Chile votes for new constitution

Referendum vote has resulted in Chile’s decision to draft an entirely new constitution, which will be written by popular-vote delegates.

“If it were not for the brave young people who fought for us, no one would have gone out on to the streets. I had wanted this to happen for a long time and it happened and thanks to them, today we have won.” -Pablo Naranjo

So, you’re glad that lives, businesses, and homes have been burned to the ground because that’s the change we can believe in. Asshole.

“I want there to be a written record of our basic rights, which for me are education, healthcare, housing.” – Mario Bustos Mansilla

No, they are not rights. All those things are privileges, and commodities. Rights simply exist. Commodities must be produced and paid for. So who will pay for this? Chileans are notoriously cheap and most with money are smart enough to keep it where the socialists cannot reach. This is the case with any latin-american country. So when tax hikes happen, the poor ALWAYS and without exception always end up shafting themselves with the bill. It’s not that I don’t feel sorry for them– it would be great to help. But you can’t help them all. And the only REAL solution to poverty is to teach people how to be less poor (ie: capitalism and entrepreneurship).

Everyone talks about how Chile has the greatest economy but the greatest wealth disparity in latin america. Well, that may be true BUT… there are a lot of people in Chile who live profitable subsistence lifestyles in the farflung off-grid corners of the global frontier, where they couldn’t even spend money if they had it. There, boats are better transport than cars. The roads are not paved for hundreds of miles. Rivers and forests and impassable mountains block paths. There, sheep are wealth. Land is wealth. Solar panels are wealth. You can’t eat pesos. Much easier to trade eggs and wool and hard commodities. There, the people want for little and need nothing.

BUT because they don’t actually make any definable taxable income, they are considered to be in poverty.

It is these people who tilt the statistics, and it is the politicians who abuse those statistics. Those people don’t need help. It reminds me of the “poor” trash sorters in Uruguay for whom the government set up an entire welfare program to assist, and found out that most of them did not qualify because they all earned more than the minimum wage.

Chile does not need wealth redistribution. It needs to be left the fuck alone.

I see a few possible outcomes from the new constitution:

1. The new constitution is just a carbon copy of the old one. Because let’s face it, it worked just fine. People continue to riot and destroy their own neighborhoods.
2. Marxist tripe ruins a perfectly good country and we get Chilezuela. People continue to riot and destroy their own neighborhoods.
3. Enough fancy words go down on paper to make everyone happy so they all pat each other on the back and sing koombaya. People continue to riot and destroy their own neighborhoods.
4. Pinochet 2.0. Lots of dead communists. Peace and prosperity for decades.

Wow so much going on.

Out of the frying pan and into the fire. It’s been a while so i will summarize as best i can.

I got back to the usa just in time for covid. Fortunately the lockdowns in the swamp are more logical than the rest of the country. It hasn’t been too bad here, all told.

Then the bolsheviks took over several blocks of Portland and Seattle. LOL. Ruined, completely. Good riddance, don’t let the door hit you in the ass on the way out, etc.

BLM, pffff. Founded by pedophiles and human traffickers. Manned by morons. Good luck with that, you’re hurting race relations in a way I fear it will never recover from. Unless you want a civil war, and I regret to inform you YOU WILL LOSE. The same economics you complain about will not get you the arms and training you need and the rednecks you want to pick a fight with already have basements full of guns and ammo they know how to use. Just a bad bad bad idea.

Bretton-woods is going the way of the dodo. Good riddance to that too. Bitcoin is finally finding the support it has been waiting for at what seems like an exponential rate, which is nice. It’s blowing up and I hope it keeps doing so.

I think Trump is going to win. The left has just shown too much of their true colors this year for any other outcome. If it doesn’t happen i will be honestly surprised. I welcome a Trump victory, if for nothing more than fuck the left. But besides that, love him or hate him, you cannot dispute the fact that he is the best thing for world peace since Jesus. Nobody had the stones to talk to North Korea for nearly 70 years and he just went in and defused it. Isis, Israel-UAE, the Balkans… not only those but he’s the first prez in generations to not escalate international conflicts.

I’m not enamored with him. I think he’s a dick. But he’s doing a good job. The dick America needs. The dick America deserves. Bring on another 4 years of dick, please.

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