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17 Oct 2018, 7:15 pm

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Why do all socialist nations become dictatorships?

Human nature. All societes build unequal power structures. This is totally unavoidable because we always seek to dominate our fellow man. We haven't changed much since the apes and will never will.

Over 200 years and our republic has t become a dictatorship it yet every socialist nation became a dictatorship in less then 10 years. Maybe it’s cause under socialism the government has all the power and controls every last aspect of society and gives all that power to one single person who won’t want to give it up. Our system is set up to avoid giving too much power to one person.
And while we might eventually become a dictatorship as presidents keep adding more and more illegal powers it’s certainly taken a lot longer then Socialist nations

A president has far more power than a prime minister but he's on the one I'm concerned about. Not all power is political. Giving inordinate power to make a like-minded one percent is little better than giving to one man.

I'm not trying to defend socialism. I'm just trying to assert that a country without self-serving dominance is impossible.

Who has power over you, Sly?


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01 Nov 2018, 11:44 am

Venezuela’s Health Crisis Is Crossing the Border
Desperate refugees spread malaria, yellow fever, diphtheria, dengue and tuberculosis to neighboring countries as health-care system implodes

MANAUS, Brazil—Contagion from Venezuela’s economic meltdown is starting to spread to neighboring countries—not financially, but literally, in the form of potentially deadly diseases carried among millions of refugees.

The collapse of Venezuela’s health system has turned what was once Latin America’s richest nation into an incubator for malaria, yellow fever, diphtheria, dengue and tuberculosis, as well as the virus that causes AIDS, medical officials in Brazil, Colombia and Venezuela told The Wall Street Journal.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/venezuelas ... 1540997657


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16 Nov 2018, 10:31 pm

That about sums it up.

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16 Nov 2018, 10:37 pm

that shallow woman's original thinking quotient is nothing to write home about.



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17 Nov 2018, 2:11 am

auntblabby wrote:
that shallow woman's original thinking quotient is nothing to write home about.

What she said could also be true of capitalism.


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17 Nov 2018, 2:13 am

RetroGamer87 wrote:
auntblabby wrote:
that shallow woman's original thinking quotient is nothing to write home about.

What she said could also be true of capitalism.

QFT. :idea:



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17 Nov 2018, 2:33 am

IOW we have met the enemy, and he is us [for not rising en masse and smiting these evil ones].



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26 Nov 2018, 5:30 pm

Under socialism, comrade, all animals are equal. But some are more equal than others.

Venezuelan Ex-Treasurer Admits He Took $1 Billion in Bribes

A former Venezuelan national treasurer who pleaded guilty to money laundering admitted he took bribes of over $1 billion from businessmen to allow them to conduct illicit foreign-currency transactions even as the once-oil-rich country’s economy collapsed, the U.S. said Tuesday.

In a statement, the U.S. Justice Department said Alejandro Andrade pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering under seal last December in federal court in Miami. The statement said that Mr. Andrade, a former bodyguard for the late Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez, accepted millions of dollars in bribes from Raúl Gorrín, the president of Globovision, a Venezuelan pro-government television channel, to allow him and others to make foreign-currency transactions at favorable rates. An indictment of Mr. Gorrín on charges of money laundering and bribery was unsealed Monday in Miami....

Mr. Andrade was Venezuela’s treasurer between 2007 and 2010. After leaving the government, he moved to Florida, where he owns a large estate and horse stables. As part of his plea agreement, Mr. Andrade agreed to a forfeiture money judgment of $1 billion and all assets, including real estate, vehicles, horses, watches, aircraft and bank accounts.

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26 Nov 2018, 7:06 pm

capitalists over the centuries have proven they can be at least as psychopathic.



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26 Nov 2018, 9:37 pm

auntblabby wrote:
capitalists over the centuries have proven they can be at least as psychopathic.

But there's no bribery in capitalist nations! /sarcasm


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02 Dec 2018, 8:01 am

There's hope for y'all yet.

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