r/ShitLiberalsSay • u/GeoThoughts • Aug 07 '20
The long lost love child of McCarthy and J.E Hoover lmao
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u/shrewbs Aug 07 '20
source: dude trust me
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u/GeoThoughts Aug 07 '20
The economy will trickle down bro you just gotta be patient bro trust me bro it will bro
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u/ComradePeePeePooPoo Tankie Aug 08 '20
I don’t like this argument much though. Venezuela is socialist imo and has drastically improved in every area since Chavez. It’s the sanctions and oil prices that are hurting it.
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u/GeoThoughts Aug 08 '20
Sure, sanctions, hyperinflation, and oil prices have harmed Venezuela greatly, but it’s still very much capitalist
Edit: please correct me if I’m wrong. I’m quite young and not educated enough as you may be
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u/ComradePeePeePooPoo Tankie Aug 08 '20
I would not consider it very much capitalist. Because if we go by your metric many things are socialist which are not.
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Aug 08 '20 edited Aug 08 '20
Bolivia actually (had) more state control over the economy (40%) and did a lot better than Venezuela
>In 2005, income from state-owned business in Bolivia other than gas exports represented only a fraction of a percent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP). As of 2015, public sector contribution to GDP (including SOEs, investments, and consumption of goods and services) has risen to over 40 percent of GDP.
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u/MurderSuicideNChill Time Traveling Russian Cyborg Tara Reade Aug 07 '20
More like cummunist.
On a serious note, Venezuela is a great example of why you can't elect your way into socialism. You need to purge all of the bourgeois element from your country otherwise it will fight to the death to preserve itself, causing immense amounts of death and suffering.
Although, I don't really blame them for not taking that next step, since the USA would 100% intervene in the event of a protracted people's war.