What's Happening in Our Own Backyard?

[Diuretic]

I can tell you are going to require some work.

I'm learning, I'm learning - there's plenty of material here for me, I reckon I could work up to Bigot Class 1 with a bit of time here

 

[CSM]

I'm learning, I'm learning - there's plenty of material here for me, I reckon I could work up to Bigot Class 1 with a bit of time here

Naw, we have much higher aspirations for you than that!

 

[Gunny]

I'm learning, I'm learning - there's plenty of material here for me, I reckon I could work up to Bigot Class 1 with a bit of time here

You reckon, huh?

People discriminate. Bigots hate. There IS a difference.

 

[BaronVonBigmeat]

The news from Bolivia - a country that is nationalizing, or, if you prefer, stealing, foreign-owned assets - is just the latest in a string of anti-capitalist, anti-American developments in South America. In recent years, Venezuela, Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay and Chile have all elected left-leaning governments, determined to reverse "globalization" and thwart American influence. And similar governments are likely to win soon in Peru and Mexico.

Leaders in latin countries are enacting stupid anti-capitalist policies? Wow, what a surprising new development that has never been seen before! As stupid as their ideas may be, they should be able to do as they please, since it's their country.

In particular, the oil-empowered Venezuelan leader Hugo Chávez, an avowed fan of Cuba's Fidel Castro, is emerging as a genuine U.S. enemy. Americans, of course, have been mostly preoccupied with the Middle East, but the problems to our south - trade, energy, immigration, narcotics trafficking - are likely to worsen as North-South cooperation worsens.

1) "Doing things we don't agree with" is not the same thing as being a genuine threat to the US.

2) Trade, energy, immigration, and narcotics are our problems, caused by our own peculiar brand of socialism.

And one of these days a Latin country will emerge as a serious military power, thus ending America's fortuitous two-century-long monopoly of force in this hemisphere.

hahahahhahahahahhahahahahha

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ahahahahahahahahahha

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