tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4080946.post4294449745750849184..comments2024-03-26T00:37:34.943+01:00Comments on Venezuela News And Views: Three post mortemsDanielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12128609182544333477noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4080946.post-16407305857498530192013-12-13T18:30:04.586+01:002013-12-13T18:30:04.586+01:00and yes, I can still pull out a good sentence here...and yes, I can still pull out a good sentence here and there :) thanks for noticing.Danielhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12128609182544333477noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4080946.post-19221734601616001322013-12-13T18:29:04.914+01:002013-12-13T18:29:04.914+01:00i did remove the character recognition these days....i did remove the character recognition these days. it should be like direct posting, i just keep moderation for older posts. it has been a while that no idiot chavista has tried to post so i thought i would give it a try. do the character recognition still shows? Danielhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12128609182544333477noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4080946.post-4212313971023669182013-12-13T04:07:53.951+01:002013-12-13T04:07:53.951+01:00Denis, to his credit, concedes that Pirella was a ...<i>Denis, to his credit, concedes that Pirella was a creep and a loser to lose in front of Trejo.</i><br /><br />No, I'll tell you what would be to Denis's credit: saying that Pirella is a creep and a loser, period, no conditions attached. Saying Pirego is a creep and a loser for losing to Trejo, is like some absurd grade-school taunt.sydnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4080946.post-59757813849117017342013-12-13T03:59:48.768+01:002013-12-13T03:59:48.768+01:00that <3 was supposed to turn into a heart symbo...that <3 was supposed to turn into a heart symbol. Guess not. P.S. Must be Xmas, if we're not being subjected to double and triple verifications, just to post a damned comment ;-)sydnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4080946.post-85511715065389079992013-12-13T03:58:23.254+01:002013-12-13T03:58:23.254+01:00unlike the twisted argumentation of Denis who like...<i>unlike the twisted argumentation of Denis who like leftist intellectuals create the evidence they need as they need it and thus need to distract the reader so that this one does not detect the intellectual fraud.</i><br /><br /><3 ... I'm in love. Impossibly, of course.<br />sydnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4080946.post-44024528712334062442013-12-11T10:09:50.453+01:002013-12-11T10:09:50.453+01:00Thank you Daniel, once again you are my go-to-blog...Thank you Daniel, once again you are my go-to-blog for electoral information. This election seams especially open to interpretation and certainly one would not want to kid oneself going into the next two years of Venezuelan history. I guess the 'post-mortem' take you have is as frank as one can be in the face of these results that while not terrible are not the massive outcry that the MUD was looking for. <br /><br />Of course surviving a 'plebiscite' is not the same as suddenly being able to govern. There seam to be some serious structural issues with the economy that won't go away with more spending and less investment. Even the 10s of billions of oil revenue don't seam to be enough to cover the ineptitude that has been the constant in these last 15 years. So what happens now that politics is off the plate for a while? What new excuses will be made? And why does no one on the chavista side really seam to care about Econ 101? Arguably if they could make things work a la China, then something would have been gained beyond these spurious political victories that they take to be so grandious when all they prove is that Venezuela still has a lot of poor, ignorant voters. Even if you accept some 'value added' revolutionary identity that makes the chavista feel historically vindicated, at the end of the day it's just passive and parasitical in exactly the same sense that the 'revolution' views its sworn enemy.gabriel cisneroshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00291044485626670142noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4080946.post-38752700743030464812013-12-10T20:45:40.304+01:002013-12-10T20:45:40.304+01:00"...the twisted argumentation of Denis who li..."...the twisted argumentation of Denis who like leftist intellectuals create the evidence they need as they need it and thus need to distract the reader so that this one does not detect the intellectual fraud."<br /><br />Daniel you can intrude into the brain of a "socialist, "progressive" or whatever they want to call themselves better than Hari Sheldon could. Personally, I am far more superficial and can only say about Denis's piece: C'est du pur galimatia.<br /><br />As for CM she is an eagle flying all over the turkeys.charlynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4080946.post-78263264631956934832013-12-10T19:05:52.956+01:002013-12-10T19:05:52.956+01:00Social Sciences department..... how moronic it al...Social Sciences department..... how moronic it always sounded to me in the hard sciences......<br /><br />So you can imagine waht a doctor in philosophy of the UCV in Caracas can produce. They also produce clowns like Perez Pirella who got slapped by Trejo and Denis, to his credit, concedes that Pirella was a creep and a loser to lose in front of Trejo.Danielhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12128609182544333477noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4080946.post-16305747615510108912013-12-10T19:01:37.510+01:002013-12-10T19:01:37.510+01:00Regarding the prose style of Roland Denis: as mudd...Regarding the prose style of Roland Denis: as muddled in your English translation as in my Spanish reading. A translation cannot make a silk purse out of a pig's ear, as the saying goes. Translating the last paragraph is a good strategy.<br /><br />Here is one howler: <i>Lo ocurrido en Maturín y Barinas, plazas de orgullo para el chavismo perdidas, no es más que el agotamiento rápido y progresivo del despotismo como se impusieron muchas candidaturas a alcaldes, pero no de la mayoría chavista en este caso dividida o decidida a la abstención.</i> "What occurred in Maturín y Barinas, lost cities for chavista pride, is nothing more than the rapid,progressive exhaustion of despotism which many candidates and mayors imposed, but not of the chavista majority - in this case divided or abstaining." <br /><br />According to Roland Denis, despotism is a bug of Chavismo. No, it's a feature. Top-down is what Chavismo has been about from day 1. <br /><br />I agree with you that he has a somewhat idealistic view of the Chavista rank and file. While there are "militants" in the lower ranks, it would appear to me and others who know much more than I, that most in the lower ranks are in the "pa' mi" category. <br /><br />Another way of interpreting his militant versus money division in Chavismo is that he is talking about a division at the top. It could be interpreted as the familiar dichotomy of Godgiven $$ versus Cuban/militant tendency. <br /><br />Torture: spend your day trying to translate Roland Denis. Or- trying to read Roland Denis, in any language. But in defense of Roland Denis, his muddled prose would be considered standard operating procedure on any "social sciences" department at a US college or university.Boludo Tejanonoreply@blogger.com