but only if they can convince belgium to take the fall later on.

you’ve fallen for american propaganda.

and doomed to failure at the hands of his “allies”

the demise will be twofold for the people in the region so long as the slow genocide keeps happening like it is now.

This is some DNC tier weaksauce excuse.

aka the flavor du jour of neoliberalism for the next few decades. lol

ugh, why did you have to make it a cat?! the chonky cuteness contradicts the soul crushing reality. lol

nobody, noem seemingly included, is entirely clear on why Noboa was so heavily invested in getting the US back except because it was the only way he could see to signal his allegiance to trump. It was just extremely odd all around, and a spectacular demonstration that Noboa and his far right cronies have no idea what the hell they’re doing.

aggressively (and sometimes pointlessly) cozing up to the united states is currently a trend in most of latin america rn and it’s getting spurred on by both the right leaning oligarchies in each country and by material support from washinggton (more of the former than the latter). they’re knee-jerk reactionary responses to china’s growing influence in examples like mexico, brazil, and argentina as well as an emerging voting trends fostered by class consciousness imparted to gen-z via social media.

argentina is probably the role model for how these reactionary forces will play out in the near future due to it going furthest when it joined brics and this step forced the global north to flex it’s economic & legal leverage to successfully pressure argentina to move rightwards w austerity implemented by milei.

the washington backed color revolution that took place in mexico this past weekend was the first step in intentionally reversing these political & economic trends and proved to be very cost effective in the last 15-ish years as exemplified by most of arab-spring, ukraine, nepal, and argentina protests against their respective & washington-non-centered governments.

the times is just as guilty of doing this as the new york times or npr.

tiktok hasn’t been around long enough for generations to use it and the narratives used to be verifiably genuine until it started livestreaming the gazan genocide; that’s when it turned to shit and those manufactured narratives started to dominate it.

i started following influencers on it before the isreali & american governments started pushing “inconvenient” people off it and paying people to manufacture those narratives (respectively). i suspect i’ll stop using it once they’ve forced everyone i follow to move to other platforms.

that’s exactly what this article is.

the article makes it sound like the chinese government is cracking down on queers by getting rid of grindr when the reality is that the american government forced the chinese to sell their ownership of grindr and chinese queers prefer to use grindr alternatives anyways.

i don’t know about you, but i need the reminder; my american inculcation keeps making me forget that my fellow countrymen are thoroughly propagandized people to the point where we believe we’re a just a fair society with the cherry on top of being self righteous about it when judging others with a different point of view.

it’s interesting how you conflate 2 things that are barely related to each other, in this case:

1. you’re not talking to queers in china; but are pretending that you are to double down on your beliefs.
2. the american government has repeatedly admitted publically that it run propaganda factories throughout the world and especially in china.

i guess i can see how you get the 2 thing confused with one another since they’re tangentially related to china and i would too if i too refused to do some light reading to educate myself about the world.

you’re not talking to any queers in china; the cia has spies everywhere; and you’re changing the subject again.

you’re not talking to anyone and the real funny part is that my gov’t has admitted several times publicly that they do this, but people like you still believe it’s a conspiracy theory.

the diaspora is a definitely a thing and that’s not what i’m describing.

i’m talking about unofficial state sanctioned violence that happens and then gets ignored after the fact despite it descendants and a handful of intellectuals trying to make the world aware while it continues to happen elsewhere.

those are the only “legitimate” sources for us americans. lol

During the event in Caracas, the president of the American Association of Jurists of Argentina, Claudia Rocca, proposed filing a complaint with the International Criminal Court against United States President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio for crimes committed against Venezuelan migrants and for attacks on vessels.

i wonder what the goal is in taking this action when it’s clear that the icc won’t do anything about it; they still haven’t moved on netanyahu.

pogroms like this were really common in the american southwest; especially in california and arizona; and i descend from one of the people’s who were the victims.

we only continue to exist to this day because enough of us were on the mexican side of border to keep to keep our existence going and the palestinians don’t have this “luxury”

these episodes are completely forgotten except by a handful of intellectuals despite occurring less than 4 generations ago and i fear that the same will happen to the palestinians.

it’s the most hardcore version of democracy in action.

i dunno; the ones in nepal & ukraine worked pretty well.