Venezuela going wrong ?

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Reagan and his CIA cronies shoulda been cut off at the knees.


It was terrorism of the worse kind. But self-proclaimed 'moral Christians' remain strangely silent at this campaign of imperialistic terrorism that killed more people on a proportional basis than did Hitler in his evil campaign of racist genocide.
 
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Walter said:
Venezuela’s Hard-Partying Beaches Are Now Deserted and Filthy
https://www.bloombergquint.com/busi...eaches-are-now-deserted-and-filthy#gs.G6ZgEbE
What socialism has wrought.
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That give you a woodie when you see people suffering under the sanctions you approve of since it cost you a few pennies in stock options?

Step 1 in finding out what a twisted little fuker you really are Walnut.
Schadenfreude: Taking Pleasure in the Pain of Others
https://www.psychologytoday.com/ca/blog/the-i-m-approach/201703/the-science-schadenfreude
The Science of Schadenfreude
It is part of being human to laugh at someone's misfortune.
We All Have a Dark Side
There is part of our brain that gets turned on when we are rewarded at someone else’s expense. Schadenfreude is when we laugh at someone else’s misfortune. Schadenfreude comes from the two German words, Schaden and Freude, harm and joy. We’ve all done it, even if we are not proud of it. Your friend trips and spills coffee on their shirt. You may feel compassion, but part of you also chuckles. If your boss trips and spills coffee you may laugh a lot, but perhaps not out loud! Even if you think you are joking, laughing at someone else’s expense, that other person may not take it as a joke. But for some people, and perhaps for all of us, someone else’s misfortune feels strangely satisfying.
Schadenfreude gives us pleasure.
The brain will choose pleasure over fear every time. Have you ever put someone down at work or at home? Just as it is beneficial to include someone in the group, make them a member and access their resources, it is also rewarding to exclude someone from the group, deny them access to resources, and thereby save more for yourself at that other person's expense.
We are conditioned to avoid what we fear and seek what gives us pleasure.
If alienating someone is pleasurable, perhaps it is also addictive. On some level, we know that to put someone down, to lie, or to cheat is not a good thing to do. Yet in little ways we may do it with some frequency. A research team out of the University of Basel in Switzerland, gave study subjects extra dopamine, the chemical of pleasure that all drugs and alcohol force the brain to release. People who got more dopamine were more likely to cheat if they knew they were not going to get caught or suffer any consequences.[1]
Schadenfreude is the topic and title of a song in the hit Broadway show Avenue Q, a song about the pleasure we take at another’s misfortune. Seeing a puppet and an actor sing this song allowed the audience to laugh unabashedly at our constant human folly. In the song the characters acknowledge their enjoyment at seeing waitresses dropping a tray of glasses, figure skaters falling on their asses, feeling happy that someone else is feeling crappy, and other insights into this unusual side of all of us.
As one of the characters says, Schadenfreude is part of “human nature,” going on to say how glad we can be at times that “I’m not you.” In fact, a phrase like this has instilled its way into our culture rife with its negative connotation: “It must suck to be you.” Putting this into a song not only highlights the brilliance of the writers, Robert Lopez, Jeff Marx, and Jeff Whitty, but shines the light of insight into all of us. It is a song that most of the audience relates to, myself included, demonstrated by the tear-producing laughter it elicits. The feeling of schadenfreude is felt so universally. We cannot help but bask in delight when certain people, especially certain popular celebrities, politicians and other public figures make embarrassing mistakes.
Understanding why you feel what you feel creates an advantage and opportunity to respond more thoughtfully than impulsively. How you feel about yourself and others, even schadenfreude, is being influenced at every moment from interactions at home or in the rest of the world. Whenever you feel happy or sad, courageous or scared, peaceful or angry the first step in using these feelings to your advantage is to recognize that you have them.
Recognition is a PFC function, the part of your brain you want to be in control. ToM involves assessment and anticipation: assessing a situation from another person’s perspective, then anticipating how they will respond to that perspective. Assessment and prediction are both PFC responsibilities. Assessment and prediction can be heavily influenced by the limbic system, flavoring the current experience with emotional overlays. These overlays are in turn heavily influenced by memories of past experiences.
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If you are expecting me to feel envy it isn't going to happen.
 
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