Can’t imagine the organizers being too savvy re: UN 2758 (which Mexico voted in favor of, btw).

Anecdotally, some of the worst people you’ll ever meet.

So, they sell foreign currency. What do they have to sell? Only the second-largest stash of UST securities.

:deeper-sadness:

Frozen pizza alone negates any other supposed achievement.

Do people actually say that? God damn it.

That fake eloquence is part of his appeal to a lot of people who tend to think that bombastic speeches indicate a capable politician. A sort of elitist demagogy, if you will.

It's unlikely that the US would coup AMLO over lithium when they didn't coup Cardenas over oil back in 1938.

The US would rather Mexico remain relatively stable in order to use it as a cordon sanitaire and as a close, reliable source of cheap labor and produce. Mexico has always known this and has leveraged it against the US to achieve a certain degree of autonomy from them despite their physical and cultural proximity. Couping AMLO would:

• Open the gates to Central and South American immigration through Mexico's southern border. AMLO's government has been fastidiously stopping and harassing the migrant caravans ever since he took office, probably in accordance with US policy to avoid any contentions that might undermine AMLO's grand plans over his six-year term. Not to mention the myriads of refugees from Mexico itself running towards the US.
• Pour gasoline on Mexico's proverbial dumpster fire of a security crisis, ensuring that any provisional or definitive government installed by Washington would be unable to deal with the situation without foreign assistance (AMLO's government is already on the brink in this regard). Needless to say, despite war being its own means for the MI-complex, a not-so-low-anymore intensity conflict in a country of 130m inhabitants bordering the US would go against any security calculation Washington has.
• Disrupt both countries' trade with their most important partner, a relation that produced $400b US in 2021, most of which isn't (and probably never will be) lithium. If you even floated the idea of doing a coup in Mexico in an agribusiness boardroom, Biden would die beneath a mountain of hate mail from angry corn producers concerned that he's about to destroy the US' largest corn purchaser by far.

AMLO's calculation in this regard isn't "FUCK YOU, YANKEES", but him exerting the aforementioned leverage against the US: "Don't want caravans? Lithium money goes through the state".

Just my two cents.

As an aside: AMLO isn't the shining leftist leader this site makes out to be. He's done some marginally good stuff (basically made some laws that should've been in the books a long while ago), but most of his tenure has been pretty iffy up to date, and probably won't be getting a lot better, if at all.

Por eso no podemos tener cosas bonitas, carajo.

Chad VanGaalen’s Molten Light

The Cruel Mother

Godspeed You! Black Emperor’s East Hastings

The Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima literally makes my skin crawl. Just thinking about it made me turn the lights on

Libs: “Ukraine has a right to its culture and sovereignty!”

Also libs: “Ukraine has to shed its culture and sovereignty as a test of loyalty”.

I sometimes work trade shows and the amount of carpeting, MDF and basically all “disposable” construction materials that go to waste is staggering. I don’t know how much of that can be reused effectively, but I think less than 50% of it is actually reused, if at all.

The Northern States (The Californias, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo Leon and Tamaulipas. Not you, Sinaloa, you stay).

Ain’t got nothing against them, but they’re always saying they want to leave anyway.

I had one. It was a pretty good phone, despite its shortcomings. Great sound for the time, very good screen, built like every other Nokia. The games were expensive as hell, but my dad was able to buy an MMC card with the entire N-Gage catalog in a tianguis for about $50. The worst part was doing voice calls, but as an introvert tween in the mid-00s, I didn’t have to do a lot of those.

Someone make this make sense. If the USA (and arguably Russia) already has weapons like MOAB, why would they need "smaller" nuclear weapons? You either want to level a fucking a city with one blast, or several smaller ones, and, ideally, you want either one of those choices to cost as least as possible.

How is this not massive propagandizing to neuter any objection to a nuclear countermeasure?

May I also suggest: Hobsbawm’s Age of Revolution is a good diving board for casual or less academic study of the French Revolution, because it details the How and Why it’s considered important by broadening the scope of study beyond the French Revolution itself. I also really like Hobsbawm’s prose and passion.

Then they came for me- And I said “not a good look, sweaty” and had brunch.

im just hoping for runaway hyperinflation so that every bankER in america gets thrown into the dumpster an industrial shredder over interest rates.

Already there’s people saying Ukraine is “becoming more progressive because of the war”.

Libs will have us all line up against the wall and call our deaths necessary to ensure democracy’s survival.

Any sufficiently pagan symbol can be indistinguishable from a fash symbol.

For example, with the macuahuitl, you can never be too sure if their extolment and portrayal is part of a decolonizing approach, or if it’s being used as an indigenista fasces stand-in in a video about the Mexican army.

I guess it depends on what we want this community to be.

From a purely practical standpoint, banning everyone who disagrees is good for cohesion and decision-making towards common goals, but it’s bad for growth and identifying ingrown problems.