you must have missed the posts from hexbear dot net calling him a lib, not just the internet-addled liberal has terrible takes

I’m from Nicaragua (hey neighbor!) and yes, I hate how much the online left loves and defends the “socialist” governments that govern our countries. I try to think it comes from a lack of knowledge, but a lot of the time it’s them calling you a “useful idiot” just for daring to ask for a socialist party that doesn’t criminalize abortion (after it had been legal for almost a hundred years!) just to ingratiate themselves with the Catholic church. The FSLN has made pacts with far-right parties, made concessions to Canadian companies so they can mine gold (and destroy our forests in the process), has had a great relationship with the old and new bourgeoisie, has implemented every IMF recommendation to continue the neoliberal policies of their predecessors, but Ortega makes his yearly speech calling the US an imperialist shithole, and that’s enough for them to support him.

Latin America has been westernized by continuous economical, cultural, and imperialist influence by the United States (and other global north countries), it doesn’t make sense to think of our countries as some non-Western society, it’s inaccurate and a bad framework to try to change our life. Our religions have been westernized, our mode of production is capitalism, our cultural references are western cultural products, our music is dependent on western notions of what is “good” music. The products that we buy and we sell, that we most value are influenced by westernized perceptions of value.

Yes, there are bubbles, territories, regions, where this is not true, maybe even glimpses in everyday life, but it’s not the case for the vast majority of people living in Latin America. We may not be part of the west in a historical sense, but we are westernized countries living in the world that the West has created for us with violence.

What have you been listening too?

I just listened to the Crab Rave for a bit after the great news.

folks!!!

🥺

Come one, 196 has some great memes :(

okay, so, here’s my hottest take…

I feel bad seeing ppb because he looks that way because of hormones/animal farming

Oh yeah, my bad, when I see pronouns I think it’s a hexbear user.

I feel like we sometimes overstate the we are calmer/polite/respectful part. There was a hexbear user telling another hexbear user that our emojis in federated communities were a little disruptive (because they are really big) and they apologized, but another user replied to them with a ppb lol

me when I’m about to vote in the 1988 Chilean national plebiscite:

I was not here for that, but people often use that word as an insult in my native language and I hate it, so this is me joining late to the pile-on!

I like the term “neuroatypical” (which is not much more different to neurodivergent ) over specific diagnosis labels (autism, adhd, borderline etc.) because with those labels I feel like it’s just capitalism putting people who are not productive into nice tidy little boxes. “This behavior causes this person to not be easily exploitable/not be productive/not follow society’s established rules, so we are labeling so and so in this Book”. Neuroatypical just feels like a description, my experience is different to the typical/average/common one.

I feel like most if not all Bookchin people would be friendly to degrowth

Someone I have a crush on is leaving the country for 6 years to pursue a PhD. We went to the beach this Sunday with friends, and she gave me a ride back home. When it was time to say goodbye, we hugged for like 6 minutes (as I guess, a sort of pre-farewell. She’s leaving in a week). I keep going to my bed to think about/remember that hug.