can you point to a single "genocidal sanction" against the DPRK?

Thanks for linking me to a summary provided by a think tank funded by the US government. The efforts by which you bend over backwards to deny the reality of US imperialism never ceases to amaze me. Even in your incredibly biased source it points out a key point you ignored:

Maybe use more than 10 minutes to undersrand a complex situation next time, IANAW. I just find it funny how hard and quickly you rush to exonerate the US government of any blame.

Hey birdman, I spent 10 minutes investigating your claims and have found a US government funded report that says the US government is actually the good guys.

From this thorough research I have determined you are “making things up whole cloth”

Also, please ignore the part of the report that makes me look like an uninformed moron. It was only two pages—I couldn’t be bothered to spend any more time.

I also like that you ignored the part where the US and UK literally just stole several billion dollars of VZ gold that was going to be used to buy medical supplies

Wondering if crossnerd is going to come in here and ask that IANAW be banned for linking to something he hadn’t fully read

Gfy

guy at the table tonight told me that between himself, his brother, sister, and his son they spent 45 years in the marines.

The last time we discussed this topic you'd spent days arguing that you were right and everyone else was wrong before conceding that you've paid little attention to Venezuela and were just going by some articles you read in the past which you'd thought you were mostly remembering correctly.

Did you just make this up?

For that matter, following those posts you never did back up your argument that the election had been certified by legitimate outside observers even after I made this post:

Im still waiting for you to show me when any of this happened. Because what you have quoted so far is not it.



This

does not mean the same thing as:

I legitimately do not mean this as a troll, Soah. Is English your first language? If it’s not I feel like some of your misunderstandings are reasonable given the idiomatic nature of the way I post.

You said you were "going off of memory" after days of people telling you the things you were saying weren't true.

I'll go off of memory to see how many I can come up with:

1) You keep saying the election was certified by international observers, but haven't established who they were or why they were credible. Notably, the UN refused to send observers because of irregularities prior to to the act of voting, including things which are 100% irrefutable such as the fact that the election date was moved up with little advance notice.

2) You insisted for days that no opposition candidates had been prevented from running, but once someone finally started asking you about them by name you just said "oh well it's okay that they were jailed because they were charged with a crime."

3) You presented one poll which contradicted all the others and said it was the unbiased one and all the others were fake, but after Googling a few minutes I found that that polling agency was run by Chavez cronies and there were other big red flags about them (including the fact that they'd stopped updating their website yet were still feeding supposed survey results directly to government officials).

4) You said that the only reason Venezuela's oil production dropped was because the drop in oil prices changed the economic calculations regarding how much to produce, but oil production in Venezuela actually dropped consistently ever since Chavez took power despite oil prices surging to unprecedented levels a few years back and despite the fact that oil prices are currently right in line with historical trends.

5) I note that you didn't respond yesterday when I asked why it wouldn't be Chavez/Maduro's fault that there's a food shortage in Venezuela given that they'd been nationalizing the food industry and setting price controls. If you're going to blame this on oil exports then you'll need to address point #4 first -- and then explain why it would be sensible to rely on something as volatile as oil prices to generate food for millions of people. And while I couldn't find hard statistics on Venezuela's food production, there are overwhelming reports that production has fallen substantially due to lack of investment to maintain and/or expand the infrastructure.

"Refusing to buy our oil is genocide" - Birdman

Ablist slur itt

The sad thing is i think birdman thinks he makes sense and soah is crazy

Hamas fires rocket at Israeli home, house destroyed, 7 injured including infant

Netenyahu leaving Aipac early because of this

Israel will retaliate and birdman will call them western imperialists who need to be sanctioned

Birdman

Do you consider Palestine a legit state and Abas the leader?

Assuming yes, do you consider them a fascist state?

Are you okay with them not allowing Jews to live their in your one state solution where Israrl ceases to exist?

Should i expect any answers or are you still refusing to play my cunning games?

fyp

Yes that and he is literally dead

Gaza rockets aimed at civilian communities

I expect zero outrage from Bird

These posts aged well. Avenatti arrested for bank fraud, wire fraud, and extortion in two unrelated events.

Birdman divides the world (at least geopolitically) into imperialist vs non-imperialist.

It is not a correct world-view (false dichotomy) but it still gives more insight than believing cable news or whatever is printed in wapo, nyt, etc.

What Birdman gets right about Venezuela is that the US/West has neither clean hands or clean motives. That is unfortunately just about all that he gets correct as his worldview clouds over any and all other issues related to the problems there.

I never said that.
What I said was that there was a humanitarian crisis. Mets said that. But I don't speak for Mets.