Totenkopf Posted March 24, 2011 Share Posted March 24, 2011 ......so says the loon-in-chief Hugo Chavez: http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/03/22/us-venezuela-chavez-mars-idUSTRE72L61D20110322 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mimartin Posted March 24, 2011 Share Posted March 24, 2011 Everyone knows it was that Rabbit that killed the Martians. (This BBCode requires its accompanying plugin to work properly.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salzella Posted March 24, 2011 Share Posted March 24, 2011 I am willing to believe many ills are a result of capitalism... but not that. but hey, chavez is nuttier than squirrel poo so who cares? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pavlos Posted March 24, 2011 Share Posted March 24, 2011 ......so says the loon-in-chief Hugo Chavez I often wonder if Mr. Chavez realises just what a fantastically posh name for a socialist 'Hugo' is in the English-speaking world. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Canderis Posted March 24, 2011 Share Posted March 24, 2011 lolwtf? Is he serious? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TKA-001 Posted March 24, 2011 Share Posted March 24, 2011 I dig that they decided to add the last three paragraphs in there so that the article wouldn't be made of 100% crazy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord of Hunger Posted March 26, 2011 Share Posted March 26, 2011 Capitalism? Please, Adam Smith rolls in his grave every time the Military-Industrial Complex is referred to as capitalism. For an anti-US "socialist" dictator, Hugo Chavez is twice delusional. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Primogen Posted March 26, 2011 Share Posted March 26, 2011 I'm pretty sure the entire U.S. economy can't be boiled down to the military-industrial complex. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sabretooth Posted March 26, 2011 Share Posted March 26, 2011 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Totenkopf Posted March 26, 2011 Author Share Posted March 26, 2011 ^not necessary, sabre. Point of story was just to get a laugh at HC's delusions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sabretooth Posted March 26, 2011 Share Posted March 26, 2011 I was referring to the previous two posts. In any case, I just invented that macro and now it's for all of you to use when you see it fit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord of Hunger Posted March 26, 2011 Share Posted March 26, 2011 I'm pretty sure the entire U.S. economy can't be boiled down to the military-industrial complex. At the moment, no. Give it a few more years. No, you're very right. I just dislike the label of capitalism to our economy. Capitalism means competition, and our regulations oppose competition in all the wrong places and rarely of the right ones. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JesusIsGonnaOwnSatan Posted March 26, 2011 Share Posted March 26, 2011 I was referring to the previous two posts. In any case, I just invented that macro and now it's for all of you to use when you see it fit. *approve* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Canderis Posted March 26, 2011 Share Posted March 26, 2011 I was referring to the previous two posts. In any case, I just invented that macro and now it's for all of you to use when you see it fit. I don't get it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sabretooth Posted March 26, 2011 Share Posted March 26, 2011 I don't get it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Canderis Posted March 26, 2011 Share Posted March 26, 2011 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Working Class Hero Posted March 26, 2011 Share Posted March 26, 2011 Winning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jae Onasi Posted March 26, 2011 Share Posted March 26, 2011 ......so says the loon-in-chief Hugo Chavez: http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/03/22/us-venezuela-chavez-mars-idUSTRE72L61D20110322 I think Charlie Sheen and Chavez were having a snort-fest last week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ctrl Alt Del Posted March 27, 2011 Share Posted March 27, 2011 When people get tired of bashing him as customary, maybe then they can get what he meant by "maybe capitalism arrived there, imperialism arrived and finished off the planet". He never said there was life there, nor that it actually ended by a capitalistic cataclysm of some sort. He has a project and exactly because he manages to piss some powerful people with it, he's labeled a lunatic. The media surely enjoys transforming the guy into a sack of laughs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Primogen Posted March 27, 2011 Share Posted March 27, 2011 It's still a ridiculous and stupid thing to say. Are you saying I need to be taken seriously as long as I preface an absurd statement with a maybe? Maybe Humanity is actually from a planet called Djren, but were exiled when our forebears committed crimes against the Djrenian Government and were forced to flee across the universe, finally settling on a small planet called Earth and exterminating the current dominant race, the sentient Tyrannosaurus Rex. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ctrl Alt Del Posted March 27, 2011 Share Posted March 27, 2011 The difference between his and your sentence is that he actually meant something by it. He demonizes a system and uses would-be life on Mars as some kind of metaphor to reinforce this idea. The fact that it was enough to warrant a whole article - which completely ignores what he's actually saying - about it says a lot about where the media stands towards him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jae Onasi Posted March 27, 2011 Share Posted March 27, 2011 The difference between his and your sentence is that he actually meant something by it. He demonizes a system and uses would-be life on Mars as some kind of metaphor to reinforce this idea. The fact that it was enough to warrant a whole article - which completely ignores what he's actually saying - about it says a lot about where the media stands towards him. Or maybe it's an act so that the rest of the West won't take him seriously when he does things like seize property and possessions for his little fiefdom, as he did with some missionaries we were supporting (seized the building they were thinking of buying for a church, seized the plane the missionaries OWNED to fly medicines and food to interior native tribes, and made up a ridiculous story about them running an illegal drug operation). He's been doing this systematically for a number of years now. People who disagree with him suddenly find their property gone, or the people just 'disappear'. The guy is either bat-sh*t crazy, or brilliant in making the world think he's bat-sh*t crazy so he can cover up the crimes he's committing building his dictatorship. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tommycat Posted March 28, 2011 Share Posted March 28, 2011 The guy is either bat-sh*t crazy, or brilliant in making the world think he's bat-sh*t crazy so he can cover up the crimes he's committing building his dictatorship. I'm going with a little from Column A and a little from Column B. Or maybe he's really a Malkavian wearing a lot of sunblock. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Primogen Posted March 28, 2011 Share Posted March 28, 2011 He's not charismatic enough to be a Ventrue bloodline, so he'd have to be OWOD. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
urluckyday Posted March 28, 2011 Share Posted March 28, 2011 This is just Hugo being Hugo. He's on Ghaddafi's level minus the cross-dressing... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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