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Bacchus4.0

(6,837 posts)
2. another link, pretty nasty stuff. All indications point to chavistas of course
Thu Mar 20, 2014, 09:33 AM
Mar 2014
http://el-carabobeno.com/portada/articulo/77711/al-menos-11-heridos-en-ataque-a-estudiantes-de-la-ucv


While I am amazed that the protests are still continuing after this long, I think these guerrilla tactics will increase even if the protests die down.
 

Marksman_91

(2,035 posts)
3. There's a hardcore Chavista whose kid was among the victims
Thu Mar 20, 2014, 09:55 AM
Mar 2014

He actually started tweeting like mad about the whole thing saying stuff like "who the fuck do I take this case to? The armed colectivos assaulted my son who studies at UCV!". This is a prime example of how the government is losing support through their repressive actions and by supporting these armed paramilitaries. They're digging their own grave.

 

Flatulo

(5,005 posts)
5. Like our own student protests in the sixties, the
Thu Mar 20, 2014, 11:23 AM
Mar 2014

harder the State squeezes, the stronger the resistance will grow. It may move underground, but it will not go away. These protesters are very, very courageous. They are not willing to trade away their dignity and their rights for the promise of straight teeth.

They understand that they now live in a repressive state, and that the powers of that state are being brought down on them.

I pray for them!

Bacchus4.0

(6,837 posts)
6. and just want to elaborate that this occurred inside a university buidling
Thu Mar 20, 2014, 11:54 AM
Mar 2014

when the students went to an assembly. The chavistas went in and attacked them inside.

joshcryer

(62,270 posts)
10. That's the difference between Chavez and Maduro.
Fri Mar 21, 2014, 06:38 AM
Mar 2014

Chavez dismissed them, laughed them off. Maduro attacks them, he's truly afraid of what they could become.

joshcryer

(62,270 posts)
9. Makeup.
Fri Mar 21, 2014, 06:37 AM
Mar 2014

Well orchestrated propaganda using makeup artists. The fascist opposition is known to do this, you know.

 

uncommonlink

(261 posts)
11. I've noticed one prominent pro-Maduro cheerleader loves to use the word fascist
Fri Mar 21, 2014, 09:42 AM
Mar 2014

against anyone who opposes Maduro, so, I posted an actual definition of the word in another thread.

fas·cism
[ fá shìzzəm ]


1.dictatorial movement: any movement, ideology, or attitude that favors dictatorial government, centralized control of private enterprise, repression of all opposition, and extreme nationalism


Seems as if this describes the Maduro regime to a tee.

Bacchus4.0

(6,837 posts)
12. sure does, I think we put who the fascists are to rest
Fri Mar 21, 2014, 09:51 AM
Mar 2014

Fascist chavistas accuse others of what they are.

joshcryer

(62,270 posts)
13. It goes without saying.
Fri Mar 21, 2014, 09:58 AM
Mar 2014

Chavismo has been fascist for some time, but because they declare themselves "leftist" they get a pass.

 

Flatulo

(5,005 posts)
14. Another poster has become quite adept at completely dehumanizing anyone who disagrees in
Fri Mar 21, 2014, 03:21 PM
Mar 2014

even the slightest way with her, calling them 'lumps of flesh' and 'wasted space'.

It goes without saying that such people also believe that they own this forum, and that dissenters are all trolls and intruders.

Such warm, decent people.

Zorro

(15,740 posts)
15. I know what you mean
Fri Mar 21, 2014, 10:04 PM
Mar 2014

It seems that flubberlips is always trying to hurt my delicate feelings whenever I post.

Bacchus4.0

(6,837 posts)
18. oh yeah, she lives vicarously through anti-US leftist dictatorships
Thu Mar 27, 2014, 03:21 PM
Mar 2014

She is one of those who still believes that communism is the answer.

 

Marksman_91

(2,035 posts)
16. It's funny how they behave just like the Madurista leadership back in Venezuela
Fri Mar 21, 2014, 10:15 PM
Mar 2014

It's almost like they have no original ideas and have to repeat the things that their leaders have to say and need to refer to their opponents by insults or some other kind of term that tries to demean them just so they can feel superior, and are so consumed by their ideology that they refuse to accept the facts that will shatter their fantasies of a "socialist utopia" that they've never even seen with their own eyes. I feel sorry for them, actually, they barely have any free will or an objective mindset.

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