archive.fo/lRjN7archive.is/cUzzR Maduro, the president of Venezuela, just announced a constituent to change the constitution amidst weeks of protests sparkled over the self coup caused by the government allied tribunal by overtaking the legislative branch's responsibilities. This constituent is called in a way so that the people in charge of selecting the new constitution are the ones part of certain sectors, like the comunas and misiones.
Try to imagine a Obama who lost congress to republicans and attempted to strip them of their power with the tribunal, has heavy protests from the population calling for a constituent and leaving in charge of it people benefited by welfare and other gives, scholarships, etc.
And not only that, but after all the market distortions that they've cause through the years, the government announced the EIGHTH system to date to obtain foreign currency, with a price set by the government, going through whatever bureaucratic mess they require you to and at the end being unlikely to be allowed to buy the dollars anyway.
archive.is/jUtAm And if that wasn't enough, as if fixing the price of certain first need products wasn't enough, they want a general freezing of prices, because, obviously, when you can't battle a three digit inflation you don't do something sane like stopping printing tons of cash, but instead, force every price to freeze, what could possibly go wrong?
these are from today, members of government funded paramilitaries(known here as colectivos) were caught, tied, beaten up and got their bike burnt
Charles Stewart
Oh, they only burnt a bike. Thought they were preparing a pyre.
Evan Gray
Where were you when Venezuela had their own DotR
Robert Edwards
should have taken the tire off the bike and burned it around their necks commie scum deserves to die
Charles Jackson
People blocked a street in my city as a form of protest. this isn't a point in which traffic would stall as there are no sempahores
Owen Gonzalez
Personal question. How are you holding up?
Nathan Scott
well, I study and work part time and my family helps me from time to time, though I did lose weight last year, just like (primarily my) father did. My parents have a hand corn grind that we use to cut costs greatly, as we use that to make corn meal and corn pancake meal that we have at least twice a day along with other shit like cassava and sweet potatoes and anything in season. A lot of people have been hit harder than us but we are still feeling it. the other day my dad's tire gor a puncture in an odd location(it wasn't in the tire thread) and luckily we had a 10 year old tire beneath the car to use it temporarily as we got the tire patched up. but basically if it went bust we are completely fucked because a tire is going by 150 thousand bsf and upwards (and this landcruiser costed 24500bsf 17 years ago).
Inflation is wrecking us and the government wants to fucking freeze the price of everything, BECAUSE SURELY FREEZING THE PRICE OF ANYTHING IN FUCKING HISTORY ACTUALLY HELPED INSTEAD OF MAKING SHIT MORE SCARCE AND MORE EXPENSIVE.
to think berncuck was praising us 6 years ago still archive.fo/w3Wg5 (last paragraph), and I do recall him backing up the sandinistas some decades ago. if you get that old and you are still a fucking leftist the only cure for you is death
Tyler Jones
Too good tbh. I hope they had a good may day.
Xavier Cooper
Keep spirit brother and stay strong with your family. We all know the evils of socialism. I promise you one thing, you will make history and shed the blood of the jews and communists, you will be turning them into ashes. All of them.
