South America

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South America
“lesson from aristotle onassis: at 16 his city burned to the ground. the turks threw his father in prison.…” (25 April 2026)
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South America appears in 111 posts, with peaks in 2018 and 2023; the page also gathers his posts on Latin America more broadly, including El Salvador. GritCult rarely writes about the region for its own sake. He uses its countries as evidence in arguments about socialism, money, crypto and the fragility of reform.

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In 2018 Venezuela is his standard proof that socialism fails. He answered calls for state ownership with the sarcastic "public ownership certainly worked in Venezuela" ^[1], set it beside the USSR as the obvious counterexample, and blamed its collapse partly on poor management of its oil. His most memorable detail was that Venezuelans who farm RuneScape gold "earn 2-3x the national average", because playing is safer than going outside ^[2].

El Salvador brought the region into his crypto writing. In June 2021 he greeted its move to make bitcoin legal tender with a capitalised thread, "WTFFF -- EL SALVADOR HAS JUST ANNOUNCED THEY ACCEPT CRYPTO" ^[3]. By 2023 he was asking whether its reforms would last. The problem, he wrote, is that most of the change "is being done by one man": unless he becomes "an unelected tyrant", a model he said "does work", he "MUST create institutions to continue his work" or the trend can "reverse SHARPLY" ^[4]. He did not treat the two as opposites. In a reply he pointed to Lee Kuan Yew, who "was also a dictator for life" and focused on the same principles ^[5].

Argentina and Brazil serve as warnings about money and politics. In 2023 he told followers it was "probably a sign to exit argentina rn" after a central bank move ^[6], dismissed its fiscal policies as trash, and noted that Latin America is "famous for extremely switching between far right and far left candidates" ^[7]. Brazil supplies a saying he posted twice in 2021, both times prefaced "It was once said": "Brazil has opera houses but no functioning sewer system. And america has the opposite." ^[8] By 2022 the comparison had become a forecast that America would be the next Brazil, and a 2023 thread put the gap between North and South America down to geography, birth rates and the type of immigration.

Recurring themes

• venezuela as the proof against socialism
• el salvador and bitcoin
• reform that depends on one man
• argentina's money troubles
• brazil as america's mirror

Notable post

The most retweeted GritCult post on the subject, with 55 retweets:

Selected posts

All 111 posts in the archive about South America, ranked by retweets. Select a column heading to sort.

Date	Retweets	Likes	Post	Media	Source
25 April 2026	55	604	lesson from aristotle onassis: at 16 his city burned to the ground. the turks threw his father in prison. his family lost everything they owned. he landed in argentina a refugee with $60 in his pocket, working the night shift at a telephone switchboard, selling tobacco during…		View
6 June 2021	16	70	WTFFF -- EL SALVADOR HAS JUST ANNOUNCED THEY ACCEPT CRYPTO MAKING THEM THE FIRST COUNTRY TO RECOGNISE BITCOIN (BTC) AS A LEGAL TENDER (BITCOIN STANDARD) HERE IS SOME FUD FROM MAINSTREAM MEDIA LETS BREAK THIS FUD DOWN ///THREAD///		View
2 February 2023	16	68	why is north america different to south america? mainly due to geography but also birth rates and they TYPE of immigration... more below. A quick thread 🧵 on my research into reflexivity as applied to birth rates, industrialisation and globalised governance		View
13 January 2025	11	484	Started listening to “Brazilian phonk” It’s great for gym. Post some bangers below		View
21 April 2023	10	101	problem with el salvador is that most their effective change is being done by one man, unless he becomes an unelected tyrant (model does work) he MUST create institutions to continue his work because as soon as he is out the door, trend can reverse SHARPLY south america…		View
25 April 2026	8	80	Beef prices in Argentina have sky rocketed due to their failing economic policies leading to inflation. Now they are pushing the population to eat donkey meat instead.		View
17 June 2021	6	50	It was once said Brazil has opera houses but no functioning sewer system. And america has the opposite.		View
23 August 2020	6	34	The fruits of colonisation and militarization have emerged a pattern. A pattern of the children of the occupiers being hooked on addictive substances. Afghanistan became a poppy field. China is producing low cost goods and fentanyl. The whole of South America has become Narco.		View
19 June 2018	6	11	what is horrifying is that cannibals when first encountered, in south america, had a practice of chopping off testicles of male slaves and prisoners of war from other tribes, to fatten em up before a feast.		View
7 March 2023	4	30	There’s an environmental crisis in Colombia due to the descendants of the hippos imported by pablo Escobar Crazy		View
27 June 2021	4	17	So El Salvador are creating a crypto currency app and will be giving its citizens $30 usd of #Bitcoin		View
6 August 2022	3	46	america will be the next brazil		View
16 May 2023	3	36	latin america bros, probably a sign to exit argentina rn... nothing good happens after when a central bank does this.		View
21 October 2018	3	28	Venezuelans who farm RuneScape money earn 2-3x the national average. And playing RuneScape is lot safer than going out due to high crime. If they do not play they do not eat		View
7 July 2021	3	22	Sports weekend. Brazil vs Argentina. England vs italy. And McGregor vs Poirier trilogy.		View
14 December 2022	3	16	I want France to beat Argentina in the World Cup final		View
28 April 2018	3	13	While throngs of young people are cheering loudly for avowed socialist Bernie Sanders, socialism has turned oil-rich Venezuela into a place where there are shortages of everything from toilet paper to beer		View
27 March 2022	3	10	We are seeing iPs being banned. KYC everywhere in crypto. How is this any different from PayPal banning people in iran or Venezuela. It’s not. When crypto got co opted by woke capitalism. It has and further will become another tool of the oppressive state regime.		View
19 January 2023	2	304	Why did the fbi and cia spend millions of dollars looking for hitler if he supposedly died when everyone said he did? Why spend so much money searching for him in Argentina?		View
27 August 2021	2	21	So El Salvador are creating a crypto currency app and will be giving its citizens $30 usd of #Bitcoin		View
9 June 2021	2	19	😂😂 Tesla has to accept bitcoin in El Salvador. Crazy times.		View
17 June 2021	2	18	Argentina and Uruguay are whiter than america and Canada. Some interesting facts.		View
22 February 2018	2	10	Colombian writer José María Vargas Vila, depicted the United States as a hungry sea monster on the cover of his Ante Los Bárbaros (1930), clutching Cuba, then under pro-American rule, and eying Central America. this is before ww2.		View
21 October 2018	2	9	Good article ! Venezuelans farm RuneScape goods so they can sell them		View
22 June 2018	2	5	this also fits in with on ethnic cleansing in Argentina The heavy casualties suffered by black Argentines in military combat created a huge gender gap among the African population – a circumstance that appears to have led black women to mate with whites,		View
8 March 2018	2	1	name 1 true naturally occurring monopoly. you are also forgetting the government is comprised of private individuals forgetting that leads to government failure and worsening equality as seen in USSR north Korea and Venezuela, they all have state control and monopoly		View
25 April 2026	1	47	@BowTiedMara How will we lose them? Argentina is a struggling country. The U.K. is still one of the greatest countries in the world and still a global leader in many avenues. You lost the last war in less than 3 months. And your position has significantly weakened since that defeat.…		View
21 March 2022	1	36	Most efficient way to travel is not rubber tyres it’s train tracks. That provide electricity to locomotive. Not batteries that require South American cia backed coups of rare earth minerals. Batteries are hugely inefficient for travel. Why build batteries when you build a train		View
19 February 2022	1	24	Google what Conor did in Brazil.		View
18 October 2022	1	20	Very similar situation and reaction as to the 70s. Lots of fall out to follow. Particularly in South America. Venezuela going to go up. And with it. More drugs. More contra. More commies. More of everything. More chaos.		View
2 February 2023	1	17	it was the poor from europe that settled there. in south america, it was the rich who came with labour and slavery to over see it There is a lot of talk about the world changing again... which it will but it will rhyme with history		View
31 May 2022	1	16	Weird how South American democracies are being overthrown and Tesla winning lithium and mineral contracts.		View
21 January 2020	1	14	what do i mean by burning your ships? the saying comes from 1519, when hernan cortes landed in south america. he burnt his ships to communicate to his men. there is no way back. there is only forwards.		View
26 May 2023	1	13	When El Salvador invades Honduras. Will you enlist?		View
8 September 2021	1	9	It was once said Brazil has opera houses but no functioning sewer system. And america has the opposite.		View
20 November 2023	1	9	Yes. Latin America is famous for extremely switching between far right and far left candidates Chile went from far right to far left. Same with Brazil. Had bolsonaro. Now has a literal Communist		View
21 April 2023	1	8	el salvador just sentenced to death alot of rapist and drug dealers lee kuan yew talks about it alot in terms of nation building LKY was also a dictator for life and he focused on the very same principles i talk about in this thread infrastructure institutions…		View
19 November 2018	1	3	@Cernovich America literally thinking of appeasing turkey by exporting an enemy of the regime. Just to take off pressure off of Saudi Arabia. Meanwhile China is increasing its influence politically and economically. Latin America in turmoil. (getting funding) Venezuela and the caravan.		View
8 June 2018	1	1	A 2009 study by Lara Stemple found that it had been documented in conflicts worldwide; for example, 76% of male political prisoners in 1980s El Salvador and 80% of concentration camp inmates in Sarajevo reported being raped or sexually tortured.		View
16 October 2018	1	1	@MansaCam @zeynep @Pinboard Rephrase : old institutions will get torn down. Zeynep is a relic. As is the new york times. Donald trump got elected. Brexit is happening. Brazil set to elect a guy who wants a military dictatorship. Et al.		View
21 February 2018	1	0	yh venezuela and north korea are doing good amirite		View
9 December 2022	0	50	He also supplied weapons to armed groups in the Middle East, South America, and other conflict zones around the world. He was able to evade authorities and maintain his illicit business through a network of front companies and shell corporations. He is a genius at logistics…		View
28 January 2023	0	26	Bro. Both their economies are dog shit. No currency on earth can challenge the financial dominance of the dollar. Any economist knows this lmao I do think it is a good move. But not for the reasons you suggest Argentina fiscal policies are trash. And brazil has a communist		View
2 February 2023	0	13	The tldr of this thread is essentially very quickly i touch upon: 1. bullish case for america to enter another golden age 2. bearish case for africa... against what the WEF says 3. bearish case for south america		View
4 August 2025	0	13	Good article. Touches on the managed decline by bureaucracy of the US. Also touches on the decline of Argentina. Micheal saylor once said “if warren buffet did his Berkshire Hathaway strategy in the Argentina it would’ve failed.”		View
2 February 2023	0	12	1. built infrastructure 2. extracted resource The north of america, overall significantly shipped over less slaves and indentured labourers than south america. South America had much much more slavery but a much higher mortality rate. but also north america...		View
6 June 2021	0	11	3/ HOW THIS COULD DEVELOP? FOREIGN WORKERS ALL START USING CRYPTO AND THE ENTIRE NATION OF EL SALVADOR NOW BECOMES ON RAMPED TO CRYPTO PAYMENTS WHY? BECAUSE CRYPTO IS CHEAPER AND INCREASES IN VALUE AS MORE PEOPLE ARE ONRAMED INCENTIVES		View
2 February 2023	0	11	South America, will continue to have the issues it has, mainly because going back to geography and poor decisions of the governments argentina for instance and brazil in particular, may even get worse brazil just elected a communist south america will still be chaotic		View
23 July 2023	0	11	Low-key want a war with Argentina over the Falkland Islands.		View
28 May 2023	0	10	Same cope in replies as Indians defending cows shitting in streets The biggest danger to homeless people is themselves 95% of these people are mentally ill or addicted to drugs and need care An asylum would help them This is what the president of El Salvador did. He solved it		View
22 January 2022	0	9	Bro. El Salvador deserves to be a 3rd world country for electing this dude. Hella cringe.		View
20 June 2022	0	9	Interesting situation in Colombia. I wonder what will happen now.		View
2 February 2023	0	9	the problem with south america, like africa, is that its territory is far too extreme, for instance in brazil, most live in the south east cities, the inner and outer land is cut off with mountain like territory as well as huge rainforests infrastructure is vital for nations		View
21 April 2023	0	9	the best case scenario for el salvador is a mix of an allusion of democracy but in a very tightly controlled system i would vote for him to be dictator for life, with a stronger parliament and open books on accounting and govt much like singapore		View
2 February 2026	0	9	@Willob is the westphalian nature of nation states as we know coming to an end? points of contention: - venezuela -> maduro sovereignty / non intervention - greenland - ai rewriting society - citystates -> dubai et al - network states -> balaji / praxis		View
7 July 2022	0	8	Brazilian jiu jitsu Brazilian butt lift. Lesson in there.		View
21 April 2023	0	8	el salvador needs to focus on two things institutions infrastructure south america was once more prosperous than north america but the north built robust legislations this leads to VALUE CAPTURE read this thread on more		View
6 June 2021	0	7	5/ THIS MEANS THE NUMBER OF HODLERS.... INCREASES EXPONENTIALLY IT ALSO MEANS A NEW TANGENT ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES OPEN UP IN EL SALVADOR... HOW? PEOPLE START PAYING FOR NORMAL GOODS N SERVICES WITHIN EL SALVADOR IN CRYPTO BUSINESSES WILL START ACCEPTING IT		View
13 January 2025	0	7	@nedmanua1 I don’t speak Brazil		View
21 November 2023	0	6	I don’t think Argentine bros wanna do that		View
14 March 2020	0	4	Maybe Hitler going Brazil is a remnant of another timeline.		View
22 October 2020	0	4	@Return2Med Knew an Argentinian girl from uni a lot like this. Similar mannerism.		View
28 April 2018	0	3	where electricity keeps shutting down, long lines of people hoping to get food, people complaining that they cannot feed their families. With national income going down, and prices going up under triple-digit inflation in Venezuela, these complaints are by no means frivolous.		View
23 May 2019	0	3	@Kairon01 Many can't comprehend multiple simultaneous futures. Chinese empire lived alongside Roman empires as well as the south American ones.		View
23 April 2021	0	3	Nah. I wanna move to Dubai or Singapore mate Low taxes Venezuela had high taxes feel free to move there cabron		View
7 July 2021	0	3	idk mexico and venezuela, should just legalise and regulate its production of drugs. el chapo wouldve been jeff bezos. narco states can be a real possibility, but the pic u were shown wasnt life under narco states, it was gang violence, big diff		View
5 November 2021	0	3	Gotta go Colombia after		View
15 March 2022	0	3	And also, because the takeover of Ukraine now emboldens Russia, other countries may feel emboldened around the world, in the Middle East, South America and many other places. The other long-lasting effect of this will be the inflation exacerbating effects of sanctions.		View
29 January 2018	0	2	my mentions are currently stuck in two political debates. One about gun control and another about venezuela. God save me.		View
3 April 2018	0	2	Okay, so ill be climbing a mountain in south america this summer. Machu pichu. Dm if u wanna come. Got some ppl already confirmed.		View
28 April 2018	0	2	But it is doubtful if the young people cheering for Bernie Sanders have even heard of such things, whether in Venezuela or in other countries around the world that have turned their economies over to politicians and bureaucrats to run.		View
16 August 2018	0	2	LOL cambridge analytican services already been rendered in south america used in Brazil, mexico, Colombia, Peru, Argentina and Guyana too cite :		View
5 September 2018	0	2	ayy im being referenced in swahili twitter in addition to polish Croatian eastern EU and south america i think plus more		View
4 December 2018	0	2	@randymorsh @coinyeezy RuneScape gold Venezuelan miners already ahead of the curve		View
31 October 2020	0	2	@BolsonaroSP That’s a funny pic. I don’t speak Brazil.		View
2 September 2023	0	2	I’d only rarely do that. If ever. Most Coke on street is cut with crazy dirty shit. Like battery fluid and fertiliser. If I take it. I’ll either chew the leaf or take it in Colombia. Even Miami Coke I’d pass on		View
1 November 2023	0	2	@nathanbaugh27 @adamscrabble Get some Colombian food		View
5 December 2023	0	2	What quadrant are you in the Ukraine Russia Israel Palestine Guyana Venezuela 3 dimensional political matrix.?		View
26 March 2018	0	1	@noshbeavers @RoyPolloi *does googles* yeah you are right, meme probably orginated from this : but it is the marxist revolution party(FMLN) member from el salvador civil war		View
28 April 2018	0	1	The anti-capitalist policies in Venezuela have worked so well that the number of companies in Venezuela is now a fraction of what it once was. That should certainly reduce capitalist "exploitation," shouldn't it?		View
4 May 2018	0	1	public ownership certainly worked in Venezuela		View
7 August 2018	0	1	The democratic socialist nation of Venezuela’s collapse is showing just how far people will go in order to escape the horrors of big government. they are willing to be abused and sex trafficked. horrific		View
21 August 2018	0	1	@TaeilTellsTales @AltwokeActual nope, socialism is a dictatorship of the masses or that is how it is sold monarchy more stable because you know future more, due to blood lines and barons who support the king also venezuela has less market mechanisms same reason why soviet states had potato famines		View
30 October 2018	0	1	I might rewatch : The boys from Brazil. Scary October indeed.		View
30 January 2020	0	1	@Lawrencekingfba @johnnydocontra Why did you go to Venezuela?		View
14 March 2020	0	1	Saddam and hussein n gaddafi Were confirmed kills. Hitler idk... The rest were charged with war crimes or given jobs in ussr or USA some moved to South America. Justice is just politics.		View
9 June 2020	0	1	@0x49fa98 this makes me not want to move to brazil anymore		View
29 August 2021	0	1	Sports weekend. Brazil vs Argentina. England vs italy. And McGregor vs Poirier trilogy.		View
10 July 2022	0	1	@uneventomato The boys from Brazil		View
20 March 2023	0	1	@xannysndtrannys Why is South America fucked ?		View
24 March 2023	0	1	@Delicious_Tacos argentina already did this		View
30 January 2018	0	0	If a enforced dictatorship made everyone be a socialist we would have what has happened in Venezuela everywhere. Famine.		View
21 February 2018	0	0	left infighting: in spain, in russia, the uk now has left wing infighting, america maybe. hell Venezuelan lefty govt sure is in a shit show too. when i voted left wing parties i was oblivious to this, or even now i have a selection bias and i am unfairly bias		View
22 February 2018	0	0	Only if you nationalise. Become isolationist. And a ethnostate. Also getting rid of democracy will mean lack of trade with outside world. Ask venezuela how thats going for a oil rich command economy(socialist) free trade will take longer. And i encourage it. Like in Africa		View
8 March 2018	0	0	one of the most overlooked problem of venezuela was its oil. poor management		View
8 March 2018	0	0	ahahahahahahah Venezuela fuck memes meme themselves		View
14 April 2018	0	0	@seunn99 Iran and venezuela too. Consider all those who are in debt to china too. But this undermines the petro dollar. Until it doesnt. It equalises power between currencies but one does not jump over the other imo. China economically is grown. And wants to toe to toe with usa.		View
13 May 2018	0	0	@donalddrapser @Unoriginalsbyme pree his insta he is Brazilian still, not that isnt weird or anything lmaoo its easier to become certi in america tho		View
15 May 2018	0	0	Impossible. See USSR and Venezuela.		View
1 August 2018	0	0	@shitcoinpavlov the essay is by sowell but Venezuela probably the most socialist i can go through other countries and point out their faults. socialism is an ideology saying it doesnt work, is not ideological		View
21 August 2018	0	0	@TaeilTellsTales @AltwokeActual venezuela is so bad women are willing to be sex trafficked greece and italy... the opposite		View
21 August 2018	0	0	@TaeilTellsTales @AltwokeActual religion heavily facilitates market operations mohammed was a merchant also why the ba'athist arab socialism has been BTFO too id say arabia has more outside connection than venezuela it is suspicious ofcourse there is alot of underhanded corporatism and cronyism		View
16 October 2018	0	0	@TaeilTellsTales good caveats. islamism = conservative effort, like catholic right, there are also feminists and leftists within islamist country ranks, can see this mostly in saudi and iran. with recent fed blip and slowing down of global economy, turkey and venezuela could a signal for more		View
12 November 2018	0	0	@SpeakSoCalm @amirnrf I like taking girls to their respective food spots. Elephant n castle latinaa to them Colombian spots. Yam down plantain with a Jamaican girl, Arab ones I take edgware. Associations.		View
21 December 2018	0	0	@hzzzzrr @Iucozaid It's not impossible. There are electro magnetic turrets being built to combat drones. Also other forms of radio waves to disrupt signals. A drone was used to attempt to kill the Venezuelan dictator.		View
22 February 2019	0	0	@fides_et_cancri a. Centralisation came about due to coordination problems. These will be minuted by technology and decentralisation tech. B. Please expand this point. C. Exit also has costs for states. Transaction costs are two way D. Power can be incentivised to stay localised. See Venezuela		View
23 February 2019	0	0	@fides_et_cancri What is happening in Venezuela. Exit. People are voting with their feet. To the extent that the centralised government wants to stop movement. Why would they want to stop movement if not for a cost ?		View
23 February 2019	0	0	@fides_et_cancri Please reread my point on Venezuela. It's happening already. And it is costly		View
28 December 2019	0	0	@erin_nerung as i said once to a brazillian girl after i fucked her who spoke broken english por que		View
22 February 2020	0	0	@FazeMiyake I was thinking living in Brazil would be real nice the other day. Still early days		View
1 June 2021	0	0	@Hormetik When I’m in Argentina I’ll buy u one brother		View

History

GritCult first posted about South America on 29 January 2018, and most recently on 25 April 2026. Across the archive the subject comes up 111 times, most often in 2018 (38 posts).

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References

1. ^GRITCULT [@GRITCULT] (4 May 2018). public ownership certainly worked in Venezuela. X.
2. ^GRITCULT [@GRITCULT] (21 October 2018). Venezuelans who farm RuneScape money earn 2-3x the national average. And playing RuneScape is lot safer than going out due to high crime. X.
3. ^GRITCULT [@GRITCULT] (6 June 2021). WTFFF -- EL SALVADOR HAS JUST ANNOUNCED THEY ACCEPT CRYPTO. X.
4. ^GRITCULT [@GRITCULT] (21 April 2023). most their effective change is being done by one man, unless he becomes an unelected tyrant (model does work) he MUST create institutions to continue his work. X.
5. ^GRITCULT [@GRITCULT] (21 April 2023). lee kuan yew talks about it alot in terms of nation building... was also a dictator for life and he focused on the very same principles i talk about in this thread. X.
6. ^GRITCULT [@GRITCULT] (16 May 2023). latin america bros, probably a sign to exit argentina rn... nothing good happens after when a central bank does this. X.
7. ^GRITCULT [@GRITCULT] (20 November 2023). Latin America is famous for extremely switching between far right and far left candidates. X.
8. ^GRITCULT [@GRITCULT] (17 June 2021). Brazil has opera houses but no functioning sewer system. And america has the opposite. X.

Further reading

• The Future Is Virtual, an essay by GritCult

External links

• Posts about South America by GRITCULT on X
• South America on Wikipedia