Venezuela sin Chávez: The Nicolas Maduro Thread

[BigFatMeanie]

Yeah, the toilet paper was about sixes with well-crumpled Church News pages. If you really spent the time to crumple the pages finely, CN was actually even better than the available TP.

Except for the newsprint ink stains on your butt.

[Donuthole]

Except for the newsprint ink stains on your butt.

I wouldn't know.

[BigFatMeanie]

I wouldn't know.

Yeah, but your comp did...

[BigFatMeanie]

Sorry, I simply couldn't resist such a softball.

[Katy Lied]

Venezuela has shortages of every commodity except electricity, which is practically free. Hence the rise of bitcoin farms there, for the win-win. Mine bitcoins and pay for commodities in bitcoins, which are more stable than venezuelan money. Corrupt cops monitor electricity usage, storm the farms and either steal the rigs outright, or charge a $1000 "penalty" fee for each computer. This has forced the bitcoin farmers deeper underground, spreading our their computers among several different locations, or mining Ether, which can be more easily disguised as regular home computers. Bitcoin usage is up from 450 in 2014, to 85,000 in 2017.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/03/10/bitcoin-mining-is-big-business-in-venezuela-but-the-government-wants-to-shut-it-down/?utm_term=.f5b4d5c480bc

[Commando]

Venezuela has shortages of every commodity except electricity, which is practically free. Hence the rise of bitcoin farms there, for the win-win. Mine bitcoins and pay for commodities in bitcoins, which are more stable than venezuelan money. Corrupt cops monitor electricity usage, storm the farms and either steal the rigs outright, or charge a $1000 "penalty" fee for each computer. This has forced the bitcoin farmers deeper underground, spreading our their computers among several different locations, or mining Ether, which can be more easily disguised as regular home computers. Bitcoin usage is up from 450 in 2014, to 85,000 in 2017.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...=.f5b4d5c480bc

Fascinating. The invisible hand punches through the veil of a post-apocalyptic communist state...

[BlueK]

Hopefully it's only a matter of time before the evil oppressive regime is taken down.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/27/americas/venezuela-military-protests-interview-intl/index.html

[Walter Sobchak]

Hopefully it's only a matter of time before the evil oppressive regime is taken down.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/27/ameri...ntl/index.html

American companies should easily be able to take the Venezuelan oil post-Maduro. Bonus.

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[frank ryan]

American companies should easily be able to take the Venezuelan oil post-Maduro. Bonus.

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Yes all this unrest is a scheme for the yankee empire to move in.

Btw, What exactly are we doing in Ukraine?

[myboynoah]

Yes all this unrest is a scheme for the yankee empire to move in.

Btw, What exactly are we doing in Ukraine?

Apparently we took their oil.

[Commando]

Yes all this unrest is a scheme for the yankee empire to move in.

Btw, What exactly are we doing in Ukraine?

Besides pretending Putin didn't just occupy it? I'm really not sure...

[frank ryan]

Besides pretending Putin didn't just occupy it? I'm really not sure...

Looks like a cartoon from a socialist workers website or something.

[BlueK]

Yes all this unrest is a scheme for the yankee empire to move in.

Btw, What exactly are we doing in Ukraine?

Trump sold them weapons, but only after they agreed they wouldn't allow Mueller to investigate Manafort's former associates there anymore.

[BlueK]

Yes all this unrest is a scheme for the yankee empire to move in.

Btw, What exactly are we doing in Ukraine?

I see your (Walter's) "America Sucks!" campaign is still active.

[Commando]

I see your "America Sucks!" campaign is still active.

I'm actually wondering the same thing. The cartoon indicates that the U.S. is the angel of death that visited Ukraine.