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I have been finishing to read the book AntiDrug Capitalism(is from an author that could be considered trotskyist) and this part made me hate the US more.
The translation of the highlighted part is the following:
In 2011, Pemex filed a lawsuit in Houston against ten US oil and pipeline companies for collaborating with organized crime by buying stolen natural gas from Mexico’s Burgos Basin.
“The cartels built tunnels and their own pipelines to facilitate the theft … All defendants have participated in and profited - knowingly or unknowingly - from the trafficking of illegal condensate into the United States and thereby encouraged and financed the Mexican organized crime groups that stole the condensate,” the complaint states.
All of these entities have been militarized as part of the drug war, and some of them have high levels of displacement due to war-related violence.
Y aún así, los yanquis se creen los protectores de democracia y soberanía mundial.
La propaganda gringa funciona tristemente. Es muy buena engañando a la gente con slogans que ni los mismísimos yanquis creen.
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I feel like more countries should do the “the king is not invited” strat that mexico is doing, its a pretty efficient way to delegitimize opposition parties and media. Genius really, in mexico you now have the same guys that decry dictatorship defending a literal monarch lmao.
Thinking about how to translate USian into Dutch. I was thinking about Verenigde Statener for people, and Verenigde Statenlijk to describe something. Of course you can shorten it to Statener and Statenlijk.
Spanish has a word for USian that gets serious use, estadounidense, but it’s long so most say americano/a instead
How nice of you-know-who to finally admit that they have nuclear weapons. I just love honesty.
AI21 labs is an isntreal company. I’m boycotting their AI. You should also. they released Jamba LLM models.
lol the red scare paranoia in mexico is insane right now get ready americans, a huge influx of mexican petty bourgeoisie and above is coming to you 😅
Hi, everyone! Wish you all a happy October 1st in celebration of the PRC.
С днём рождения, 中国!
Let’s go another week
It’s fall again so I can stop having a personality and start wearing cool outfits. I actually like fall with the rain and the wind and the greyness though I want to retreat into the woods in the southern part of the country for a while, to sort out things. Sadly that’s not a possibility right now.
Do the weeks ever stop… I am asking for a friend?
Talking politics with right wingers is like trying to teach a pig math. They live in their own little world and then get violently angry when you tell them what’s really going on.
On the flip side, I was talking to day with a truck driver who was Republican. He was complaining about his trucking company, the CEOs and how local food taxes are about to go up due to stadiums being built in the city. I said, “you know, they should really be putting those taxes onto the CEOs and the businesses screwing you over.” Motherfucker said he’d vote for me lmaoooo
I think they might be easier to win over than I once thought.
They’re not all bad, but some of them are just too far gone
The culture war has broken a lot of brains but the key to undoing that is to appeal to people’s class interests. They may not consciously understand those interests but they instinctively feel them. They are looking for validation and explanation, but unfortunately oftentimes they will turn to conspiracy theories, identity politics and other forms of magical thinking for answers. Our task is to provide them a real, materialist explanation, but do so not in a condescending way (the most ineffectual way to do class consciousness raising propaganda is to talk to people in the kind of smug, accusatory, “better-than-you” way that liberals do) but in a way that makes them feel seen and feel that their material woes are being taken seriously.
For sure. I just think it was pretty eye opening for me; that when it all comes down to it, we’re all united under the same banner of struggle. Some people have just fallen through the cracks in the mess of it all.
talking to > 60yo right wingers is a wonderful experience
Khalida Jarrar is Palestinian leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.
this is so wild to me. time have changed a lot and yet so many things are same.
I hope you all have a nice week :D
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Thanks I am going to need it this week
Oppo, nice week, you too!
Anthropomorphizing, maybe, but it looks so happy!
You too :D
You too Oppo 🫡
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Have a nice week, Oppo! :D
Today (September 30th) is the celebration of Truth and Reconciliation day in Canada to provide fake apology from Stephen Harper’s speech that state that the fake school death camp Holocaust against Indigenous First Nation people of British diaspora only consist of the mild “cultural genocide” that hide all form of unspeakable savagery and demonic worship that the European immigrants commited. Despite the condemnation of the “Indian Residential schools” which are still called real schools despite the many obvious evidences that they are death camps in disguise, Stephen Harper also boosted that the fake school survivors are so indoctrinated in the savagery and cannibalistic practices of the fake schools that they wish for the return to the fake school savagery without mentioning the indoctrinated desire for savagery. The governments of British immigrants and Catholic churches who perpetuated the fake school Holocaust that inspired the Nazi Holocaust could still continue to evade consequence for their crimes against humanity.
Despite their claim that the European immigrants magically stop persecution of Indigenous people 100 years ago, they secretly continue their Indian Residential fake school genocide secretly after 1997, inheritance thief of abducted from fake cultural assimilation, Federal Reserve concentration camps, planned starvation, planned chemical attacks, and violence against Indigenous women. Despite their condemnation of their fake school indoctrination and slogan feminism, the European immigrants continue their harassment, assault, and assassination of any successful outstanding virtuous Native American women that make achievement to return the matriachy or gender equality of their ancestral cultures.
The European immigrants cover up their ongoing daily violence against Indigenous people with their control over mainstream media that distract people from the Anti-Christ who work through white supremacists and the victim blaming policy that does not apply to Israel, Ukrainian Nazis, victims of Communism, Vuvuzela who are spoiled rich white kids that free ride on Venezuela, or Uyghur terrorists. They also hide the fact that European immigrants could illegally trespass into federal reserves to attack, rape, rob, and conduct business operations under the support of corrupted white authorities or use their absolute authority to ban law enforcement by the local Indigenous government in concentration camps.
Injured myself while marathon training so I think the marathon is off for now. Got some issues with my knee. It’s better now but it took 2+ weeks out of my schedule and I don’t think I can or want to compensate it.
Decided to up the strength training and I joined the gym again after more than a year of working out at home. Took me five minutes to realize that working out at the gym can suck ass lol. The gym I was at has 1 lat pull down machine for the entire gym. They have 700 bikes though so I guess you can do that. Might need to look for another location.
A little preview of something that I have in store for later this month. Should be pretty fun.