Comments by "" (@shauncameron8390) on "Venezuela crisis: Where families buy rotten meat to eat - BBC News" video.

  1.  @lunafringe10  No. Venezuela's anti-business policies brought about its current situation. Throwing its productive citizens under the bus in favor of political lackeys was entirely Venezuela's idea.
    31
  2.    And when socialism doesn't starve people and have millions die, it cripples economies and stagnates societies. Guyana, Jamaica, India, Nicaragua, anywhere Eastern Europe, etc.
    14
  3. @UnoriginalAsshole LOL. Hard-working and government officials do not belong in the same sentence. And by the way, government officials care nothing about the people, election time aside.
    10
  4.  @reverie.b7401  Maybe not, but the poor are often foolish and ignorant.
    6
  5.  @natalieparedesparedes9102  Because socialism and communism is anti-humanity to the core.
    4
  6. That's basically their social safety net, especially when they're no longer able to work and take care of themselves. Nursery homes don't exist there.
    3
  7.  @kofi5632  Social programs and public services =/= socialism. Try central planning, centralized authority and the general lack of (economic) freedom due to state control and the restricting/banning of private anything.
    3
  8. Socialism and totalitarian dictatorships go hand in hand.
    2
  9. Only because of Deng's capitalist reforms and Clinton shipping out all the American manufacturing jobs there.
    2
  10. Didn't it run out of french fries a couple of years ago?
    2
  11.  @fahoodie1852  Zimbabwe hasn't been capitalist since its Rhodesia Ian Smith days.
    2
  12. Not any more than national socialism or regular socialism. Agreed.
    2
  13.  @Smoke1  And interestingly had socialism for most of its post-independence existence.
    2
  14.  @Smoke1  I know, but it doesn't change the fact that many of the countries there tried socialism only to flounder all the same.
    2
  15. And cheap foreign labor.
    1
  16. Alongside his predecessor's daughter, Maria Gabriela Chavez.
    1
  17. Why don't you help out? Rich people owe Venezuela nothing.
    1
  18. That's not saying much since Pyongyang = Potemkin Village.
    1
  19. Maduro.
    1
  20.  @Bruh-mg5ff  And how much of that starvation under capitalism was due to state expropriation of land as consistently found in North Korea, China, Cambodia and the old USSR?
    1
  21. And like Marx, Bernie hardly worked a day in his entire adult life and lived off of his girlfriend.
    1
  22. It's her money and she's free to spend it however she likes. Not really. You would have done what Kylie is doing, because bleeding-heart virtue-signallers only care about the poor and downtrodden when it's expedien and at someone else's expense.
    1
  23. What people? The people that should be gaining profit from oil are the same people the government chased out. The skilled and experienced personnel that made the oil profitable in the first place.
    1
  24. That's if they know how to grow vegetables or are legally allowed to without getting their crops seized.
    1
  25. Better question: How about the mismanagement, the ineptitude and the never-ending victim-playing by Maduro and the gang?
    1
  26. You mean the Venezuelan government. And the average Venezuelan who voted for this.
    1
  27. Public services =/= socialism. Try state-controlled economies.
    1
  28. Britain's hungry and homeless problem is largely local. Venezuela's hungry and homeless national is national. Big difference!
    1
  29.  jojofromtx  Public service and social programs =/= socialism.
    1
  30.  @LuisFernandez-cz8ob  No. It's called mismanagement and incompetence.
    1
  31. LMAO. Like which? Those capitalist welfare states that the left loves to point at as proof of socialism's success?
    1
  32. Hardly. How come Iran isn't starving?
    1
  33. Chavez and Maduro.
    1
  34.  @bri1085  Zimbabwe is not a capitalist country and has been ran by socialists since 1980. And many of the other 3rd world countries are barely a generation removed from their experience with socialism.
    1
  35. @LordSear1982 Maybe it's because this is of Venezuela's own doing?
    1
  36. Forget visiting. They need to go live there like the average Venezuelan.
    1
  37.  @fahoodie1852  Yes it is socialism. And in Venezuela, it's just doing its usual socialist thing.
    1
  38.  @choreboy988  Nah. Most liberals are communism's useful idiots as described by Vladimir Lenin.
    1
  39. Hard to do that when the government controls the food supply.
    1
  40.  @mentoslat6140  Like Oprah Winfery and every other semi-famous rapper?
    1
  41.  @KindCountsDeb3773  It is socialism. It achieved its "classlessness" by killing off the middle class and confiscating their property as advocated by Karl Marx.
    1
  42. For everyone except her, her family and comrades.
    1
  43.  @sharsasuke01  They know what socialism is. It's just that they're too embarrassed to admit they prefer the USSR/Eastern European/Chinese/Cambodian/Chinese/North Korean model.
    1
  44.  @Pugetwitch  That is what true socialism is as it has been practiced since Lenin. State, oops! I mean collective control.
    1
  45. Since when was Los Angeles a country?
    1
  46. Greed, sloth, pride, etc.
    1
  47. In the bank accounts of the Chavistas.
    1
  48. Meh. it's always better to live in abundance than destitution. In the lady's case, state-imposed destitution.
    1
  49. But the evil plaguing the land is from within, though.
    1
  50.  @frankgarrett9500  Pride. They think they have all the answers for what ails the world.
    1
  51.  @justathought973  This has plenty to do with socialism. You need to follow your own advice and lay off the far-left so-called alternative media.
    1
  52.  @jacob.g.l1592  Since when was Canada a socialist country?
    1
  53. And since when did socialists care about the people aside from exploiting them for power?
    1
  54.  @minigaangsta  In other words, children are their social safety net.
    1
  55. So far, Venezuela is one of the better off countries unlike its neighbor to the south, Brazil.
    1
  56.  @Bronco57  Venezuela has a lower case and death count, all things considering, ignorant!
    1
  57. Like the Ukraine?
    1
  58. Literally speaking.
    1
  59. No. Another country destroyed by socialism just like its neighbor to the east it barely acknowledges, Guyana.
    1
  60. Because apparently, it wasn't practiced by the right kind of people.
    1
  61. Because Venezuelans turned in their guns a long time ago under Chavez.
    1
  62. It's Venezuela. Are they even legally allowed to without getting their crops seized in the process?
    1
  63. And so are the people of Venezuela who voted for it oly to find out the hard way that the joke is on them.
    1
  64. LOL Such leaders never existed as most of them were opportunists and aspiring oppressors they often turn out to be.
    1
  65. What about the food and medical aid that got seized at the border by the Venezuelan military on orders from Maduro?
    1
  66.  @simo8924  Capitalist welfare states =/= socialist. Why don'y you just admit that what you really want is centrally-planned economies, one-party rule and the populace at the government's mercy?
    1
  67.  @WineAndWits  Democratic socialism is exactly what got Venezuela in its current mess. The people voted for their own subjugation.
    1
  68.  @wilcoxwilcox3272  All of which have been seized and/or shut down by Maduro making Venezuela functionally socialist.
    1
  69. Hugo Chavez and Nicolas Maduro.
    1
  70. In Maduro's bank account.
    1
  71. And greedy people that voted for it only to get taken for suckers in the end.
    1
  72. Ditto for AOC. Like every other socialist, she came from a privileged background.
    1
  73. Like the average North Korean?
    1
  74.  @tribinaaux4043  That same private sector that have long since been shut down and seized by the government?
    1
  75. @Melon Sauce With what land?
    1