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Knowing people from a socialist server does not translate into knowledge about socialism

nice left leaning source, faggot

That link I posted tells of the oil industry being gutted by Venezuelan govt

*yawn* im bored, this is boring

the objective data presented is wrong because they're left wing 🤔

@versterven Probably

@versterven do you deny that many left leaning politicians and self proclaimed Socialists praised Hugo Chavezs' policies when he got elected?

If you attack the other side for asking for sources to prove your claims, then you're not worth talking to.

what about fox news http://www.foxnews.com/world/2010/07/18/socialism-private-sector-dominates-venezuelan-economy-despite-chavez-crusade.html

You have nothing more to bring to the discussion than your feelings.

is that too left leaning

that chavez

sure

not Nicholas Malduro

@versterven That's from 2010

some of chavez's policies were good

Not really

but ultimately venezuela is not socialist

and has made virtually no progress toward becoming socialist

his country has suffered horribly from it

Just throw the commie out of the helicopter already

Fucking hell its boring

and people who call bolivia an example of successful socialism now are also wrong

It's more socialist than most countries in the western hemisphere

Lets all be civil

because like venezuela it is not socialist

Schrödingers Venezuela.

Yup. This is totally going nowhere.

Venezuela is more socialist than every socialist country in Europe

@versterven look up anything about Venezuela from the last year

@versterven please just watch the Young Turks video on it. They even say its a socialist state.

@versterven what is socialist for you?

@Chris McLean Baron Lord of Hell NO

@versterven you seem to fail to understand that it is a spectrum and venezuela is leaning towards socialism compared to other nations

Wait we started with callin Venezuela communist

They re defintely socialist

TYT is complete insanity

also here is data that shows that public sector as a percentage of gdp in venezuela was bigger in 1997 than in any year from 1999 (when Chavez was elected) to 2014 https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1QGc2eUlWXCC2DQkmikn4Bn7Ms5FcenHjnwBlPbVTxYY/edit?usp=sharing

@Deleted User anything that is proclaimed as socialist and that works, duh

@A Random Crusader its to show this fool thats its clearly socalist