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"what makes you believe that the turn to the right in latin america is influenced by america and not their own fascism"

well, the united states' government is outright admitting it, for starters

If you want more info on this look into Operation Condor. It was an operation in the 70s/80s where the US just destroyed every communist movement in Latin America and replaces them with right wing dictatorships. That's where we get the juntas in Brazil, Bolivia, Argentina, and Ecuador that all massacred civilians in the name of foreign capitalists and anti-communism. Operation Condor doesn't even include other coups orchestrated by the US like the ones in Guatemala, Nicaragua and Panama which all happened across the 20th century for the same reasons.

I don't know about you but I was very explicitly taught about this in my American history class, although it was of course justified by my teacher as "crazy stuff that happened in the Cold war" and "justified to stop communism". Regardless y'all should know the crimes of your forefathers and the crimes that are still happening NOW. Javier Milei and Bolsonaro are not isolated incidents, they are a part of a long legacy of American backed far-right governments.

magicalastronomies

"what makes you believe that the turn to the right in latin america is influenced by america and not their own fascism"

well, the united states' government is outright admitting it, for starters

gar-feels

If you want more info on this look into Operation Condor. It was an operation in the 70s/80s where the US just destroyed every communist movement in Latin America and replaces them with right wing dictatorships. That's where we get the juntas in Brazil, Bolivia, Argentina, and Ecuador that all massacred civilians in the name of foreign capitalists and anti-communism. Operation Condor doesn't even include other coups orchestrated by the US like the ones in Guatemala, Nicaragua and Panama which all happened across the 20th century for the same reasons.

I don't know about you but I was very explicitly taught about this in my American history class, although it was of course justified by my teacher as "crazy stuff that happened in the Cold war" and "justified to stop communism". Regardless y'all should know the crimes of your forefathers and the crimes that are still happening NOW. Javier Milei and Bolsonaro are not isolated incidents, they are a part of a long legacy of American backed far-right governments.

medievaljournalist

making a pilgrimage to tumblr & getting conned by a blogger claiming to sell scraps of the shroud of pjackk

wiskie

“Remember, nothing tastes as good as skinny feels 😇”

lakemojave

I just lost my job

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paypal.me/lakemojave

Any support y'all can give while i look for new work and get back on me feet would be appreciated

folly-of-alexandria

Please help my friend

She works hard and deserves good things.

scorn-system

hi so. I'm scorn, you may or may not know me. I'm a disabled transfem creative, I have been looking for work for the last five months and getting burned or turned away at every opportunity. I started to run out of savings a few months back, and I've officially run out of ways to defer, put on credit, or put off my bills.

i suffer from chronic pain, fatigue, and a connective tissue disorder, which greatly limit my ability to live much less my ability to work. on bad days, I'm in too much pain to get out of bed much less do the kind of work I had to when I survived homelessness 5 years ago.

if you know me, or appreciate what I do, you can send me a tip through k or you can send it directly to my p or my v.

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irish-american-chan

if nobody's asked yet do you like video games and which is your favorite

My Dad Gives Me One Sudoku Per Day. And I Dont Want To Brag But Its Not Even Hard To Me

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from now on every Teto is black until Teto fans learn to behave

void-returns-squared

I changed my mind. Every Teto is black forever.

alurkerlieshere

Woman who hasn't been held in a decade: oh I'm pretty low maintenance, yeah honestly I think I'd find that overwhelming or something, can I just hold your hand instead? If that's okay of course?

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Woman who feels ill at the notion of taking up space: yeah I can stand. Yeah honestly it's no biggie I like standing. Do you mind if I lean here? It's okay to say no.

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Woman who would rather die than be considered selfish: I'm really sorry to ask I'm probably just being annoying but could I ask for another pillow? Yeah there isn't one in the room. Yeah no worries I can just bunch up some towels if needed.

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Woman who's most outlandish and fantastical fantasies are a coffee date and seeing a movie with someone: oh I don't get out much. Yeah I don't really like being around people. I'm pretty much an introvert. Or something like that yeah.

alurkerlieshere

Woman who would break down screaming and crying if someone showed even a hint of affection in person, who would fall apart at the seams if you held her still and asked her if she was okay, woman who if allowed too would wrap herself around you and sob and weep until she became severely dehydrated: oh yeah sorry I spaced out for a second there. Yeah I'm doing alright.

nekosaws

realest line ever spoken in anime. give it up for women

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The thing about American "leftist" comedians is that they aren't actually leftist, they are the Imperial Court Jesters. They stand on a stage, point directly at the blood-soaked gears of the war machine, make a little tee-hee noise, and the crowd erupts. Not because they are critiquing the machine, but because the laughter is a pressure release valve for the people inside it. Take the video of that stand-up asking the defense contractor if she helped Trump bomb those 160 Iranian school girls, and everyone laughing, including the contractor herself. That laughter is ritual absolution. The contractor laughs because she knows she will never face a tribunal. The audience laughs because they get to feel "self-aware" without having to actually stop anything. The joke doesn't condemn the contractor; it humanizes her, turns her into a lovable scamp who just happens to have a job graphing the velocity of shrapnel through children's bodies. By making it a punchline, the comedian sanitizes the atrocity. The blood is scrubbed off the stage. The audience gets to say "wow, we are so edgy for talking about it" while the person who builds the bombs gets to chuckle and order another drink. It is not satire, it is a team-building exercise for the empire.

Then there is the YouTuber talking about Transformers, casually dropping the "Iraq war aesthetic" like it's a color palette. Desert punk. Military core. A vibe. This is what happens when your country hasn't had a war on its own soil in living memory; the violence becomes media, a backdrop for childhood toys. The explosions are no longer the sound of mothers screaming; they are cool action sequences. They are digesting the visual debris of massacre as a nostalgic fashion choice, scraping the trauma off and compressing it into a genre for their retro-futurist fantasies. The apocalypse becomes a mood board.

And finally, the girl recounting celebrity love triangles from her childhood, flippantly mentioning how the U.S. was "busy with the Iraq war or whatever." Or whatever. That single phrase is the thesis statement of American innocence. Over a million dead, a region destabilized for a century, an endless river of grief; and for her, it was the commercial break between pop culture segments. It didn't raise her rent. It didn't stop her Wi-Fi. The violence is geo-locked to brown skin and distant deserts, just background noise like a refrigerator humming. She has the luxury of forgetting because the machine doesn't eat her children, it eats yours.

Americans don't hate the machine; they love the output. They hate the mess of it. So they turn it into jokes, into aesthetic, into "whatever." Because if they stopped laughing, if they stopped scrolling, if they actually looked at the 4K drone footage of the aftermath instead of the cool explosion CGI in their movies, they would have to realize that the lithium in their phones, the gas in their tanks, and the comfort of their suburban cul-de-sacs are all greased with the fat of foreign children. And they can't handle that. So they laugh. They turn it into a vibe. They call it "the Iraq war or whatever." You can't deconstruct the master's house with the master's jokes, especially when the punchline is the corpses holding up the floorboards.

dynastyscans-deactivated2024100

reblog to transform prev into a cute doll or plushie or toy of some kind and play with it ^__^

boccher

it makes you think how many health conditions which allegedly "only emerge during adulthood" are actually conditions which parents deny medical attention to their kids for