xanadian: FTFA: Speaking in Havana, Mr Maduro said he had visited Mr Chavez in hospital twice since arriving on Saturday. "We have faith in God"...

How can socialists even *believe* in God? I thought it went against their credo.

Catholic Marxism is a funny thing.

Damnit, can he please go join Stalin and Mao in whatever hell is carved out for his ilk?

That should be BITE pillow
/if there is any justice in the world.

Pat Robertson must be pissed.

I heard he keeps calling out for Sean Penn.

"Sean...Seeaaannn..."

xanadian: FTFA: Speaking in Havana, Mr Maduro said he had visited Mr Chavez in hospital twice since arriving on Saturday. "We have faith in God"...

How can socialists even *believe* in God? I thought it went against their credo.

Suddenly everyone believes in God when faced with your own certain, imminent death. The brash, insolence of ego rules until that moment.

When do we expect him to be mummified and displayed in state at Diego Maradona's apartment?

Showed up looking for something that's not here, but after seeing the Ewok, still leaving happy.

tkwasny: xanadian: FTFA: Speaking in Havana, Mr Maduro said he had visited Mr Chavez in hospital twice since arriving on Saturday. "We have faith in God"...

How can socialists even *believe* in God? I thought it went against their credo.

Suddenly everyone believes in God when faced with your own certain, imminent death. The brash, insolence of ego rules until that moment.

Socialism and atheism have often been associated but there's no reason they have to be. Socialism and religion can work well together like in liberation theology, kibbutzes, and the very early Christian church.

rjakobi: Maradona's

Maradona is from Argentina.

kombat_unit: rjakobi: Maradona's

Maradona is from Argentina.

Madonna's not from Argentina, she's from Michigan.

Subby: I LOLed at the headline. Good work.

kombat_unit: rjakobi: Maradona's

Maradona is from Argentina.

Hand of God?

Mrbogey: I miss the old days when a good chunk of people liked him. Made it easier to dismiss idiots.

Don't worry, there will be others. There were plenty of Americans who were vocally supportive of the USSR too. They'll just find another brutal socialist dictator to idolize and it will be just as easy to recognize them.

Welp he's about to die then isn't he? That poor cancer can be finally be free of Chavez.

Hugo 'no ham' Chavez

You're a stupid smelly little dummy who will never have ham,nor will you be dictator of Venezuela why? beacuse it will make the sawdust in you're stomach explode

He will be missed.
He's such a great bad example

xanadian: FTFA: Speaking in Havana, Mr Maduro said he had visited Mr Chavez in hospital twice since arriving on Saturday. "We have faith in God"...

How can socialists even *believe* in God? I thought it went against their credo.

Oh. Fascinating.

Well it's not. Communists on the other hand has a problem with religion, "opium of the people" and all that.

Hugo Chavez and Robert Mugabe are two people I hope are towards the top of the Grim Reaper's list in 2013.
Unfortunately, both those countries will take at least a decade and lots of foreign assistance to fix the damage done.

tkwasny: xanadian: FTFA: Speaking in Havana, Mr Maduro said he had visited Mr Chavez in hospital twice since arriving on Saturday. "We have faith in God"...

How can socialists even *believe* in God? I thought it went against their credo.

Suddenly everyone believes in God when faced with your own certain, imminent death. The brash, insolence of ego rules until that moment.

So, you don't know much about the subject? It's ok to just stay silent. Chavez has always been of the mind that the exclusion of of religion was a mistake for Central American socialism AND is of the school that socialism goes hand in hand with Christianity better than Marx thought it did.

And besides, have you ever considered that the numinous realization of God that you propose is something that specifically happens at death as natural, chemical reaction in the brain to calm us - probably with some evolutionary advantage, such as if one member of the herd goes down for the predator without a continued struggle, it improves the chances that the younger, stronger ones will escape - and not an idiotic matter of abandoning prior "insolence"?

I will never understand why he gets USAian rightwingers so incredibly butt hurt.

Holocaust Agnostic: I will never understand why he gets USAian rightwingers so incredibly butt hurt.

Then you must not read anything besides Fark.

Holocaust Agnostic: I will never understand why he gets USAian rightwingers so incredibly butt hurt.

Since last I heard price controls made it impossible to get toilet paper in Venezuela, the real hurt butts are in Caracas.

gshepnyc: tkwasny: xanadian: FTFA: Speaking in Havana, Mr Maduro said he had visited Mr Chavez in hospital twice since arriving on Saturday. "We have faith in God"...

How can socialists even *believe* in God? I thought it went against their credo.

Suddenly everyone believes in God when faced with your own certain, imminent death. The brash, insolence of ego rules until that moment.

So, you don't know much about the subject? It's ok to just stay silent. Chavez has always been of the mind that the exclusion of of religion was a mistake for Central American socialism AND is of the school that socialism goes hand in hand with Christianity better than Marx thought it did.

And besides, have you ever considered that the numinous realization of God that you propose is something that specifically happens at death as natural, chemical reaction in the brain to calm us - probably with some evolutionary advantage, such as if one member of the herd goes down for the predator without a continued struggle, it improves the chances that the younger, stronger ones will escape - and not an idiotic matter of abandoning prior "insolence"?

What a wild reach that one is. Yes, there are many bio-chemical changes that happen just prior to death. To concoct some belief that these bio-chemical releases are for the benefit of the herd is a beaute.

taurusowner: Mrbogey: I miss the old days when a good chunk of people liked him. Made it easier to dismiss idiots.

Don't worry, there will be others. There were plenty of Americans who were vocally supportive of the USSR too. They'll just find another brutal socialist dictator to idolize and it will be just as easy to recognize them.

Comparing the USSR to Venezuela... sure. Just tell me how many wars Venezuela has begun and all those cheap resources the USSR shared with the US. Also, please go on and tell me how many elections Stalin held.

I'll wait.

Chavez isn't a dictator, rather a fascist. And a sort of anti-imperial fascist at that, and quite succesful... right until he died (happening really soon). I wonder what'll happen to Venezuela now, since so much power was centered on just one guy.

tkwasny: gshepnyc: tkwasny: xanadian: FTFA: Speaking in Havana, Mr Maduro said he had visited Mr Chavez in hospital twice since arriving on Saturday. "We have faith in God"...

How can socialists even *believe* in God? I thought it went against their credo.

Suddenly everyone believes in God when faced with your own certain, imminent death. The brash, insolence of ego rules until that moment.

So, you don't know much about the subject? It's ok to just stay silent. Chavez has always been of the mind that the exclusion of of religion was a mistake for Central American socialism AND is of the school that socialism goes hand in hand with Christianity better than Marx thought it did.

And besides, have you ever considered that the numinous realization of God that you propose is something that specifically happens at death as natural, chemical reaction in the brain to calm us - probably with some evolutionary advantage, such as if one member of the herd goes down for the predator without a continued struggle, it improves the chances that the younger, stronger ones will escape - and not an idiotic matter of abandoning prior "insolence"?

What a wild reach that one is. Yes, there are many bio-chemical changes that happen just prior to death. To concoct some belief that these bio-chemical releases are for the benefit of the herd is a beaute.

It's not my "concoction," genius. It's been proposed by those more knowledgeable than me. You'll note I prefaced it with a "probably some evolutionary advantage" and then a "such as." Don't strain yourself on reading comprehension, though.

I TOLD you we should have used more Polonium-210.

xanadian: FTFA: Speaking in Havana, Mr Maduro said he had visited Mr Chavez in hospital twice since arriving on Saturday. "We have faith in God"...

How can socialists even *believe* in God? I thought it went against their credo.

Socialism is about the government distribution of goods and services. Where did you hear it ever had fark to do with religion????

Venezuela has had a taste of kleptocracy, democracy as practiced by a kleptomaniac. They are in the Detroit death spiral and will elect whoever promises to steal as much from their betters as they can and give it to them, after keeping the majority for themselves in nice secure Swiss bank accounts a la Putin. I predict large imports of vodka and Colt 45 or Cobra will drain their oil revenues and a fascination with rap music will addle their brains.

TorqueToad: Holocaust Agnostic: I will never understand why he gets USAian rightwingers so incredibly butt hurt.

Then you must not read anything besides Fark.

I read plenty. Never seen one word to convince me he was anything worse than a meh tier srongman with a loud mouth and a few interesting social policies.

Sure, he's an asshole but he's hardly a standout amongst the assholes of the world. Yet for some reason just name dropping the guy sets off full blown colon catastrophes.

TorqueToad: Holocaust Agnostic: I will never understand why he gets USAian rightwingers so incredibly butt hurt.

Then you must not read anything besides Fark.

There are plenty of repugnant human beings. This one is quite outspoken.
/and I'm left of center. you like him? you can keep him

Also, sorry TorqueToad, that was for Holocaust Agnostic, whose very name fills me with disturbance

I so hope the next headline will be "Cure for Chavez"