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Started by Savonarola, October 22, 2013, 02:15:32 PM

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jimmy olsen

#60
February 20, 2014, 05:16:59 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on February 20, 2014, 05:05:45 PM
I wonder how much the price of Miami real estate jumped in the last 30 minutes.
Wouldn't most people who could afford that have fled the country years ago.
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Faye: Ordinary. The kind of beautiful, dangerous ordinary that you just can't leave alone.
Jet: I see.
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derspiess

#61
February 20, 2014, 05:25:12 PM
Quote from: jimmy olsen on February 20, 2014, 05:16:59 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on February 20, 2014, 05:05:45 PM
I wonder how much the price of Miami real estate jumped in the last 30 minutes.
Wouldn't most people who could afford that have fled the country years ago.

Still a lot of people who chose to stay behind.  Seems an insane choice, but I guess it's tough to leave your home and there's always the hope that things might get better.
"If you can play a guitar and harmonica at the same time, like Bob Dylan or Neil Young, you're a genius. But make that extra bit of effort and strap some cymbals to your knees, suddenly people want to get the hell away from you."  --Rich Hall

Jacob

#62
February 20, 2014, 05:55:41 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on February 19, 2014, 04:05:23 PM
I'm sorry if I my comments strike the rest of you as contrarian and divisive, but I'm worried Maduro might have lost track of the true meaning of Bolivarian Socialism.

You may have a point.

Eddie Teach

#63
February 20, 2014, 06:00:10 PM
Quote from: Siege on February 20, 2014, 04:33:22 PM
Hey, this is a English-Only forum.

Read the forum rules.

Don't be a pendejo.
To sleep, perchance to dream. But in that sleep of death, what dreams may come?

Queequeg

#64
February 21, 2014, 01:52:36 AM
I have a communist acquaintance who just posted on FB a blog he did in the Venezuela protests. In the  comments he seriously argued that capitalist hoardes were the problem. Hard for me to put in to words how pissed off that makes me. Fucking hilarious to see my Left of Center friends defend a regime that's going full Baseej,
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DGuller

#65
February 21, 2014, 03:07:41 AM
Poor timing of the protests by the opposition.  Between the Olympics and Ukraine, the bus driver can go Tienanmen Square on them and barely make it to page 14 of the New York Times.

Admiral Yi

#66
February 22, 2014, 01:38:36 AM
Just heard on NPR/BBC that Maduro has invited Obama to "negotiate as equals" on issues blah blah blah something.

:w00t:

The US is fucking invincible.

derspiess

#67
February 24, 2014, 10:28:49 AM
"If you can play a guitar and harmonica at the same time, like Bob Dylan or Neil Young, you're a genius. But make that extra bit of effort and strap some cymbals to your knees, suddenly people want to get the hell away from you."  --Rich Hall

The Minsky Moment

#68
February 24, 2014, 10:34:43 AM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on February 22, 2014, 01:38:36 AM
Just heard on NPR/BBC that Maduro has invited Obama to "negotiate as equals"

barack's going to need 3-4 really degenerative rounds of reincarnation before that becomes possible.
The purpose of studying economics is not to acquire a set of ready-made answers to economic questions, but to learn how to avoid being deceived by economists.
--Joan Robinson

The Minsky Moment

#69
February 24, 2014, 10:37:05 AM
Marx was a little off on Latin America.
When history repeats itself there, it is first as farce, then as really bad farce.  After that point it goes downhill.
The purpose of studying economics is not to acquire a set of ready-made answers to economic questions, but to learn how to avoid being deceived by economists.
--Joan Robinson

derspiess

#70
February 24, 2014, 10:52:03 AM
Quote from: The Minsky Moment on February 24, 2014, 10:34:43 AM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on February 22, 2014, 01:38:36 AM
Just heard on NPR/BBC that Maduro has invited Obama to "negotiate as equals"

barack's going to need 3-4 really degenerative rounds of reincarnation before that becomes possible.

Actually agree on that one.
"If you can play a guitar and harmonica at the same time, like Bob Dylan or Neil Young, you're a genius. But make that extra bit of effort and strap some cymbals to your knees, suddenly people want to get the hell away from you."  --Rich Hall

Valmy

#71
February 24, 2014, 11:22:17 AM
Quote from: The Minsky Moment on February 24, 2014, 10:37:05 AM
Marx was a little off on Latin America.
When history repeats itself there, it is first as farce, then as really bad farce.  After that point it goes downhill.

Yep.  It is pretty absurd how predictable it all is.  I mean was there anybody who knew anything about Latin American history not predicting this is exactly how this would turn out? 
Quote"This is a Russian warship. I propose you lay down arms and surrender to avoid bloodshed & unnecessary victims. Otherwise, you'll be bombed."

Zmiinyi defenders: "Russian warship, go fuck yourself."

Admiral Yi

#72
February 24, 2014, 11:40:33 AM
There were plenty of Chavez supporters.

All strangely silent now.  :hmm:

KRonn

#73
February 24, 2014, 11:47:36 AM
Quote from: derspiess on February 24, 2014, 10:28:49 AM
Nice opinion piece from HuffPo of all places:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/carlosgonzalez/venezuela-international-left_b_4844724.html

Good article. Points out the crap going on there pretty nicely, giving people plenty of reason to protest heavily.

Queequeg

#74
February 24, 2014, 11:48:22 AM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on February 24, 2014, 11:40:33 AM
There were plenty of Chavez supporters.

All strangely silent now.  :hmm:
You must not have as many actual Leftist friends as I do.  They're still out there supporting him.
Quote from: PDH on April 25, 2009, 05:58:55 PM
"Dysthymia?  Did they get some student from the University of Chicago with a hard-on for ancient Bactrian cities to name this?  I feel cheated."
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