The Venezuela thread

What Do You Think About This?

  • Doesn't really make sense.

    Votes: 11 15.3%

  • Unnecessary.

    Votes: 24 33.3%

  • I love it! We can get more oil!

    Votes: 23 31.9%

  • I can see why it might happen, but not comfortable with it.

    Votes: 14 19.4%
  • Total voters
    72
#176
#176
SquirrelOrange3 said:
The West had already fought multiple wars in China, literally called the Opium Wars, in order to push dope onto the Chinese people and completely take control over areas. FDR's grandfather was one of the bigger dope dealers in China during the 19th century. For all of Mao's disasters and failures as a leader, he was actually the one that got China's massive drug problem under control in the 20th century. He didn't do it by blowing up boats thousands of miles away in countries that, "what a coincidence", have immense wealth in the form of natural resources. He did it be erasing the problem domestically. Duterte recently tried to do the same thing in the Philippines with some success, and the West was like, "Nooooooo!!! Human rights!!! Stop interfering in our drug profits!!! Human rights!!!" A couple of decades ago, Singapore executed an Australian national that was caught with hundreds of grams of heroin when 15 grams was already enough for the mandatory death penalty. Australia threw a tantrum and Qantas shut down its routes to Singapore for a while, but you don't see drug addicts anywhere in Singapore like you do at Market Square, Gay Street, or South Broadway. Singapore doesn't have to blow up boats thousands of miles away to keep the country mostly drug-free.

Preferably, the Americans would just do like the Japanese, South Koreans and many others, and aspire to be something more than crackheads, so drug pushers wouldn't even have a market in the USA. You don't see crackheads in those countries, because they don't even want to be crackheads. They don't have to blow up boats thousands of miles away in order to not have crackheads walking around on their streets bumming money. Unfortunately, we want to be crackheads. We think it's "soooo cooooool, dude".
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You really need to speak for yourself. Most people I know have no use for such stuff. So China just shoots them in the back of the head. We just blow them out of the water. Two sides of the same coin?
 
#178
#178
PEPPERJAX said:
I somewhat agree with this but it is kind of weird when people want to interject Trump into a conversation when he was never a part of it from the beginning.
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and it happens every single day. You can be talking about anything and all of a sudden...TRUMP! TRUMP! all his fault! he's to blame! and on and on and on. It's like a jug that is never empty. On yes, it's real.
 
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#181
#181
marcusluvsvols said:
My son is a clinical psychologist and there are several patients treated at his practice for TDS. That isnt the name of their diagnosis...but their obsession with Trump and allowing a stranger to ruin their lives and state of mind is absolutely what they are in therapy for. TDS is as real as PTSD. There are several here who seem to suffer from it based on their post history.
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Your son should read through a lot of these threads. He'd be surprised at how delusional, paranoid, and fearful a lot of the MAGA devouts are.
 
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#182
#182
Actually, it's probably best he avoid this place at all costs Marcus. Belay that suggestion.

One thing leads to another and all the sudden, all of us are acting out a real life rendition of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.
 
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#183
#183
Do people really believe the drug narrative? It was always about the oil and rare earth minerals. This would have happened to any country in the Americas, whether Venezuela now or some other in future.
 
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#184
Volnanza said:
Your source of education???? I know all I need to now. LOL
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You afraid of verifiable quotes from leaders past compared to the present? Lol

Make a point about the merits of the argument, not some deflecting guess about where I go for information. I don't watch the Daily Show. It's still making a valid point here and you are not. It's called a logical fallacy, bro.
 
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#185
#185
DinkinFlicka said:
Actually, it's probably best he avoid this place at all costs Marcus. Belay that suggestion.

One thing leads to another and all the sudden, all of us are acting out a real life rendition of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.
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Nah, it was a good suggestion. Marcus’ boy is young and starting out building a practice. His post history should simply be replying at least once a day to, well, any of us, with a link to his office website.

He’ll retire at 40.
 
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#187
#187
Volnanza said:
I see people with it every day. It's as real as it gets. I see people walk into a place they have never been before and get MAD because they perceive others around them might have voted for someone they don't like. Then it spirals from there. It's real alright.
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We have almost a decade worth of videos of people getting kicked off planes or triggered because of a hat or shirt.

We see it here daily with the fake rage of the week.
 
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#188
#188
n_huffhines said:
You afraid of verifiable quotes from leaders past compared to the present? Lol

Make a point about the merits of the argument, not some deflecting guess about where I go for information. I don't watch the Daily Show. It's still making a valid point here and you are not. It's called a logical fallacy, bro.
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Technology is a wonderful thing…you can clip common comments and release them for simpletons to believe they are connected. The Daily Show (liberal leaning) knows its audience. Media manipulation has dumbed down the older generations.
 
#189
#189
n_huffhines said:
You afraid of verifiable quotes from leaders past compared to the present? Lol

Make a point about the merits of the argument, not some deflecting guess about where I go for information. I don't watch the Daily Show. It's still making a valid point here and you are not. It's called a logical fallacy, bro.
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You get your news from comedians. Stewart, Colbert, Kimmel. They are all comedians. Really far left, bad comedians. I would be embarrassed to quote any of them about anything. It shows that you look for answers in the wrong places.
 
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#190
#190
Volnanza said:
You get your news from comedians. Stewart, Colbert, Kimmel. They are all comedians. Really far left, bad comedians. I would be embarrassed to quote any of them about anything. It shows that you look for answers in the wrong places.
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Huff looks for answers on Facebook.
 
#195
#195
Volnanza said:
You get your news from comedians. Stewart, Colbert, Kimmel. They are all comedians. Really far left, bad comedians. I would be embarrassed to quote any of them about anything. It shows that you look for answers in the wrong places.
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I actually don't get any news from them, except if somebody I follow shares their content. What is this epidemic of dip$#its on VN who waste everybody's time making up facts about posters they don't know?

Again, you're not invalidating me. You're showing that you can't address the subject matter.
 
#197
#197
Majors said:
We have almost a decade worth of videos of people getting kicked off planes or triggered because of a hat or shirt.

We see it here daily with the fake rage of the week.
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Howabout the small army of redhats getting kicked off planes and out of Mecca (WalMart) for making a point about masks?
 
#198
#198
n_huffhines said:
I actually don't get any news from them, except if somebody I follow shares their content. What is this epidemic of dip$#its on VN who waste everybody's time making up facts about posters they don't know?

Again, you're not invalidating me. You're showing that you can't address the subject matter.
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The subject matter was the Monroe Doctrine. You took it to politics.
 
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