His comments on video games were pretty over the top
Isaac Send a noteboard - 21/01/2010 11:17:33 PM
I know a lot of people, some who have legit claims to expertise, who say video games can make people more violent,. No, it's his complete comments, see below, which especially with the others, makes it a bit loco. Obviously, nationalizing an industry isn't specifically insane, just economically and politically unwise, so chalk that up as just a bit of context
Yahoo news
Chavez, in his weekly radio-TV show "Alo Presidente," called on Venezuelan manufacturers to make "educational" toys and dolls with indigenous peoples' features to replace capitalistic counterparts like the Barbie doll that "have nothing to do with our culture."
In expanding on his dislike of western toys and games -- he already slammed Nintendo for promoting "selfishness, individualism and violence," Chavez Sunday took on the world's top selling game console, Sony's PlayStation.
"Those games they call 'PlayStation' are poison. Some games teach you to kill. They once put my face on a game, 'you've got to find Chavez to kill him.'"
The firebrand leftist president said any game that "bomb cities or just throw bombs," are sold by capitalist countries to sow violence so they can "later sell weapons."
They "promote the need for cigarettes, drugs and alcohol so they can sell them. That's capitalism, the road to hell," he added.
Yahoo news
Chavez, in his weekly radio-TV show "Alo Presidente," called on Venezuelan manufacturers to make "educational" toys and dolls with indigenous peoples' features to replace capitalistic counterparts like the Barbie doll that "have nothing to do with our culture."
In expanding on his dislike of western toys and games -- he already slammed Nintendo for promoting "selfishness, individualism and violence," Chavez Sunday took on the world's top selling game console, Sony's PlayStation.
"Those games they call 'PlayStation' are poison. Some games teach you to kill. They once put my face on a game, 'you've got to find Chavez to kill him.'"
The firebrand leftist president said any game that "bomb cities or just throw bombs," are sold by capitalist countries to sow violence so they can "later sell weapons."
They "promote the need for cigarettes, drugs and alcohol so they can sell them. That's capitalism, the road to hell," he added.
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Hugo Chavez: US used weapon to set off Earthquake in Haiti
21/01/2010 06:42:16 PM
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yes, and Haiti is TOTALLY the island of choice to test this on. *NM*
21/01/2010 07:12:45 PM
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I don't think *all* of the things in your summing up are that indicative of insanity... this one is.
21/01/2010 08:18:02 PM
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His comments on video games were pretty over the top
21/01/2010 11:17:33 PM
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Actually, it was a failed test run of our Volcano Lair Maker.
21/01/2010 08:54:57 PM
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Chavez is an idiot. The US can't use Tectonic Payloads before discovering N-Space Compression
21/01/2010 09:58:47 PM
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Sometimes I wish I were a demagogue....
21/01/2010 10:34:09 PM
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Sometimes I wish I were a synagogue...
21/01/2010 11:02:32 PM
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Sometimes I am a monologue.
21/01/2010 11:50:33 PM
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Sometimes I feel like a catalogue.
22/01/2010 12:07:32 AM
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Sometimes I feel like an analog.
22/01/2010 12:16:10 AM
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Your rhyming has me all agog *NM*
22/01/2010 12:32:01 AM
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And leaves me in a fog. *MN*
22/01/2010 12:56:28 AM
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I used to own a dog...
22/01/2010 12:56:36 AM
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Doesn't he realise that if we were really that evil we'd test it on Venezuela, not Haiti? *NM*
22/01/2010 03:19:02 AM
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I think the anex Haiti idea is the craziest
22/01/2010 06:43:22 PM
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