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What I mean is SNs is a fairly free and uncensored forum where we can discuss ideas and news and views globally, but imo many here do not take full advantage of that and sometimes even dumbly downzap posts and comments that raise issues they do not want to be discussed.
But if we do strive to put forward our views and discuss the difficult issues and problems in the world like you raise regarding Venezuela it can help perhaps find solutions...or at least raise awareness of the nature of the problems.
The MSM is far too compromised and venues like SNs give us a more direct channel to know and share about life and the world.
And remember for every negative downzapper and hater there will be many more who appreciate your thoughts, news and comments.
Literally the only problem in Venezuela was the Chávez regime and their supporters. If the CIA puppet had won then the country could have recovered a lot quicker.
Four years of the world's time was wasted because the lying leftist press made up a narrative about a flu strain that never warranted the statist insanity that ensued.
If the world would just accept that capitalism is right and communism is wrong, and accept that no one is owed "free" healthcare, then, and only then, we can all live in peace, harmony, and prosperity.
So Venezuela must allow USA and its Big Oil bullys to extract and exploit Venezuelas massive oil resources and if they don't they must be taught a lesson?
You realise that is Imperialism in its worse form and you are promoting it?
Perhaps you would say also its Iran fault they rejected the Puppet Shah who had been installed by the CIA replacing the democratically Prime Minister Mossadagh?
USA should butt out of stealing the natural resources and wealth of other sovereign nations...the sense of entitlement is criminal and chronic.
So Venezuela must allow USA and its Big Oil bullys to extract and exploit Venezuelas massive oil resources and if they don't they must be taught a lesson?
In general, the communist definition of "exploit" is nonsensical. If the US is richer than Venezuela, that alone is deemed evidence of exploitation, so from my perspective it doesn't make sense to engage in a serious dialogue. It's much easier to just arrest Maduro, then we can negotiate a price for the oil without any PRC meddling. And for Venezuela it would have been easier to have never sided with the communists in the first place. They pretty much wasted 27 years for nothing.
We have all been wasting our time allowing communism to fester for a century without resolving it through war. Time's up. If you like your PRC-led "mixed economy" you have to fight to keep it.
Is New Zealand going to ban Bitcoin and fight the US navy over control of the strait? No. So who will help stop the "imperialism"? Venezuela's out of commission. Cuba's useless. Iran is stuck in a pointless struggle session. You're just expecting the PRC to do all the work? Typical socialist.
'If the US is richer than Venezuela, that alone is deemed evidence of exploitation'.
Wrong.
Venezuela does have vast oil reserves and USA wants to seize them because these days the USA cannot compete in a productive competitive manner- it increasingly relies upon bullying and theft.
USA has a long history of doing this to Latin American countries and more recently globally.
It's getting well beyond the joke and the world is sick of it.
It is the military threats, kidnapping and other uses of force and duress imposed upon other nations that enables the USA to exploit other nations resources. That is the exploitation that USA has imposed for many decades if not centuries over other nations.
It is not free trade or free markets it is old fashioned mafia style stand over bullying and criminality.
Stop misrepresenting things so grossly and crudely because it only shows how pathetic and weak your position as an apologist for US tyranny really is.
NZ has no intention to ban Bitcoin. Again you stoop to fantasy and false assertions in order to try and make your case- try dealing with reality- or perhaops given your inability to explain why Trump is owned by Zionist war criminals perhaps fantasy and delusion are the only options available to you.
https://m.stacker.news/157621
Yes, the US steals and extorts from other nations and they don't like it so when they resist the US assassinate, kidnap, murder, blockade, torture and terrorize them.
The Petrodollar Empire reign of terror is not free trade, it is tyranny.
@coffeebadger is a sock puppet for US government employee aka @Cje95
Paid to defend the indefensible US global reign of terror.
Have to respect @Cje95 and his unalloyed loyalty and patriotism and willingness to engage in the contest of ideas.
The truth is out there as they say...somewhere between what we think and what we don't.
I think you're replying here to a fellow anti-imperialist. Watch out for friendly fire, commies.
I am so accustomed to your quickfire and flippant provocation @coffeebadger that I did fail to recognise the friendly fire initially- now corrected!
BTW the cost of healthcare in your US nirvana is crippling.
Here in NZ we have basic free medical care and its extremely cost effective.
So, do you think no one has the right to free medical care?
Absolutely not. Medical care is a service that someone else provides. I have no right to demand it from someone directly, and for the same reason I have no right to demand that someone else pay for it.
This is a difference in mindset that explains exactly why capitalist countries are richer than communist countries. You have an image in your mind of some fat cat sitting on a billion dollars doing nothing, as though you can just swipe a few chunks of cash from him to help the poor and it's no big deal. But you're meddling with a fragile system that relies on respect for property rights in order to keep the lights on.
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Who? Where? Who has benefited from what?
In New Zealand we have free basic healthcare provided by the state.
I benefit from it, as do most New Zealanders.
The overall cost of healthcare in New Zealand is far lower than in the US.
Without the anglos' capitalist industrial revolution, healthcare would mean sacrificing a kiwi.
What do you mean by 'healthcare would mean sacrificing a kiwi.'?
Sounds like more incoherent nonsense.
If you are not pissing off some people sometimes you are not saying anything worth saying.
The contest of ideas is the free market well spring of security and prosperity- neglect it at your peril.