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i say swears online
Mar 4, 2005


lol pro-click

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Mandel Brotset
Jan 1, 2024

im with the dude with the giant gigaton forest

Horseshoe theory
Mar 7, 2005


Net Zero is bullshit, to be fair, but clearly the BBC goober was concern trolling the President of Guyana so the verbal lashing was still well earned.

Kal-L
Jan 18, 2005

Heh... Spider-man... Web searches... That's funny. I should've trademarked that one. Could've made a mint.
Obviously he can't see that neoliberalism is the way! Others have to pay the price! And not have the benefits!

Jose
Jul 24, 2007

Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer

crepeface posted:

every BBC journalist should be redacted


i agree but lol at this interview happening immediately after this https://caribbean.loopnews.com/content/cia-director-makes-unannounced-brief-visit-guyana

VoicesCanBe
Jul 1, 2023

"Cóż, wygląda na to, że zostaliśmy łaskawie oszczędzeni trudu decydowania o własnym losie. Jakże uprzejme z ich strony, że przearanżowali Europę bez kłopotu naszego zdania!"

We can't afford to be wrapped up in purity tests. It's crucial that we re-elect President Maduro - we will push him left after the election.

ArmedZombie
Jun 6, 2004

Horseshoe theory posted:

Net Zero is bullshit, to be fair, but clearly the BBC goober was concern trolling the President of Guyana so the verbal lashing was still well earned.

very colonialist to ignore the decades of pollution and profit created by the UK then try to moralize to an underdeveloped and exploited population



For some plantation owners, Guyana had more "fertile territory"[32] and gained more "substantial profits", even after abolition of slavery, than any of their plantations elsewhere, whether in Trinidad and Tobago, St. Lucia, Nevis, or Jamaica. At the time that the Slavery Abolition Act of 1833 was passed, chattel slavery was ended, and the 46,000 slaveowners in Britain and its colonies were compensated for "property" loss.[29] Some scholars stated that British Guinea used more fixed capital per slave than other colonies, like use of large boiling-houses and steam engines.[33]

Isentropy
Dec 12, 2010

Also they might be more industrialized and less reliant on resources if someone didn't essentially start race war there in the 1960s against Jagan

Archduke Frantz Fanon
Sep 7, 2004

guyana shouldn't exploit that oil


because its rightfully venuzuelas

vyelkin
Jan 2, 2011
tbf it is extremely funny that the west burned 90% of the world's carbon budget to accumulate unimaginable wealth that they refuse to share and now turns around and scolds poor countries for wanting to burn the remaining 10% to accumulate their own wealth, because tsk tsk it's bad for the environment don't you know, I am very smart I went to Oxbridge

I'm reminded of how Ecuador appealed to the international community for some kind of equivalent funding that would mean they wouldn't have to extract a huge oil discovery, and everyone else just ignored them

bedpan
Apr 23, 2008

vyelkin posted:

tbf it is extremely funny that the west burned 90% of the world's carbon budget to accumulate unimaginable wealth that they refuse to share and now turns around and scolds poor countries for wanting to burn the remaining 10% to accumulate their own wealth, because tsk tsk it's bad for the environment don't you know, I am very smart I went to Oxbridge

I'm reminded of how Ecuador appealed to the international community for some kind of equivalent funding that would mean they wouldn't have to extract a huge oil discovery, and everyone else just ignored them

economics is all about everyone maximizing their competitive advantage. it just so happens that people in ecuador and the like have been deemed to have the competitive advantage of poverty while the west gets to have the competitive advantage of wealth.

Pomeroy
Apr 20, 2020
https://twitter.com/BenjaminNorton/status/1774793319677350349

Kal-L
Jan 18, 2005

Heh... Spider-man... Web searches... That's funny. I should've trademarked that one. Could've made a mint.
https://twitter.com/callodehacha/status/1775581868638761429

Just a video from 6 months ago where Xochitl's son, coordinator of the Youth Group of the PRI, is not only a drunk, but a violent, classist, misoginist drunk IN PUBLIC.

It was fun seeing all the neolib rightist trolls from the PRIAN try to excuse it with "He's just 17!" when it turns out he's going to turn 27 years old in May. :allears:

Wonder what other poo poo comes out, since the guy who published it originally says he's got more stuff to show tomorrow.

Atrocious Joe
Sep 2, 2011

https://twitter.com/carantosan/status/1775895225816506465?t=yCJbelcgNuky7l7IIPfSsw&s=19

China sending food aid to Cuba, a small bit of help to overcome the US blockade

https://twitter.com/PeoplesForumNYC/status/1775939634989547592?t=Tiwp3oc7Fh5ebEgkeeAijA&s=19

Also today, a US aid effort to Cuba got launched, in case anyone is inspired by China's solidarity

The REAL Goobusters
Apr 25, 2008

Kal-L posted:

https://twitter.com/callodehacha/status/1775581868638761429

Just a video from 6 months ago where Xochitl's son, coordinator of the Youth Group of the PRI, is not only a drunk, but a violent, classist, misoginist drunk IN PUBLIC.

It was fun seeing all the neolib rightist trolls from the PRIAN try to excuse it with "He's just 17!" when it turns out he's going to turn 27 years old in May. :allears:

Wonder what other poo poo comes out, since the guy who published it originally says he's got more stuff to show tomorrow.

Xóchitl is so cooked after this poo poo. As if she wasn’t already. I was just in CDMX the other weekend and everyone hates the people like her son. Just the most insufferable pieces of poo poo. Can’t believe he was actually telling that bouncer “ponte huevos,” anyone in Polanco wouldve absolutely beaten the poo poo out of this guy.

also the Xóchi supporters are trying to spin this as some sort of W that he actually took accountability (????) and stepped down lol and how AMLO and his kids would never do this. Just ignoring what this dude said in the video. gently caress this guy lol

yellowcar
Feb 14, 2010


wow! south american ukraine!

Spergin Morlock
Aug 8, 2009


rip arf

HallelujahLee
May 3, 2009

Atrocious Joe posted:

https://twitter.com/carantosan/status/1775895225816506465?t=yCJbelcgNuky7l7IIPfSsw&s=19

China sending food aid to Cuba, a small bit of help to overcome the US blockade

https://twitter.com/PeoplesForumNYC/status/1775939634989547592?t=Tiwp3oc7Fh5ebEgkeeAijA&s=19

Also today, a US aid effort to Cuba got launched, in case anyone is inspired by China's solidarity

excellent

genericnick
Dec 26, 2012

Atrocious Joe posted:

https://twitter.com/carantosan/status/1775895225816506465?t=yCJbelcgNuky7l7IIPfSsw&s=19

China sending food aid to Cuba, a small bit of help to overcome the US blockade

https://twitter.com/PeoplesForumNYC/status/1775939634989547592?t=Tiwp3oc7Fh5ebEgkeeAijA&s=19

Also today, a US aid effort to Cuba got launched, in case anyone is inspired by China's solidarity

Just remembered: Did Cuba recently abolish the dual currency system they used? Starting to think you should never do this.

Samuel Glompers
Nov 26, 2020

genericnick posted:

Just remembered: Did Cuba recently abolish the dual currency system they used? Starting to think you should never do this.

They did, quite a few years ago I think. I barely understand a thing about economics but dual currency always seemed like a good idea to me. I wonder what the rationale was for ending it

i say swears online
Mar 4, 2005

Samuel Glompers posted:

They did, quite a few years ago I think. I barely understand a thing about economics but dual currency always seemed like a good idea to me. I wonder what the rationale was for ending it

it was complicated so when southwest added caribbean and central american flights i just went to mexico instead of havana

WhiskeyWhiskers
Oct 14, 2013


"هذا ليس عادلاً."
"هذا ليس عادلاً على الإطلاق."
"كان هناك وقت الآن."
(السياق الخفي: للقراءة)

Samuel Glompers posted:

They did, quite a few years ago I think. I barely understand a thing about economics but dual currency always seemed like a good idea to me. I wonder what the rationale was for ending it

Iirc it caused distortions by making tourism related work far more lucrative than many other vital trades and caused a lot of resentment.

PERPETUAL IDIOT
Sep 12, 2003

i say swears online posted:

it was complicated so when southwest added caribbean and central american flights i just went to mexico instead of havana

As a tourist it was actually really simple, you had your dollar equivalent, CUC, that you used for everything (and take like a 20% haircut on, so 5 dollars got you 4 CUC) and even places that price in CUP were happy to take the CUC at the official exchange rate. Then when you go to the museum or whatever, non-residents pay CUC and residents pay CUP, so they upcharge the tourists 20x.

Ghost Leviathan
Mar 2, 2017

Exploration is ill-advised.
Ah, so they had their own Itchy and Scratchy Money.

Hatebag
Jun 17, 2008


cuck bucks

Atrocious Joe
Sep 2, 2011

https://twitter.com/Southcom/status/1776215239559667831?t=r5JUbScsLtKUc-7GCcj2EA&s=19

In Training
Jun 28, 2008

I hate that guy

HallelujahLee
May 3, 2009

i did read the argentine congress seems to at least be voting down the most insane poo poo but i dont know what limits that has

DR FRASIER KRANG
Feb 4, 2005

"Are you forgetting that just this afternoon I was punched in the face by a turtle now dead?

oof. looks bad folks.

Spergin Morlock
Aug 8, 2009


he's so loving ugly and then he leans into it lmao

Pomeroy
Apr 20, 2020
https://youtu.be/lJcI91osxSs?si=axfkQ7lFlxkfVD-p

The Socialist Program posted:

Can Latin America & Caribbean Unite Against the Empire? w/ Venezuela’s Former FM Jorge Arreaza

Jorge Arreaza, former Venezuelan Minister of Foreign Affairs, describes the historic fight against U.S. imperialism in Venezuela, Latin America & all over the world.

Brian Becker is joined by Jorge Arreaza, Executive Secretary of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America – People’s Trade Treaty (ALBA-TCP) and former Venezuelan Minister of Foreign Affairs.

Jose
Jul 24, 2007

Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer
This seems bad

https://twitter.com/BenjaminNorton/status/1776484693270987066?t=l6ZsJk0dr_ufJhIfNR9Lmg&s=19

Kal-L
Jan 18, 2005

Heh... Spider-man... Web searches... That's funny. I should've trademarked that one. Could've made a mint.
Was going to post the same. At least mine has video!

https://twitter.com/ZoomEcuador/status/1776455062182621626

Gotta say, never thought that Mexico would end up fighting against Ecuador in the coming WW3.

Doktor Avalanche
Dec 30, 2008

extremely dumb move but ecuador is US-aligned so I don't see it suffering serious consequences

DAD LOST MY IPOD
Feb 3, 2012

Fats Dominar is on the case


I wonder if we’re entering an era when countries stop pretending embassies are magic fortresses. between this and israel’s attack on the Iranian embassy, feels like a lot of US backed states are giving the finger to international law.

Det_no
Oct 24, 2003
A poco si muy vergas, Ecuador?

HallelujahLee
May 3, 2009

The us and associated puppets never cared about int law

augias
Apr 7, 2009

IDK, even Pinochet didn't raid the embassies where exiles were staying safe. They did disturbing poo poo by embassy walls like the Italian embassy but they didn't raid any.

The REAL Goobusters
Apr 25, 2008

Det_no posted:

A poco si muy vergas, Ecuador?

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Horseshoe theory
Mar 7, 2005

What stops Mexico from retaliating by arresting the Ecuadorian diplomatic staff (since effectively diplomatic immunity is gone here) and forcing an exchange? :thunk:

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