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1yr ago
The fact that anybody pays any mind to these absolutely ridiculous “polls” is embarrassing. It is absolutely no surprise to me, and I don’t think should be a surprise to anyone, that unhappy men are the ones following this person around online and parroting her nonsense.
Setting aside the negative tone and adjectives about this character in the first paragraph, I have to agree on this. Don't understand what's the deal with this Aella person, first time I heard about her was here and then watched a recent podcast. My impression is, this is just a regular girl that escorts and do polls on twitter. Why people care so much. I can't find any other reason than 'simping'.
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1yr ago
I heard fragments of Bukele speech and this argument was part of it.
Human rights organizations suddenly show up when criminals get their deserved punishment (or don't get chicken in a meal for a day in those prisons), but when innocent people get killed in the streets the media and all citations from those organizations are silent and non-existent.
Anecdotally, I've seen the same situation many times and so I agree. The narrative from the extreme left governments in Latam, is that criminals are actually victims of society because they are a byproduct of them.
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10mo ago
Own more land and have more power.
There's already a "scientific" space station in the southwest region, where not even Argentineans are allowed inside.
Now apparently China has almost a green light to build their own port (inside the country) in the southest part of the country, near the Beagle Channel for reference.
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1yr ago
Good moment about wokeism is the college mascot on season 1, an 'ethnic free' person. The main character remarking how not being racist is the new racism.
Also reminds me about south park "took our jobs" episode, where people of the future is a mix of all races together.
Community has a lot of politically incorrect jokes, specially from the Chevy Chase character. Really funny.
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1yr ago
This football world cup won't end without some American culture war injected on it of course. A week ago there was a Washington Post op-ed (https://www.washingtonpost.com/made-by-history/2022/12/08/why-doesnt-argentina-have-more-black-players-world-cup/) noticing that Argentina football team didn't have Black players, a lot of hypothesis are made but the easiest explanation, if any, is assimilation.
After making the rounds online, the op-ed was corrected to point out that the black population (or so Afro-Argentines) is less than 1% (actual data is close to 0.32%), nonetheless the controversy made re-emerge news about how the Afro-Argentines need to be heard.
It's frustrating how the same identity politics issues from USA are trying to be pushed into Latam countries when there are obvious cultural and historic differences. Not surprisingly, these issues (and everything that can be related to "woke" culture) are embraced by left leaning political parties.
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7mo ago
First of all, thanks for your posts as always! Really interesting stuff
About Argentina
as a lawyer defended officers accused of crimes against humanity. She claims the mass disappearances were understandable and necessary to defeat leftist terrorists
Source? Your provided links don't mention this at all, perhaps it's mentioned in the book, but I haven't read it.
As far as I know, Villaruel's advocacy primarily centers around seeking justice for the victims of the guerrilla group Montoneros, who are often forgotten and disregarded. Interestingly, many individuals associated with Montoneros currently hold positions of power within the far-left populist party. There's a reason why, since 2003, the narrative has shifted to assert that the Montoneros did nothing wrong. This is evident in the removal of the prologue "Theory of two demons" from the book "Nunca Mas" (Never Again), which was written by Sabato.
For some reason, in contrast to my experience in Wikipedia, the Spanish version of this article is accurate while the English version says something entirely different. Probably better to use this link and translate the page: Teoria de los dos demonios
The far-left party has used the outcry over the dictatorship to claim moral high ground for the past 20 years. It's worth noting that this same party, along with human rights organizations, denounces the use of Tasers as being similar to the torture methods employed during the dictatorship.
This has understandably drawn the ire of Argentina’s human rights organizations and isn’t just an issue of the past
What's interesting is that Villaruel has been engaged in this cause for 20 years, and it's only now that a scandal has emerged around it. From a political standpoint, it seems that the far-left party aims to create polarization by positioning Milei as their opponent rather than Bullrich. Since the primaries, the three main parties, each with nearly 30% of the votes, include Massa (far-left), Bullrich (center-right), and Milei (Libertarian).
In other news, Tucker Carlson was in Buenos Aires with Milei's team yesterday and is dropping the interview next week on X.
Hope it's as interesting as other interviews Milei had given, he frequently quotes chapters and books of Murray, Robarth, Friedman and Hayek among some people, not common at all for other politicians to do (and I mean quoting books at all).
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7mo ago
he has made ambiguous statements that seem to wink at a more progressive
I was about to make a comment about the pope because of recent politics and statements, apparently he warned against the "little adolphs" of the world, referring to a politician running for president in Argentina. He's more than winking progressive, he's a left-wing politician.
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9mo ago
There's a big problem with crypto for regular use when you hear the creator of Ethereum, in a podcast, talk about the paranoid rampage he suffered for three days to make a transaction (albeit probably the biggest ever).
He inspected and coded his own library/script because he was so unsure of the inherent safety of the running environment for that virtual money.
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1yr ago
My only hot take is the obvious if it were left wing protestors then these people would be participating in Democracy and getting their voices heard. But since the color coded red tribe they are fascists destroying Democracy.
I think you are correct, although it seems too simple, no?
Most news websites I know in Latam have a left bias, example:
In Italy, when the Meloni won as new prime minister, the news articles repeatedly used keywords as 'right-wing', 'fascists', 'extreme right-wing', 'neofascists', adding a sense of preoccupation, danger and explaining how minorities will be in trouble. Only a couple of articles noticed that this was the first woman in power in Italy but still not leaving aside she is neofascist.
Contrast this when Chile had a new president, no 'extreme left-wing' or 'comunist' keywords and despite the new president is a very young 'white' male, minorities are safe.
Going back to the protests context, a particular episode in Bolivia happened in 2019, big waves of people started protesting -Wikipedia link-, because among other things, it was unconstitutional for the president to run again. Despite the big numbers of people on the streets, the president was left tribe, so a lot of coverage had the word 'coup' in it.
Obviously different context, but in red coded Brazil there were a lot of protests in 2020 and 2021, both in favor and against Bolsonaro. But even when Comunist political parties call for destitution of the president, the description of the events is watered down. Wikipedia doesn't have much information on the events Brazilian protests 2020
Relevant context in the south of the continent is the organization of left political parties. Nowadays the organization is called Grupo de Puebla (sorry only ES in wiki), which is an update on the former São Paulo Forum.
I realized it's not easy to argue that 'news' companies have a strong bias without compiling a lot of events, links and run a very extensive analysis. Even then I wonder what kind of conclusions can be drawn. I guess anecdotal evidence is all we have for now.
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5mo ago
There's a lot going on, international media against right-wingers as usual, a lot of confirmed vote fraud across the country and more to come. I think this is really Argentina's last chance to get back on track, this elections are against the current administration, responsible for 50% of poverty, 140% inflation and so on.
It's a very well established political structure that will do anything to hold power and not much people can do, probably already a lost cause.
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1yr ago
Do you consider Lionel Messi white?
I was answering the survey on slatestarcodex and wasn't sure how to answer the ethnicity/race question: "what race do you consider yourself?" or something like that, having anwserer "Other".
I had always pattern matched the skin color and that's it for "black" and "white". But recently I heard two comments form an American and a Russian considering themselves "white" and people from Latam as white as Messi or the Pope, not white. Maybe "Latino"? but I don't think this means anything else than the geographical place of origin, why not both?
I'm supposed the label have a different connotation for them but I also have the suspicion it's a status mark for many (just from what a Russian friend said, but not sure)
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10mo ago
the cash-strapped public doesn’t want their pensions going up in smoke
What do you mean by this?
I tried to access the Bloomberg link that mentions the poll (with 12ft.io too) but no luck.
I'd guess only a small percentage of the population would oppose the dollarization due to fear whilst saving money in that currency.
Interestingly, the article you linked about sterilization is written by Cachanosky one of the authors of the now main plan of dollarization for Milei to implement, if elected.
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4mo ago
Creatine is great, I'd take it everyday if it not for the two times I used it (a couple of months) I noticed thinning on my hair and hairs on my pillow after I wake up. There's a lot of anecdotal data on the internet confirming this, even though the studies do not support an increase in DHT, probably something else is causing the thinning. So beware if you have a genetic predisposition to losing hair.
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Now, there is obviously some attempt at humor, here. Still, I find it pretty offensive and abhorrent.
My thought process through Karl's comment got me perplexed.
Not knowing anything about this Karl guy (and honestly skimming your well-written post), I read the Father's day post and just interpreted as a guy sarcastically making fun of woke culture. After reading the "white fragility" comment well, that threw me off, maybe Karl was actually serious OR is doubling down on sarcasm, but doesn't seem so.
If it's not all sarcasm then FarNearEverywhere is right, replying "congrats" or just ignoring it's the only way. Incredible.
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1yr ago
I thought the same, but most of his podcasts are really shallow. Last one I checked is the most recent with Python creator, the conversation started and the guest asked what's the target audience, to understand how much deep can he go explaining a concept:
Fridman: Imagine my listeners vary from a normal fisherman to an experienced elite programmer.
Guest: so programming is like a kitchen recipe...
And so a whole conversation by analogy ensues. I didn't catch any detail that would be interesting for a programmer.
Maybe that's okay, but I always expected something more interesting given his brand as an academic. To be fair, more detailed information would probably be better in another format like text.
But anyway, the original question of OP is not related to culture war thread.
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8mo ago
Wow, didn't know that. I glanced it over a couple of times and had that reaction, "what is this shit" but also read some confusing shitposting I didn't get. Isn't it most of it shitposting? I also remember checking out their repo and had the same comment style.
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1yr ago
Actually only the American explicitly made the differentiation "you are not white, you are Latino".
Now that you mention this, I think the fixation or discussion about races/ethnicity mostly comes from America. Starts to feel unproductive very quickly
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7mo ago
Who in Montoneros was in Unión por la Patria (or whatever the Peronists/Kirchnerists called themselves at the moment)? That's news to me and definitely a pretty terrible look.
Indeed, here's a long list (pais.com website after 12ft.io, spanish)*. This is why the Villarruel thing is exaggerated and used as political ammo. In their speeches, many Kirchnerists portray themselves as the successors of the Montoneros. Many use the claim "I'm a child of disappeared persons" to assert a moral high ground, a stance that has been widely accepted in society for at least the past 20 years.
While the list might be slightly outdated and includes many who aren't directly affiliated, there are notable names such as "Vaca Narvaja". One of the Vaca Narvaja family members is the current Argentine ambassador to China, married Cristina Kirchner's daughter, and has links to far-left groups in southern Argentina that dispute the nation's authority and claim lands for themselves.
That's news to me and definitely a pretty terrible look.
It's important to note that from their perspective, this isn't concerning, quite the opposite.
*actual pay-walled link: https://elpais.com/internacional/2015/04/30/actualidad/1430418707_784416.html. It's in spanish but I assume the google translator toolkit is available to interested people. I use it in brave at least.
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11mo ago
I really like the international updates, something different from the usual culture war topics.
Deserves it's own post outside the weekly one, but maybe most readers don't pay attention to those
Thanks for posting
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5mo ago
A month later but all I can say is not sure. A lot of indoctrination in schools (re-writing history there), and people that don't care.
Don't remember if these were in the link I posted about Montoneros in power, but the fathers of Malena Galmarini (wife of probably next president Massa) were Montoneros, placed a bomb in a park and killed a firefighter. The list goes on and on, there was even a security minister Taiana who actually he set up bombs himself.
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9mo ago
Totally fair, thanks for the reply. I've only lurked Twitter and lately I've been following the with_replys of Musk.
Why do you suspect the rate limiting didn't stop the scraping? Also why would it be strange to think that bots scrap data for ai training.
The blocking logged-out browsing also think is bad user experience, but the argument to stop the scraping along the rate limit seems coherent. Always suffered the "Log in to continue browsing" pop up as a lurker and it's really annoying.
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1yr ago
Why? What if there isn't any other data done by someone else, the data in question can still be bad and be proven wrong.
I think the name change is silly and the Twitter brand is very big and valuable as to drop it. Nonetheless, as a lurker on Twitter, I don't understand the arguments for "everything is worse" or "musk is ruining Twitter". All I can see is more features and improved functionality in a sort time. Video uploads, long text, subscription for money, encrypted dms?, Group conversations/streaming. A lot of new stuff.
Maybe some real users of Twitter can tell me how is it worse, but everything seems tribal hate. I even heard journalists say "now anyone can buy the blue check" as in pure garbage functionality. In that case is status loss.
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