Thread: Stupid shit in Medellin
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06-20-22 19:40 #4441
Posts: 5446There's always a bright side
Whether you're happy with the Colombian election results or not, look at the bright side. Quite a few Colombian women vowed to post a picture in a thong if Petro won. Twitter and Facebook are entertaining today.
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06-20-22 19:35 #4440
Posts: 5446Originally Posted by Osteoknot [View Original Post]
Catgirl was probably saying "Voto en Blanco."
https://thebogotapost.com/what-is-voto-en-blanco/29983/
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06-20-22 18:57 #4439
Posts: 3215Originally Posted by JustTK [View Original Post]
https://www.bbva.com/en/vaca-muerta-...e-gas-deposit/
The USA Department of Energy calculated that combined, USA And Argentina's shale gas and shale oil resources account for 32% of the world's crude and 10% of its natural gas.
The villains in Bolivia were not American energy companies but Brazilian. Morales sent out the national guard to seize the natural gas wells and Lula wisely backed off a military action. Afterwards, Morales reneged on the original deal, raised gas prices, and had a short lived economic miracle. Of course, any action like this, stealing what is not yours, works in the short run but fails in the long run because no one wants to invest in a country where you build up a business and once it is profitable, the government steals it or buys it on the cheap.
Venezuelan law was that any country in Venezuela had to pay out 50% of its profits to shareholders in the form of dividends. The goal was to make sure shareholders do not get ripped off by companies and to me, that was an interesting take but when I went to Venezuela after having invested in said phone company, the Venezuelans were hostile to any Americans getting one penny of dividends. And that is when I knew the company and country were doomed. Why would anyone invest in a country like that when you have ones like Chile who welcome you with open arms and are hostile towards the notion that stealing is okay?
For all the socialistic talk of helping the poor, demonizing the rich, and denouncing the USA, Hugo Chavez snuck out $8 billion and put it in his daughter's name and she currently lives in Miami. The issue with me is which kind of socialism / leftist policies is Colombia going to adopt: those of Venezuela and Bolivia or those of Chile.
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06-20-22 17:34 #4438
Posts: 1775Originally Posted by Turgid [View Original Post]
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06-20-22 17:11 #4437
Posts: 15Originally Posted by JjBee62 [View Original Post]
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06-20-22 16:59 #4436
Posts: 3215Originally Posted by CeeJay1 [View Original Post]
Oil is Colombia's #1 cash export so if they quit drilling, a falling peso is sure to result. The question then is if the narco operations are going to make up for the fall. They did in Bolivia but not in Venezuela. That would actually be good for mongers as the dollar would rise further still. The problem is you have promised the poor all this money and if you no longer have as much oil money, there likely will be relaxation on rules with regards to theft. In Brazil, Venezuela, Bolivia, Mexico, and even now in many of the Democratic states in the USA, theft went through the roof when the socialists moved in.
Duque was looking at tourism as Colombia's next great money maker, a good move, but he botched it IMO with his horrible Covid response. If he kept Colombia open like Mexico did, tourists would have flooded the country. If this guy wants to go ahead with the plan, he better keep Colombia safe or at least not worse with regards to safety.
The narcos like their women so the chance of the hobby going way down is unlikely. OTOH, in a few years, I suspect mongers will be looking over their shoulders a lot more than ever before.
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06-20-22 16:35 #4435
Posts: 1643All this politico-speak is yet another form of mental masturbation
Originally Posted by JjBee62 [View Original Post]
This discussion, as do most political discussions, rises almost to the same level for me as one of my favorite (original) allegories, "a pack of rabid pitbulls in a pool of piranha" that I used here to describe the vaccine debates, all points there now moot, as I predicted.
JuJuBee comes across as an appropriately sardonic voice of reason on this topic. Where do people get the idea that change occurs so easily?? Modern politics move in sludge. No one asked me, and I am not going to give another opinion on this thread.
My guy lost. I doubt I will notice any direct impact on my-way-of-being. Actually, I loved Catgirl's response when I asked her if she cared to share who she was going to vote for, she told me, "I have a blank. " Jajajajjaajajajaaaaaa. She probably voted based on the sound of the candidates names, like many people do.
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06-20-22 16:23 #4434
Posts: 558Originally Posted by Knowledge [View Original Post]
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06-20-22 15:56 #4433
Posts: 5446Originally Posted by CeeJay1 [View Original Post]
2. After his inauguration nothing will continue to change for several months.
3. After several months there might be some tiny changes, but it will likely take years before they have a significant impact on the mongering scene.
4. There's a microscopic possibility he will attempt to make some drastic changes. If so, the Colombian Supreme Court will almost certainly whack his peepee and nothing will change.
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06-20-22 15:34 #4432
Posts: 5446Originally Posted by Turgid [View Original Post]
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06-20-22 15:32 #4431
Posts: 5446Originally Posted by SavePros321 [View Original Post]
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06-20-22 14:56 #4430
Posts: 222Gustavo
I wonder how the election of the former guerilla Gustavo Petro will affect the mongering scene? Will prices increase? Will the scene decrease? Who knows with liberal policies it may expand exponentially. Your next p4p encounter may be performed by a former Abogada or Enfermera. It may become a Profesiand de estreno or worst case scenario time to find a new mongering scene.
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06-20-22 14:32 #4429
Posts: 5639Originally Posted by JjBee62 [View Original Post]
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06-20-22 14:29 #4428
Posts: 5639Originally Posted by Villainy [View Original Post]
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06-20-22 08:04 #4427
Posts: 5446Originally Posted by AmorPorFavor [View Original Post]
About the only noticeable change is the picture hanging in government offices. No golden age, no collapse, just minor changes that do almost nothing except get people to complain about how the nothing that happened under a previous President was much better or worse than the nothing happening under the current President.
The Colombian government, like most governments is a slow moving beast that doesn't like to change direction. It plods along no matter who holds the reins. Sometimes it shits on one side of the road, sometimes on the other, and occasionally right in the middle. The only guarantee is that everyone following the government is going to have to deal with some shit.