Stupid shit in Medellin

[Mojo Bandit]

I have only seen one report about how travelers are actually required to show their proof of vaccine. The BM said that he had to show it at the airport to get his boarding pass and that he had to do something related to it on checkmig the Colombian online immigration form. Anyone had any recent experience with this they can share? You can either respond here or you can post it in my thread "Colombia / Travel Coronavirus Updates" which is under the User Blogs section of the Colombia Forum, its where I will post the info once I get it anyway.

[Huacho]

I have never spent time in the USA, but I imagine the experience of walking around the streets of a town / city in Alabama or Missisippi would be quite different to walking around Newy York or Boston.

So you have a predetermined viewpoint on a subject about which you know nothing. This is quite similar to the logic you display about COVID. I have probably spent time in whatever country you won't admit to being from, but I'm not going to 'imagine' all the people from your country are incredibly stupid based on a sample size of one.

Let me see if I can come up with a statement of comparable stupidity. 'I have never spent any time in Brazil but I imagine it's quite different than Lithuania, where I also have not spent any time.'

Now, a lot of people would agree with both your statement and my statement, but none of those people's opinions have any validity if they haven't been to any of those places and just heard about them on CNN or Fox News or Al Jazeera or the BBC or whatever.

[RamDavidson84]

LOL. Maybe I am out of the loop, but nobody that I know or do not know has ever come up to me and said man we need to get ready to take this state independent and asked if I was in.

Same as any other country in my experience. In a small town people will be more curious about you if they have not seen you around before. People in a larger city will be too busy going about their day to give a fuck that you even exist. I walked into the post office in downtown Spokane, Washington to mail myself a postcard. On my way out the security guard struck up a conversation with me asking where I was from. I said how do you know I am not from here? He said because I have never seen you around here before. In LOS Angeles the security guard probably would not even have acknowledged me.

One on one people are just people no matter what background they are from, but somehow when we link up sometimes a group dynamic takes over and we do stupid shit. Sometimes I see stories and think not one person in the group thought this was a bad idea and spoke up about it? They just went along with the bullshit (that they never would have thought about doing had they been alone) as if it was a smart thing to do..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AS11SbvLmM

[RamDavidson84]

You must be a cretin if you think that after reading his posts. Or, you're a cretin because you didn't read his posts. Either way, he's from the US and you're an otiose cretin.

LOL, Your wasting your breath Huacho, because I don't even know what an "otiose cretin" is, count it! Haha.

[Kafka]

Not by asking the Medellin section. Why not ask in one of the Mexico sections.

He's a frequent country leader to the Mexican section maybe he got confused? he seems big into fishing, or pussy that smells like fish, or fish stories? Anyway it is entertaining.

[Mr Enternational]

What do you think then of the chances of any state declaring independence or separating from the USA? Do you thinkk that is more likely?

LOL. Maybe I am out of the loop, but nobody that I know or do not know has ever come up to me and said man we need to get ready to take this state independent and asked if I was in.

I have never spent time in the USA, but I imagine the experience of walking around the streets of a town / city in Alabama or Missisippi would be quite different to walking around Newy York or Boston.

Same as any other country in my experience. In a small town people will be more curious about you if they have not seen you around before. People in a larger city will be too busy going about their day to give a fuck that you even exist. I walked into the post office in downtown Spokane, Washington to mail myself a postcard. On my way out the security guard struck up a conversation with me asking where I was from. I said how do you know I am not from here? He said because I have never seen you around here before. In LOS Angeles the security guard probably would not even have acknowledged me.

One on one people are just people no matter what background they are from, but somehow when we link up sometimes a group dynamic takes over and we do stupid shit. Sometimes I see stories and think not one person in the group thought this was a bad idea and spoke up about it? They just went along with the bullshit (that they never would have thought about doing had they been alone) as if it was a smart thing to do.

Nobody is going to be calling you a democratic douche or republican whatever the hell when you are the only 2 guys in the bar. You will more than likely be talking about things you have in common like football or craft beer. Just like me and you hanging together. I go eat some meat then I go with you to try to find vegetarian. We don't care anything about the differences until maybe there is a room full of vegetarians and meat eaters together. Then we develop our sects.

[RamDavidson84]

This post made my day! I'm sorry now that I didn't see it earlier when I would have had more time to reply. I'll try to address as many points as I can, time permitting.

1. The history of US political parties has everything to do with the subject. The United States was founded by wealthy white men for the benefit of wealthy white men. Initially you had to be a wealthy white man to have any say in which wealthy white men get to make the rules. Consider the fact that until the Civil War the balance was deliberately maintained to keep slavery legal. I'm sorry to be the one to tell you, but US political parties work together to protect the interests of wealthy white men.

2. Point 1 has nothing to do with the people who are aligned with each party. With the exception of a small number of wealthy white men, every voter is just a pawn.

3. I was born in a US Naval hospital, both my parents were born in the US. One side of my family has been in the US for 5 generations. The other side was here for 9 generations before the Revolution. I served 8 years in the US Navy. Except for 1 year living in Colombia, I've lived in the US for nearly 60 years.

4. I don't watch the News. Except for sports and an occasional movie, I don't watch TV. Television is a passive medium. TV goes on and brain goes off. It's why I keep stressing "qualifications. " Anyone can repeat what they've been told. That's precisely what almost everyone does. Very rarely does anyone think about the things they've been told.

5. I never said there isn't political division in the US. In fact I said that it became an us versus them issue with Reagan. Another analogy for you. Two gangs. Both sell drugs. They fight each other. Why? Because the leader of each gang wants to be the one who controls the drug trade. The leaders get all the money and the regular gang members do all the fighting and dying. Neither political party has made huge changes which benefit 99% of Americans. Instead they offer small rewards and blame everything on the other party.

6. The Democratic party doesn't want socialism. People who want socialism, align with the Democratic party. If the DNC wanted socialism they wouldn't have sabotaged Bernie Sanders in 2016. They were willing to lose the 2016 election, rather than risk having Sanders in a position to steer the party left. The GOP only went with Trump because none of their other options had any chance to win.

7. The first step towards learning what's really happening is to turn off your TV. As long as you're being fed your opinions by your favorite talking head, you'll be stuck with only one option when someone disagrees with you. You'll have to resort to being a dick. The reason is simple. You haven't found the answers for yourself, so you have no ammunition for a rebuttal..

Glad my post made your day. I must admit, I was poking the bear a bit with my post. I still disagree with you on several things. There is a huge difference between the Republican and Democratic Party. I get that to a certain degree the history of nation has shaped our politics, but modern politics is not what it was during the Bush / Clinton Era. The game has changed. My opinion, but I think there is a huge globalist interest in keeping the Democrats in power, and if they are in power, The USA will lose wealth, power, and prestige. China and Latin America are chomping at the bit to watch us falter. I think everyone is kinda gunning for the big dog and I would be very curious to see how much foreign money is tied to the Democratic Party. I don't think the Dems and the Repubs are playing ball together on Foreign Affairs like they used to. When England was at its peak and the colonies rebelled, look how fast France, Spain, and the Netherlands jumped in to help. I think the caravans of hundreds of thousands of people from Latin America are a little suspect, not to Mention how they are allowed to just waltz through Mexico and across the border, sometimes shipped in by planes at night. That seems very strange to me. An extreme viewpoint I know, I don't believe that a 100%, but it does cross my mind.

As far as wealthy white men go, they built the country, they formed the colonies, they won the wars against the natives, it was their land to make those decisions. Now as the masses / sexes / races became more educated and when it was more appropriate, they expanded suffrage, besides the Jim Crow Era. Yea white people fucked up big time on that part and slavery. And the balance of slave / free states was maintained to prevent war and keep the country from splitting apart, I think the original law was the Missouri Compromise of 1820. And those same wealthy white men fought a 4 year war and sacrificed 600,000 lives to keep the country together and free the slaves. Those white men in the North could have easily let the South break away and form their own country and not lifted a finger and lived the good life. Those same wealthy white men did what's right and tried to fix the sins of the nation at great cost, LOL just keep that in mind next time you want to hate on the group of people who have done the most for the country. With that being said, obviously there is also a great deal of privilege for the wealthy white men in this country, but I don't think anyone sits around in either party and conspires to keep white men in power. I think due to that same privilege, white men are more likely to become capitalists, successful politicians, industrialists, etc, and the Political Parties hopefully do work together to protect the wealth, capital, and industry of the country for the benefit of everyone, not just wealthy white men. Hopefully both parties are also working for more opportunity for all races and sexes going forward.

To know what's going on, you have to study the policies each group are advocating. Wether you get that information from the talking heads on CNN or Fox News or any other source is irrelevant because they are still trying to pass legislation based off those policies and that will effect you and your country. Bottom line is the Democrats don't adequately secure the border, advocate free health care, Pass Trillon Dollar spending bills when we are 30 Trillion in debt. It doesn't matter that a talking head told me that or not, the consequences of the Party's actions are what matters.

At the end of the day, our country is far from Perfect, but compared to a lot of other nations, economically we have been incredibly successful, especially with such a diverse population. There's no other first world nation that has our diversity and history and we still manage to make it all work, most of the time. Hopefully we can get through these next few years and end all this bullshit. I agree with Mr. E on the fact that everyday life is not nearly as bad as the media makes it out to be and of course in a million years I would never advocate for a Civil War, but to be honest, I have heard my friends crack jokes about it or say things like "California needs to separate". Even though they are kidding, sometimes you can kinda sense maybe they wouldn't be too upset at such an event. Those polls showing 50% of people think a Civil War may be coming are not something to dismiss so easily.

And I have no problem with you or your smuggness LOL, I am just fuckin around a bit. You don't have to explain yourself to me, I don't take it that serious.

[ScatManDoo]

There is a 1973 movie called The Mack where a trick goes to see a hooker after work on a Friday. He is in the bathtub and she is fully clothed talking about all the things she is going to do to him. (Don't take your clothes off until her clothes are off!) He is closing his eyes relaxing and she is busy stealing his paycheck money out of his pocket. She sneaks out and when he realizes she is gone, he runs outside naked yelling for help about how she just ripped him off and how his wife is going to kill him with the whole neighborhood looking on and laughing.

That movie is an example of how the game really goes. This is real street shit. For some reason some mongers choose to see it as the movie Pretty Woman instead, where they can ride off into the sunset with the hooker with the heart of gold.

Yes you should have expectations that hookers steal, the same way you should have expectations that snakes bite. Again, it comes with the territory, and thinking it does not or should not is just plain naive.

Some posters on this board are perpetual rookies for years and years.

[MarquisdeSade1]

Captain Solo is posting using a number of different names. They even chime in if you call the posts out.

If I was the admin I would ban you for it.

[JjBee62]

This may have been mostly true when the choices were between center-right and center-left, like Bush versus Gore. But the differences were huge in the New Deal Era with the Repub objections to "Socialism," as well as the isolationism of the same surrounding the two World Wars. Now the differences couldn't be any more glaring with Trumpism as the dominant angle of the Republicans. The revived "Old Right" isolationism in contrast to the Neocons has played out on the world stage in obvious ways. Conspiracy theory chasing is now the norm, and a stacked conservative SCOTUS is poised to make some big changes that effect many lives. "Elections have consequences" as they say, but if both parties are the same one might as well stay home if the two are the only viable choices. That would have been an awful idea in 2020.

The us versus them stuff definitely predates Reagan. The defining moment for Repubs was when they abandoned their historic commitment to civil rights with the nomination of Barry Goldwater for president, 1964. Since then the two have grown more and more distinct as the liberal / progressive and conservative parties, though there's often been a need to gravitate to the center to win national elections.

There's a guy in the American politics forum in the opinions section called EihTooms. He argues that Republicans through bad economic policies have presided over and / or caused all of the recessions and crashes over the last 100 years. I don't entirely agree but he's mostly right. He's also a big partisan Democrat, so if you want to sharpen your iron on this one in a big way go check him out. And unlike me, he'll argue until the cows come home. I've never seen someone so tireless..

That's a good post.

However, you're confusing advertising with purpose. Look at any advertising. What does it say? It says this product or service will make your life better. What is the purpose of the company? To make your life better? No. To make a profit. The same company that tells us how they are saving the world would happily market products which make your balls drop off if they could make more money.

Now some companies are more ethical about how they make money, but the purpose remains the same.

The same is true with the DNC and GOP. They have the same purpose, maintain power. The only difference is who gets the money.

They each have different reward systems for their adherents. The DNC prefers to use tangible rewards, healthcare, public assistance, infrastructure. The GOP leans towards intangibles, security (from a variety of bogeymen), divine favor and providing an enemy to distract the masses.

Unlimited power for either party would be very bad. In my opinion the decline would be quicker with the GOP in control, but 50-100 years of the DNC with complete control would achieve the same result.

Also in my opinion, the GOP is willing to take bigger risks to take complete control. They see that attitudes are changing away from their chosen method of control (religion, nationalism and bigotry) and they feel the opportunity slipping away.

[BlackThought]

Captain Solo is posting using a number of different names. They even chime in if you call the posts out.

That's a load of shit. Cap Solo rubs a lot of people the wrong way, but he's legit. He's not a marquis. Several ISG mongers have personally met him and can confirm his trip reports.

[Captain Solo]

There is only 1 Captain Solo in this forum.

This guy Kafka is stupid and delusional. He's insulting the bros who post their thoughtful, objective views.

[JustTK]

Are you or anyone you know for a civil war? When was the last time you participated in one of these polls?
And the real America is not the bullshit they are trying to sell through the same media. Walk outside to see a wide-angle view of what the real America is.

I hear what you say. What do you think then of the chances of any state declaring independence or separating from the USA? Do you thinkk that is more likely? I wonder how it would go down in Washington?

I have never spent time in the USA, but I imagine the experience of walking around the streets of a town / city in Alabama or Missisippi would be quite different to walking around Newy York or Boston.

[JjBee62]

Hollywood is not a normal neighborhood. There's a reason it's called Hollyweird. Maybe you went to East Hollywood, which is more or less normal. And West Hollywood. . . don't even get me started, smh.

You can find similar neighborhoods around any major city. MrE is correct that what's peddled on TV has no connection to what is going on.

[Kafka]

Captain Solo is posting using a number of different names. They even chime in if you call the posts out.

I don't think anybody is attacking Captain Solo on this point. I had the pleasure of meeting him in Medellin and shared a few beers together. I also exchanged some private messages with him on this very same point.

Moreover, my wingman was drugged and stolen from recently in Cartagena. Worse, I was there with him in the apartment, but I went to sleep a little past midnight, but the misdeed happened a bit later in the night. My wingman wanted to call the police and report the incident but the building management convinced him to forget about it. They were concerned about the bad publicity.

I was not present during the discussion but I agreed with the building management. I did not expect much from the police in Cartagena.

I think what people are saying is that it's the responsibility of the monger to protect their belongings. Once they are stolen, they are gone. Time to learn from that incident and do better next time. As my local buddy says, look at the incident as the price of tuition in the university of life.