On May 04 2015 04:23 JieXian wrote: A new viral video made by the protesting students in Venezuela themselves. I think it deserves to be in the OP since it's a side of the story we haven't really heard from yet.
I feel for them because the shit might hit the fan soon in my country.. but that's for another thread and it's not as bad.
Video describing the situation from another user
Fuck, that second video really pissed me off with the attitude of "Wow, it must be so difficult to live with insanity. Glad I do not have to live in such chaos" when the situation in America is just as insane, if not more so. I would go into the mind numbing hypocrisy and propaganda expressed on all sides, but I would simply be deconstructing all the bullshit and obscurantism seen in the Ukraine conflict again. The 1st video is a wonderful example of sensationalism and hyperboles, almost like KONY 2012. My god, the crinoline is still murdering my soul
I agree about the sensationalism. But unless I'm missing something, I don't think that the shelves grocery stores in America are empty and the USD is undergoing hyperinflation.
No the other dude is obviously correct-- As I am drinking my $6 Starbucks, playing starcraft2 and LoL and WoW, with a tablet sitting on each of my legs, and consuming a $7 McShit meal. Ya things are pretty much the same.
There are bread lines happening right now in the United States. Don't be fooled. Go to the nearest 85 degrees bakery if you don't believe me.
On May 04 2015 04:23 JieXian wrote: A new viral video made by the protesting students in Venezuela themselves. I think it deserves to be in the OP since it's a side of the story we haven't really heard from yet. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnRjGYaqvIM
I feel for them because the shit might hit the fan soon in my country.. but that's for another thread and it's not as bad.
Fuck, that second video really pissed me off with the attitude of "Wow, it must be so difficult to live with insanity. Glad I do not have to live in such chaos" when the situation in America is just as insane, if not more so. I would go into the mind numbing hypocrisy and propaganda expressed on all sides, but I would simply be deconstructing all the bullshit and obscurantism seen in the Ukraine conflict again. The 1st video is a wonderful example of sensationalism and hyperboles, almost like KONY 2012. My god, the crinoline is still murdering my soul
I agree about the sensationalism. But unless I'm missing something, I don't think that the shelves grocery stores in America are empty and the USD is undergoing hyperinflation.
No the other dude is obviously correct-- As I am drinking my $6 Starbucks, playing starcraft2 and LoL and WoW, with a tablet sitting on each of my legs, and consuming a $7 McShit meal. Ya things are pretty much the same.
There are bread lines happening right now in the United States. Don't be fooled. Go to the nearest 85 degrees bakery if you don't believe me.
Arguing that there is poverty is not so different from arguing that the sky is blue.
Venezuela: How long does it take to buy 8 basic goods? BBC News
Also:
It's No Joke: Venezuela Cracks Down On Comedians
Laureano Márquez was performing a benefit at his old high school in the Venezuelan city of Maracay. The comedian dwelled on the absurdities of life in this oil-rich nation, where gas is cheaper than water but it's hard to find milk, toilet paper and many other everyday goods.
In the supermarket, Màrquez said, desperate customers will steal scarce items right out of your shopping cart.
"In Venezuela, you get robbed of stuff that isn't even yours yet," he said to a round of laughs.
Turning serious, Marquez tells the crowd that the socialist revolution, launched 16 years ago by the late Hugo Chavez, is collapsing under the weight of bad policies and corrupt public officials.
That message doesn't sit well with Venezuela's president, Nicolas Maduro. Besides jailing opposition leaders and cracking down on protesters, the Maduro government is now going after comics.
Laureano Márquez was performing a benefit at his old high school in the Venezuelan city of Maracay. The comedian dwelled on the absurdities of life in this oil-rich nation, where gas is cheaper than water but it's hard to find milk, toilet paper and many other everyday goods.
In the supermarket, Màrquez said, desperate customers will steal scarce items right out of your shopping cart.
"In Venezuela, you get robbed of stuff that isn't even yours yet," he said to a round of laughs.
Turning serious, Marquez tells the crowd that the socialist revolution, launched 16 years ago by the late Hugo Chavez, is collapsing under the weight of bad policies and corrupt public officials.
That message doesn't sit well with Venezuela's president, Nicolas Maduro. Besides jailing opposition leaders and cracking down on protesters, the Maduro government is now going after comics.
Pretty shitty reporting tbh. Aside from the lines, all we really have is his word on it that they have nothing else in stock. Didn't film the inside of a store at all, or even say what these fixed prices are.
Laureano Márquez was performing a benefit at his old high school in the Venezuelan city of Maracay. The comedian dwelled on the absurdities of life in this oil-rich nation, where gas is cheaper than water but it's hard to find milk, toilet paper and many other everyday goods.
In the supermarket, Màrquez said, desperate customers will steal scarce items right out of your shopping cart.
"In Venezuela, you get robbed of stuff that isn't even yours yet," he said to a round of laughs.
Turning serious, Marquez tells the crowd that the socialist revolution, launched 16 years ago by the late Hugo Chavez, is collapsing under the weight of bad policies and corrupt public officials.
That message doesn't sit well with Venezuela's president, Nicolas Maduro. Besides jailing opposition leaders and cracking down on protesters, the Maduro government is now going after comics.
Pretty shitty reporting tbh. Aside from the lines, all we really have is his word on it that they have nothing else in stock. Didn't film the inside of a store at all, or even say what these fixed prices are.
Sociliast lovers need to stop denying evident truth. He doesn't have to post any evidence because you just need to write "desabastecimiento venezuela 2015" on youtube to find tens (hundreds?) of videos of people queeing outside stores and/or fighting for leftover stocks inside.
Edit: First 3 videos. I know most here don't speak spanish but most stuff is fairly obvious anyway.
Laureano Márquez was performing a benefit at his old high school in the Venezuelan city of Maracay. The comedian dwelled on the absurdities of life in this oil-rich nation, where gas is cheaper than water but it's hard to find milk, toilet paper and many other everyday goods.
In the supermarket, Màrquez said, desperate customers will steal scarce items right out of your shopping cart.
"In Venezuela, you get robbed of stuff that isn't even yours yet," he said to a round of laughs.
Turning serious, Marquez tells the crowd that the socialist revolution, launched 16 years ago by the late Hugo Chavez, is collapsing under the weight of bad policies and corrupt public officials.
That message doesn't sit well with Venezuela's president, Nicolas Maduro. Besides jailing opposition leaders and cracking down on protesters, the Maduro government is now going after comics.
Pretty shitty reporting tbh. Aside from the lines, all we really have is his word on it that they have nothing else in stock. Didn't film the inside of a store at all, or even say what these fixed prices are.
Sociliast lovers need to stop denying evident truth. He doesn't have to post any evidence because you just need to write "desabastecimiento venezuela 2015" on youtube to find tens (hundreds?) of videos of people queeing outside stores and/or fighting for leftover stocks inside.
Edit: First 3 videos. I know most here don't speak spanish but most stuff is fairly obvious anyway.
Um, what? I never said any of that wasn't going on, I said he was a shitty reporter because the entire segment was him standing in lines for a few minutes, reiterating hearsay from said lines, and showing a couple of things he bought.
Anyone watching with no knowledge of what's currently going on would learn nothing except that Venezuela has lines to get into the supermarket, which I imagine wasn't the point of his report. Your entire counter to that was "well evidence is already elsewhere, so he doesn't have to show it!", which is fucking retarded.
His report should have been to show people who have no knowledge of the situation, what the situation is. It does not accomplish that.