The united states delenda est
this post was submitted on 08 Sep 2024
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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.
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I'm not American, but I'm really surprised that some Americans don't know anything about Spanish. I mean, there are a lot of places in the U.S. with Spanish names, and it's easy to encounter Hispanic/Mexican culture if you live in places like L.A.
in terms of land-area, the us is closer to Europe than any single European country.
Imagine, for example, being surprised that Catalonians are unfamiliar with Sami, or Swedes being unfamiliar with Maltese.
Population wise, too. Minnesota is different than California, or even our neighbors (north and South Dakota, Wisconsin and Iowa, Canada to the north,).
Hell. The Twin Cities (Minneapolis and St Paul) are very different and we can lob insults across the river.
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The US is massive and not nearly as well-mixed as people believe. If you don't happen to live in a spanish-heavy area, it's like a Russian that doesn't know Spanish - obviously some do, but I'm not at all surprised by those who don't.
Well, there are people with different roots from all over the world. The fewest of us are actually native american, so I think everyone has their culture and embraces that on his own wish. Then we all come together in the middle to create American culture.
I know it's not the way it works and this sounds like racism doesn't exist in the US or something which is of course utter bullshit. This is the way I think how it should be done and how I practice it myself. I actually know a bit of Spanish and dipped my toe already in Mexican culture, but I'm not going to study and embrace it because it's not my particular culture, just as I am not expecting an Hispanic person to study and embrace my culture. In the end I don't think about culture a lot. I like cool and interesring people, cool and interesting music and of course good food. In total I just want to have a good time and I am happy to encounter parts of anyone's culture in a natural way were I can explore things more like an adventure and less like a chore
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It’ll probably work. Most Hispanic people I’ve met that vote love Trump.
why? Is it the usual trumpist reasoning? Or something else.
With the Hispanic people I know that prefer Trump, it's the usual trumpist/Republican reasoning. Even down to anti-immigration, from a person who's father was an undocumented immigrant. Propaganda and desire to be in the in-group among your peers is wild.
yeah that makes sense i suppose. What a weird timeline to live in hey?
I have no idea. Fear of “socialism”? Religion? The myth that republicans are good for small business owners?
the fear of socialism is the only good one i can think of, but often times these people are coming from authoritarian type countries or places, i've heard theories that they leave the persecution, only to desire it once more upon leaving, hence the voting for trump. We've seen similar things with east germany, after they reunited there was an interesting problem with "self determination" people are generally happier with less choices, weirdly enough.
i doubt religion is significant, but maybe they just don't understand the US government structure. That's my other theory, they just don't understand how the government works at all, and end up picking the bad candidate.
Maybe the small business owner thing, but are these people more likely to own small businesses? i'm not sure, i think most of them would be in the labor economy, education or something else. Rather than entrepreneurship.
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And that's good
Sic Transit Racism.
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I didn't know Latins were big Opera enjoyers.
It’s the webbrowser of their choice.
Cui bono?
Bono is the lead singer of U2
Cui him, then!
Caecilius est in horto
¡Lol!
Y'know I could see this being done by a third party in an attempt to portray the GOP as not caring about Hispanics (Not that they do care lol)
They would be heroes, this is amazing if so
This also is amazing if it’s the GOP…
Just a different sort of amazing…
Romanes eunt domus
Romani ite domum!
Now write that 100 times!