Chavez was a cancer in and of himself, good riddance.
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@No:
Whatever we might think of Chavez, I kinda thing a person dying of cancer doesn't deserve a "finaly" as a response, especialy since they were nowhere near as bad horrible as Gadaffi was or Assad is at present.
has had cancer, dad had severe cancer
Finally.lol, i found it out just before going to my night class, which happened to be Spanish, which happened to be taught by a Columbian guy
he was giddier than usual and at one point while talking about Argentina to us in a lesson said something like "Actually do you know what….nah I won't go there" with a big smile.
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The first salt to the wound, the trending topic in twitter is the death of a brazilian or portuguesse singer: CHORÃO, worldwide, he's like 7th.
Another interesting read: http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-937093
Also, not to mock the deceased. Part of the campain was to picture the oppo candidate as a deceased. Or gay nazi xionist jew. I wonder if any of them got the hypocrecy of this.
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You know how there's tons of people in Post Soviet countries going to their Venezuelan embassies to officialy condone for Chavez ?
We had one guy.
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But of course the fucking Communist party, aka people who held posts of goverment before 1989 and still go around publicly mourning Stalin and Gotwald, of course sent a letter saying how "sorry" they are.
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But of course the fucking Communist party, aka people who held posts of goverment before 1989 and still go around publicly mourning Stalin and Gotwald, of course sent a letter saying how "sorry" they are.
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I love it when "futuristic" innovations are placed on the market
Esto es genial.
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Not that I'm surprised.
http://news.msn.com/politics/ark-to-ban-abortion-at-12-weeks-earliest-in-nation
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@Foxy:
Not that I'm surprised.
http://news.msn.com/politics/ark-to-ban-abortion-at-12-weeks-earliest-in-nation
LOL, an illogical extreme right-wing abortion ban being backed by an Arkansas REPUBLICAN whose name literally includes the word rape.
John Stewart doesn't even need to try, this shit just writes itself.
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You know, if you're a Republican whose name is rape, I would think that the center of a nutjob abortion controversy would be the last place you would want the media to find you.
I swear, Republicans are the party of not learning from their mistakes.
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@Rogues':
You know, if you're a Republican whose name is rape, I would think that the center of a nutjob abortion controversy would be the last place you would want the media to find you.
I swear, Republicans are the party of not learning from their mistakes.
And the party of using the same stale platform every year.
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I was watching Venezualan news two days ago and they said Chavez was in perfect health!
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@No:
You know how there's tons of people in Post Soviet countries going to their Venezuelan embassies to officialy condone for Chavez ?
We had one guy.
–- Update From New Post Merge ---
But of course the fucking Communist party, aka people who held posts of goverment before 1989 and still go around publicly mourning Stalin and Gotwald, of course sent a letter saying how "sorry" they are.
--- Update From New Post Merge ---
But of course the fucking Communist party, aka people who held posts of goverment before 1989 and still go around publicly mourning Stalin and Gotwald, of course sent a letter saying how "sorry" they are.
Yeah, Chrissie said in Cyprus there's lots of crocodile tears too. Strong communist party there and all.
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I was watching Venezualan news two days ago and they said Chavez was in perfect health!
Even if you had never heard of Chavez before, actively holding on to a degree of power and running for presidency when you were in the throes of severe cancer that could easily debilitate you (which it did) and KILL YOU (which it did lol)….I don't think I would think highly of this person!
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Well, they are sad because the cheap oil in exchange for over priced obsolete technology, or foodstuff that are cultivable here, could be in danger.
If I had a sucker like that I would also cry if I lost him.
The worst part is that Maduro, his political heir, will most likely win the elections. I'm ok with that, with the hopes that the goverment will finaly colapse under bickering and hungry power grabs, things that couldn't happen with the inhuman charisma of chavez. Or the way that he had spies, snitches and castrist cubans everywhere in the chain of command.
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Maduro looks like exactly the Hua Guofeng type.
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Cuba is especially put out about him dying but that's understandable considering how many miles to a gallon of gas American cars from the 1950s get.
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Strange how everything can seemingly stand and fall with one man like that
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@Monkey:
Maduro looks like exactly the Hua Guofeng type.
Well, acording to a quick search on the guy, I don't think that Maduro is the reformist type.
If anything, he'll go along with the plan. Diosdado would be the reformist (for love of money and power), and Ramirez would be the complete screw-up.
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Well, acording to a quick search on the guy, I don't think that Maduro is the reformist type.
If anything, he'll go along with the plan. Diosdado would be the reformist (for love of money and power), and Ramirez would be the complete screw-up.
I didn't mean reform.
Hua was mostly seen as a completely vanilla guy lacking in any and all of Mao's charisma and pathetically tried to act Maoish, look Maoish etc.He did sorta moderate stuff from before, but he's mostly known for being a bland Mao lookalike.
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If they were going with that, they should have used Adan Chavez, I think that he was the cuban's choice.
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Surprised no ones commented on Rand Paul's activity of the night.
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The filibuster, simultaneously one of the most disgusting and one of the most hilarious weapons in Congress's arsenal.
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http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/amid-spending-cuts-obama-gop-dine-style-193045298–politics.html
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I-I.....Just.....
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I really hate the Republican party right now.
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http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-202_162-57572980/north-korea-vows-nuclear-strike-against-u.s/
inb4nonukeshappen :getlost:
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http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-202_162-57572980/north-korea-vows-nuclear-strike-against-u.s/
inb4nonukeshappen :getlost:
Can't wait to hear how Russia will rationalise to the UN to just "leave them alone".
I mean for fuck's sake they literaly said "we will pre-emptively shoot nukes at the US", that's pretty much a declaration of war innit ?
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@No:
Can't wait to hear how Russia will rationalise to the UN to just "leave them alone".
I mean for fuck's sake they literaly said "we will pre-emptively shoot nukes at the US", that's pretty much a declaration of war innit ?
They really need to be careful that they don't incite China to pull a coup on them.
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I wonder if they are aware they are one of the few countries that could be wiped out of the face of the earth and not a single fuck would be given. I'm sorry for their citizens though, isolation is the worst of all things.
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Sure, let's see how long they'd last if they even tried that.
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I'm pretty sure the boy scouts would be enough to take out North Korea.
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Sure, let's see how long they'd last if they even tried that.
I like how they couldn't even stay semi-realistic about it and said it would be DC that gets nuked lol. As opposed to Honolulu, Seattle, LA, or something remotely near them.
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Coward American dogs!!! The glorious nuclear peace artillery of Korea shall rain fires of peace upon you and the monkey lapdog south and the japanese devils!!!! With the might of older brother china, YOU SHALL KNEEL BEFORE***WAIT HOW DID YOU GET IN HERE ARE THOSE CHINESE FLAGS WHAT DO YOU MEAN "NEW MANAGEMENT" GET AWAY FROM
BAM
Chinese soldier: False alarm folks, go back to your lives.
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Yeah really why not. Vietnam rolled into Khmer Rouge run Cambodia, deposed them, and placed a sane harmless Vietnam loyal regime in their place.
We'd all love to see the tearful Berlin Wall falling reunion of the Koreas, but until than maybe it would be nice to just dial down the insanity even if that means big bad China tying it down.
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China can help give the north something resembling actual infrastructure, then we can just spot weld it to the south and move on to trying to see what can be done with burma
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The country is starving day by day and these greedy assholes only focus on wasting their time and human resources in manufacturing nukes. Idiots.
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I wonder how easy it would be to remove Kim Jong Un's dynasty…
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If only they had internet…
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Uhm. They are going to put chavez in a crystal urn. yay.
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Uhm. They are going to put chavez in a crystal urn. yay.
Because that's how normal democratic nations function. Guys Chavez was NOT a creepy wannabe authoritarian! :)
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Wait,Chavez died?
Maybe I should turn on the TV once in a while.
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@Monkey:
Because that's how normal democratic nations function. Guys Chavez was NOT a creepy wannabe authoritarian! :)
I smell an insane amount of sarcasm in your post :ninja:
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Uhm. They are going to put chavez in a crystal urn. yay.
steal it then punt it into the atlantic ocean
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@Cyan:
steal it then punt it into the atlantic ocean
I'd rather just burn it.
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Actually, scratch that. They're maintaining a grand communist tradition with Chavez.
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/americas/2013/03/20133801344328338.html
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@Cyan:
The filibuster, simultaneously one of the most disgusting and one of the most hilarious weapons in Congress's arsenal.
What's bad is that the Democrats were going to implement reforms regarding the filibuster and didn't because some of the higher ranking Democrats talked the rest into accepting a gentleman's agreement where the Republicans promised they wouldn't abuse it in exchange for not changing the way the filibuster works.
I don't think that promise even lasted a week.
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@Cyan:
The filibuster, simultaneously one of the most disgusting and one of the most hilarious weapons in Congress's arsenal.
You are focusing on the what. Maybe, you should look on why he did it and then decide for yourself (he is republican but you never know).
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You are focusing on the what. Maybe, you should look on why he did it and then decide for yourself (he is republican but you never know).
Rand Paul, the first fillibuster user ever.
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They should at least change the name.
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You are focusing on the what. Maybe, you should look on why he did it and then decide for yourself (he is republican but you never know).
It's pretty clearly political grandstanding.
At the very least, his getting a clear statement that the United States government didn't intend to use drone strikes on its citizens is a hollow victory since he didn't also get a guarantee that they won't use tactical nuclear strikes against them.
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It's pretty clearly political grandstanding.
At the very least, his getting a clear statement that the United States government didn't intend to use drone strikes on its citizens is a hollow victory since he didn't also get a guarantee that they won't use tactical nuclear strikes against them.
It's quite the experience to hear people in AP Gov't class talk about how the gov't is clearly trying to kill us because they have drones and are taking away our drone-ineffective firearms
Gov'ts have PR to think about too, folks
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http://caracaschronicles.com/2013/03/10/liveblogging-hcrs-annoucement/
Capriles is running. I don't know what to feel, I want to feel hope, I want him to win, to defeat the shadows of the populism that plague my country, to make the laws both protect the workers and the work, not just the lazy, to build up an economy, a new generation of hard working people, to plant the oil, to make a road to tomorrow.
But I feel like he's just going to crash and burn, and build up the candidacy for the next time for Leopoldo Lopez, or whomever manages to rise from the MUD.
(MUD as in Mesa de Unidad Democratica, Democratic Unity Table, but the comparation to the substance sometimes is uncany)
Anyways, there's a date for the elections, I'm buying my ticket for the date to vote in my state. It's around my birthday. April 12, the only day that Venezuela woke up without Chavez in the power. (We actualy don't know what happened that day, if it was a straight up-coup, or if chavez just ran away with the tail between his legs, or it was all part of his plans to see who were loyal to him)