Torenico [he/him]

Speaking of Evo Morales: Here’s the man kicking another guy in the nuts during a football match.

Don’t mess with Evo.

Didn’t they purge a shitton of iranian communists?

Everyone always forgets about the Pentagon.

listen jack

dies of overdose

There’s never much hope for Bolivia in football. In my opinion they have the worst national team in south america paired with a pretty terrible peruvian side (which still has some talent left, althrough the squad’s average age is quite high). They haven’t been able to keep up with other national teams who produced talents over the years, and now with teams like Ecuador and Venezuela on the rise, Bolivia is certainly in a bad spot as they’re heavily lagging behind. And since their best player and goalscorer retired last year, it only got worse.

And while some national or international incidents might have a positive impact on a football team, I think Uruguay is an extremely well established football team with extremely good and dynamic players led by an absolute football madman that is Marcelo Bielsa. It’s too much for Bolivia to handle. Overall both teams faced each other 47 times; 31 victories for Uruguay, 8 draws and 8 victories for Bolivia. Uruguay scored 113 goals and Bolivia just 35. Of all the bolivian victories, 7 were achieved at home and just one in neutral venues.

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GET THE FUCK OUT OF HERE

The 100% Hitler Netanyahuites vs the 100% Hitler disgruntled army officers.

Concerning.

INDEC reports 5.1% Q1 slump in GDP, unemployment on rise

Argentina’s economy contracted by 5.1% in first quarter, says INDEC; Unemployment hit 7.7% as Milei government’s austerity measures began to kick in.

Argentina’s austerity-wracked economy contracted by 5.1 percent in the first quarter, the INDEC national statistics bureau said Monday, driven by a slowdown in the construction and manufacturing industries. Unemployment also surged in the first three months of 2024, with joblessness now at 7.7 percent.

President Javier Milei, who took office in December, stopped all new public works projects as part of his drive to slash spending. The construction sector was down 19 percent year-on-year, data showed. The manufacturing industry contracted by 13.7 percent and the only sector growing was exports – up 26.1 percent year-on-year and 11 percent higher than in the preceding quarter.

Milei, a self-declared “anarcho-capitalist,” vowed to take a chainsaw to decades of overspending and rein in runaway inflation. Consumer prices have slowed, reaching 4.2 percent in May, the lowest monthly rate in two-and-a-half years, but hikes in the first five months of the year totalled 71.9 percent. Annual inflation is running at almost 280 percent year-on-year.

Analysts warned that the gains were a result of a massive economic slump as shoppers tighten purse strings and the poor and working classes struggle to make ends meet.

INDEC said that GDP overall fell 2.6 percent in the first full quarter from the last quarter of 2023. Most categories showed losses, though agriculture, livestock, hunting and forestry recorded year-on-year growth of 10.2 percent as they bounced back from the impact of last year’s drought.

Financial intermediation services declined by 13 percent year-on-year in the first quarter. Wholesale, retail and repairs slumped 8.7 percent.

When he took office, Milei cut Cabinet ministries in half, stopped funding to provincial governments, slashed tens of thousands of public jobs, ripped away fuel and transport subsidies, and sharply devalued the peso. Workers have suffered huge wage drops in real terms. Milei, who is visiting the Czech Republic, on Monday hailed “the largest fiscal adjustment not only in Argentine history but also in humanity.”

He said the situation facing his government had been “titanic” and claimed his administration is returning “15 points of GDP to the private sector.”

Unemployment surge

INDEC revealed that 7.7 percent of the working population was unemployed, up 0.8 percentage points compared to the same period last year and a rise of two points from the last quarter of 2023. According to the institute’s report, there are 400,000 fewer workers employed in the 31 urban areas it surveys.

Extrapolating from the 31 urban centre measurement, an estimated 1.7 million people are currently unemployed, which would mean some 525,000 new jobless in three months. Experts estimate that 40 percent of workers in Argentina are informally employed.

According to the bureau, the total number of employed persons represented 44.3 percent of the economically active population (14.2 million people) – i.e. 13.1 million citizens are employed, while the unemployment rate of 7.7 percent is equivalent to 1.1 million people who are unemployed but actively looking for work.

Within the employed population (that 44.3 percent), 74 percent are salary workers, while 21.9 percent are self-employed. Looking at specific sectors for the population aged 14 and over, considered to be of working age, the unemployment rate was 8.4 percent for women and seven percent for men.

Notably, 7.6 percent of all employed persons work from home.

The International Monetary Fund expects Argentina’s economy to contract by 2.8 percent this year, after a 1.6-percent decline in 2023. In its latest report, the World Bank projected that Argentina’s economy would contract 3.5 percent this year.

More than half the population lives in poverty, according to data from an observatory at the Universidad Católica de Argentina (UCA).

SHOOT THE ANCAPS.

I think COVID broke his brain lol, added with his fallout with the democratic party and TYT. He was decent-ish during the first Bernie years, calling for more radical measures and warning against the Democratic Party’s plots, which he was kinda correct on that one. There was a little hope he could become an actual Marxist, leaving his western socdem persona behind… but no. COVID happened and he became a chud. Now he’s just like Alex Jones but without saying school shootings ain’t real. He even befriended Alex Jones, that the last thing I saw of him lmao.

Get the fuck out of my country

Seen a video of a released palestinian hostage that was kept by “Israel” for some time. He’s showing clear signs of torture, both physical and psychological. His eyes are wide open, he’s constantly moving and he’s having trouble speaking and recalling his own identity. Much love and care to these men and women.

That just makes me think about the immense psychological damage “Israel” is inflicting upon the palestinians in general and gazans in particular. Even if the bombings and shootings end tomorrow, the damage is impossible to calculate. Lots of people are fully broken inside, they’ve seen hell with their own eyes. You can’t easily go back from that, if at all.

Death to the Genocidal Entity that is “Israel”. They will answer for their crimes.

I am a cracker and I can’t leave the enemies of my nation alone even for a minute.

Yeah, it’s often repeated here that we used to be a “leading power” in the late 19th century and early 20th century, even though nobody paid attention to us and all we could manage was an arms race with Brasil and Chile that basically destroyed our economies lmao

I’m done with my exams and now I’m playing Gran Turismo 4 on the emulator using my Logitech G29 wheel. It isn’t the most realistic game or experience, but the game looks stunning for being a PS2 game, the amount of content is absurd and frankly, they don’t make games like this one anymore. It’s just gone, nothing beats GT4.

Under Communism, the Political Commissar comes into your common housing unit and takes all your jewelry which will be given to the State, then sold to Jabhat Fateh al-Sham and with that money buy new tanks to kill people when they protest. Under the Anarcho-Capitalist Wonderland, you have to sell your jewelry, which you might have a strong sentimental attachment to, in order to survive because The Market ™ demands you to. Problem is, one is a complete lie and the other is very real. Can you guess which one is which?

SAY GOODBYE TO YOUR GRANDMOTHER’S JEWELRY, COMMIE

Argentines pawn the family jewels to make ends meet

*Hundreds of Argentines are selling their jewellery at gold dealerships every day as a last resort to face the economic crisis. *

In Argentina’s strangled economy, one sector is thriving: the pawn shops buying up gold and other family treasures that many are forced to sell to pay their bills. “When you are drowning in debt, sentimentality falls to the side,” said Mariana, 63, who went to a hub of gold dealerships in Buenos Aires to sell a watch her grandfather gave her father as a graduation present.

Reminder that indebtedness is one of the key components of capitalism. Everyone has and should have a debt, this is how the economy functions.

Inflation of around 270 percent year-on-year has gnawed away at her pension as a court employee, and she will use the cash for housing expenses and overdue health insurance payments. With an austerity-hit economy in recession, as President Javier Milei carries out his vow to slash decades of government overspending, Mariana – who asked not to give her last name – is far from alone.

While a neighbouring shoe store hasn’t had a single customer in hours, hundreds line up daily at El Tasador, one of the main cash-for-jewellery pawn stores in the heart of Buenos Aires, where “we buy gold” signs abound. “There have been a lot of people lately, I think because of what is happening in the country,” said Natalia, one of the four appraisers at the store, who did not give her surname for what she called “security reasons.”

She said the surge in clients came from “people who perhaps had pieces that they did not plan to sell and decided to do so because they cannot make ends meet.”

Natalia said the business had been swamped with over 300 daily transactions – triple the amount seen a year ago. “We have increased staffing and working hours because we cannot cope.”

Victorian jewels and cufflinks

Daniel, a 56-year-old unemployed accountant, enters several stores to have a silver keychain appraised but leaves dejected. He was barely offered the price of a few Subte subway rides. “The situation is difficult. Life in Argentina is very expensive,” he sighs.

Carlos, who manages a small jewellery store, said he has a constant flow of customers but no-one is there to buy. “They bring in anything to be appraised, especially at the end of the month, when the bills arrive.” The most usual thing is the sale of small gold pieces.

Natalia, a gemologist, said her store, next to the busy Once railway terminal, is frequented by customers from all walks of life.

While half of Argentina’s population now lives in poverty, it was once one of the world’s richest countries between the 19th and early 20th centuries, and many people have something valuable to pawn. “The classic thing is the wedding ring, but they also bring Victorian jewels, from the ‘belle époque’ that come from grandparents and great-grandparents, unique pieces,” said Natalia.

Even a few decades ago it was common for men to have gold cufflinks, or for women to be gifted a gold watch when they turned 15, she added. “Gold has always been sold. What has changed is why it is sold,” said Natalia.

But the use of these pieces has long ceased for security reasons. This, added to the economic constraints, reinforces the desire to sell. “Before it was to remodel a house, buy a car, throw a party. Today it is because, ‘I can’t make ends meet’, ‘my utilities have increased’ or ‘I’m out of work.’”

Thorough destruction of the Capitalist regime! Death to those who stand in the way of working people!

nazis are not known for their intelligence though!

Everyone goes around saying “oh China is doing this but at what cost?” or “China achieved that but at what cost?” But nobody says “Yeah, Capitalism developed the productive forces like no other but at what cost?”