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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • The astroturfing is obscene on several levels of ignorance and artificiality, fake as the sincerity on a Nestlé ad, only more ignorant. “We don’t and won’t listen to a single Latino among us”.

    And still, I hear of Latinos gravitating towards this shit. It’s like they’ve normalized living under bigoted oppression in places like Texas or Arizona, and/or fall for the “family values” catholic bias.

    Or they come at it from some other batshit insane angle, referring to the orange plague of 2016-20 - “Funcionó! It worked!” and refusing to elaborate further, as if the case was obvious in some way that’s utterly incomprehensible to me.







  • That type of mindless embracing of something you’re not really paying attention to, is typical right-wing mindlessness.

    Check out the lyrics to Bruce Springsteen “Born In The USA” while keeping in mind that reagan used it in 1984 presidential election campaign rallies and even mentioned it in gushing, patriotic speech demagoguery, I believe. Never bothered to see what that song is actually about - Vietnam veterans abandoned by their own government and country, as the America they grew up in is decaying into the Rust Belt.