Quote Originally Posted by Sir C View Post
The point is that whatever statistics anyone wants to throw at the matter won’t change the reality that socialism always ends with poor *******s having their testes coshed. Because it never, ever works. It’s a system that fails to take into account, or care about, basic human wualities like responsibility, ambition, compassion and decency. The only way it can be implemented is via coercion.

To add insult to injury, after you’ve suffered the gulags and the electrodes, you end up having to eat your pets. :venezuela:

Not necessarily.

Illiteracy rates:
2006 13.0%, 2018 2.4%

Unemployment rates
2006 9.2%, 2018 4.1%

Moderate poverty rates
2006 60.6%, 2018 34.6%

Extreme poverty rates
2006 38.2%, 2018 15.2%


#Bolivia

It's ok, though. Fascist death squads will soon be doing again what they always do in Latin America and making it free for the local oligarchs and US corporations to crush the poor and dine on their, erm, precious bodily fluids. And nick all the lithium, obviously.