How to be a good loser
Dec. 4th, 2007 09:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
vostoklakeHugo Chávez, much like Artie Fufkin from Polymer Records, admits that he fucked up the timing.
"We did massive, we saturated, we over saturated. That's what it is, It's me, I did it, I fucked up, I fucked up the timing, that's all, I fucked up the timing, I've got no timing, I've got no timing, I've got NO timing. You know what I want you to do? Will you do something for me? Do me a favor, just kick my ass, okay? Kick this ass for a man, that's all, kick my ass, enjoy! C'mon, I'm not asking, I'm telling with this, kick my ass!"
Seriously: can you imagine the riots in the street, the screams of fraud, the begging for armed intervention from American B-52s that would have happened if the opposition had lost by that margin? As an old Russian with a goatee once said, the measure of a revolutionary is how well they handle defeats.
(As an aside, I hope that when the reforms are proposed he cuts out some of the dodgy-looking ones which were probably shoved in there by dodgy bureaucrats.)
"We did massive, we saturated, we over saturated. That's what it is, It's me, I did it, I fucked up, I fucked up the timing, that's all, I fucked up the timing, I've got no timing, I've got no timing, I've got NO timing. You know what I want you to do? Will you do something for me? Do me a favor, just kick my ass, okay? Kick this ass for a man, that's all, kick my ass, enjoy! C'mon, I'm not asking, I'm telling with this, kick my ass!"
Seriously: can you imagine the riots in the street, the screams of fraud, the begging for armed intervention from American B-52s that would have happened if the opposition had lost by that margin? As an old Russian with a goatee once said, the measure of a revolutionary is how well they handle defeats.
(As an aside, I hope that when the reforms are proposed he cuts out some of the dodgy-looking ones which were probably shoved in there by dodgy bureaucrats.)
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Date: 2007-12-10 02:26 am (UTC)I'm trying to remain upbeat. The revolution down there is making major progress. They've just officially launched the Bank of South America to counteract the IMF and World Bank, and a constitutional assembly in Bolivia just approved a new constitution, though a referendum is still needed to put it into effect.
And I studied abroad in Ecuador earlier this year. My Spanish professor is a relative of the new president, Correa, and she arranged for us to meet him. At the time we were supposed to meet him, however, a student demonstration was taking place outside the presidential palace over funding for a technical college. Correa opted, as he should have, to meet with representitives of the student protestors instead of us. I was disappointed that I didn't get to meet him, as I have a lot of respect for much that he has done thus far in his political career, but I was absolutely thrilled to see a win for democracy in Latin America , first-hand. In a land that has been plagued by rightist dictators for decades, democracy is finally developing. Can you imagine a US president graciously meeting with a group of protestors to hear their demands, only a couple of hours after they gathered?
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Date: 2007-12-10 03:36 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-12-10 04:52 am (UTC)