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North Korean brainwashing exists on the vector of their creepy cult of personality with Dear Leader. It would be brainwashing to convince them that they are or have been wrong to hate the US, however.

That article is thick with bullshit. You've got to drill down to find out that, for example, one of the charges leveled against Chavez was that the government charged people who signed the Carmona Decree with treason. Frankly the government should have fucking executed those people (and...

In case any of you right wing fucks actually feel like educating yourselves:http://mondediplo.com/2002/08/10venezuela

Well I'm sure those detainees did something like riot in support of an organization that played an active role in a coup attempt that nearly succeeded while the U.S. was being heavily infiltrated by foreign spies, right?

What a well thought out counter-argument! Thanks for yet another insightful contribution.

Please. First of all, there's 147 cars per 1000 people in Venezuela. If his family had one (even an old one) he wasn't lower middle anything. Second of all, I don't give a shit about this story. I have no way to verify that it's not 100% made up (and we already know the truth was bent ever...

I will.

umadbro?

As with Cuba, all the salty ex-pats tend to come from one extreme of the economic spectrum.

Sounds like a salty member of the wealthy elite in South America. Boo fucking hoo. Your asinine peer group has ruined South America.

Yeah you're right McCain or Romney would totally wouldn't have been as bad/worse on those vectors.

You mean the media that actively participated in an attempted coup? Yeah people voted for Obama because he gave them gifts. Got it.

In precisely the same sense there is "debate" about whether or not bigfoot exists. Is bigfoot worthy of being mentioned in the biggest newspaper on earth? It implies a level of legitimacy for the position that is not warranted.

I don't think those points are even remotely as important as the (undisputed) legitimacy of the elections that put and kept him in office. Whatever his performance, as evaluated by the citizens of the country he was president of, he was a success.

Here's some not-dumb about the whole thing:http://www.democracynow.org/2013/3/6..._leader_leaves

It's total bullshit because it insinuates that there's a serious debate about him being a dictator.

They disagreed about who should be running things in the power vacuum left by the soviets?

Yeah Araysar, it's totally ok that we funded the best killers we could find because once The Ultimate Evi Of Communism was pushed out of Afghanistan, they started fighting each other.

The best dictators are the ones that win legitimate open and fair elections.

Well maybe you can explain what you mean by that Janos Kornai line then, because apparently it was too oblique for me.

The only contradiction his works have with my beliefs is his adoption (like yours) of totally incorrect definitions of what socialism actually means. Moreover, my argument is parroting russian (actual) communists going back to directly after the bolsheviks took over. You cannot out-insider me...

1. The Soviets were hardly communist (they weren't even socialists). 2. The confrontational rhetoric has to do with the shared (not to mention justified) confrontation with the US.

lolwut Are you saying Chavez was a bolshevik? The socialist critque of capitalism would only be arrogant and dismissive if it weren't right. That correctness is what's attractive to the poor (who've been better educated than you by the realities of their daily lives).

I'm still waiting waiting to hear the idiotic parts (and not the brilliant ones).

Yeah you're right, Venezuela would have been way better off with another right-wing American puppet to leave the poor in the lurch.

Retarded.

Pretty clearly just chunks breaking off but in general I am a skeptic.

What part of "you're not a hero" don't you understand?

And this just sets you up for the counter-argument that you could mitigate harms of crazy people by making it harder for them to get guns by reducing the total number floating around. I think the argument really resolves like this: basically no one (even the staunchest supporter of getting rid...

It isn't easy being this awesome.

Yeah that doesn't count because the only options are 100% piracy and 0% piracy. No conditionals allowed!

*wink* I read you loud and clear, sturmmann. kuqUXRDRIqEqOMt1Q2zZ

The universal imperative is actually a pretty terrible standard.

Yeah but I think giving them some kind patch to wear on their arm will make easier to round up...you know...when their time comes.

We should make the dangerous people wear little patches so that way we'll know who they are and where they belong.

That's nice. The whole point about intellectual property is that it's distinctly different from other sorts of property in a way that makes the discussion even LESS flighty than the "starving person stealing to feed themselves" discussion you've indicated could be interesting. It's much LESS...

You do understand the connection between the whole "sympathy for pirates" thing and whether or not (and to what extent) copyright law is ethically valid, right? I mean you call it a "philosophy rabbit hole" but do you actually get why that's not true?

Are you capable of grasping why that is not an answer to whether or not there should be?

Idareyou to explain the relevance of that video. (protip: You should not indulge me. This will not go well for you.)

Insofar as the legal system is predicated on the legislative system which is, in turn, predicated on the political system it's absolutely how the legal system. The why's of the law absolutely matter. Yes, the harms that can be done to me by a bunch of shittily implemented systems that use SS...