Jesweez
8d ago
Good article exploring how Iran is a key geopolitical chess piece regarding China: https://open.substack.com/pub/zinebriboua/p/the-iran-question-is-all-about-china
Jesweez
9d ago
It isn’t clear why negotiations failed with Iran.
Who can say for sure, but I’m sure Israel smelled the abundance of blood in the water and after having laid the ground work of dismantling the proxy network and showcasing the lack of relevant defenses over Iran, they knew a joint hit with the US could deal a near deadly blow. The negotiations might have just been for show in the end.
Israel is also the reason that this isn’t likely to be another Venezuela situation. While that was the Trump admin acting on whims and under constraints of how much engagement the US populace will allow, there’s no doubt that the whole of Israeli intelligence and military assets are going to be dedicated that this biggest break they’ve had yet is going to go their way.
Jesweez
28d ago
Sorry. The image was from a Jon Stewart clip where he asks when did the right become such f*cking pussies? I came here right afterwards to this guy telling me that he’s being genocided and his wife started crying because they had to watch a Spanish language concert.
Youre right Im gonna take a break from the motte, saludos cordiales a todos.
Jesweez
28d ago
Oh hey! It’s the signs of snowflakery:
- Perpetually offended
- In need of safe spaces
- Apt to shut down free speech
- Embrace culture of victimhood
When the hell did Bad Bunny do or say anything about replacing you? Is someone singing in their own language really that extreme of a threat? Get a grip, man.
I was born in Poland
Oh no I’m being replaced! Your comment is genocidal towards me, trying to replace me and speak for me as someone who was born here
It seems that you Poles need to stick to your own country and stop trying to be Americans
Jesweez
28d ago
"The only thing stronger than hate is love" is a slogan popular among people who take pleasure from publicly contemplating the violent death of my children
Gonna go ahead and click X to doubt
Jesweez
28d ago
Yeah I worked on a sugarcane farm in Florida. The whole center of the Florida peninsula from lake Okechobee down to the Everglades is a massive sugarcane plantation.
That stuff is brutal to work in. Once it gets to a certain stage of maturity it develops all these glass-like spines in the leaf margins and it loads you with spines as you walk through it.
Geography nerd mode activated…
North: wealthy, whiter, cowboy ranchero types, eat wheat tortillas and burritos, weak central control, rampant cartel violence. Dry and hot cactus landscapes. What American media typically represents Mexico like.
Center: highest population and the core of Mexican culture, heavy Aztec and other indigenous cultural influences, core of imperial Spanish influence, more mestizo, corn tortillas, nobody eats burritos, more state capacity and presence. High elevation valleys with cool climates and dense colonial cities in between volcanos. Looks kind of like Colorado but with more agaves.
South: much more indigenous, Mayas and Zapotec, poorer, quieter village life, less violence than the north and center, lots of culinary and cultural differences from the rest of Mexico, the center’s pine forests and cactus valleys start to grade into true tropical forests. Not only eat corn tortillas but were fashioned by the gods themselves out of corn masa.
Chhht chhhht… This just in… Getting a live report from the motte… Conservatives now hate it when people romanticize manual labor and farm life in their music. I repeat, farm labor is now backwards, cucked, and liberal. Over.
Jesweez
28d ago
The idea that kids are interested in farming feels refreshing and wholesome in the context of this whole debate
Yo I bet they’d be even more interested in farming if they saw what kind of girls hang out in the sugarcane fields
Jesweez
29d ago
That’s probably true. But guess I don’t think it’s as big a part of our culture as what I was comparing to in the respective cultures.
Jesweez
29d ago
I was talking about the conservative reaction generally. Thats why I framed it as old men yelling at clouds and called them pobrecitos plurally! Not just old man.
Idk why the southern cone is mentioned specifically as if Chilean and Argentinian kids don’t listen to reggaeton too.
Jesweez
29d ago
You just saw a show where an American citizen sang about stuff like getting drunk with his cousin for the Fourth of July, and pointed at the camera and told people stuff like you can achieve anything you dream of, believe in yourself and keep working for it. He even celebrated the family unit and marriage, having a couple get married during his show! You just didn’t realize that’s what was going on.
Jesweez
29d ago
Old men yelling at clouds again. You just happened to watch a reggaeton show for the first time probably. The US has rap music which features girls shaking their asses, that just how it is. Puerto Rico, part of the US, happens to have the world’s biggest reggaeton star, which is a musical style where people grind on each other.
Latin America has some classy as hell music and dance. Actually a lot more so than the US does. I’ve never been in the US and seen an old couple dancing salsa outside of a cafe. We could never, lol. There’s a level of classiness in that culture we’d have a really hard time replicating here, just like we’d struggle to do so you put us up against Italy or something.
But the youth tend to listen to songs about sex. Or violence. They’re just crazy fools who like to dance with their underdeveloped PFCs to stuff that shocks stuffy older people from whatever culture. You’ve got no room to talk, being from a culture that has a moral panic every decade or so about what the kids are listening to. Most of what we consider classic Americana music was considered devil worshipper music by the conservatives of that time, and people freaking out that the Super Bowl show was too sexual has been happening for decades now. Come on, you grew up here, you knew that.
In the end, the difference is that conservatives just don’t like Spanish and get frustrated by it. Their blood pressure tends to rise if they hear Spanish on the street, pobrecitos.
Trump was the one who decided to do this, not some faceless artifice you can conveniently point to. He’s been very publicly suffering from some sort of war mania for quite some time now.
I’m sure some deeper figures in the war and Israel lobby apparatus talked him up a great game of how easy and great it was going to be. But the one who has been obviously giddy about blowing things up in foreign lands is the guy at the top as well as all of his top advisors.
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