i wish our golden toilet enthusiast in the white house triggered this same response. lol

you’ve fallen for american propaganda.

but it’s a golden toilet! lol

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

and probably the only way you’re going to get out of being forced back into the front line with little to no training.

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.

especially for memes. lol

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

i did a post on it’s networking & storage services on this post a while ago.

tldr:

• security cameras using an ip webcam apps on old androids combined w the motion project
• internet accessible backup storage for laptops and internet accounts (eg google)
• wifi access point & router
• pfsense firewall
• ad blocking
• media server
• vpn
• proxy

it’s made from old hardware that i had laying around and its 2nd motherboard died a couple of weeks ago. i was investigating how i could use a spare laptop motherboard to run it until i saw this post and now i’m looking into using one of my old androids instead since they’re still functional. also: i’ve been meaning to try my hand at something like graphene on them and this gives me a great impetus to do so since i’m currently using a 20-year old backup router for the time being. thanks for making me aware that’s it’s a thing!

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.

my everything server recently died and i’ve got a bunch of old androids that i was using as security cameras. plus this sounds like fun. lol

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.

materialism takes time so your weaponization of it to gatekeep doesn’t make sense and the only sad thing here is how much i clearly live your in mind rent free.

i won’t remember you after this interaction, so i can’t promise to keep liking your posts; but i do promise to keep engaging on content that matters to me and, maybe, the exercise will help dispel some of your bitterness and make less of a detriment to this instance.

President Castro has also faced a divided congress and hostile mayors in many municipalities. The highly militarized police forces and the army have strong ties to the US. Further, a corrupt legal system and the abiding influence of Honduras’s oligarchic, very wealthy families who control much of the country’s industry, commerce and agriculture challenge popular rule. That Castro has secured her many achievements under all these constraints is remarkable.

it’s remarkable that any leader in latin america is capable of doing this and these conditions make me skeptical that the us empire will ever lose ground to brics.

i sometimes wonder if holding anyone in the media to any kind of journalistic integrity is realistic anymore