Comments by "" (@pwrserge83) on "Last Days of Chavez's Legacy: The Fall of Chavismo in Venezuela" video.

  1. Nice to see you guys are covering both sides of the conversation... /sarc
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  2. +brainflash1 1. Social Security is a Ponzi scheme. Most of us don't want to pay into it in the first place, but if we're forced to (at gunpoint I might add) then we'd sure as hell better get our money's worth. 2. One of the FEW functions of government is to respond to national level emergencies. You being a lazy slob is not an emergency. A hurricane wiping out a city, is.
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  3. Alexander Rose Thyren Socialism is the very definition of failure. 
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  4. Alexander Rose Thyren Well, given that you don't pay for the defense of your own country... I don't see how you have much of a leg to stand on. Denmark's military couldn't stop a troop of enthusiastic boy scouts, much less an invasion from a major power. The only reason you're not speaking Russian is because of US tax dollars.
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  5. brainflash1 Except that it's not, and it has been shown that it's not. As population growth rate goes negative (as it does in every industrialized country) there are fewer and fewer working age people to pay for more and more older people who are living longer and longer. Add to this the fact that 40% of Americans of working age don't pay social security taxes, but are still eligible to receive benefits and you have a recipe for disaster. Aka... A Ponzi scheme. Do you even demographics bro?
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  6. Alexander Rose Thyren Actually, it's completely relevant as the only way countries like Denmark can afford all those handouts is because they spend a tiny fraction of what they should on their own defense.
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  7. Alan D Except... The British Empire The Russian Empire The American Empire Do I need to go on? Your argument is a non-starter because it is inherently unprovable.
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  8. TheGreekSpawn You're fucking delusional. The only "truth" that "Marxism" has ever carried is mass murder.
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  9. brainflash1 So a natural trend in human behavior is somehow to blame for for the failure of an inherently unsustainable system? Is the failure of idiots to invest in a Ponzi scheme somehow to blame for the failure of the scheme? Do you even logic bro?
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  10. Alexander Rose Thyren Bullshit. The Department of Defense is almost 18% of the US federal budget. Try again.
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  11. Ed Hdez Yes Ed, and all of them are unconstitutional. It's not my job to pay into a federally mandated Ponzi scheme. As for Nordic countries... The only reason they can do that is because they have a very small able poor population. In Nordic countries, people work for a living rather than voting for a living. That's rapidly changing with the Durka Durka invasion and they are having some serious blowback from that bullshit.
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  12. Alexander Rose Thyren Bullshit. The definition of rape is actually more or less standardized across all western countries. In fact, it is identical across all Scandinavian countries. Despite this, Sweden has far more rapes than any other country in Europe. Even more than neighboring countries with identical definitions.
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  13. Ecléctico Iconoclasta Democrats are "centrists" now? Are you high? Have you seen their platform? It's basically Marxism Light.
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  14. Ecléctico Iconoclasta I hate to break it to you, but Fascism is very left wing. They are all about a huge centralized government dominating all aspects of private and public life. I am a small constitutionally constrained government conservative. The government is not the solution to any problem. Big government IS the problem. 
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  15. Ecléctico Iconoclasta Really? What part of fascism is about limited government? That's a core ideology on the right.
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  16. Ecléctico Iconoclasta [CITATION NEEDED] Your delusions are not a source.
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  17. Ecléctico Iconoclasta Again... Bullshit. Fascism is only right in the fact that it's to the right of Communism. It is still a statist philosophy which, by definition, makes it left wing.
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  18. Ecléctico Iconoclasta Hitler was a socialist and Hitlary is a fascist... What else do you call someone who believes that the law doesn't apply to her?
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  19. adam lynch No, but having a massive welfare state for Germany along with nationalization of most industries does.
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  20. buzzhawk Really? So welfare programs aren't "socialist" either? Go ahead and embrace the Nazi in your ideology.
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  21. buzzhawk Really? Since when are real small government conservatives about taking money from the tax payer and giving it to people who didn't earn it?
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  22. MrDICKHEAD28 Well, that's what happens when you piss of the world's only superpower. Perhaps those socialist retards should have invested the money in their country rather than giving useless people "free" shit?
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  23. +TheGreekSpawn How is having the highest standard of living on the planet a "poison"? There's a reason why the poorest American lives better than middle class Venezuelans.
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  24. suvazul It's called the "No True Scotsman Fallacy" look it up.
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  25. TheGreekSpawn No true Scotsman fallacy. Your argument is invalid.
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  26. TheGreekSpawn Stalin was a Marxist. So was Mao. So are the current leaders of North Korea. To claim otherwise, as you are doing, is to argue a "no true Scotsman" fallacy. In fact, almost every industrial scale mass murderer in the 20th century was a socialist or marxist of some kind.
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  27. brainflash1 If you don't have a clue what a Ponzi scheme is, then you lack the basic education necessary to have this conversation. Much as I would expect from your typical rabid commie.
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  28. Luke Bruce Yeah... Bullshit. We define what a first world country is. That's one of the benefits of being a superpower. 
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  29. Alexander Rose Thyren Just because you don't care about the guys ready to invade you, does not mean that they don't care about you.
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  30. ***** I'm not thankful for leeches. They are welcome to their own foreign policies. They do far less towing than you think they do.
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  31. Alexander Rose Thyren Irrelevant. We're talking about government spending.
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  32. ***** Given that Europe has violated the mutual defense clause of NATO quite a bit in the past two decades... Not so much. I don't seem to remember European NATO member lining up to support our response to the Afghan attack on 9/11
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  33. Alexander Rose Thyren False. The critical portion is the percentage of the budget. You spend your taxes elsewhere. The only reason you can, is because your government hides behind us every time Russia goes saber rattling.
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  34. ***** Tell that to your Scandinavian neighbors who are having Russian subs violate their territorial waters every other week.
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  35. Ed Hdez Not really. Nordic countries have a very strong work ethic. There are very few people on government welfare who are sitting on their asses collecting checks. The new "migrants" don't have that ethic. They are more than happy to leech off the productive sections of society. Don't believe me? Compare the workforce participation rate from the US, Mexico, and Sweden.
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  36. Alexander Rose Thyren Yes... Because all of Scandinavia is clearly the same. #fullretard   I've actually lived in several countries in Europe over the course of my life.
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  37. Alexander Rose Thyren Was that before or after Sweden became the rape capital of the western world?
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  38. Ed Hdez WASP? That's rich... Well, you're a racist. But in any case, statistics call bullshit. Immigrants have a 50% higher rate of welfare use than native born.
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  39. Tobias Rieper Please let me know what I should tell to the rape capitals of Europe.
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  40. Alexander Rose Thyren That's already been debunked. Norway has the same definition and has rates comparable to the rest of Europe.
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  41. Alexander Rose Thyren Well, that's cute, but that has been thoroughly debunked.
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  42. Alexander Rose Thyren You have yet to cite any evidence. http://www.thenewamerican.com/world-news/europe/item/21463-debunking-the-myth-of-socialist-success-in-scandinavia
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  43. Ecléctico Iconoclasta Really? Is that why most of the world has a better standard of living than any socialist country?
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  44. Ecléctico Iconoclasta Actually, Africa and South America are hardly capitalist. In the case of Africa, it's a straight up anarchy outside a tiny sliver of South Africa.  As for "gangs engaging in open warfare"... You have no idea what "open warfare" is. Note that New York and Los Angeles are in Socialist controlled parts of the country. New York City has an openly communist mayor. So your analogy fails again.
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  45. MrDICKHEAD28 Bring it. I've got a 5.56x45 round with your name on it and thousands more where that one comes from.
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  46. MrDICKHEAD28 That's cute commie. Keep deluding yourself. Just remember that in this country, we shoot communists.
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  47. MrDICKHEAD28 As I said trollo. Bring it.
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  48. MrDICKHEAD28 Hmmm... What MOS would that be? I was a 1371.
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  49. MrDICKHEAD28 Oh that's cute, you just doxed yourself. Enjoy your visit with the SWAT team.
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  50. Sobakus Neither am I, socialism is a dying experiment. Even Europe is getting tired of that shit.
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  51. Gfuckingmaniak Life's not fair. It's not the job of the government to fix that. You play the hand you're dealt. If it's a bad hand, tough shit. Not my fucking problem and certainly not my financial responsibility.
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  52. Gfuckingmaniak I'm against any laws other than ones that punish malum in se crimes. Go look it up.
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