Why are we seeing this now? During the Biden administration, the US government colluded with sites like Facebook and Twitter to silence American citizens.
It's about as authoritarian as you can get and not only did the tech community ignore it, they outright supported it.
Sites like Parlor were shutdown over night by companies like Amazon for simply having the wrong politics.
Because this isn't about silencing American citizens. It's about the US actively ceasing to be an at least neutral-to-good global neighbour in trade, tech, and foreign aid that many countries rely on, among other things.
This is something that for many is something they've not yet seen before in their lives (global allegiances shifting like this), and especially something that has not been a partisan issue at least from an outside view.
We don't trust the US any more and consider the US to be indifferent to us at best, and actively hostile and seeking to spread American-style fascism to our countries at worst.
Signed, a European and erstwhile committed Atlanticist.
If the tide lifts the boat, I guess it's ok? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Trump is the best president Canada and Mexico have had, for decades.
A really healthy dose of nationalism has arisen in both countries. Plenty of proposals for development, that wouldn't have been considered two years ago, are on the table today.
Did you know that Canada has inter-provincial trade barriers (such a dumb thing)? I just did, because of this recent tariff ordeal. Tearing them down is on the table now. Good!
Did you know that Mexico is starting to actually fight against narcos? For 40 years, maybe more, there wasn't even a mention of that in the Mexican Government.
> Did you know that Mexico is starting to actually fight against narcos? For 40 years, maybe more, there wasn't even a mention of that in the Mexican Government.
This is plain wrong. There's literally a Wikipedia page created 18 years ago documenting the well-publicized Mexican Drug War between the Mexican government (supported by various governments) against all the cartels. Literally thousands of soldiers and police killed.
Your wikipedia article is irrelevant. Go live in one of those places and you might learn how reality is. None of those entities is a monolithic bloc acting as if they were a single person.
Hint: often police and drug dealers ostensibly fight here and there while politicians and bureaucrats at the top and some police departments have their own deals with them.
Don't trust those lying facts and fibbing eyewitnesses and fraudulent records! Trust me, telling you to form an opinion based on anecdotal evidence neither of us has and that I've entire made up!
This is truly unprecedented, these guys are the cream of the crop of narco in Mexico. This would have never happened if not for Trump's pressure. Thanks, President Trump!
"Hurr durr where's muh wokepedia reference ..." oh yeah, you got me there pal :'(.
Dude, like you, I'm also Mexican. My parents live in Guanajuato state. My entire family has been affected by what's been happening in Mexico. I never argued that the entities are monolithic block, which would be an absurd claim to make. I was correcting your claim that "Mexico is starting to actually fight against narcos", which is a factually wrong claim. You can claim they weren't doing enough, or doing it incorrectly, which I would agree with, but that's very different from implying that nothing was being done. Just see this article published yesterday on the U.S./Mexican collaboration between 2001 and 2016 that lead to El Chapo's captures:
Obsidian is the killer app for this. I spent a month converting around 3 years of security notes to markdown and now use obsidian to search/archive everything.
I say the same thing about GNU licensed software: if the author just gave me my preferred licensing terms, I wouldn't be forced to use it in proprietary software without compenstion.
A key point here is that GP expressed a willingness to pay. The analogy would be attempting to license a piece of GPL software that you've decided to integrate into your proprietary stack and being outright refused for ideological reasons. Still illegal but people are probably going to perceive it a bit differently.
Have you seen a woman using tinder? They absolutely have the ability to choose, almost every right swipe will be a match. Now they just have to give an ok before the pm notifications reaches them.
The current model is clearly preferred as tinder made dating apps mainstream.
I ran into the opposite a decade ago when I used dating sites. Many women would just be happy chatting forever through text or email to fill an emotional need and never want to meet in person (they could have been cheating, exploring, etc).
I would have a 2-week rule: If we didn't meet in person (or setup something in the future) within 2 weeks, I would move on.
This helped filter out the people that weren't interested in actually meeting.
Two weeks is a really long time. You should’ve cut that down to 3 days. You’re right about there being a lot of women on these platforms who just use it as a validation and emotional need tool. It’s probably most of the interactions men have on the app since these women would be prolific on them and clearly spend more time on the app than women who want to immediately meetup and get into a relationship.
If you are bleeding from the wound on your head it does not mean you need to cut off your legs. This is just weakening of state while covering it under this charade.
Inflation was because of pandemic and wars. Rest is absolute nonsense.
The Biden administration just had to make things easier for businesses after covid. They had a very easy job and couldn't even get that right.
Instead, The biggest oil pipeline in the US was shutdown on day one and increased regulations led to our current situation with inflation.
The democrats are also war mongers and want to have perpetual wars to line their pockets.
It's telling when there isn't one negative story about Biden/the democrats (especially when we found out they were colluding with big tech to suppress the speech of average citizens) in 4 years, and we immedialy get slop hit piece articles about Trump and Musk.
