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Everything to do with the USA's own Imperial Backyard. From hispanics to the originary peoples of the americas to the diasporas, South America to Central America, to the Caribbean to North America (yes, we're also there).

Post memes, art, articles, questions, anything you'd like as long as it's about Latin America. Try to tag your posts with the language used, check the tags used above for reference (and don't forget to put some lime and salt to it).

Here's a handy resource to understand some of the many, many colloquialisms we like to use across the region.

"But what about that latin american kid I've met in college who said that all the left has ever done in latin america has been bad?"

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2nd cold war between landlord-spotted Maoist United Soviets of America vs Stalinist Mexico-Brazil-Chile Pact(M-L) stalin-comical-spoon

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

I think we're like 90% agreed

This isn't behavioural modification. It's just information control.

Information control IS behavior modification, though. If you control my beliefs, you control my behavior.

Fox News made people believe that illegal immigrants are a threat. Those people voted for the fascist that would be hardest on immigrants. Now we're deporting people.

Social media is where many people find community, and those communities have shared beliefs. If the owner of the platform can push communities away from specific views (e.g. banning use of the name "Luigi"), then they can influence the beliefs of those communities.

There are many ways that social media is just another iteration of broadcasting information to many people, but a way that it's different is that individuals participate in the broadcast, and their participation is subject to control by the platform they're on.

It'd be like a billionaire-funded town square that has a private police force monitoring everyone's conversations, and kicking people out if they say the wrong thing.