[DOOM!] What the Fuck, Venezuela?

Oh look, the narcissist leader of a no-longer-relevant country in the throes of total collapse has found a way to get his name in headlines again.
 
It was the novelty of using Bing for something vs moving with the sheep.

Any day now Chavez will threaten us, then demand a ransom of one million dollars.

So many mice roaring right now. It's said they roar the loudest right at the end.
 
SecretSquirrel said:
It was the novelty of using Bing for something vs moving with the sheep.

Any day now Chavez will threaten us, then demand a ransom of one million dollars.

So many mice roaring right now. It's said they roar the loudest right at the end.
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"Chavez" who? The dead one?
 
Kerosene31 said:
We're totally vulnerable since North Korea took out one of our big carriers. :)
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-SS- said:
Country in the shitter?

Cant feed your people?

Need a quick infusion of money?

Go to war with the US. We'll rebuild it for free.
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working well for Puerto Rico right now

power was out for them before these storms

amazing how powerful bankruptcy and dubm gubmt is
 
Thank god you bros now have a Maga Wall protecting yall from the southern threat.

Oh wait... Trump ain't doing what he promised. Oh well
 
Fool said:
dictatorship mode completed
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Funny you should say that. I read this yesterday - its well worth the read.

US Provides Military Aid To More Than 70 Percent Of World’s Dictatorships

About three-quarters of the world’s dictatorships currently receive military assistance from the United States. This is a strange record for a nation that consistently justifies its sweeping foreign interventions as aimed at “promoting democracy” and “thwarting evil dictatorships.”

In the Cold War it was “He may be a son of a bitch, but he’s our son of a bitch.” Current analysis shows the U.S. militarily assisting dictators the world over, calling it “promoting democracy,” and disingenuously wondering why it’s all going so badly.

For much of its history, the United States government has explained or defendedits intervention in the affairs of other nations by framing such behavior as necessary to “promote democracy” abroad and to thwart the advance of “evil dictators.” While the use of those phrases has hardly dwindled over the years, establishment figures have been forced to admit in recent years that the U.S.’ democracy promotion efforts haven’t gone quite as planned.
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His independent analysis found that the U.S. has actually manifested the opposite of its stated intention, by providing military assistance to 36 of the world’s 49 dictatorships. In other words, more than 73% of the world’s dictatorships currently receive military assistance from the United States.

For his analysis, Whitney used a commonly accepted definition of dictatorship: “a system of government in which one person or a small group possesses absolute state power, thereby directing all national policies and major acts — leaving the people powerless to alter those decisions or replace those in power by any method short of revolution or coup.” He chose Freedom House’s Freedom in the World annual reports, citing it as the best source for a comprehensive list of dictatorships and “free” societies. Whitney, however, noted that the ostensibly independent organization has a “decidedly pro-US-ruling-class bias.”

Freedom House’s bias makes the results of Whitney’s analysis even more damning. The organization is funded by a combination of Western government and nongovernmental-organization sources, including the George Soros-funded Open Society Foundations. Thus, its categorization of nations as dictatorships or as free societies is largely analogous to how the U.S. State Department classifies such nations — meaning that U.S. monetary support of such dictatorships is a knowing and willful repudiation of democracy promotion abroad.

Furthermore, many of the nations labeled as dictatorships by Freedom House are rivals of the United States, and thus tended to be labeled dictatorships even though they are not. For example, both Iran and Syria were labeled dictatorships even though Iran held democratic elections earlier this year and Syrian president Bashar al-Assad was re-elected in 2014 with 88.7% of the vote. Russia, the eternal rival of the United States, is also considered a dictatorship according to Freedom House despite the fact that elections regularly occur there. If these three nations were removed from list, the U.S. would then support upwards of 78% of the world’s dictatorships.

In addition, other decidedly undemocratic nations that receive large amounts of U.S. military aid were not included as dictatorships in the Freedom House report and thus in Whitney’s analysis. For instance, Israel receives over $10 million in U.S. military aid every day despite the fact that all Palestinians living within its borders are disenfranchised and subject to either concentration-camp conditions or imposed military rule.
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samUwell said:
HI! I'm Billy Mays.
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lol

Point being is this: socialism is without a doubt, the cruelest economic system ever devised by man. It's enslavement and forced theft.

Want another great case study?

Look at Vietnam once America lost the war and left. Stalinist economic policies destroyed the quality of life for all Vietnamese as well as put people into "re-education camps" (prison).

If socialism was so damn good, then why did over a million+ 'boat people' (where several hundred of thousands died in transit) flee the Vietnamese Socialist Workers Paradise?

But hey, today's socialists / communists will do it better this time. Just give them a chance to prove it. Never mind history and showing it has been an abject failure every damn time it's been implemented. They're [self professed] smarter and they will get it right... this time.
 
Captain Tele said:
working well for Puerto Rico right now

power was out for them before these storms

amazing how powerful bankruptcy and dubm gubmt is
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So question:

Place your favorite posters (icfire, clu, dutch, triple, phaytal, vanster, and other dregs of humanity) in charge of gvt.

How prosperous would that place be?
 
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