I said you were wrong. You don’t know what socialism is, and here you are advocating for it. Just brilliant.
Venezuela a failure of CAPITALISM.
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I said you were wrong. You don’t know what socialism is, and here you are advocating for it. Just brilliant.
This is naive.
You try to convince other people that you're laughing when the reality is that you're just stalling because you don't know shit, and never have.
So then what would you call Canada's single payer, universal health care system?
cawacko
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Stalling? Your premise is a joke. There's nothing that needs to be responded to. You are getting repeatedly clowned ITT yet you just dig yourself a deeper hole. Have at it champ.
Callinectes
Proud MAGA Semi-Facist
Well, 20 years of socialism has certainly cleaned up that mean ol' capitalism mess though, right?
Look at the people who thank your posts; the worst of the worst deplorables. The most racist among those on the board. Did you ever stop and wonder why it is that your belief system seems to attract people like ILA and CFM?
Callinectes
Proud MAGA Semi-Facist
I'd call it workable in a country that has 10% of the population of the USA, with more land mass and natural resources. Hell, they don't pollute anything, and they're the most polite people I've ever met. If I were you, I'd even call it home! Why don't you take all the rest of the America haters with you and move up there, eh hoser? Oh...it's the politeness thing, right? Never mind(also, that universal health care system? It ain't universally loved up there)
Where's the 3% growth you promised?
cawacko
Well-known member
Nice diversion attempt. I should support socialism and not capitalism because of CFM? Sure thing guy.
Your thread premise is a failure. It has nothing to do with anyone else. Don't try and divert your failure onto others.
A fairly good insight, with a kernel of truth, IMO.
The thing is, none of us really know anything about Venezuela - almost none of us has ever set foot in the country, almost none of us actually knows a Venezuelan, and you really cannot obtain knowledge about a nation by reading the opinion columns of old, white dudes in the Wall Street Journal or the national review. It is always remarkable to me how quickly a lot of us turn into arm chair experts about topics we are not really qualified to speak on as experts.
My impression of Venezuela is that it has been a basket case since at least the early 1990s, when I went there. A wonderful country, a beautiful country, but as with most of Latin America dealing with decades, even centuries of exploitation, crony capitalism, authoritarian generalissimos, ruthless land owners, a quasi-serf economy, some phony leftist and Maoist revolutionaries, lack of an adequate functioning legal system, the meddling of American governments and western oil companies, and more. There is a reason the Nazi leadership fled to South America after WW2 - the continent had a long history of providing cover for rightwing authoritarians, colonial exploiters, and quasi-feudal societies that favored the rich and powerful over the poor and landless.
Naturally, it is a huge continent, with many positive advancements balancing the obvious problems. But the problems of Venezuela are obviously complex, cannot be boiled down to soundbites, nor can we really gain any insight by reading an opinion column by a white dude in a rightwing newspaper.
I need a butt-shine,
Right now
You are holy,
Oh, sacred Cow
I thirst for you,
Provide Milk.
Buff my balls,
Love the Cow,
Good fortune for those that do.
Love me, breathe my feet,
The Cow has risen.
Wax my ass,
Scrub my balls.
The Cow has risen,
Provide Milk.
---Beto O'Rourke
Right now
You are holy,
Oh, sacred Cow
I thirst for you,
Provide Milk.
Buff my balls,
Love the Cow,
Good fortune for those that do.
Love me, breathe my feet,
The Cow has risen.
Wax my ass,
Scrub my balls.
The Cow has risen,
Provide Milk.
---Beto O'Rourke
What we have here is an idiot. 
What does the population size have to do with the functionality of a single payer system? Extrapolate it out by a factor of 10 and you have M4A.
Which has what to do with the functionality of a single payer, universal health care system?
So they're not slaves to socialism, like you would have us believe we would be if we replicated their system here.
Well, you just actually made the case that we should borrow from their system here since they're polite, they have health care, and don't pollute.
Sounds like you're making a case that the US should be more like Canada, which is what we're saying.
If Canada's system isn't universally loved, how come they're not changing it to look more like ours?