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Author Topic: News from México or the road to Venezuela 2.0  (Read 24211 times)

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Re: News from México or the road to Venezuela 2.0
« Reply #330 on: March 17, 2021, 01:09:12 PM »
Our beloved comrade leader El Presidente just said all the proffits form the Santa Lucia Airport and the Maya Train will go to the Army...

Socializing the costs and looses while privatizing the benefits for the Army so he has them in his pocket...

Now I'm really scared.
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Re: News from México or the road to Venezuela 2.0
« Reply #331 on: March 27, 2021, 07:06:15 AM »
Lula, Pinochet, Allende and Vargas are sitting at a table. They're smoking weed like Burroughs and want America to be their own. Trips to sugarville are made with a modern-refrigerated ration.

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Re: News from México or the road to Venezuela 2.0
« Reply #332 on: March 29, 2021, 01:52:49 PM »
Our beloved comrade leader El Presidente just said all the proffits form the Santa Lucia Airport and the Maya Train will go to the Army...

Socializing the costs and looses while privatizing the benefits for the Army so he has them in his pocket...

Now I'm really scared.

Hey, how is the RPG gaming in Mexico where you live?

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Re: News from México or the road to Venezuela 2.0
« Reply #333 on: March 29, 2021, 03:25:33 PM »
Part of it has to do with resistance to tyranny, yes. People like to trot out the tired 'your AR-15 won't stop a tank or a nuke', completely forgetting how insurgencies work.

Also, if you've gotten to the point where the government is rolling tanks on you, or launching tactical nukes at you (Imagine nuking Portland to put down Antifa. It's a crazy idea.) you're way past the point of polite disagreement with your government anyway.
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Re: News from México or the road to Venezuela 2.0
« Reply #334 on: March 29, 2021, 03:34:13 PM »
Part of it has to do with resistance to tyranny, yes. People like to trot out the tired 'your AR-15 won't stop a tank or a nuke', completely forgetting how insurgencies work.

Also, if you've gotten to the point where the government is rolling tanks on you, or launching tactical nukes at you (Imagine nuking Portland to put down Antifa. It's a crazy idea.) you're way past the point of polite disagreement with your government anyway.

At least the nuking of Portland was mostly peaceful.
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Re: News from México or the road to Venezuela 2.0
« Reply #335 on: March 30, 2021, 10:21:30 PM »
Our beloved comrade leader El Presidente just said all the proffits form the Santa Lucia Airport and the Maya Train will go to the Army...

Socializing the costs and looses while privatizing the benefits for the Army so he has them in his pocket...

Now I'm really scared.

Hey, how is the RPG gaming in Mexico where you live?

Way smaller than in any similar sized city that I know off.

For instance I know of only 3 gaming stores in the whole of México City (can't really speak for the rest of the country, but when I was on FB I made an RPG group, I got about 30 ppl)

And México City has 21,782,000 ppl in all of it's metropolitan area (that invades at least two states) 1,485 km²

Compare that with NYC
784 km2 8,336,817 ppl And has enough RPG stores to warrant a Top 10 best list...
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Re: News from México or the road to Venezuela 2.0
« Reply #336 on: March 30, 2021, 10:22:44 PM »
Part of it has to do with resistance to tyranny, yes. People like to trot out the tired 'your AR-15 won't stop a tank or a nuke', completely forgetting how insurgencies work.

Also, if you've gotten to the point where the government is rolling tanks on you, or launching tactical nukes at you (Imagine nuking Portland to put down Antifa. It's a crazy idea.) you're way past the point of polite disagreement with your government anyway.

At least the nuking of Portland was mostly peaceful.

Now that's funny.
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Re: News from México or the road to Venezuela 2.0
« Reply #337 on: April 01, 2021, 09:54:53 PM »
Our beloved comrade leader El Presidente just said all the proffits form the Santa Lucia Airport and the Maya Train will go to the Army...

Socializing the costs and looses while privatizing the benefits for the Army so he has them in his pocket...

Now I'm really scared.

Hey, how is the RPG gaming in Mexico where you live?

Way smaller than in any similar sized city that I know off.

For instance I know of only 3 gaming stores in the whole of México City (can't really speak for the rest of the country, but when I was on FB I made an RPG group, I got about 30 ppl)

And México City has 21,782,000 ppl in all of it's metropolitan area (that invades at least two states) 1,485 km²

Compare that with NYC
784 km2 8,336,817 ppl And has enough RPG stores to warrant a Top 10 best list...

Is there a lack of material in Spanish? Or do players tend to play in English? Or just no tradition of this kind of gaming there? How about board gaming and CCGs?

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Re: News from México or the road to Venezuela 2.0
« Reply #338 on: April 02, 2021, 12:31:11 AM »
Our beloved comrade leader El Presidente just said all the proffits form the Santa Lucia Airport and the Maya Train will go to the Army...

Socializing the costs and looses while privatizing the benefits for the Army so he has them in his pocket...

Now I'm really scared.

Hey, how is the RPG gaming in Mexico where you live?

Way smaller than in any similar sized city that I know off.

For instance I know of only 3 gaming stores in the whole of México City (can't really speak for the rest of the country, but when I was on FB I made an RPG group, I got about 30 ppl)

And México City has 21,782,000 ppl in all of it's metropolitan area (that invades at least two states) 1,485 km²

Compare that with NYC
784 km2 8,336,817 ppl And has enough RPG stores to warrant a Top 10 best list...

Is there a lack of material in Spanish? Or do players tend to play in English? Or just no tradition of this kind of gaming there? How about board gaming and CCGs?

Lack of material in spanish is only part of the problem, mexicans take pride in not speaking any other language. Since the hobby never penetrated the marked to begin with, then the satanic panic and the fucking price of everything at the moment, there's not a tradition and never was.
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Re: News from México or the road to Venezuela 2.0
« Reply #339 on: May 14, 2021, 07:36:56 PM »
Welp, the government of México City must be really anti-science since it's publishing a study that contradicts the WHO and gives the reason to Trump' Supporters.

https://twitter.com/latinus_us/status/1393269805663330307
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Re: News from México or the road to Venezuela 2.0
« Reply #340 on: May 15, 2021, 04:49:10 AM »
Welp, the government of México City must be really anti-science since it's publishing a study that contradicts the WHO and gives the reason to Trump' Supporters.

https://twitter.com/latinus_us/status/1393269805663330307

Looking at what the EMA, the european agency has to say, Ivermectin might be effective against the virus, but would need such high doses that it could have harmful side effects, so they discourage its use until further studies can show what side effects it has at higher doses.

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Re: News from México or the road to Venezuela 2.0
« Reply #341 on: May 15, 2021, 08:18:10 AM »
Welp, the government of México City must be really anti-science since it's publishing a study that contradicts the WHO and gives the reason to Trump' Supporters.

https://twitter.com/latinus_us/status/1393269805663330307
Does it? While the WHO is saying ivermectin should only be used in clinical trials, here's a pre-print of a meta-analysis they're conducting on it, and it's quite positive on the effects of the drug:
https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-148845/v1
The cautions are mostly related to the quality of the studies, but that's been true about everything covid.
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Re: News from México or the road to Venezuela 2.0
« Reply #342 on: May 16, 2021, 12:09:41 PM »
Welp, the government of México City must be really anti-science since it's publishing a study that contradicts the WHO and gives the reason to Trump' Supporters.

https://twitter.com/latinus_us/status/1393269805663330307

Looking at what the EMA, the european agency has to say, Ivermectin might be effective against the virus, but would need such high doses that it could have harmful side effects, so they discourage its use until further studies can show what side effects it has at higher doses.

Unlike the untested vaccines we're all gonna have, and the anti-viral they were pushing.
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Here is why this forum tends to be so stupid. Many people here think Joe Biden is "The Left", when he is actually Far Right and every US republican is just an idiot.

“During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.”

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Re: News from México or the road to Venezuela 2.0
« Reply #343 on: May 16, 2021, 12:12:42 PM »
Welp, the government of México City must be really anti-science since it's publishing a study that contradicts the WHO and gives the reason to Trump' Supporters.

https://twitter.com/latinus_us/status/1393269805663330307
Does it? While the WHO is saying ivermectin should only be used in clinical trials, here's a pre-print of a meta-analysis they're conducting on it, and it's quite positive on the effects of the drug:
https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-148845/v1
The cautions are mostly related to the quality of the studies, but that's been true about everything covid.

So, if their meta-analysis is positive why are they still saying it shouldn't be used as a treatment?

I mean they are pushing for untested vaccine roll out world wide.
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Here is why this forum tends to be so stupid. Many people here think Joe Biden is "The Left", when he is actually Far Right and every US republican is just an idiot.

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Re: News from México or the road to Venezuela 2.0
« Reply #344 on: February 01, 2022, 01:07:37 AM »
While other countries embrace socialism weirdly enough México just reduced taxes for people/bussiness who make less than 35 million pesos/year.

https://www.publimetro.com.mx/noticias/2022/01/31/sat-que-es-y-como-te-afecta-nuevo-regimen-simplificado-de-confianza/
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Here is why this forum tends to be so stupid. Many people here think Joe Biden is "The Left", when he is actually Far Right and every US republican is just an idiot.

“During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.”

― George Orwell