68 candidates and party activists have been killed since the primary elections were announced last September
Americans act like getting drafted gave their stormtroopers carte blanche to do whatever they wanted. Imagine explaining to the loved ones of those two Vietnamese comrades that you're sorry they died, but you might have had to go to prison for a little while if you didn't run off to murder them in their own homes.
* Gets discharged from imperialist army *
"Oh dip, this is just like the holocaust"
Kippers for breakfast? Is it Saint Swithin's day already?
"American patriotism" is rooted in American exceptionalism and white supremacy. Either you ignore the toxicity of the American empire in the hope of creating some kind of broad coalition with fascists, or you recognise that any leftist "patriotism" is just repackaging solidarity with the working class.
Left-wing nationalism doesn't exist for coloniser states of the imperial core.
It's used a quite a bit for dependent clauses. Things like "Este es el señor, cuya hermana es ingeniera"/"This is the man whose sister is an engineer". It's not very frequently used, but it's not particular to any region.
Probably the best Central American film out there, La Llorona takes the classic latam folk tale of the weeping woman and gives it a political edge. An aging ex-dictator (based on Efraín Ríos Montt) believes he has evaded justice, but is haunted by the ghost of an indigenous woman killed during the genocide he oversaw. It's particularly timely given the indigenous-led protests in Guatemala at the moment, and the ongoing prosecution of the perpetrators of the dictatorship's war crimes.
Neolibs stop using LGBT folk as a prop to attack the left challenge [IMPOSSIBLE]
Completely unrelated, but "agua" isn't actually masculine, it just takes "el" because it begins with a stressed "a" sound (like el hacha, el águila). That's why you say "agua fría", not "agua frío".
That's a fair point, and I'd like to see more opinions on that issue too.
If the argument is that banning kink would further the sanitisation of pride, then we're missing a big piece of the picture by not including the experiences of people who have already been effectively banned for not conforming with that corporate ideal.
Pride is a reactionary event anyway. It claims to celebrate diversity while aggressively sidelining anyone who doesn't conform with the ideal. They pushed out trans people to make room for cops and sponsorships from pharma companies that keep HIV drugs out of the reach of the people who need it most.
It's a photo op for corporations to pinkwash their operations, not any real show of solidarity. I've seen them platform sex abusers because actually dealing with their violence would "go against the community". Arguing over whether kink should be "allowed" at pride is missing the point when so many people have already been locked out of it for years.
Does that guy's t-shirt really just say "Defend Capital"??
What a beautiful and diverse collection of narco-states, fascist regimes and US puppet states!
Foucault: Education is a prison, healthcare is a prison, psychology is a prison.
Also Foucault: Paying for sex with children in Tunisia? That's just praxis, baby
:foucault-shining:
I'm such a great ally, I would suck a dude's dick if I could... 😳
Real talk though, it absolutely is not "easier" dating men. Not only do you have to constantly worry that you could be attacked if you show same-sex attraction in public, you also have to deal with male-dominated spaces and the risk of violence there.
Being gay means never being able to let your guard down.
I still think about how the main politician behind the vote used fake child abuse allegations to silence a Garda whistleblower, and then helped the director of the Yes campaign cover up real child abuse at her NGO 👁️
"Let no one doubt, that as long as I live, I will be ready with a foot in the stirrup to defend our homeland, the Revolution, and Socialism."
:fidel-salute:
So far her lead has gone up to 19% and is slowly climbing. In the last elections in 2017 however, the National Party ended up "winning" (i.e. defrauding the shit out of the elections) after being on the losing end of an "irreversible trend".
Here's the official count for anyone interested.