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augias
Apr 7, 2009

The Voice of Labor posted:

were I a big shot in the cartel business I think I would insist on a better nickname than "the egg"

It's a surprisingly common nickname but I wonder if pollo is more common. The most common latin American nickname might be gordo (and synonyms thereof). Spanish nicknames being lovely and embarrassing is the entire point and you're stuck with it for life.

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i say swears online
Mar 4, 2005

yeah it's possible he's just bald or something

Ghost Leviathan
Mar 2, 2017
Probation
Can't post for 11 hours!
Mob nicknames are literally a tradition that goes back to the Romans.

Also the US in declining empire is basically full on narcissistic meltdown, complete with missing missing reasons.

Danann
Aug 4, 2013

https://twitter.com/KawsachunNews/status/1503615408376590338

:toot:

Fleetwood
Mar 26, 2010


biggest hochul head in china

Danann posted:

https://twitter.com/KawsachunNews/status/1503028051432644609

lol at the nonanswers as to why countries prefer BRI over BUILD

*snort

Kal-L
Jan 18, 2005

Heh... Spider-man... Web searches... That's funny. I should've trademarked that one. Could've made a mint.

Countdown for further US sanctions because the Ukraine conflict is showing that tractor>tank. Therefore these are dangerous machines.

babypolis
Nov 4, 2009

i say swears online posted:

"a huevo" or "to egg" like a cheer or drink toast, kinda means "hell yeah" in norteño

its also like balls in that having muchos huevos means you are a badass. but i think case its because he looks like an egg

Some Guy TT
Aug 30, 2011


[Latin America] The proper term is Cubazuela

i say swears online
Mar 4, 2005

babypolis posted:

its also like balls in that having muchos huevos means you are a badass. but i think case its because he looks like an egg

el pulgar sounds cool

Atrocious Joe
Sep 2, 2011

https://twitter.com/Reuters/status/1504751968232869890?s=20&t=WlVEWhIWHIlepmt6R2iP-w

Dreylad
Jun 19, 2001
i was gonna ask how things are going in Peru and I see the legislature is trying to impeach Castillo for the second time. i wonder what terrible poo poo he did to warrant such a strong reacti

quote:

Lawmakers are zeroing in on the testimony of a lobbyist who has alleged to prosecutors that Castillo engaged in irregular acts.

lol

a few DRUNK BONERS
Mar 25, 2016

what's that mean, sodomy?

SexyBlindfold
Apr 24, 2008
i dont care how much probation i get capital letters are for squares hehe im so laid back an nice please read my low effort shitposts about the arab spring

thanxs!!!
At the current state of the Peruvian parliament, I think best translates as "voiceless 'ionno' shrug"

Cup Runneth Over
Aug 8, 2009

She said life's
Too short to worry
Life's too long to wait
It's too short
Not to love everybody
Life's too long to hate


he was sus

i say swears online
Mar 4, 2005

AnimeIsTrash
Jun 30, 2018

https://twitter.com/OVargas52/status/1506334916539211789?cxt=HHwWmoCz0YXoyecpAAAA

Atrocious Joe
Sep 2, 2011

Lenin Moreno killed the popularity of the name


Stalin decreased too so who knows


Ok now I'm confused

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

(and can't post for 20 days!)


Well if recent Ecuadorian history is anything to go on then one of those Hitlers will be the Latin Stalin.

i say swears online
Mar 4, 2005

Hitler Blanco, el heroe del pueblo

AnimeIsTrash
Jun 30, 2018

https://twitter.com/FirstSquawk/status/1507354713129652224

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

(and can't post for 20 days!)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FG2uq_0Pzwk

bagual
Oct 29, 2010

inconspicuous
https://twitter.com/ASPertierra/status/1508121401970016256

"plz never come back" lmao

OhFunny
Jun 26, 2013

EXTREMELY PISSED AT THE DNC
Everyone's bailing now so they don't have to hail Charles as King.

Some Guy TT
Aug 30, 2011



https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/29/mexico-43-disappeared-students-military-report-iguala-ayotzinapa

AnimeIsTrash
Jun 30, 2018

https://twitter.com/Vinncent/status/1509913389585383430?cxt=HHwWjIC-vcuOpfQpAAAA

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

(and can't post for 20 days!)


It's time to make the Amero real :twisted:

i say swears online
Mar 4, 2005

would that end up being a germany/euro situation with brazilian hegemony

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

(and can't post for 20 days!)

i say swears online posted:

would that end up being a germany/euro situation with brazilian hegemony

there’s no way Brazil could overrule things in a Latin American monetary Union the way Germany can. the real problem is that LA countries have politics which are too seesawing for that kind of commitment.

Cao Ni Ma
May 25, 2010



Pener Kropoopkin posted:

It's time to make the Amero real :twisted:

Honestly if the US really was benevolent then creating the Amero and spearheading a bunch of projects in the americas would be a sure fire ticket to challenge china's upcoming dominance without a coldwar us vs them mentality. We are too loving racist though and rather go down the british empire slow collapse route

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

(and can't post for 20 days!)

Cao Ni Ma posted:

Honestly if the US really was benevolent then creating the Amero and spearheading a bunch of projects in the americas would be a sure fire ticket to challenge china's upcoming dominance without a coldwar us vs them mentality.

The problem with this logic is that the EU has already demonstrated the pitfalls of a common market currency. Once you give up the government's printing press, you've surrendered your fiscal independence. That's how Germany was able to destroy Greece. Anybody who joins a currency union with the United States might as well apply for statehood, because they'd have more rights and privileges under the constitution than being a puppet of the Federal Reserve.

Cao Ni Ma
May 25, 2010



Pener Kropoopkin posted:

The problem with this logic is that the EU has already demonstrated the pitfalls of a common market currency. Once you give up the government's printing press, you've surrendered your fiscal independence. That's how Germany was able to destroy Greece. Anybody who joins a currency union with the United States might as well apply for statehood, because they'd have more rights and privileges under the constitution than being a puppet of the Federal Reserve.

Thats why I said "If the US was benevolent"

An amero that just acts to extract wealth in a neo colonialist fashion would be terrible and do nothing in the long term to challenge china economically.

Centrist Committee
Aug 6, 2019

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

It's time to make the Amero real :twisted:

didn’t evo morales float something like this as part of unasur?

America Inc.
Nov 22, 2013

I plan to live forever, of course, but barring that I'd settle for a couple thousand years. Even 500 would be pretty nice.

Centrist Committee posted:

didn’t evo morales float something like this as part of unasur?

Apparently yes, he proposed the "Pacha" to UNASUR. I couldn't find an English source for the life of me, my google fu must be bad.

It should also be noted that this proposed currency by Haddad et. al. is for international trade between LATAM countries, so it's not exactly like the Euro.

joepinetree
Apr 5, 2012

Cao Ni Ma posted:

Thats why I said "If the US was benevolent"

An amero that just acts to extract wealth in a neo colonialist fashion would be terrible and do nothing in the long term to challenge china economically.

It has nothing to do with benevolence. Being able to devalue your currency, lower or increase your interest rates, etc. are important parts of macro-economic policy which become impossible in a monetary union.

galenanorth
May 19, 2016

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Peruvian_protests well that seems messed up "The government removed a fuel tax that added about 30% to prices, though fuel stations refused to lower their prices. .. President Castillo responded to the crisis by announcing on 3 April a 10% increase for the national minimum wage and further lowering fuel taxes. The move, however, had little effect on transportation workers who often labor in Peru's large informal economy of nearly 70%.[9][33] Castillo also proposed removing the general sales tax, though this had to be approved by Congress." "two died from traffic accidents, one teacher died after being prevented from receiving hemodialysis treatment and one minor drowned when fleeing street clashes"

Fat-Lip-Sum-41.mp3
Nov 15, 2003
drat bro just ask China how to run an economy.

BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


Lipstick Apathy
https://twitter.com/newsclickin/status/1512317733622489092

i say swears online
Mar 4, 2005

reading about dumb crypto stuff and

https://www.politico.com/newsletters/digital-future-daily/2022/04/08/bitcoins-agenda-regime-change-00024124

quote:

Miguel Albuquerque, the president of Madeira, an autonomous archipelago of Atlantic islands within Portugal (pop. 250,000), announced that the region was making Bitcoin legal tender. Mississippi State Rep. Joel Bomgar, the president of a private “startup city” called Prospera on an island in Honduras, announced that the experimental community, which has been granted special privileges by the Honduran government, was doing the same.

wait what

https://prospera.hn/

lmao honduras is jealous of bukele

America Inc.
Nov 22, 2013

I plan to live forever, of course, but barring that I'd settle for a couple thousand years. Even 500 would be pretty nice.
It's tourism revenue for Buttcoin enthusiasts, that's all. I think what's more concerning is that this may lead to a form of colonialism as wealthy Bitcoin assholes start manipulating these countries to set up little Bitcoin republics.

America Inc. has issued a correction as of 01:05 on Apr 9, 2022

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i say swears online
Mar 4, 2005

pedro is blowing up the betting markets

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