Venezuelan blackout victims 'murdered' by government,

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Caracas (CNN)Seventeen people have died in Venezuela's massive power outage, "murdered" by the government of President Nicolas Maduro, opposition leader Juan Guaido alleged Sunday.

Guaido, Venezuela's self-declared interim president, said Sunday that 16 states continued to be completely without power, while six had partial power. He said the private sector had lost at least $400 million from power outages.

Electricity was cut to 70% of the South American nation late last week, and officials warned that hospitals were at risk.

 

I know that it has become popular, again, to tout Socialism and how its so much better than our current system. But time and again we have seen socialism fail, and fail to the tune of millions of lives lost.  The arrogance of certain individuals that THEY know how to implement this deadly ideology is just insane.

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2 hours ago, Ray Lewis's Limo Driver said:

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I know that it has become popular, again, to tout Socialism and how its so much better than our current system. But time and again we have seen socialism fail, and fail to the tune of millions of lives lost.  The arrogance of certain individuals that THEY know how to implement this deadly ideology is just insane.

Yep. 

It's dangerous how much these young people know nothing of history.  Or how much they knowingly ignore.

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Exclusive poll: Young Americans are embracing socialism

https://www.axios.com/exclusive-poll-young-americans-embracing-socialism-b051907a-87a8-4f61-9e6e-0db75f7edc4a.html

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Just now, posty said:

 

 

They don't want to woyk

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That is what giving participation trophies cause...

We suck, we never won, but we got a trophy!!!

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7 minutes ago, posty said:

 

 

I told everyone, the planet is getting dumber.

Socialism is the perfect society but it's impossible to have the perfect society where everyone has the common goal to improve the country. Greed on one side and laziness on the other, doom it to failure. You would also have to disallow the stupid to breed so that they go the way of the dinosaur.

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One thing I’ve learned from the Geek Club is that most people either have no idea what socialism is and/or throw that term around haphazardly. Everything from a progressive tax code to environmentalism to political correctness is “socialism” to most Geeks. I don’t know whether socialism unscrewed the lightbulb in this particular instance, just saying.

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23 minutes ago, MDC said:

One thing I’ve learned from the Geek Club is that most people either have no idea what socialism is and/or throw that term around haphazardly. Everything from a progressive tax code to environmentalism to political correctness is “socialism” to most Geeks. I don’t know whether socialism unscrewed the lightbulb in this particular instance, just saying.

Apparently you just took AOC's word when she spoke about "The Green New Deal".  Because if you had actually bothered to do even cursory research, it is LITERALLY a Socialist wish list spelled out with a few environmental things thrown in to make you think it was about the environment.

So spare us your hyperbole and fake drama.  You should just go back to sucking c@cks and following Sho around for a mold of his for your gay cake.

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9 minutes ago, EternalShinyAndChrome said:

Apparently you just took AOC's word when she spoke about "The Green New Deal".  Because if you had actually bothered to do even cursory research, it is LITERALLY a Socialist wish list spelled out with a few environmental things thrown in to make you think it was about the environment.

So spare us your hyperbole and fake drama.  You should just go back to sucking c@cks and following Sho around for a mold of his for your gay cake.

Sho has been gone for a year now. Don’t you think it’s time to stop spying on him and talking about sucking his cack?

He’s not cumming back Creeper.

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I have come to realize that few on the left care about the historical consequences of socialist ideologies, and seem to think THEY have it figured out. As if only THEY have the right approach to it and can make it work, the arrogance is akin to suggesting that they could use a nuclear weapon safely.....it is startling how careless and cavalier these people are with an ideology for which we have proof of the dangers.

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15 hours ago, MDC said:

Sho has been gone for a year now. Don’t you think it’s time to stop spying on him and talking about sucking his cack?

He’s not cumming back Creeper.

Says the guy who keeps bringing Sho up like you two are living together. 

You might want to look at your vast posting history.  Do a search on the word "Sho" and see who is actually bringing him up all the time. 

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3 minutes ago, EternalShinyAndChrome said:

Says the guy who keeps bringing Sho up like you two are living together. 

You might want to look at your vast posting history.  Do a search on the word "Sho" and see who is actually bringing him up all the time. 

I’m pretty sure you brought up Sho and sucking his cack in this thread, manhole.

Sho is gone and can’t hurt you anymore.

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3 minutes ago, MDC said:

I’m pretty sure you brought up Sho and sucking his cack in this thread, manhole.

Sho is gone and can’t hurt you anymore.

For a guy who gets on people for bringing Shotard up, your posting history shows you do quite a bit yourself, moron.

Maybe think before hitting the "submit reply" button when you want to post.  Do a little more research so at least you look like you're a little informed on things.  HTH.

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1 minute ago, EternalShinyAndChrome said:

For a guy who gets on people for bringing Shotard up, your posting history shows you do quite a bit yourself, moron.

Maybe think before hitting the "submit reply" button when you want to post.  Do a little more research so at least you look like you're a little informed on things.  HTH.

This from the guy who talks about blowing Sho 2 posts before accusing me of bringing him up. Sho lives in your head and owns you.

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3 minutes ago, MDC said:

This from the guy who talks about blowing Sho 2 posts before accusing me of bringing him up. Sho lives in your head and owns you.

Blowing Sho?     That's some projection complex you got going on.

You're the guy who wanted a mold of his c@ck for your gay cake you were so eager to bake and eat.  It's ensconced in your posting history, retard.

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1 minute ago, EternalShinyAndChrome said:

Blowing Sho?     That's some projection complex you got going on.

You're the guy who wanted a mold of his c@ck for your gay cake you were so eager to bake and eat.  It's ensconced in your posting history, retard.

More gay Sho stuff. You got it bad.  

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5 minutes ago, MDC said:

More gay Sho stuff. You got it bad.  

 

11 minutes ago, MDC said:

This from the guy who talks about blowing Sho 2 posts before accusing me of bringing him up. Sho lives in your head and owns you.

Yeah, you do got it bad.

Once again, think first before hitting the "submit reply" button.  You might not look like the complete laughingstock you are now.

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Desperate Venezuelans swarm sewage drains in search of water

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-venezuela-politics-water-idUSKBN1QS2SN?utm_campaign=trueAnthem:+Trending+Content&utm_content=5c86f8ed3ed3f00001b2dd17&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=twitter

CARACAS (Reuters) - As Venezuela’s five-day power blackout left homes without water, Lilibeth Tejedor found herself looking for it on Monday in the last place she would have imagined - a drain pipe feeding into a river carrying sewage through the capital, Caracas.

Tejedor, 28, joined dozens of people who had flocked to the Guaire river, which snakes along the bottom of a sharp ravine alongside Caracas’ main highway, to fill up a four-gallon (15 liter) plastic container.

Unlike the fetid liquid flowing through the Guaire river, the water emerging from the pipe was at least clear. Those who gathered to collect it said the water had been released by local authorities from reservoirs.

They added, however, that it was being carried through unsanitary pipes and should only be used to flush toilets or scrub floors.

“I’ve never even seen this before. It’s horrible, horrible,” said Tejedor, preparing to carry the container on a small hand cart back to her home in the neighborhood of San Agustin.

Tejedor, who works at a computer technology store, has a two-year-old daughter and takes care of two nieces.

“The ones that are most affected are the children, because how do you tell a child that there’s no water?” she said.

The lack of water has become one of the most excruciating side effects of the nationwide blackout that the government of President Nicolas Maduro has blamed on U.S.-backed sabotage but his critics call the product of corruption and incompetence.

The blackout has worsened the situation of a country already facing a hyperinflationary economic collapse that has spurred a mass migration and turned once-basic items like corn flour and toilet paper into unaffordable luxuries for most people.

After five days without electricity to pump water, Venezuelans from working-class neighborhoods to upscale apartment towers are complaining of increasingly infrequent showers, unwashed dishes, and stinking toilets.

Caracas needs 20,000 liters of water per second from nearby watersheds to maintain service, said Jose de Viana, an engineer who ran Caracas’ municipal water authority in the 1990s.

Last week that had fallen to around 13,000 and since Thursday’s blackout it has halted completely, he said.

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Many worry about the spread of disease. The lack of water compounds the inability to buy soap due to soaring prices or chronic shortages.

Opposition leader Juan Guaido, who in January invoked the constitution to assume the interim presidency after declaring Maduro’s re-election a fraud, led the country’s legislature on Monday in declaring a “state of alarm” over power problems.

Maduro is facing an unprecedented political crisis and the United States, which backs Guaido, has levied crippling oil industry sanctions meant to starve the government of its sources of foreign revenue.

Up the road from where Tejedor stood, hundreds of angry residents blocked the highway on Monday to demand that local authorities deliver a 20,000-liter cistern to supply water to the neighborhood of La Charneca.

“They’re killing us with hunger and thirst,” said Gladys Martinez, 52, a homemaker, who joined the demonstration that blocked two lanes of the highway, snarling traffic and drawing dozens of police and National Guard troops to the scene.

Along the riverbed, teenagers and children accompanied their parents to help carry water. As two children began stomping in the sewage, a woman warned them: “That water’s dirty! Don’t start playing around because remember there’s no medicine.”

Water trucks, a common sight in Caracas, are increasingly struggling to fill up because state-run reservoirs are running low.

On the northern edge of Caracas, where the city meets the El Avila national park, hundreds of people lined up to collect water from mountain streams.

Lack of water, along with the power outage, has become a major concern for hospitals - which have for years suffered from lack of equipment and supplies.

Jose Velez, 58, a security guard who also arrived at the Guaire to collect water, said the blackout had made life unbearable and wished the country’s politicians would agree on how to resolve the situation.

“I’m not interested in these politicians, they never agree on anything,” said Velez. “I want my life to go back to normal.”

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What's the problem? This is what the people wanted when they voted for socialism. 

Bernie Sanders should be proud.

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15 hours ago, Cdub100 said:

What's the problem? This is what the people wanted when they voted for socialism. 

Bernie Sanders should be proud.

This is always the outcome, but what they really want is to steal from others because of their envy.....

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41 minutes ago, Ray Lewis's Limo Driver said:

This is always the outcome, but what they really want is to steal from others because of their envy.....

Tyranny living under the cloak of equality and justice.