re: Meanwhile in Venezuela: Prisoners eating rats to survive

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He would go through that to get people away from that shithole, yeah sorry to be the a-hole that think asian americans have it "easy" are fricking stupid.

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Oppression and suffering has been the historical norm. The potato famine, slavery, WWI, the Holocaust, the pogroms, war in SE Asia. Look around at your neighbor and know that his family story is one of death and suffering. We are a historical anomaly-we have peace and prosperity. The Progressive Left gets us MUCH closer to experiencing the ancient horrors again, whether they have the wisdom and historical literacy to understand it or not.

Personal Liberty, The Rule of Law and the Free Market. It's our only hope. Death and oppression lies in State control.

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All BS aside, socialism works in countries where the leaders are not corrupt (unlike in Venezuela) AND 95%of the populace are hard working, upstanding citizens rather than leeches (unlike the US). Places like Denmark and Norway are super prosperous.

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Denmark and Norway have an extensive socialist welfare state... but they are very pro free market when it comes to businesses/private enterprise. they have less regulations and a lower corporate tax rate (they used to, not sure with the new tax laws passed in Dec) than the US.

Denmark has no federal minimum wage laws.

The minister of denmark...

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I know that some people in the US associate the Nordic model with some sort of socialism. Therefore I would like to make one thing clear. Denmark is far from a socialist planned economy. Denmark is a market economy.

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But would be hard to replicate that system in a country as big as the US. Denmark has roughly the population of Minnesota.

We need to send the New Orleans murderers there and let them send video diaries to the young kids so they can see how well crime pays off.

It's all America's fault!

I swear to you this is true--a young man I know that will soon have a BS from LSU with a high GPA has become a radical leftist.

I had a nice dinner with him in NOLA--cost $150 or so for the three of eating. I tell you that to illustrate just how hypocritical his thinking is. During this dinner we got into a friendly debate. Among the ridiculous things he said:

1) East Germans rioted when the wall came down because they wanted to remain a communist state

2) America is causing the food shortage in Venezuela

3) Food manufacturers in Venezuela are intentionally not producing food to run Maduro out of office. When asked just how such monopolies could actually exist with so much power he couldn't explain it. He could not grasp the concept that if wheat could be bought somebody would make bread with it in a free economy. He believes bakeries are so powerful they can stop little bakeries

4) That any country that allows private ownership of any goods is a capitalistic country. In a truly socialist economy, he says, the worker own all the places of employment. He pointed to Catalonia in the thirties as ideal

But they have less school shootings than we do, so we must follow what they do.