joaomarrom

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[–] joaomarrom@hexbear.net 14 points 2 years ago

I couldn't find any English sources discussing that interview specifically, but here's a very interesting article about his, uh, eccentricity and penchant for canine telepathy mediated by an ancap witchdoctor:

https://www.batimes.com.ar/news/argentina/javier-milei-how-the-head-of-an-unstable-leader-works.phtml

[–] joaomarrom@hexbear.net 69 points 2 years ago (4 children)

not according to this guy, who's famously always correct

[–] joaomarrom@hexbear.net 43 points 2 years ago (2 children)

GREETINGS, GOTHAM CITY

YOU HAVE TWENTY-FOUR HOURS TO ABOLISH YOUR IMPERTINENT LAWS REGARDING THE AGE OF CONSENT

IF YOU CHOOSE TO STAY YOUR COURSE, THEN YOU SHALL DIE

[–] joaomarrom@hexbear.net 145 points 2 years ago (26 children)

Yeah this fucking sucks but I can't say I'm surprised.

A couple of months ago he went on an interview and just completely lost his shit, hearing voices and talking absolute nonsense... there was a lot of talk on twitter about how he had just lost the election right there and then, surely it would not be possible to recover from such a disastrous public appearance...

I remember laughing in Brazilian back then, doing my best impression of the "first time?" meme, wondering if people have not been paying attention at all for the past five years. The same "silver bullet" kind of moment happened over and over and over again with Bolsonaro (and Trump for that matter), and guess what? Nothing fucking happens. These right wing lunatics can shit themselves live on TV however much they want, nothing's going to dissuade their voters.

And I think there's a reason for that: nothing makes fucking sense anymore. People just want change, they just want to fix this "nameless" despair, this emptiness and lack of purpose and hope. People intuitively understand that neoliberalism has nothing to offer except for abject failure and slow but certain decay, unless you're rich. The thing is, they don't know what to call it. Half a century of propaganda as well as an education completely unconcerned with a critical, materialist assessment of history has made it all but impossible to even begin to understand what's going wrong with the world.

The left is under constant surveillance and is browbeaten back into hiding every time it grows strong or even tries to. The right has no such limitations, and has the freedom to come out and "explain" to the people their own twisted version of reality. An exploited, uninformed, desperate, frustrated and angry working class believes that explanation, after all they have nobody else to explain things.

I'm certainly oversimplifying things, but I think that's the reason why I very often see stuff like delivery guys riding motorcycles adorned with "God, Nation and Family"-style fash stickers. It's the only way I can see the most exploited sympathizing with the exploiter and voting for the people who openly say that the exploiter should exploit more.

[–] joaomarrom@hexbear.net 5 points 2 years ago

obviously it was you

come on, you even said it yourself: "hoo, farted"

[–] joaomarrom@hexbear.net 21 points 2 years ago

this is kind of a pattern in youtube videos that depict israel in any kind of positive light... the comments are all like "wow, that's incredible! as a gay black chinese latino muslim living in ecuador I fully endorse israel and the IDF! #bringthemhome"

[–] joaomarrom@hexbear.net 38 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

per Wikipedia: "Collective punishment is a punishment or sanction imposed on a group for acts allegedly perpetrated by a member of that group, which could be an ethnic or political group, or just the family, friends and neighbors of the perpetrator. Because individuals who are not responsible for the acts are targeted, collective punishment is not compatible with the basic principle of individual responsibility."

the ACLU ought to know better than to endorse this kind of cruelty to innocent trans people

[–] joaomarrom@hexbear.net 7 points 2 years ago

Skibidi Loos

[–] joaomarrom@hexbear.net 10 points 2 years ago

I think my greatest takeaway from all the events since October 7 is that whatever last few remnants of trust I could possibly have on mainstream media have been utterly swept away. And I think I'm not the only one either. How can you continue trusting media when you see how most major newspapers nowadays only serve as Israel's press office?

[–] joaomarrom@hexbear.net 5 points 2 years ago

what a wonderful country

[–] joaomarrom@hexbear.net 14 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

you should do it, it's just like BonziBuddy but with a communist bear that warns you whenever you wander into an online space tainted by liberal revisionism

[–] joaomarrom@hexbear.net 14 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I'm curious, where the hell did this come from? I'm doing a reverse search because I want to savor this unhinged lunacy a bit more, but I can't find any more info on it

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