[OFF TOPIC] Politics Thread

[mrv86 2,924]

1 hour ago, LDOG said:

I predict Maduro will just quit and flee to another country this year or the next. At some point his own military will betray him (there already signs of that) and force him out. Don't think there is a chance for a real war.

 

He will probably seek asylum and be offered an Honorary and Legitimate Presidency in the "Loving, Forgiving and Juarist Not Corrupt Republic of North Venezuela" which is Mexico's future official name.

[intoronto 4,231]

1 hour ago, mrv86 said:

 

He will probably seek asylum and be offered an Honorary and Legitimate Presidency in the "Loving, Forgiving and Juarist Not Corrupt Republic of North Venezuela" which is Mexico's future official name.

Or Nicaragua

[Olympian1010 7,474]

2 hours ago, mrv86 said:

 

He will probably seek asylum and be offered an Honorary and Legitimate Presidency in the "Loving, Forgiving and Juarist Not Corrupt Republic of North Venezuela" which is Mexico's future official name.

I think Boliva is his ideal spot 

[bestmen 2,559]

of course Cuba 

[mrv86 2,924]

3 hours ago, intoronto said:

Or Nicaragua

 

2 hours ago, Olympian1010 said:

I think Boliva is his ideal spot 

 

Not that I would like him and his junta in my country, nor I intend to be offensive, but I doubt in either those would he find the minimum comfort he and every other hipocrit "socialist leader" in the world thinks he deserves.

 

[Olympian1010 7,474]

In other non-Venezuelan news, Kamala Harris announced her plans to run for President in 2020. She will be the candidate I’ll support in the primaries, and against Trump. I think she’s the right direction for our country to move in. (Plus, she’s a woman of color from California, so everything Trump hates).

[vinipereira 3,053]

@heywoodu I was curious for your opinion regarding some of the comments made by our minister of Human Rights. Basically she said that in the Netherlands it's standard practice that parents are taught to masturbate their children from a early age (7 months). She also said in the past that gays are freaks and need treatment - and I guess it's "okay" for a person to have that opinion (dumb people are everywhere), but it's alarming that she's the minister of Human Rights!

 

So yes, that's the kind of people that we have in power right now. A bunch of far right nationalists with a clown president that already is showing his ineptitude to the world.

 

[Olympian1010 7,474]

1 hour ago, vinipereira said:

@heywoodu I was curious for your opinion regarding some of the comments made by our minister of Human Rights. Basically she said that in the Netherlands it's standard practice that parents are taught to masturbate their children from a early age (7 months). She also said in the past that gays are freaks and need treatment - and I guess it's "okay" for a person to have that opinion (dumb people are everywhere), but it's alarming that she's the minister of Human Rights!

 

So yes, that's the kind of people that we have in power right now. A bunch of far right nationalists with a clown president that already is showing his ineptitude to the world.

 

I had to read this like 15 times to get my mind to understand it. And here I was thinking it would be hard to beat the Trump, Maduro, and Syrian governments 

[thiago_simoes 1,359]

Bestmen, I get it that you live in a country with no freedom of religion and very little freedom concerning how one lives one's life. I live in a country where I am free to practice any (or no) religion, where I can marry anybody (man or woman), where women are free to choose who they marry and where they can choose to work and have a career. When I go out in the morning, I see the streets brimming with multiracial people, and people live their lives to the fullest the best way they can.

 

When one is able to see how beautiful diversity is, it is hard to go back to a miserable life where you have no freedom and where everyone is controlled by a greater force, may it be religion, or the state, or both. After this, you can never look back to a despicable life where everyone is the same and where you look in the mirror and see that you are just one more. Maybe this is why you spend so much time on this forum. For this reason, I do not wish you get banned anymore; I wish you stay here and contemplate diversity. There is always room for everyone.

[heywoodu 13,547]

4 hours ago, vinipereira said:

@heywoodu I was curious for your opinion regarding some of the comments made by our minister of Human Rights. Basically she said that in the Netherlands it's standard practice that parents are taught to masturbate their children from a early age (7 months).

I read this and also read she said parents in the Netherlands are given 'a little book that teaches them how to 'sexually satisfy' their children in order for them to grow up to become sexually healthy people', or something like that. Honestly? To me this sounds as bizarre as it most likely does to you, although I gotta be honest and say I have absolutely no clue about what kind of 'education' or help or something new parents get other than someone who helps around the house in the first week or so. 

 

Apparently she was warning against PT's plans (no idea if they were true) to educate parents about stuff like erections and masturbation in new-borns? My knowledge about that is zero, but generally speaking I'm not against educating people. I just highly doubt there's actually some advice or anything in the Netherlands saying "hey parents, go masturbate your 7 month old kid and this is how to do it". I mean, yeah. No.