That’s a super good point!!

Those countries also have semi-planned economies

I don’t disagree at all, Information has always been out there for those who seek it out, the problem lies within capitalism, which only values education that has been paid for.

Often jobs will require a degree and experience, even trades that you say require informal training often require some sort of red seal or at least have an apprenticeship program.

You can get that education however you like, but its a bit more difficult to find an employer in a labour flooded market that is willing to let you prove your knowledge if you don’t have the recognition to back it up.

The education isn’t any less fruitful, but it is just valued less by the ruling class simply because it didn’t require money.

I would argue that primarily youre paying for the recognition of your education, as in your diploma, which is often what employers look at.

Capitalism

Yeah that’s pretty much what I’m getting at

I think they fear the social consequences (hence masks), ie. What happens when people they know find out what they do? Surely not everyone they know thinks what they’re doing is good.

Capitalism. Always.

don’t come using my country to say socialism is bad

This, I think, is misinterpretation of the meme, they’re using that phrase ironically to say that the US used socialism as an excuse to sanction because they always do that. This is what they did to Cuba too.

The US will infiltrate a functioning socialist economy and then say it doesn’t work after they caused it not to work.

That being said i know very little about Venezuela so I don’t know if it was functioning well before the sanctions or not, I just understood the meme differently than you and figured I’d mention there’s a different interpretation.

I’m annoyed at you so im responding to this thread just to raise your blood pressure.

Ya because of boomers and people using messenger and marketplace

At least the one person who downvoted my comment, apparently 😅

(I laugh but this whole thing is depressing)

Yes those totally weren’t fabricated at all

So, not allowing children to literally put everyone on a plane at risk is antisemitism now? Jfc.

Tbf I didn’t say anything about it being a 10% minority. But trump won with less than 50% of the popular vote which we know included voter suppression and straight doctoring votes, so I think the people who didn’t vote for him do outnumber those who did, but yes, it is definitely well over 70M people.

I’m not making excuses at all, something must be done, but what do we expect? Their cops have insane fire power and will open fire on civilians, so I guess we just have to hope some people are willing to martyr themselves and commit suicide by cop?

I hope for a revolution, but I understand why people might be afraid to stand up.

Me?

Anyone who wants to lead will get murdered

It’s not that the insane outnumber them, it’s that the military has crazy firepower and is controlled by trump loyalists, and they are willing to open fire on citizens. The sane people know that.

The only hope is infiltrating the military i guess?

I mean, I wouldn’t be surprised what with the late-stage parkinson’s

Then don’t read that part, it doesn’t change the rest of what I said.

Whereas your entire comment was a whatabout the soviet union?

Just had to argue against a strawman, eh? Weird ass thought process when I was just meeting you at your own level, bruv.