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Hello my friend.
3 years on and it seems that things in el Salvador have evolved in exactly the way I had hoped, and in none of the ways you predicted.
Maybe a few people might feel a somewhat greater sense of security but that's fleeting...
So far, the feeling of a much greater sense of security has been nationwide and sustained.
Crime is not going to stop, nor are prisoners going to become less violent or change lives. The same is true in society. It's not going to stop producing delinquent people.
Both crime and the production of delinquents have been MASSIVELY reduced. Prisoners may not be less violent in themselves, but they are unable to inflict that violence on the population.
Punishment does not necessarily lead to obedience. It usually brings the opposite results especially for people who have nothing to lose...
Not sure what you meant by the opposite results, but criminality is down to unbelievably low levels, which was always the objective.
This starts with education and the social values that must be promoted. From the schools to the neighborhoods and the people of El Salvador. If anything should be funded it is education and schools. Public free and compulsory education. It all starts with it. Financing health care for all. It is unthinkable that people are dying on the streets. Rehabilitation programs and informing people about addictive substances. Ex-prisoner reintegration programs and work. These are a few that come to mind...
This part of your comment was the reason I didn't continue the conversation. It was always a massive part of the presidents agenda. His government has invested more in education than any previous one, same with healthcare, and the prisoner rehabilitation programs are a huge part of his policy. The CUBO program addresses the social and educational aspect in a neighborhood by neighborhood way and brings social values and cohesion. All of this is part of the policy. The fact that you ignored it initially doesn't mean it wasn't there.
Can you please answer me something else? Why don't you mention the corruption in the security forces who often (if not always) collaborate with criminals? Don't the secret services play a key role in the drug trade?
There are no criminals to collaborate with anymore. There is no drug trade in which to play a key role anymore. Corruption is always a problem in every single government in the world. But in this one it seems to be completely ineffective if it exists at all. If anyone is trying to help the criminals, they are doing an abysmally horrendous job of it because criminals are well and truly fucked there. Same goes for anyone trying to take part in the drug trade which has all but disappeared.
You're awfully confused Darth, it's so fkn cringe, you're like a child, very one dimensional. Think for a moment.
Being nice or being an asshole is not what determines if you're being helpful.
You can be nice and be no help at all, or you can be nice and also be helpful.
Similarly, you can be an asshole and be no help at all, or you can be an asshole and be helpful.
You seem to think that being an asshole automatically means you're being helpful.
This is not the case.
Most of the time you're simply being an unhelpful asshole. You're in the worst possible category.
Take this for example:
"You have been warned so many times, here on SN and many other places. But you ignored.
Now you pay the consequences for your own mistakes.
I know the truth because I have many years of experience in this matter.
I prefer to be that asshole that tells you the hurting truth in your face, instead of kissing your ass with "sorry for your loss".
TRUTH HURTS and if you cannot handle it, you are not meant for this.
Did I say a lie? No. You, yourself recognize it"
Was that helpful?
No. It was not. Nothing about that comment helps anyone.
All you did was berate and humiliate someone, and didn't offer anything of value at all, and you didn't pass up the opportunity to aggrandize yourself in true narcissistic fashion. You're just being an asshole.
I see you do this constantly. You insult the shit out of someone for being a normal flawed person, and then you justify it by saying that being nice isn't helpful.
Being an asshole isn't helpful either buddy.
Being helpful is helpful. And you've completely lost sight of that.
Seriously Darth, from the bottom of my heart; fuck you. Deeply. You're a clown. Nobody likes you. Nobody thinks you're clever. Nobody thinks you're helpful. You're just an asshole who enjoys being an asshole.
Great question.
I'd define it as follows:
A system for the production and distribution of scarce resources which have alternative uses that guarantees private property, free exchange, and the enforcement of contracts.
What about you?
Every time I talk to an "economist" with any kind of a degree I give thanks to Eru Iluvatar that he spared me from such a dreadful fate. They don't know anything
As the reward for the best meme has dropped from many sats to fewer sats to cowboy credits to a shout out, the quantity and quality of the memes have both declined spectacularly.
Need a new incentive here
Shut up idiot, you're fucking retarded. If I can use it to get more Bitcoin into my cold storage what the fuck is the difference you moron. Not every single use case needs unilateral exit you clown. People use different services for different purposes and they don't all need to have the exact same trade-offs dumbass
It's ok not to use it because you disagree with the tradeoffs involved, and it's fine to criticize the model based on your preferences.
But it is still Bitcoin. It's just a way to use Bitcoin that you don't like. It's not like gift cards at all. The money in your gift card can't be withdrawn, isn't interoperable with your bank account, can't work in other stores even if they want to accept them, the analogy doesn't work.
I think you're doing the Lord's work by highlighting the pros and cons, but saying it's not Bitcoin is really not correct.
Shut up Darth, you have no fucking idea what you're talking about, of course it's Bitcoin you dumbass, learn how to write English properly fucking moron, doesn't even know what's Bitcoin and what isn't.
Appreciate you man. And I want to mention, since I said "it's hard for people who haven't lived there", that the fact that you haven't lived there or aren't from there doesn't matter at all. I hate how people just dismiss the opinions of non-venezuelans. I have opinions about Qatar and Israel and Australia. Don't need to be from a place to have an opinion about it.
None of us are under any delusions that trump loves us or even cares at all. We're just happy to reap the benefits, cautious about the future, and hopeful for the first time in a quarter century
Yea that's what I'm getting from most people.
I don't see it that way. It's hard for someone who hasn't live it to know just how fucked we were.
"Definitely bad" to "maybe bad, maybe good, maybe neutral, who knows" feel like an unbelievable improvement.
I remember the 2024 elections, every single Latino I know was SO excited to finally get maduro out, except the Venezuelans. We all knew. Every one of us had lost all hope.
Just 1 example of this, my friend who lives in Toronto
I don't see how this is any worse than what we had last week?
Not like we've seen any benefits from our own oil in decades. Pillaged by Cuba. The country had no semblance of "stability" whatsoever.
We were already fucked beyond belief. How are we any worse off now?
I'm Venezuelan.
The situation is extremely complicated, it could go either way, very good or very bad.
This is a massive improvement over last week when things were extremely simple. We were very simply fucked indefinitely.
As for what comes next, there's no certainty, only opportunity.
But finally.. opportunity
It's just so pompous, it's really hard to get thru.
Sloshing thru that may unnecessary "for"s and "one might say"s and "of course"s and uuggghh dude. It's like a film school freshman script. Exhausting