As Yemen Collapses, NYT Publishes Saudi Arabia Propaganda
I don't know why this is flagged, but I do see a lot of hot air about socialism in here without much pointing to evidence
That was so disheartening. Folks really need to jump off that sinking ship - emigrate - or Maduro needs to be ousted.
“The Venezuelan government knows, but won’t admit it.”
The NY Times cheered for the socialist regime, but won’t admit it.
I used to think that economic collapse after the fall of Soviet communism was the worst outcome possible. Now it is apparent that crash with communism intact is much worse.
Quoting someone else: "NY Times major piece on starvation in Venezuela.
Carefully avoids mentioning socialism. All the problems are passive voice ("as the economy collapsed," "as hyperinflation appeared") or exogenous ("oil prices collapsed").
Walter Duranty lives."
Socialism ends this way every. Single. Time. “If only socialism was implemented correctly for a change!” The snowflakes chant. Ignoring history. Implementing more and more socialist programs at home. Sigh.
the fact venezuela is sitting in so much oil is what makes this more absurd and obscene. socialism with the marxist component can only degenerate into kaos and despair.
No worries, the "great hope of socialists worldwide" is quite safe. Just look at the pictures !
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2017/06/lifestyles_of_ri...
Luckily, after a decade of singing the praises of Chavez, Maduro and "the Bolivarian revolution" the left is well on the way to "explain why", once again, socialist interventionism has failed yet again. You see, Venezuela isn't, and never was, nor ever tried to be socialist.
It absolutely is not a case of, yet again, that socialists are just like everybody else, and cannot be trusted with the power they want, and therefore the decentralization of power that the right wants is still horridly bad. That's not it.
You see, it's a conspiracy against a "left-leaning" government by "capitalists". Refusing to sell everything one has at below cost prices, clearly, in reality, is a sustainable and profitable business plan that they're refusing to adopt only because they hate socialists (sorry, the "left-leaners" of the Venezualan government, not socialists, sorry, sorry).
(linked from r/socialism) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_JhRVlIR-c
https://www.socialistalternative.org/tag/nicolas-maduro/
But no worries ! This is all, and I do mean ALL of it, Trump's fault:
The NYT crying crocodile tears over dying children is a bit hard to take.
Looks like the USA's determined to continue carrying out its coup after all:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2002_Venezuelan_coup_d%27%C3%A...
This made me so unbelievably sad. A country that was prosperous, educated, full of natural resources, gets destroyed by a corrupt and despicable political system. There is no reason this should happen.