Maggie’s Socialism - videos of the success story
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In 2015, the Maduro government ordered the installation of over 20,000 fingerprint scanners across major grocery stores.[11] The move was designed to stop citizens from hoarding food and selling them on the black market. At the height of Venezuela’s economic crisis, the resource-starved nation saw queues for loaves of bread and milk. Citizens slept in lines outside their local stores, only to discover rows of empty supermarket shelves. The hashtag #EmptyShelvesInVenezuela (#AnaquelesVaciosEnVenezuela) quickly spread across Twitter. And country-wide shortages of basic food and medicine provoked civil unrest.
Citizens are now only permitted access to government-run stores twice a week, and each trip is registered using personal ID cards. Store clerks must enforce strict food quotas and investigate certain purchases. For example, couples who try to purchase diapers must present their baby’s birth certificate.[12]The government’s payment system records each shopper’s purchase history and uses this data to restrict the sale of certain goods. Transactions are completed using a fingerprint scanner, which creates a biometric link between a person and their shopping history. “This will be – like the fingerprint scan we use in our electoral system – a perfect anti-fraud system,” explained Maduro
Citizens are now only permitted access to government-run stores twice a week, and each trip is registered using personal ID cards. Store clerks must enforce strict food quotas and investigate certain purchases. For example, couples who try to purchase diapers must present their baby’s birth certificate.[12]The government’s payment system records each shopper’s purchase history and uses this data to restrict the sale of certain goods. Transactions are completed using a fingerprint scanner, which creates a biometric link between a person and their shopping history. “This will be – like the fingerprint scan we use in our electoral system – a perfect anti-fraud system,” explained Maduro
Good grief, these people seem to be either way too optimistic for their own good, or possess superhuman tolerance levels.
If I had to be trapped in such a nightmare shithole, I think I would SERIOUSLY be organizing groups of fighters, initially armed with bows, knives, and illegal guns, and fucking raid these "government stores", and then melt back into the local towns and surrounding countryside and wage a no-mercy guerrilla campaign against government forces when they respond. I am talking about shit on the level of that Russian video where whole groups of soldiers captured by the Chechens were forced to cry for their lives on camera before being beheaded all at once, as the militants that were doing the beheading mocked and laughed at the families of the soldiers being killed. There would be no rancor, no pity, and absolutely not a shred of humanity when dealing with these state enforcer scum. In such a society like communist Venezuela, the line between life and death will no longer exist. I simply would not give a fuck if I am killed in a skirmish or ambush tomorrow, or next week, or the next hour. And as long as I am alive, I would only be giving a fuck about how high of a body count I can rack up before I get snuffed out.
Ohhh the irony of these two fleeing a failing socialist country, then painting images of Frida Khalo like she was all about freedom and not a communist.....
