Rodrigo Aguilera 🇲🇽 🇺🇦 🇵🇸

Liberal centrists love to whitewash the violence that led to positive social and political movements succeeding. Same with the suffragettes, civil rights, labor rights, etc.

The status quo loves it when you don't fight back.

Centrists doin' a centrism.

Then they wonder why they lose to fascists.

The best part is that it wasn't meant to be funny or even a spoof of the show. It was a homage. All the characters basically replicated the behavior and mannerisms of the original show, in English. Genuinely curious if Bad Bunny (who surely has seen the original) had a role in pitching the idea.

YouTube video by Saturday Night Live El Chavo Del Ocho (English Version) - SNL

Never would I have imagined SNL doing a sketch based on El Chavo del Ocho, Mexico's most famous children's show and a cultural phenomenon in all of Latin America (even Brazil apparently). Rest assured every Latino seeing this sketch had a tear in their eye. 🇲🇽 www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXKS...

Trump's lecture to his top brass was basically every new external hire CEO calling an all-staff meeting while they outline how they're is going to scrap everything built up by the company in the last 20 years because they know better than the people actually working there the last 20 years.

You cannot organize a general strike without a significant part of the workforce unionized, end of story.

Hate to break it to folks but dismantling unions has been a key bipartisan project since the 70s.

This guy and his brilliant team have run the single best political campaign I have ever seen in my lifetime. Funny, optimistic, with biting humor against his opponents. It should be a template for any leftist campaign going forward.

Worth reminding that not even Hitler called cities in Germany "war ravaged" or run by the "radical left". Self-hating your own country, and especially its grandest cities, is a peculiarity of modern neo-fascism and driven entirely by envy that cosmopolitalism produces better places to live.

This is why the media needs to be worker-owned, not billionaire-owned.

Nothing in this current hellscape will change for the better until this happens.

MAGA has always defended Hegseth's tattoos because none of them are explicitly neo-nazi but let's be honest, if this guy walked in to a room full of neo-nazis literally none of them would doubt he is one of their kind.

At least the lababu are actually original and not a blatant cash grab gobbling up shelf space. There really isn't anything worse than Funko Pop.

Why do people buy this crap?

I feel the second word is unnecessary.

Yes but only if I died locked in battle with a komodo dragon wherein our respective fighting prowess and brute, vulgar strength led to our simultaneous demise.

The problem is that he's terrified of challenging oligarchic power which is now fully aligned with the same forces that he fears. The original sin of liberal centrists like him is that they have never stopped believing that oligarchic power can be made lass rapacious and lead to common good.

The NYT should have been publishing this at any point before 2024.

The irony being Ricardo himself noted the assumption of no mobility of capital upended the model.

I think barring something crazy, he's got that election all but wrapped up. Cuomo is a non-entity.

Who Goes Nazi?, by Dorothy Thompson

Also recall that one of the best articles about the fascist mindset (written in 1941 no less) did not typecast fascists as necessarily ignorant. harpers.org/archive/1941...

Indeed, fascism doesn't offers a set of policy options tuned to the sensibilities of the most ignorant but rather, hooks people with one that has particular emotional/guttural appeal. Usually that is racism. You can then defend racism only by self-destructing your ability to think reasonably.

That's because most people aren't yet seeing him as a rival to Farage but of Starmer. He also has not proposed an actual national agenda.

YouTube video by Live Aid Judas Priest - The Green Manalishi (With The Two-Pronged Crown) (Live Aid 1985)

Not sure why I hadn't come across Judas Priest's Live Aid 1985 performance before despite being my favorite metal band but this version of the Green Malanishi is phenomenal, probably only (narrowly) second to the Fuel for Life Tour version. 🤘 www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Bd8...

Oh no... said absolutely nobody.

Not sure many people bet that when fascism came to the USA it would come with an orange man giving conspiratorial medical advice.

Look man, I think Taylor Swift is the most overrated, untalented, boring pop artist of the last two decades but expecting a gig for free is like... WTF.

Begging Americans to realize just how close they are to having the entire Democratic Party declared a domestic terrorist group on the whims of the executive.

I bet all these people go to Coldplay or Imagine Dragons gigs. Every single one of them.

I think one of the most basic (as in basic bitch but regardless of gender here) behaviors is tagging people on Facebook on a post which already is a doomscroll deluge of tagged people.

Genuinely wish every idiotic Chomsky-worshipping "anti-war" leftist understood this, and what it means to be living with a border with Russia.