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"Violent" Video Games To Be Banned In Venezuela
An anonymous reader writes "The country that has bought Sukhois, tanks and 100,000 AK-103's, is planning to build a manufacturing plant of Russian rifles, and oppresses peaceful marches has decided to ban 'violent' video games because they 'promote violence and can alter the behavior of children.' The new legislation in Venezuela says, 'The violence found in video games is translated into the real world.' This new law affects people who sell, 'use,' produce, import and distribute these games. Video games as a whole have been labeled as 'a consequence of savage capitalism' by PSUV (United Socialist Party of Venezuela), which is the political party led by Hugo Chavez. Days before this law was approved by the National Assembly, Chavez promoted the use of traditional toys like the Yo-Yo and Trompo, and suggested that electronic toys like 'the Nintendo' be put aside because they promote 'egoism, individualism and violence.' Just today the AFP released a report showing Caracas as the second most violent city on the planet — even more violent than Baghdad. I guess all those violent gangs in Venezuela are addicted to video games."
No I explain where they were located in the "political spectrum" ... slightly more to the center of Stalin ... massively to the left of everyone else.
Socialist theory was racist (look up "eugenics") for the better part of the 20th century.
And as for the "right-wing" nature of nazis ... why don't I just let liberals themselves do the talking ?
You see a certain ... extreme left ... newspaper berates European countries for not being as Nazi as Obama (I'm not kidding, read the article)
More than any other country, Germany â" Nazi Germany â" then set out on a serious stimulus program. The government built up the military, expanded the autobahn, put up stadiums for the 1936 Berlin Olympics and built monuments to the Nazi Party across Munich and Berlin.
The economic benefits of this vast works program never flowed to most workers, because fascism doesnâ(TM)t look kindly on collective bargaining. But Germany did escape the Great Depression faster than other countries. Corporate profits boomed, and unemployment sank (and not because of slave labor, which didnâ(TM)t become widespread until later). Harold James, an economic historian, says that the young liberal economists studying under John Maynard Keynes in the 1930s began to debate whether Hitler had solved unemployment.
(note that all left-wing governments are diametrically opposed to independant unions, you see this in the Soviet union, nazi germany, and in today's Venezuela)
I would exchange the 3 or 4 of the blind people who posted here for the 4 millions blind pigs that voted this pig in the elections. Several (A LOT) of people vote here under the pressure that if they don't vote for chavez they won't keep their jobs, of course, all of them work for the government and the nationalized industries (which everyday are more and more: oil-PDVSA, telecommunications-CANTV-MOVILNET, several basic industries, etc.) I don't understand anymore that excuse that Chavez is "democratically elected": if you vote me for president, I have the rights to do whatever I like in despite of the consequences? instigate violence? prohibit everything I think is bad for me?. And just to let other people know, every other "power" here is controlled by the same party: judicial and legislative power are all servants of Chavez. We're trapped and doomed here. (Well, as I said before, I'm leaving)