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Venezuela Bans Hostile Videogames and Toys
An anonymous reader writes "In an effort to 'help improve child education and prevent misconduct,' the Venezuelan government began enforcing a law on March 3rd banning war videogames and toys, imposing a fine and 2.5 years in prison on the production, distribution, sale, hiring and use of video games and toys inciting violent behavior. Alberto Federico Ravell, former director of opposing news network Globovision, has already come on twitter denouncing the authorities for seizing imported Gameboy, Wii and PlayStation 3 consoles, due to considering them violent."
How about as a parent you watch your fucking kids and leave everyone else alone?
As a parent, you seem to be a reactionary retard that applauds "For the Children" campaigns mindlessly w/o considering the true motives of the people behind it nor the true societal burden/value of your perceived ideeal solution.
I would venture on the whole of society, violent games have a cathartic effect rather than a columbine one. Humans don't like rainbows and everyone being happy, they are attracted to violence and strife. If the games don't give it to them, they'll turn elsewhere.
oh, yeah, the juvenile brains on this board that defend violence in gaming, especially when exposed to young children, are themselves framing things in terms of what THEY learned from these games. they are a lost generation. Sure, that may lead to some aggressive statements here, but rest assured that they are really screwed, because their parents were MIA about this issue. Hooray for Venezuela!!
> When a country with a lot of wealth has 70% of its population living in poverty, a redistributionist left-wing regime is going to be the inevitable result in a democracy...
Which is the #1 problem with Democracy and one the US Founding Fathers understood perfectly. Which was why they wisely gave us a Republic instead of a Democracy. Then we failed to keep it and the goddamn Democrats took over.
Democrat delenda est
You are more than welcome to think what you want. Please explain this: Youth violence is at its lowest levels in a long time.
Stop Global Warming!
Just say no to irreversible processes!
Im Venezuelan, living in Venezuela too and you are a chavista (a Chavez comrade). Mr Ravell said "Seniat decomisa en Maiquetia Gameboys,Wii, Playstation que consideran violentos.Padres arre...niños llorando!" The Venezuelan IRS seize consoles.. parents very upset and children crying. Are you in the Maiquetia (venezuelan Airport)? Are you sure this is a lie? Of couse not, you are a chavista and anything Mr Ravell said is a lie according to you.
Nice straw-man. It is their ancestors who are responsible, as I clearly wrote, but they are the indirect beneficiaries and no significant changes occurred since that time in regards to wealth distribution. The indigenous populace feel cheated and see this as an ongoing injustice.
Thanks to the activities of the very people you defend. Poverty and lack of education breed crime and violence, particularly if the poor see themselves under the heel of the descendants of their colonial masters.
Ironically the only one who attempted to do anything about it is ... Chavez, whom you hate so viscerally. He is the one with education programs and health-care for the poor. He is even trying to reduce violence by limiting glorification of violence in games and toys, which however wrong-headed and ineffective is at least an indication that he is trying ... something. All the previous governments took the attitude that crackdowns by their US-equipped army on the uppity peasants are the method of choice .... with the result you see now.
And the rest of the Chavez opponents are relatively well-off non natives, who are very rich indeed compared to the indigenous population. Do not try to snow us here, bud, the demographics of Venezuela as well as the distribution of votes for Chavez across various societal strata in Venezuela are well known.
There were anti-Chavez "demonstrations" in Caracas held by dudes who got there in their Mercedes and Porsche sports cars, with trophy wives strutting around in stiletto high-heals while holding pictures of Chavez photo-shopped to look like Hitler. High comedy indeed.
And speaking of statistics: 77% of Venezuela's farmland is owned by 3% of the population. Or are you going to pretend that the 'hacendados' are a myth too? Given that farm work is the dominant form of employment for the indigenous population, this pretty much explains it all.
His supporters constitute a majority but not everywhere. His power base is the impoverished farm workers and villagers, urban poor and the like. He is the weakest amongst the very wealthy, the relatively wealthy urban dwellers etc. In short: the poorer and more indigenous ancestry - the higher likelihood of vote for Chavez.
Not really. It is completely consistent with ethnicity and wealth distribution.
Right, "the ignorant masses"! This pretty much ends any and all discussion about "freedom" and "democracy". What an hypocritical ass you are. So "democracy" and "freedom" are only for those you deem high-society enough for your tastes, dirty farmers and other serfs need not apply. What a fucker. Next you will be belching and braying about how only land owners should be allowed to vote, the aristocratic-wanna-be little nitwit that you are.
How is that plantation doing? Pining for the days you could whip them ungrateful "ignorant" serfs senseless so they do not get any ideas?
Anyon
Forget the propaganda that the US Government and their underpaid puppies aka the media tells you to think and like. They're just upset cause they couldn't get Chavez to cooperate or just plain invade as they did with Kuweit, Irak, Afganistan, Panama and so on. And it's a shame as PDVSA is the fifth oil company in the world. The dude is just too nice. This freedom that americans treasure so much is because of "a bunch of slave owners who wanted to be free and who robbed the indians, enslaved the blacks and now they bomb brown people"(quote from George Carlin). Please consider this. US citizens are free to be legally tortured indefinitely without any charge whatsoever (PATRIOT ACT. Must read!). US Citizens are free to choose which pencil to use when going to school to learn nothing but consumerism and they falsely think they are free while their president can kill a whole bunch of them under a false flag terrorism act(see 9/11 and without being biased and with a clear head, not that that can't be possible stuff. you know, reasoning, the process which gives you food and shelter and technology), just so the CIA can go to Afganistan and start trafficking drugs.
While Chavez forbids violence you put signs like "This school is gun free" and "drive responsably" on a beer sticker on the back of your car. While Chavez enforces intelligence US schools lower the passing grades until you will have NASA experts with down syndrome, either that or they're all indians and foreigners generally.
Perhaps it's time for a change of perspective don't you think? This is the best piece of advice i can offer and remember, your dumb behavior is affecting all of us.
"Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen."
Albert Einstein
So you only have a mentality of a supremacist plantation owner, without the actual trappings. A common case amongst the truly clueless and very greedy - the likes of you form Tea Parties in the US where they organize and fight for the privilege of dying horribly from some curable disease so that poor and downtrodden billionaires and mega conglomerates do not have to pay a red cent in taxes!
Ah the evils of land reform! This would be funny if it weren't 103712nd time some colonial was moaning about land reform that gave "their" land to the "unskilled" dirty locals to "rot", "be underutilized", "unprofitable" and "only suited to be returned to its rightful, God-appointed, industrious owners - namely us!". You are far, far at the end of this line of whiners, somewhere behind the Afrikaners of South Africa. You should compare notes, they had time to turn their pulling of hair and gnashing of teeth about this very thing into a form of performance art.
As opposed to the previous state of ... zilch, nada and bupkis - it is a grand improvement indeed. Again, your visceral hate for those getting a chance, any chance at all, no matter how flawed, to better their lives is coming through loud and clear.
It amuses me how all these oh-so-self-righteous assholes post as Anonymous Cowards so that they can still down-mod the very posts they are replying to. Gives one a rather good feeling as to the sort of players involved in these political "debates" ...
They are apparently too stupid to figure out that all they are doing is putting their own malignant souls on public display and bolstering their opponents argument by such splendid example.