Even if he were a member of hamas, whatever that means I doubt there’s a party card or something, what did he do besides report?

Uh, I check the news mega

Thank you I love to hear that

The guy they ran in 2021 left the party and the guy they’re running now is polling in the single digits. I think the only real question is whether the correista or right wing candidate wins it in this first round or whether it’s going to a second round between the 2 of them.

Get ready for Musk to start WeaponsX or ArmsX or some dumb shit like that

These student protests have been organized in an anarchst manner from the very start and decisiona are made through direct democracy. The demands have been clear from the very start and haven’t changed in the past 3 months that we’ve been protesting.

That’s pretty much what the subject of the Bevins’ book I mentioned is about, it’s called “If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution”, the movements he analyzed (sometimes having been there in person) had pretty much that configuration too, and that has strenghts and weaknesses that ended up driving said movements into, for example, in Brazil, proto-bolsonarista politics, in ukraine, the maidan, in egypt, the sissi coup etc.

It’s a paradox because it’s precisely that leaderless, low comittment (dip in and dip out), directly democratic (in the essence of rejecting representation) of these movements (and I assume in serbia too) that leads MORE PEOPLE to participate, it’s just that he makes a point that because there isn’t a leader, or a representative, eventually that can develop a political vacum where people DO start looking for someone to represent them and carry their aims, because that vacum has to be filled.

It’s also a fact that most of the time there already absolutely are leaders of the movements, they’re just neither appointed not public, but there for sure are people who are well connected inside the movement (in some cases in control of the social media accounts that schedule the protests) to exercise more control over them than your average low comittment protestor, but because this hierarchy isn’t revealed, and there aren’t institutional ways to participate in it, some nasty people or nasty politics can come out on top, sometimes by just literally beating up leftists into being driven out…

So yeah it’s complicated.

No worries, I loved reading it

CW: SA, child prostitution

“You’ve never been with a daddy?”

The public prosecutor’s office found that this message was sent to a child prostitute by a portuguese Far-Right local MP before asking the boy’s age, to which he said 15. After having sex with the boy he paid him 20 euros. He tried for a second encounter but was rejected.

This one is far more serious than the national MP that was stealing bags from airports and selling them on Vinted.com that was revealed a few weeks ago, especially from a party where members call LGBT people “pedophiles”.

I’d like to think it would have some electoral repercussions since this type of criminality is not the usual scandals the far-right here get caught up in, but we’ll see.

I follow Lily Lynch for balkan stuff (she spent a long time in serbia too), and she also points out that the students have been explicitly distancing themselves from parties and NGOs. I read this all through Vicent Bevins’ book about modern protests movements and he points out that if there are no leaders, and no one willing to embody the movement to negotiate with power OR TAKE IT, then the political vacum opened up by the protests that suck everyone’s political energy towards them like a vortex will end up being filled by SOMEONE, who might not necesserily be beholden to the movement’s original aims (and they’ll bring their own aims and assign them to the movement’s). He gives plenty of examples where this happened, brazil, ukraine, egypt etc

Do you think there’s a risk of that? Of someone, not from the parties and NGOs which are suspect, coming in from the outside or emerging from within the movement and direct it towards something that’s not what people originally wanted? Obviously the fear I have is that the US, who is the only world power with the means and will to do shit like this (although with trump’s cuts to USAID idk anymore about the will and means), will try and steer the situation to its own benefit (which here I guess would mean anti-russia politics). Not calling the movement a colour revolution at all btw, my point is that even though these things DO happen organically, somehow America ends up benefiting in the end.

Glad you’re doing well and staying positive, sucks about the job thing though. Pretty basic advice but I’d say if you have the mental patience for it keep sending in applications as you put up your portfolio up on youtube.

Then, in 2023, a Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) memorandum asserted that “radical-traditionalist” Catholics were domestic-terrorism threats and suggested infiltrating Catholic churches as “threat mitigation.” This later-retracted FBI memorandum cited as support evidence propaganda from highly partisan sources.

Tradcaths about to be infested by the dumbest leftist meme ever, calling everyone a fed, now they won’t get anything done.

Oh wow that’s a really apt comparision I’m suprised I hadn’t heard it before.

Elon leading his Bazinga Guards

LMAO

I don’t know if it’s a radical left, I just heard it’s more like an anti extraction group. It just so happens that, like much of the latin american governmental left, the boon from those industries is what gave the leftist governments in the country the money for social programs. The Correista party candidate already stated she wants to allow for more oil exploration to fund education.

The party also worked with the center right to elect a speaker for the national assembly, which caused the former party leader who was pretty popular to leave it.

I remember Ben Norton talking about the last 2 elections where the Correista party was hampered by an anti-correista left wing group called Pachakutik, that told people not to vote for their candidate or something like that. He also insinuated that it seemed pretty sus and spooky.

Thank you so much for explaining that

Hungary was a “vibrant democracy” then the bad dudes came into power with a giant mandate

I think this is the country where the head of the main social democratic party (used to be a major player, not anymore) got recorded while drunk calling hungarians stupid or something like that.

Maybe not zionist at all just saying

The portuguese Liberal Initiative party just had a congress, apparently there’s a “Mileist” faction in the party vying for power by explicitly upholding dead dog thought

So corny, “afuera” isn’t even a word in portuguese

The US State Department has deleted most of its page on Taiwan. The page currently only displays the U.S.’ affirmation of the One-China Policy.

Musk just tweeted this.

I’m genuinely in awe of what’s happening, feels too good to be true, and it’s coming from the right

The worst guy you know, Nayib Bukele of El Salvador, made a good point:

"Most governments don’t want USAID funds flowing into their countries because they understand where much of that money actually ends up.

While marketed as support for development, democracy, and human rights, the majority of these funds are funneled into opposition groups, NGOs with political agendas, and destabilizing movements.

At best, maybe 10% of the money reaches real projects that help people in need (there are such cases), but the rest is used to fuel dissent, finance protests, and undermine administrations that refuse to align with the globalist agenda.

Cutting this so-called aid isn’t just beneficial for the United States; it’s also a big win for the rest of the world."

He posted this along with that meme of that guy standing up.

I guess USAID was backing anti-bukele guys in El Salvador or something, I imagine he could’ve gotten rid of that by sucking up to trump but maybe he’s just happy to be rid of that all together.

Now that I think about it I guess the cuban government has less annoyances to deal with since a lot of USAID money must’ve gone into astroturfing shit on the island