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What did you expect when they said Puerto Rico is an island of garbage? Stupid.
The leopards are gonna get diabetes from all the face they're gonna be eating and have eaten.
German poet and playwright Berthold Brecht once said something to the effect that only the dumbest calves choose their own butcher.
Now I'm not an American and definitely not a Latino, but I've heard there's a huge amount of Latinos who hate Latinos and want them all to stay out of the country (I.e fuck you, got mine), which is part of why they vote republican. Also all the Cuban refugees who really hate Cuba so they also vote republican just to make sure democrats don't ease the sanctions on Cuba - which are of course making life hard for people who have not yet escaped Cuba. Hell I bet without the sanctions a lot of people wouldn't be leaving it in the first place.
If all that is true, honestly, this is a peak leopards eating faces moment.
Hate is a strong word, and it's a bit more nuanced than that. There is an internalized hostility that comes from the colonial era, where the way to climb the social ladder was by taking actions to seem more white. Like changing your name, converting, marrying a whiter* person, etc. These changes often explicitly implied rejecting whatever you were before. Anything indigenous was deemed as less than and less worthy than European stuff and therefore bad and to be abandoned.
And this is where this Hispanic on Hispanic hostility comes from. There is this idea that it is "better" to be on the side of privilege and those below are seen as a threat I.e. (the whites might notice you are not that white if they see you hanging out with those more connected to their roots).
This distinction is important because it comes not from blind-hate but from intergenerational trauma, as a defense mechanism.
A lot of modern day Latinos discovered what ttheir ancestors discovered a long time ago: They don't see all the colors you see. The only see non-white.
Also, foreign language propaganda from Republicans claiming democrats are socialists/communists (the kind that ruined Cuba, et Al), aimed at immigrants
Unfortunately a lot of the latino vote comes from the religious, macho, and anti-liberal attitudes they hold. Lots of them are catholic, and even if the republicans are absolutely full of shit when it comes to being “Christian”, their propaganda claiming they are has been very effective. The latter two are in a way perversely tied together. They like macho “strong man” leaders, but unfortunately there are a lot of latin/hispanic countries run by strong man leaders claiming to be liberal leftists that are nothing more than tyrants and authoritarians that wreck their countries. So they vote anti-liberal, associating liberal with tyrants, while supporting yet another “strong man” fascist that will fuck the country up.
*I am not latin, however I worked in a latin country and have worked with several latin/hispanic people and learned what I could about their country, culture and politics, and this is how it was explained to me.
On a different note there's a new NGO called "Watch for diabetic Leopards" it seems leopards have been overfeeding in the last months and some are getting diabetes due to being overweight
More faces are needed to feed the machine
"Latinos" learning that thinking you're "white" isn't the same as having white privilege.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/01/election-trump-latino-vote-paola-ramos
The fact that any of them voted for him is astounding. Did they not listen to a single word from his mouth about hordes of immigrants watering down the blood of America? Did they not see him drag a Hispanic celebrity (Nicky Jam) on stage, only to reveal, before the entire audience that he had no idea who they were, and in fact thought they were a hot woman?
Like a bunch of turkeys counting down the days to Christmas.
Doesn't really matter what they think of him now, they'll be in an El Salvador concentration camp by the time the next election comes round.
They, like most people who voted for Trump were more interested in harming "the opposition" failing to realize 90% of people were the opposition despite Trump saying it loud and proud. As a liberal white millionaire I am still confused and concerned at how many idiots I am trying to lift up are encasing their feet in concrete, and a little voice says "maybe it's their nature and you should give them what they ask for."
I'm disgusted by this all around, don't turn me into what I fucking hate.
The question is, will voters learn from this? Will they understand that when the president and his crew are straight up Nazis -- and congressional republicans do nothing to stop them because they support a Nazi agenda -- that the whole Republican party is now a Nazi party?
There won't be any "reasonable" Republicans to vote for going forword; they are all Nazis now.
It would help if the other side wasn't "vote for us or we'll let the nazis destroy the country to spite you."
will voters learn from this?
History says no.
I used to live in a heavily Hispanic area, and I can tell you there absolutely will be nothing learned from any of it.
Cause any Republican attacks against Hispanics were always hand-waved away with some variant of "Of course, they're talking about (insert Hispanic group the speaker hates), not about the good ones like (insert Hispanic group the speaker belongs to). If it wasnt for (hated group) fucking it all up things would be better for all of us!"
Republicans don't make such distinctions, to Republicans all Hispanics are just Mexicans.
Which is how the leopards facial feast was laid out.
They're not unique in that regard. All his supporters will hand-wave away anything that affects them negatively.
"His whole life has consisted of nothing but lying, backstabbing, betrayal and treason. Who could have ever imagined he'd keep doing that?"
I love my Latino brothers and sisters in the world but I will never understand why a single one of them support Donald trump. it makes no fucking sense at all.
A lot of Catholics are socially conservative.
There's a big difference between conservative and supporting your own oppressor.
There actually isn't in America.
If only someone had told them ...
We never could have seen this coming!
^/s^
"I just don't understand why he betrayed Us, I mean.. he did nothing but campaign on open contempt for our people, but surely he cant be held accountable for that! This is just so unexpected and blindsiding us!"
After all this still 28% approves? Guess I need to call the White House and ask to tighten the knot a bit more then? /s
No fucking way! I don't feel sorry for any Latinos or Hispanics that voted for Trump. Ya'll are traitors to democracy and our constitution for installing a dictator. You think people would learn from the dictatorship countries they fled.
Ah, but those were Communist dictatorships. Capitalist dictatorships are a-okay! (or so they thought.)
Scream communist and create a Banana Republic. As long as USA is in charge.
Something something about leopards eating faces…..
Even worse, these are people that voted for the leopards that explicitly said they'd eat YOUR faces party, thought they must surely just be joking, or something!
Not betrayed. Victims of their own stupidity. A bunch of ladder pullers.