepto-state that it's always been with lip service to socialist ideas. but as long as you talk the talk, tankies will look the other way if you don't walk the walk

he still did socdem stuff and helped fight poverty so he is better than neolib austerity

Top City Homo
Oct 15, 2014


Ramrod XTreme

etalian posted:

pretty predictable outcome

Top City Homo
Oct 15, 2014


Ramrod XTreme

ArfJason posted:

whats gonna collapse first, northamerica or southamerica

systems collapse


look at the roman empire

they needed colonies to keep their empire

their colonies were too expensive to keep

so they had to make more colonies that increased their expenses

but they couldn't scale down because that would mean the loss of their empire status

so they disintegrated

https://www.transcend.org/tms/2017/07/pentagon-study-declares-american-empire-is-collapsing/

Top City Homo
Oct 15, 2014


Ramrod XTreme

get that OUT of my face posted:

did the city of sao paulo elect a guy who's an inch away from being an actual nazi, or am i confusing it with the state of sao paulo?

who?

Top City Homo
Oct 15, 2014


Ramrod XTreme

brazil will finally melt down

Top City Homo
Oct 15, 2014


Ramrod XTreme

dead comedy forums posted:

we went through worse tbqf

there has been a lot of "this is it, poo poo is going down" moments in Brazilian history but a lot of what makes poo poo bad is also what makes poo poo stable

there is a fantastic book I read back at econ uni called "A Ordem do Progresso" (The Order of Progress, a play with the national motto) which is all about how Brazilian society is all about very incremental but always continuous change instead of revolutionary action, which guarantees that poo poo sucks at present but makes the future a little better

naturally I have some disagreements about that but for example it allows that some sudden societal changes like LGBT rights get traction a lot faster than in other places, at the cost of glossing over associated class problems with that (i.e. those advancements come first to rich brazilians, then the middle class then the periphery of society)

another example of "turning point moments" was the end of the monarchy, it wasn't some massive showdown, basically the army in Rio de Janeiro went around and said "OK we now have a president" and only rich people cared, the masses were "so uh what do we get, things seem business as usual", and it took 20 years to some places like in the deep hinterlands to tell people that we didn't have an emperor anymore, and when the news showed up, they just shrugged

i think carnivale will explode into a full rate revolutionary action with people arribaying and dancing their way to the barricades

Top City Homo
Oct 15, 2014


Ramrod XTreme

Frijolero posted:

Love 2 get coup'd by the business elite

Top City Homo
Oct 15, 2014


Ramrod XTreme

Plutonis posted:

So a shitload of police in my city were deployed to protect a Bolsonaro outdoor from vandalism but meanwhile there's an incoming criminal faction war after PCC leaders got killed here.

https://www.opovo.com.br/noticias/ceara/maranguape/2018/02/policiais-militares-evitam-depredacao-de-outdoor-de-bolsonaro.html

im glad that these political parties are finally having a literal turf war and killing each other

Top City Homo
Oct 15, 2014


Ramrod XTreme
despicable quisling president Macri is currently clowning the Argentinian economy and selling it off to the IMF as the peso goes into a tailspin because he decided to get rid of capital controls

the "markets" i.e. vampiric lich lords are "optimistic"

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/may/08/argentina-seeks-imf-loan-to-rescue-peso-from-downward-slide

Top City Homo
Oct 15, 2014


Ramrod XTreme

Frijolero posted:

At least Maduro will keep the dream alive :ussr:

i hope he starts to actually nationalize and hand poo poo over to workers much faster

Top City Homo
Oct 15, 2014


Ramrod XTreme

LGD posted:

saying "they could have won!" seems naive when there's very good evidence vote totals were outright altered in the last election, and when the PSUV lost the election prior to that the Supreme Court just negated everything they did

also, while Venezuela's opposition is utter poo poo, unlike US Democrats, they at least have the excuse of having popular members arrested/removed from office on flimsy pretexts

gently caress the us and gently caress the opposition

Top City Homo
Oct 15, 2014


Ramrod XTreme

qnqnx posted:

gently caress you

go burn a maternity clinic about it

Top City Homo
Oct 15, 2014


Ramrod XTreme
world is a gently caress

Top City Homo
Oct 15, 2014


Ramrod XTreme
posting this classic clip

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ErHuqCB5TDc

Top City Homo
Oct 15, 2014


Ramrod XTreme

Byolante posted:

Shame this didn't lead to easy access to toilet paper

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9ocZxD40DA

Top City Homo
Oct 15, 2014


Ramrod XTreme

Nonsense posted:

SLAVE MARKETS

Top City Homo
Oct 15, 2014


Ramrod XTreme
some stabbed that fascist piece of poo poo in Brazil but couldn't finish the job

:sad:

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Top City Homo
Oct 15, 2014


Ramrod XTreme

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