Nonsense! Why have Venezuelans lost on average 30lbs? Mass dieting, bad weather or because the government has destroyed the economy. Have you ever meet anyone who has been their? I have and the stories are terrifying.
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Replying to @simon_enefer @KEEMSTAR and
“Why have Venezuelans lost on average 30lbs?” Frankly, I’d like to see the survey. I can’t find a primary source on that. Venezuela HAS gone through a market crash though, and they are having certain resources sadistically withheld from them.
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Replying to @mediocre_danny @KEEMSTAR and
What resources are being withheld from them? Their currency is worthless and even close allies - China and Russia - won't put more money into the country. Neighbouring countries are being overwhelmed by Venezuelan refugees. Peru closed its border last week.
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Replying to @simon_enefer @KEEMSTAR and
Off the top of my head, funds and toilet paper. American banks have frozen the funds of many Venezuelans as a “humanitarian” measure. P&G-type companies stopped selling them toilet paper (to foster unrest). Funny how they never ran out of napkins or towels, though!
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Replying to @mediocre_danny @KEEMSTAR and
Use the currency as toilet paper, it is cheaper! Companies don't like having there employees put at risk or being paid with worthless paper. The government has made every mistake in the book, from property seizures to price controls.
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Replying to @simon_enefer @KEEMSTAR and
Uh, so if their currency is worthless, and their companies don’t like paying employees with it, why are they almost all still in business and paying their employees with Venezuelan currency?
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Replying to @mediocre_danny @KEEMSTAR and
I worked with an Argentinian who went through the hyperinflation in Argentina and his comments on it have always stayed with me. People move to barter, theft and anything else to survive. Short of a war, it is the worst thing that can happen to a country.
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Replying to @simon_enefer @KEEMSTAR and
Yeah see, this is another reason why food needs to be free
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Replying to @mediocre_danny @KEEMSTAR and
So we should just feed all of Africa with food grown in the West? Wiping out tens of millions of African farmers. After fifty years of the aid culture we should accept it doesn't work and try something else.
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Replying to @simon_enefer @KEEMSTAR and
With food grown anywhere, not just the West, but yeah. Seems fair, seeing as we make all our computer chips from their silicon and gold. “Wiping out tens of millions of African farmers.” Why would you need to wipe out any farms, or farmers? What are you talking about?
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By wiping out farmers I mean we take away their livelihood, not that they die. I personally think African governments would improve and treat their people better if they had to rely on the taxes fro their own citizens.
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Replying to @simon_enefer @KEEMSTAR and
Well, frankly, whatever they grow themselves, that’d be less that we’d have to give ‘em. So we can give them... idk, computers? instead of that amount of food. Or better yet, clean pipes!
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