Venezuela Creates 'Vice Ministry Of Supreme Social Happiness' To Combat Sadness
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Americans may insist on the right to pursue happiness, but Venezuela now has a formal government agency in charge of enforcing it.
President Nicolas Maduro says the new Vice Ministry of Supreme Social Happiness will coordinate all the "mission" programs created by the late President Hugo Chavez to alleviate poverty.
Wags had a field day Friday, waxing sarcastic on Twitter about how happy they felt less than 24 hours after the announcement.
Oil-rich Venezuela is chronically short of basic goods and medical supplies. Annual inflation is running officially at near 50 percent and the U.S. dollar now fetches more than seven times the official rate on the black market.
In downtown Caracas, fruit vendor Victor Rey said he's now waiting for Maduro to create a vice ministry of beer.
"That would make me, and all the drunks, happy," he said.
A TV journalist whose show was recently forced off the air after he refused to censor political opponents of the ruling socialists, Leopoldo Castillo, called Maduro's announcement an international embarrassment.
Housewife Liliana Alfonzo, 31, said that instead of a Supreme Happiness agency she'd prefer being able to get milk and toilet paper, which disappear off store shelves minutes after arriving at stores.
"It's a Calvary getting the ingredients for any meal," she said.[/QUOTE]
[url]http://www.businessinsider.com/venezuela-creates-vice-ministry-of-supreme-social-happiness-to-combat-sadness-2013-10[/url]
[B]And now that will come after ?, thought police? (if you do not support the government of Nicolas Maduro and his "socialism" you become public enemy?)[/B]
just release puppies throughout the streets of Venezuela.
MILLIONS.
HAPPINESS FOR EVERYONE.
[editline]26th October 2013[/editline]
bacon and hookers would work too
[img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/ce/Kandy_Man.jpg[/img]
Nobody may be unhappy!
Kandy Man is on the case!
[QUOTE=barttool;42656470]l8 m8 [url]http://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1318946[/url][/QUOTE]
oh, well I have to check more often
[QUOTE=Elcard100;42656256][B]And now that will come after ?, thought police? (if you do not support the government of Nicolas Maduro and his "socialism" you become public enemy?)[/B][/QUOTE]
You thank that is the future?
Venezuela banned private gun ownership in [URL="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-18288430"]mid 2012[/URL].
Here's the Chavist militia:
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Here are children with M-16's or whatever the hell they are:
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EDIT: buncha sources so I'm not accuse of misunderstanding socialism (Sorry for the Spanish, there isn't much in English):
[url]http://www.elpais.com.co/elpais/internacional/milicias-chavez-ahora-batallan-desde-aulas-clase[/url]
[url]http://abcblogs.abc.es/bochinche-venezolano/2012/01/26/los-ninos-de-la-revolucion/[/url]
[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHarepVVCrs[/url]
[url]http://www.economist.com/node/18529829[/url]
[QUOTE=Eudoxia;42656506]You thank that is the future?
Venezuela banned private gun ownership in [URL="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-18288430"]mid 2012[/URL].
Here's the Chavist militia:
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only difference is, Venezuelan government isn't nearly as ruthlessly precise and organized as INGSOC is in 1984, they are bound to collapse over their own idiocy.
[QUOTE=barttool;42656528]only difference is, Venezuelan government isn't nearly as ruthlessly precise and organized as INGSOC is in 1984, they are bound to collapse over their own idiocy.[/QUOTE]
They don't have to be organized to kill a few thousands of people, and sentence the rest to live in misery for the rest of their lives.
[QUOTE=barttool;42656528]only difference is, Venezuelan government isn't nearly as ruthlessly precise and organized as INGSOC is in 1984, they are bound to collapse over their own idiocy.[/QUOTE]
But the problem is that chavez ideology that put the country in its 14-year rule, the country falls into civil war (that is why Chavez in 7-O elections had National Guard APC on the streets waiting for if chavez losing the election and winning capriles to kill Him)
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And as the PSUV is very unstable with Maduro, if you decide to leave the presidency or the PSUV decides to leave but he refuses, they could use the plan Avila
[QUOTE=Eudoxia;42656617]They don't have to be organized to kill a few thousands of people, and sentence the rest to live in misery for the rest of their lives.[/QUOTE]
If a war breaks out, the UNSC would probably actually agree that it's something which threatens the peace and stability of South and Central America.
Not to mention it would be a fucking field day for cartels to get free military grade weapons.
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Good fucking Lord, this is just like the 80s all over again, when many peruvian universities were infiltrated by the terrorists. These people are [B]insane[/B], this is almost state-funded terrorism
[QUOTE=JoeSkylynx;42656802]If a war breaks out, the UNSC would probably actually agree that it's something which threatens the peace and stability of South and Central America.
Not to mention it would be a fucking field day for cartels to get free military grade weapons.[/QUOTE]
Not only guns, also potential recruits. Chavez was known for supporting the FARC
[QUOTE=barttool;42656528]only difference is, Venezuelan government isn't nearly as ruthlessly precise and organized as INGSOC is in 1984, they are bound to collapse over their own idiocy.[/QUOTE]
Idiots are more dangerous than organized dictatorships, because they tend to make more noise and damage as they collapse
[QUOTE=Elcard100;42656765]But the problem is that chavez ideology that put the country in its 14-year rule, the country falls into civil war [I][I][B](that is why Chavez in 7-O elections had National Guard APC on the streets waiting for if chavez losing the election and winning capriles to kill Him)[/B][/I][/I]
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And as the PSUV is very unstable with Maduro, if you decide to leave the presidency or the PSUV decides to leave but he refuses, they could use the plan Avila[/QUOTE]
I think you are a bit delusional. Given the state of political tension in Venezuela, if I was head of the army, the wisest thing to do would be to put heavy surveillance around key areas of the city in order to prevent riots (which happen anyway after every election). The tanks are always placed during every election.
The people in the government aren't evil masterminds, they're just corrupt dumbasses hungry for money and possessions. You need to get your eyes off of Globovision for a bit m8.
[editline]26th October 2013[/editline]
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Idiots are more dangerous than organized dictatorships, because they tend to make more noise and damage as they collapse[/QUOTE]
that was not my point though, Venezuela is heading for a big civil conflict sooner or later, my point is that it's farfetched to think that the venezuelan government has the ability to pull out an outright, unmasked totalitarian regime like the one in 1984 (or any sort of regime for much longer now). Besides, the US would go all up in arms were it to happen.
[QUOTE=T553412;42656807]Good fucking Lord, this is just like the 80s all over again, when many peruvian universities were infiltrated by the terrorists. These people are [B]insane[/B], this is almost state-funded terrorism
Not only guns, also potential recruits. Chavez was known for supporting the FARC
Idiots are more dangerous than organized dictatorships, because they tend to make more noise and damage as they collapse[/QUOTE]
And do not forget Bolivarian Liberation Forces (Patriotic Forces for National Liberation called now)
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tupamaros
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Guerrilla January 23
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Venezuelan militia and Bolivarian Workers' Militia
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And the PSUV
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in other words we're screwed if there is a civil war
[QUOTE]barttool;42656835]I think you are a bit delusional. Given the state of political tension in Venezuela, if I was head of the army, the wisest thing to do would be to put heavy surveillance around key areas of the city in order to prevent riots (which happen anyway after every election). The tanks are always placed during every election.
The people in the government aren't evil masterminds, they're just corrupt dumbasses hungry for money and possessions. You need to get your eyes off of Globovision for a bit m8.[/QUOTE]
I never see globovision and government channels (both parties of the right / left are the same shit but with a different color), but do not believe what you put on the screen / press / internet what want you to think, if you know what actually happens
But the government knows that it can not control it more, they know that at some point may occur as the Caracazo social crisis, with Chavez many as wanted by the charisma he had and he knew how to control it.
But unlike nicolas maduro has on the contrary, is more I talk to many who are of the PSUV and dislike this government, and here many are angry against him (leaving the political side), so you can sooner or later spending another social crisis in the country so he tries to find ways to prevent it from happening but do not know to how long.
But civil war happens, no joke
What can you expect from a leader who actually [url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/03/nicolas-maduro-hugo-chavez-little-bird_n_3007965.html][b]talks to fucking birds?[/b][/url]
I can't believe my country's goverment was (and probably is still) looking to Venezuela as a 'model to be'.
as a venezuelan i can completly say the my country is fucked, milk is scarce as living fuck, as well toilet paper and everything here is expensive as well as fuck due to massive inflation and the " pig " that dares to call himself a president doesnt give two shits
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I never see globovision and government channels (both parties of the right / left are the same shit but with a different color), [B]but do not believe what you put on the screen / press / internet what want you to think, if you know what actually happens[/B]
But the government knows that it can not control it more, they know that at some point may occur as the Caracazo social crisis, with Chavez many as wanted by the charisma he had and he knew how to control it.
But unlike nicolas maduro has on the contrary, is more I talk to many who are of the PSUV and dislike this government, and here many are angry against him (leaving the political side), so you can sooner or later spending another social crisis in the country so he tries to find ways to prevent it from happening but do not know to how long.
But civil war happens, no joke[/QUOTE]
I would be more concerned about what external powers would do in the event of a civil war. Worst case scenario, same thing as with Syria: US wants to intervene but strategic partners of the venezuelan government (like Russia, China and Cuba) would put their weight against an intervention and Venezuela ends in a long locked down conflict for years.
I wouldn't doubt for a minute, nonetheless, that the US would provide support to opposition factions either via military support, financial support or other means.
[QUOTE][B]but do not believe what you put on the screen / press / internet what want you to think, if you know what actually happens[/B][/QUOTE]
I am Venezuelan myself too, I constantly visit the country and am aware of the current situation (just got back from there a week ago).
[QUOTE=barttool;42657942]I would be more concerned about what external powers would do in the event of a civil war. Worst case scenario, same thing as with Syria: US wants to intervene but strategic partners of the venezuelan government (like Russia, China and Cuba) would put their weight against an intervention and Venezuela ends in a long locked down conflict for years.
I wouldn't doubt for a minute, nonetheless, that the US would provide support to opposition factions either via military support, financial support or other means.
I am Venezuelan myself too, I constantly visit the country and am aware of the current situation (just got back from there a week ago).[/QUOTE]
I just hope it does not happen, no one wants to imagine that one day the country falling into civil war as Syrian or Libyan and end much worse, is the only thing that nobody wants but only time will tell.
[editline]26th October 2013[/editline]
[QUOTE=Tumama;42657651]What can you expect from a leader who actually [url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/03/nicolas-maduro-hugo-chavez-little-bird_n_3007965.html][b]talks to fucking birds?[/b][/url]
I can't believe my country's goverment was (and probably is still) looking to Venezuela as a 'model to be'.[/QUOTE]
Or when he said that Christ multiplied the penis or the most WTF was when he said that "sometimes" sleep in the tomb of Chavez, it's like your president said that sleeps in the tomb of Nestor.
But what happens is that I have friends who live in Argentina and tell me what happens in your country, I just hope that Argentina can recover soon of this government of Cristina Kirchner
as a venezuelan i'm just finding out this happened lol.
it seems more like a cover up for the fact that Maduro is trying to get congress to approve an enabling act to give him essentially unlimited powers to repress politicians. he's directly asking for action against Capriles.
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