you’ve fallen for american propaganda.

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

These are all important information to have at a glance, in my opinion. If you don’t think so, you can remove it. Simple as.

it would be better if you could autohide it. especially for low res screens like mine.

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 silver lining to this cloud. lol

tiktok hasn’t been around long enough for generations to use it and the narratives used to be verifiably genuine until it started livestreaming the gazan genocide; that’s when it turned to shit and those manufactured narratives started to dominate it.

i started following influencers on it before the isreali & american governments started pushing “inconvenient” people off it and paying people to manufacture those narratives (respectively). i suspect i’ll stop using it once they’ve forced everyone i follow to move to other platforms.

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!

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.

i felt relief when i dropped all social media and tv news; including facebook.

then i’ve selectively adding in new platforms one-at-a-time ensuring that each one wasn’t controlled by the same forces that have gamified and/or manufactured narratives like facebook/reddit/bluesky/etc. does.

lemmy, rednote, and tiktok are the only things to pass muster so far, but i suspect i’m going to have to drop tiktok eventually considering its new ownership.

TLDR News on YouTube

i watch this too and i can attest that it’s not much different than what you get on tv; it’s still beholden to the same forces that control abc, cbs, nbc, fox, cnn, guarding, skyone, etc.

democracynow is on youtube is the best you’re going to get in this country.

i worked for starbucks in the late 90’s and the trauma from its popularity at the time still leaves me w nightmares from time to time 30 years later. lol

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