#and milei for political reasons

[streets-in-paradise]

Seriously, people have bots tracking Milei's online time and the dude spends arround 8 hours JUST - ON - TWITTER. He gets in stupid fights with anyone while the country goes to shit.

Him getting in a Twitter fight with Chucky is more likely than what you all imagine.

[loredwy]

Says someone who wants to ignore the economical and political situation of Venezuela, and act like Maduro isnt purposefully trying to hide the election results.

There is no good reason to not want Venezuela to have its democracy back.

[txttletale]

Suzerain? I remember playing that and coming away kinda disappointed, does it actually do politics well ???

i think it is probably the best 'politics simulator' that i've ever played. yes, the way it models budgets and government expenses is silly and simplistic--but it serves the game design, it makes it so you have to pick and choose and compromise your projects. i love the complexity of it, how you have to manage competing power blocs, how you aren't this amorphous political force deciding that the country will pass X law from a menu, you are a specific person in a specific political context, you are president rayne, and if you want that law passed you need to get it through parliament, and you can use bribery or blackmail or intimidation, and different factions will ask you to compromise, and trying to do the right thing will often get you couped or backtsabbed or economically isolated or shot. i love the level of detail that goes into the world and how much it actually ends up mattering, because things happen for real material and economic and historical reasons and not just because of abstracted points on a political compass or whatever.

i think if you're familiar with the history of any third-world or post-soviet country (especially if you are from some) the ugly and miserable compromises you'll find yourself forced into and the nasty fates that you'll see if you try to avoid them and don't do everything perfectly will be strikingly and powerfully familiar. to me, at least, it's a game where you can be chávez or lula or perón or milei or allende. it's a game that focuses on political realities rather than liberal truisms, and for that it earns many many points.

[pickingupmymercedes]

Wrong for me - Charles Leclerc

📷 @/nicolo.furicchia

pairing: charles leclerc x fem! f1 related! reader (the reader is a tp's daughter, I wrote with Toto in mind but there's no names)

song: Angels - Miley Cyrus

warnings: angsty but happy-ish ending

wordcount: 1k

a/n: Bit of a short one but it is my first time writing for Charles, so would you guys give some feedback? Also I'm thinking of opening up requests for drivers x readers with songs inspirations, I actually really like to take songs as inspirations

I know that you’re wrong for me, gonna wish we never met on the day I leave

It was everything your father had warned you not to do, yet it was everything you’ve thought about ever since he walked through the f1 paddock back in 2018. You knew he was wrong for you, but the very thought of each other consumed every inch of logical judgment in both of you. He had a couple of girlfriends since, they were all nice and polite, you tried to stay away but it didn’t make much of a difference. Their official reason for the break ups were the hardships of dating a driver, but he would tell you sometime later some of the exact words he heard were “Why am I always so sure your mind is on her?”.

A puppy love that had burned bright for a little over 6 months when you were still 16 but somehow had managed to quietly find its way through to today. Only this time the flame had threatened to burn not only your hearts but the entirety of his and your father’s team. The tension between the two of you had always been evident to those who knew what had happened back then, but as the 2024 season went further it was more than obvious to anyone with eyes that there was something there. Feelings and desire neither of you would dare to act upon and that would further build an atmosphere that could be felt and cut with a knife, making you wish every day you had never met.

When you finally realized you had the same effect he did on you, hurting him was how you protected yourself from giving in to the urge to fall head first into a love that you believed would not be able to thrive. So as his relationships crumbled down to their inevitable ends, you embarked in a string of meaningless flings in search of someone that would take your mind off of the one thing that you truly wanted.

Bringing him down to his knees with every ghosting you’d purposely inflict him, finding some unimportant meeting to attend instead of where you said you’d be, all the while excitedly celebrating his first win, birthday or even little achievements, moments of weakness you’d let your true emotions surface, only to shut him out right after, pledging to not drag him down the rabbit hole that was your blinding infatuation, with what you believed to be his way out of “misery loves company”.

Some of the drivers, protective as they had become of you, caught on pretty early how although Charles wouldn’t confess his affections, he would never candidly deny them either, which resulted in rising untrust between some of them, with your father on the other hand taking the blind eye approach and ignoring what was obvious until he couldn’t anymore.

You tried to pretend things were taken care of, but every time you found yourselves in the same space sparks could almost be seen coming from every other direction. The breaking point being a very public and loud display of how tense things were between you and him one Saturday night at the paddock, the motive long forgotten as both of you screamed at the top of your lungs for things the other had no fault. The frustration of walking on egg shells around each other clearly evident on the screaming match, and your father’s first intervention resulting in two grown adults looking like sulking toddlers who had just been told they had to deal with their emotions before anyone got seriously hurt in the cross fire.

That wasn’t the last time, and although you would try to keep discussions and screaming matches alike from happening, the public stares and midnight bedroom escapades escalated to a point where everyone decided enough was enough, and you were both locked at the FIA conference room, to either “kiss or scream it out” – their exact words.

“I’m not like your past relationship, Charles. I won’t bring you security, peace and quiet. I’m a mess and you know it, you’ve seen it. Everything I touch turns into a huge media monster and I’m fated to lose every single person I love. It’s not your fault I ruin everything, and it’s not your fault I can’t be what you need” You confessed, looking him with bloodshot eyes, tears falling freely.

“I don’t want them, I want you. Baggage and all, media attention and crazy fans, protective father and f1 drivers haunting me for years to come… The mess and everything they always said you’d be, because that’s the woman I fell in love with.” And although you had reservations on what you believed could be a relationship with the power to destroy his life, and potently his career, you gave in, letting your heart speak louder than your fears.

[vioredynamite]

It's already been said in chipadequeso's post but it annoys the hell out of me that now liberals are going around crying and saying they are going to be killed by the Trump administration (and I bet they are going to use the word "genocide" at any moment).

I'm an Argentine communist and I belong to a political party. Milei, our current president, is openly anti-communist, there isn't a minute that he doesn't take advantage of to insult us... And yet, he hasn't initiated any campaign that attempts against our lives. We have not even been banned. The most serious thing that happened to us was that militants of his party graffitied the front of our party premises (in my city) with swastikas and anti-Semitic and homophobic slogans. Nor has it occurred to him to set up concentration camps to put the entire LGBT+ community inside. What does affect us are his economic policies and the elimination of key agencies such as INADI or the Ministry of Women, Gender and Diversity as tools to combat gender inequalities or hate speech (with all the criticisms that can be made to such agencies). Has the situation of the Argentinean people worsened? Yes, poverty is increasing every day in our country, however what allows us to move forward is the organization, the militancy, the struggle in the streets and, above all, the solidarity networks.

There's no reason for Usamericans to point fingers and tell people who don't even live in the United States that because of them, they are going to be "assassinated". I hope they pull their heads out of the pit of complacency and put aside fantasies of martyrdom. If they get their act together, they will find ways to make it through the next few years.

[satorugojowidow]

The original blog who screenshotted and shared this here has disabled the reblog so I'm going to repost in order to try to navigate the racism that is underneath this tweet.

About the claim of this tweet there is nothing more to say that the comparison is unacceptable not only because it lacks of any logic but also because trivialize the monstrosity of what genocide represent. Genocide is only equivalent to genocide, as the propaganda is an fundamental axis that allows genocide, its is a constitutive part of it. Nothing is equivalent or can be compared. This person is trivializing the genocide to people of Palestine while doing this comparison. Insult the victim with the only goal to make a point about the result of a tournament they didn’t like for any reason.

Argentina with all its political flaws and problems haven’t used football as political propaganda since 1978 (last dictatorship). And were Argentinians themselves those who have made a critical revision of the 1978 world cup, we don’t need someone from outside come to explain or call out what happened. Historiography has made their part and is part of the history teached in schools. 

President Milei's use of football is related to reform Argentinians football clubs from civil associations to shareholders of S.A. Argentina football clubs traditions are related to social purposes. Clubs like Boca Juniors and River Plate (the bigger) aren’t only about football but hold other types of sports, their objective of existence is to be a space where neighbors of the club (in the beginning of their history) can do sport. Sports clubs belong to their associates, who are the thousands of fans who follow their team. Milei and Macri want to allow the big shareholders to buy these clubs.the extractionist economic model but applied to football.

What this person in the tweet doesn't understand because of their ignorance and their contempt against our people is that football has a colonialist matrix as well. Football players are human resources that Europe takes from our clubs. That is why the players of Argentina National Team (the FIFA N°1) all come from big european clubs or usamericans club with lots of money. But they didn't started their career there, they were bought from clubs from Argentina, and they started when they were childs in small sport clubs that only exist to give working class people a chance to do sport. The first coach of Angen Di María was someone like many others that use their free time to teach childrens football, they don’t even live from that activity, because it is a social activity, not a business. Our football world champions come from working class families, they, like the huge majority of this country, are also descendants from those Europeans that came running away from poverty and those indigenous people who suffered the colonia. And if they weren’t the superstars they are, they were victims of racism because of their latinamerican condition. 

Argentina, like the rest of the countries of the world, has hierarchies based in economics, social and ethical status. As a country that is the result of European colonialism, still struggles with that inheritance. To this person, who may not like the Argentina National Team for random reasons, we seem like the only country that doesn’t deserve to win a tournament because of that. News for you, this is football, there is no “deserve”, you either win or lose. But talking about justice, it is fair that a country that is the home of the players gets to win. Not like European countries that win the world cup with the sons of those immigrants they so much hate, while African countries still struggle to position themselves in the tournament. 

The Argentina National Team has its flaws, but they still represent the working class people of this country and their dreams. They chose to celebrate the America cup with the prop guy, not like the Spain National Team that bent their knees to the king. And yes our current president is a pro Israel (and while in the protest against him the flag of Palestine flys) the National Team refused to celebrate the cup with him. 

And the fact that a third world country with players that come from working class families won, still has a meaning to the rest of the world that celebrated with us the 2022 victory in Qatar. We made that victory a huge popular celebration in the streets and everyone was welcome to celebrate with us. You won’t ever find a Argentina National Team fan that will tell someone from another country that they can’t use our jersey. With all our flaws, we still hold football as the sport of working class people. I guess some people can’t just understand it.

[still-fatemeh]

Not the bsd coded songs in my playlist...

A.M.P. by Movement (There's not any other song that gives me this magnificent of beast dazai vibes)

Are You Ready? by Måneskin (Who let stormbringer chuuya cook?)

All I Can Never Be by Trash Boat (Odasaku my beloved)

Be Nice to Me by The Front Bottoms (Who let teen chuuya cook again? Fuck you verlaine)

Black Out Days by Phantogram (Beast dazai, our lovely pathetic emotional wreck of a man)

Blood // Water by Grandson ( I know this song is about corporate greed and political corruption, culminating in environmental degradation but if you read in between the lines, fyodor and his obsessive need to wipe out sin and ability users from the world will show itself.)

Born for Greatness by Papa Roach (Chuuya, for literally no reason)

Boys Don't Cry by The Cure (Beast dazai. The lupin scene... He's never had any tears to cry...)

Broken Home by Papa Roach (Sigma, except he doesn't even have parents. He has no home.)

Bullet by Hollywood Undead (15 dazai. The upbeatness of the song mixed with the gruesome message screams teen dazai.)

Can't Be Tamed by Miley Cyrus (The most corny chuuya one, tachihara too)

Counting Stars by One Republic (Odasaku, I know the rythem doesn't suit him but the lyrics do him justice)

DiE4u by Bring Me the Horizon (Soukoku)

Dirty Little Animals by BONES UK (YES, the arcane song. This screams teruko)

[A-D]

Feel free to add to this🩷

(I only covered the letters A to D in this post)

[genghisyajj]

Insane thoughts I have seen expressed by tumblr communists in recent days:

If you think there is value in electoralism, you are a liberal, no exceptions.

Calling yourself a Maoist or Marxist-Leninist will make you look serious and politically educated.

The average voter knows who Milei is.

The average voter knows literally anything about foreign policy.

Being in the U.S. military for any amount of time and for any reason means your politics are bad, even if you aren't in the military anymore.

The "Copmala" phenomenon was anything other than a cudgel to make Biden look worse than Bernie Sanders.

It is theoretically possible for a politician not to do something morally reprehensible on the path to power in the United States.

Nobody has ever said "Voting doesn't matter, do (xyz direct action/political violence) instead" and then not done either.

[elbiotipo]

Can you prove the right-wing shift is primarily male? Cause I see women cooperating with the right all over. So to me the so called male loneliness epidemic is not the reason we have a wave of neofascists in the world.

Yes, this has been observed:

Now, these are liberal/neoliberal media we're talking about. But the polls do tell a very clear picture. In many countries, the support among young men for right-wing parties and politics has been several percentages above the norm; women, on the other hand are drifting left, or rather liberal.

This has been a worldwide phenomenon. In Argentina, this has been reflected in polls too. Support for Milei is several percentages higher in men than women, as well as support for right-wing politics. You can check the latest polls if you don't believe me, it's noticeable in all of them.

Now this is hard to analyze since it's politics and left and right aren't very useful denominations on themselves (in fact, most women identify themselves as 'liberal' rather than 'left') but I think the trends do speak by themselves. There is a growing divide in political opinions and right-wing discourse has been especially effective in young men.

[iantimony]

almost thursday tuesdaypost

listening: so i'm pretty sure i'd linked the paramore cover of burning down the house before but apparently there is a whole entire talking heads cover album and it all kinda whips. miley cyrus is there ?? i think the lorde one is also very good.

some other songs this week: state line (the dip), short skirt/long jacket (cake) (i'm back in my cake era), easy way out (roosevelt)

reading: ‘Dangerous and un-American’: new recording of JD Vance’s dark vision of women and immigration: ough politics.

trellis supports for houseplants: i got a monstera at the farmers market and she'll need a support. my pothos also needs some tlc.

Pop Culture: please please burst ai bubble

aaaand a paper for research. thank you peter bird.

watching: i watched rango a few weeks ago, i think i forgot to mention it/it was during my dark period - weird movie!! i did enjoy it, for some reason i thought it had come out way more recently than it actually had.

a bunch of videos from swell entertainment. good bg crafting noise. i liked her defcon video.

playing: dnd as normal

making: i added an outline to the swamp symbol on the knitted mtg card sleeve and sewed a small cotton rectangle in to cover the stitching on the inside; no pics.

trimmed these pots! big ol foot on one of em.

and my [redacted] STILL HAVEN'T GONE THRU THE GLAZE KILN. i'm biting my nails. angela please.

eating: peaches n cream overnight oats recipe: good! gonna be a standard driver for now i think, especially as stone fruit season comes to a close deb smittenkitchen corn bacon and parmesan pasta: this was just okay. i tossed in two zucchini as well. won't be repeating it. one pot chicken meatballs w greens: this FUCKED. WILL be repeating. i used beef instead of chicken because i had beef in the freezer so it was definitely a little richer than the recipe intended but it was still good.

list of veggies good to save for stock which lead me to read her frankly baffling "why I don't eat mushrooms" writeup. not technically wrong! still baffling!

and i also mad some 'tea' using the corn silk lol (i know it is technically a tisane, shh) (i told my midwestern friend that i was doing this and she was so confused in a 'well. why' way.)

misc: oopsie! i am so crazy busy with the day-to-day right now that im melting a little bit, despite technically having a freer schedule than i have had in years (no classes!). i am working on my preliminary exam stuff which is probably why. oughhh.

[libertarian-druid-ny-separatist]

Okay, so currently we're in a new cold war, with China. After the first cold war ended, China became a world power.

Now Argentina is suddenly taking the political extreme of Anarchocapitalism (to an extent, getting started peacefully). What if they become the next world power? Like it's not without reason that they could, they're soon to be a great community to build businesses in, they're now an ideal trade partner for every nation, they've got a long coastline to build a strong navy, and frankly they're not too far off from where China was (economically) at the fall of the Qing.

We get to see what would happen to China if Sun Yat Sen was in control of the Chinese economy into the modern era (since he was a lot more in favor of personal freedom unlike Mao though obviously not nearly as much as Milei). If that's not cool as fuck to y'all then I'm on the wrong social media.

[ophthalmotropy]

Hi!

Just read your "what's happening in Argentina" post and while I'm not the original asker, I would have a follow up question if it's all right.

How could Milei be popular enough to get elected if previously (and possibly still) the country held so progressive values? Also can the Argentine people do something against these decisions or are you only able to whether the storm so to speak? And lastly can someone from a different country help in any way?

Thank you in advance

Have a great day?

SVH

So, that is a complex question, so please bear with me.

First off, he gained a lot of popularity on social media. This is the stupidest answer, but unfortunately it worked--a large part of his voters consists of young people, mostly men in their 20s but a good number of women too. But this is only a factor, and there are many underlying causes at play.

Peronism is a multifaceted political movement with a complex history that would take me many paragraphs to explain, but it promoted industrialisation and is the reason why workers obtained the rights that protect them during the 20th century (hence the opposition it faces from the wealthy rural sector, which wants to keep the agro-export model as the dominant one)--since then, it has swerved between the far-right and the center-left, and this is all exacerbated by the fact that (1) it's characterised by personalism and (2) Juan Domingo Perón, the late founding figure of the movement, never expressed a philosophy, and many of his actions contradict each other. Whatever the case, almost every relevant movement nowadays is defined either as Peronist or explicitly anti-Peronist. You cannot talk about Argentine politics without discussing Peronism.

One such center-left facet of Peronism is Kirchnerism, which began with the presidency of Néstor Kirchner in 2003. The country had suffered a near-total collapse in late 2001 as a result of the neoliberal policies implemented by right-wing Peronism in the 90s.

Now, I personally (because it's difficult to offer an unbiased perspective on this, the best I can do is disclose my biases) criticise a lot of things about the Kirchnerist administrations, which extended from 2003 to, after Néstor died and his wife Cristina Fernández de Kirchner won the presidency for two consecutive terms, 2015, which I won't get into here. But remembering the tail end of the CFK administration and comparing it to everything that came after and to what I know of pre-2003 times, it would be dishonest if I didn't say that their administration brought a lot of conquests in the realm of social development, public finances, and quality of life. Whatever my qualms regarding the welfare state as a tool of class conciliation and some policies I strongly disagreed with--I cannot downplay the good that was accomplished in that time because I benefitted from it growing up.

This garnered Kirchnerism a level of near-unprecedented vitriol from right-wing media, especially during CFK's back-to-back administrations for reasons I partly attribute to misogyny. It came to a point where The chasm in politics was whether you were Kirchnerist or anti-Kirchnerist ("la grieta", they called it). Lots and LOTS of money were poured into attacking Kirchnerism on the most mainstream TV channels in the country. The corruption allegations may have been legitimate, but--here's my personal appraisal--I don't think whether a specific figure is corrupt matters as much as whether the system encourages corruption (as it DOES and has been culturally normalised since the Menem administration in the 90s, see right-wing Peronism), and the whole thing strikes me as missing the forest for the trees. You don't have to think about the complexities of the currency trade and how they impact finances if you have the TV to tell you that CFK stole money in cash and that she buried it in the Patagonia (they sent machines to try and dig it up a while back. The media circus was insane).

In any case, following the last CFK presidency, we have Mauricio Macri, part of the anti-Peronist side of the chasm and a neoliberal. His greatest impact was taking on a massive, illegal, illegitimate debt with the IMF--which allows it to dictate policies, and as always they involve austerity. His economic policies were disastrous for the working class. And also very importantly, he eliminated the law that regulated the media and was instituted by CFK--its main impact was reducing the monopolistic concentration of power in the hands of Grupo Clarín S.A. (right-wing media).

After that, in late 2019 Alberto Fernández, with CFK as his vice-president, becomes president. His administration was, in my opinion, disastrous, partly but not entirely due to the IMF debt and the pandemic. He also didn't reinstate the Media Law. Between a new economic crisis in the country and the media constantly bombarding people with right-wing propaganda, Milei rose from a nobody to the most likely presidential candidate in like no time.

People were tired of seeing the same faces on the ballots and nothing changing, this is true--but this is not sound logic, in my opinion. For one, Milei was accompanied by people of very old families and interests--his vice-president, Villarruel, was the daughter of a military man involved with the dictators of 1976. Secondly, Milei's neoliberal campaign promises were merely an even more extreme version of things that had literally been tried before--by Macri, by the 90s right-wing Peronist administration, and by the dictators--and hadn't worked. And thirdly, it's telling that their "let's be crazy and try something new" vote is for the far-right. For some reason (sarcasm), nobody ever says "hey, neither side works for me, so I'm going to go out on a limb and vote for the Trotskyists". This ties into a global trend that veered towards the right--with Trump, Bolsonaro, Vox... We're not exempt.

An argument you also heard from his voters was that they didn't think he was going to do what he was promising he would do. As you can see, there's a lot of... political ignorance. And I think many people who voted for him were actually voting out of hatred for "the other side" rather than support for him.

In any case, the primaries and October showed an odd three-way election where the most popular candidates were Milei, Massa (a candidate for the Peronist coalition, famous for being a traitor and whose main draw was openly "at least he's not Milei"; he was even Minister of Economy at the time, so you can imagine his administration didn't earn him many supporters--he was called the Minister of Inflation by some media outlets), and Patricia Bullrich (one of Macri's friends who, as a fun fact, made campaign spots specifically saying one of her campaign promises was to "destroy Kirchnerism forever"). After Bullrich came in third and a runoff between Milei and Massa was announced, Bullrich, Macri, and their party predictably allied themselves with Milei despite the vitriol both sides had spouted at each other before the elections (IMO this alliance was planned from the start). Ergo, Milei won the runoff, and we find ourselves in this situation.

As for what Argentines can do about it, the main forces of resistance have always been on the streets. Despite Bullrich's (now Milei's Minister of Security) anti-protest protocols, there has been a record number of massive protests since Milei took power. In fact, his Omnibus Bill was defeated in Congress thanks to popular resistance (although now it's back in discussion). Things are looking very tough, but there are things that can be done.

To wrap it up, and to answer your last question, the currency exchange rate means that dollars are worth a lot of money here. Supporting small Argentine creators by buying from them if you're USAmerican is a way to greatly aid individuals in making it to their next paycheck. I think a list was compiled by some Tumblr users after Milei won the elections, so if anyone reading this has it on hand feel free to add it to the post.

Thank you for your interest and I hope that was at least decently explicative!

[sturniololuv08]

Chapter 4 - Justin Timberlake -

Niall's view:

"Selena Gomez, Come And Get It!!" We all screamed in unison. The song played in the speakers and she walked up smiling and looking beautiful. She took the award and kissed us all on the cheek with delight and gratitude. We stepped back to allow her to have her moment and thank everyone. Once she was done we all walked back down the stage together and talked about her win. She was so polite and sweet it was hard to think she wasn't with Justin anymore.

"Thank you guys." She smiled and hugged us once more back stage. We were escorted out to our seats again to watch the rest of the show. She was pulled a different way than us and so we had to just wave goodbye and let that be enough. Once we were back out on the floor in our seats we sat and watched everyone go through small performances and receive awards. We were told ahead of time what awards we got so we could be ready for speeches and such.

"And the winner is... One Direction!"

"We won!" Louis said smiling looking at all of us. We walked down the long isle and up the stairs to the main stage. With all the stages and people blocking places the large arena became a labyrinth.

"We want to thank all the fans, our directors and producers, and our families for being there through everything. We wouldn't have anything we have or be anything we are right now if it wasn't for any of you! Thank you." Louis spoke clearly for us because none of us had the composure too. We walked off the stage we had been on only seconds ago to present and then we were offered drinks and food. I grabbed a flavoured water and some cheese while the other boys passed by.

"I'm glad I did it with you boys. If I was on this ride with someone else it wouldn't be the same." Liam was getting emotional.

"C'mere." Louis pulled us into a group hug. We all squished each other and then stopped because the same woman with the black outfit and headset told us we needed to keep moving along. Back at the same seats we all talked and enjoyed our time together until Liam demanded we were alert when Justin Timberlake was on.

Chapter 5 -This Was It-

Izallouis' view:

"You ready??" Justin smiled down at me. He wasn't too much taller than me but enough to notice.

"No." I smiled at him.

"Ok, you're just going to stand here and I'll cue you on. Once you're on its all you. Do what you want. You know the song and you know I'll help you. Just please don't do what Miley did." He winked and walked out to the dark stage. The lights flashed on him and the soundtrack started. He turned around and sang like he used to in *NSYNC. Everyone cheered and loved him. I was ready to be what I wanted to be. I knew I was chosen for this for a reason but sometimes it seems a little too real to actually be real. He was singing and then the transition was coming up. This was it.

[mariacallous]

Since its founding in the 1970s, the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) has been a chance to take the temperature of Republican politics. In recent years, that’s looked increasingly fevered, with the Donald Trump wing of the party taking center stage. This year, for instance, a far-right figure named Jack Posobiec called for “the end of democracy” during a panel led by former Trump White House advisor Steve Bannon. But it’s also taking a surprisingly internationalist turn for a group whose theme this year was “Where Globalism Goes to Die.”

A Hungarian branch of the conference was founded in 2020, where Prime Minister Viktor Orban, perhaps inevitably, always seems to be the keynote speaker. In 2023, CPAC Brasil launched as well. Between 2017 and 2019, CPAC events also launched in Australia, Mexico, Japan, and South Korea. This year’s Hungarian CPAC, to be held in April, is expected to focus heavily on elections both in the United States and across Europe.

But the American event itself is the main chance for authoritarians and nationalists everywhere to shine. Drawing thousands of attendees each year, from lobbyists to party functionaries to conservative media stars, nearly every Republican presidential candidate was once expected to make a stop at CPAC, although Trump’s ascendancy has cooled some of them on the prospect. A straw poll taken at the event is used as a barometer to try to judge who the conservative base is likely to vote for in the Republican presidential primaries (a foregone conclusion this year) and for the vice presidency (a tie this year between South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem and biotech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy.)

The conference has become an obligatory stop for international political figures, either looking to make inroads with the American right—and prepare for the benefits of closeness to a future Trump administration—or to float a new career built on American money after they crash and burn at home. At this year’s event, held as usual in a hotel in National Harbor, Maryland, political figures from right-wing populist movements across the world worked the room and preached from the stage. They included two sitting presidents: Argentina’s Javier Milei and El Salvador’s Nayib Bukele.

In turn, as CPAC has made clear, it is also seeking to draw international influences into U.S. politics. The conference even hosted an “international summit” before the main event, attended by the global leaders and Bannon, the former Trump advisor, for some reason. CPAC added in a tweet that it looked forward to hearing “more international conservative leaders throughout the week on the best practices to beat socialism, Marxism and globalism.”

CPAC itself may have bigger problems than Marxists. Its brand has been tarnished as Matt Schlapp, the head of the American Conservative Union, which hosts the event, fends off a series of high-profile sexual misconduct lawsuits. And neither Fox News or Turning Point USA were in attendance, once large sponsors. As NBC’s Ben Goggin reported, a number of racist extremists were freely wandering the halls this year, while in the past people espousing openly white supremacist views were ejected.

But for those ambitious foreign politicians looking to join, CPAC remains an essential stop. The international politicians this year stressed U.S. right wing-friendly talking points on the dangers of socialism, mass migration, leftism of various kinds, and “wokeness,” and, to scattered rounds of applause, often described America under President Joe Biden as a dangerous, post-apocalyptic, fentanyl-soaked hellscape. The end goal for those speakers who hold international office was clear: to get close to Republican power players—and possibly the once and future president himself—in preparation for a possible second Trump administration.

But the speakers from abroad included people whose political futures are somewhat unsettled, like CPAC veteran and Brexit advocate Nigel Farage, who appeared early on to promote a nonspecific message of unity, victory, and transborder fealty to the populist movement. There, the idea seemed to be to bulk up their own profile—and to appeal to a well-funded American conservative movement.

Praising the event’s international flair, Farage told the room, “It feels like the Atlantic just got a little bit narrower.” He then embarked on a long recap of the 2023 incident in which Coutts bank closed his account. He claimed this had happened due to his political views, although an independent review in December found no evidence that was the case.

“They picked on the wrong bloke, didn’t they?” Farage declared. This he tied, somehow, with the long moral arc of the universe: “In the end, although it might take time, good always triumphs over evil.”

Farage, too, noted that when he first attended CPAC a decade ago, he was “the only foreign-born speaker” on the platform. “Look at it today,” he added. “Quite extraordinary.” He noted that he’d met delegates and elected officials at the event from Hungary, Poland, Romania, Australia, Canada, Colombia, Mexico, France, and Germany. He closed by declaring a need for “strong leaders,” adding, “We need Trump back in the White House.”

Trumpism underpinned the other international speakers and the conference at large, but it didn’t always come with direct endorsements of the ex-president himself. Brief-serving U.K. Prime Minister Liz Truss—who, as Politico noted, spoke to a half-empty room, although that’s not unusual at CPAC—did not explicitly endorse Trump but echoed many of his talking points, telling the crowd that Biden was “asleep at the wheel in the White House” and told Farage in a separate conversation that Biden needed to be “kicked out.” (Contrast that with Orban’s CPAC speech last year, where he claimed that Trump would have prevented the war in Ukraine, had he been in office, and beseeched Trump to “come back and bring us peace.”)

Given that Trump is deeply unpopular in the United Kingdom, these remarks—and Truss’s appearance at CPAC in general—don’t seem designed to revive her political career at home. In fact, it could seriously sabotage it. Her remarks at CPAC prompted a call for censure from the opposition Labour Party. Its chair asked Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to remove the whip for Truss, which would essentially expel her from the Conservative Party, and she was surrounded by journalists asking if she would apologize upon her return to the UK. It doesn’t help that the Tories are mired in a wider series of Islamophobia and homophobia scandals, with another member of Parliament recently suspended.

Truss may be aiming for a new career in the states. Truss blamed the “deep state” for sabotaging her brief time as prime minister and used other language that would appeal to America’s far right, stressing many times that conservatives needed to regain power to “save the West.” (She has also been flogging a forthcoming book, Ten Years to Save the West, which she urged people in the audience to pre-order.) Besides making the rounds at CPAC, she’s made appearances at the Heritage Foundation, another powerful group in U.S. conservative politics.

When Bukele, El Salvador’s president, spoke, he focused heavily on ideas of hidden forces working to undermine the United States. It was, like Truss, a speech that reflected a sort of global anti-globalism, a clear nod to international conspiracy theories about the deep state, hidden hands, and worldwide cabals.

“The next president of the United States must not only win an election, he must have the vision, the will, and the courage to do whatever it takes, and above all, he must be able to identify the underlying forces that will conspire against him,” Bukele told the crowd. “These dark forces are already taking over your country. You may not see it yet, but it’s already happening.” He then claimed that “unscrupulous terrorists” in El Salvador had “performed satanic rituals,” positing this as something the United States needed to avoid. He pointed at “Baltimore, Portland, and New York” as places where “crime and drugs have become the daily norm.”

Bukele’s half-trolling public image is built around wild claims and a Trumpist insistence that he is a national savior. In contrast, Milei, Argentina’s president, seemed determined to play against his self-created “wildman with a chainsaw” persona. When he took the stage, he focused on a lengthy and dryly delivered series of disconnected ideas, including how “socialist intervention destroys the economy.”

That matches Milei’s own swing toward a more moderate approach in office than he preached on the campaign trail. But he also promulgated conspiracy theories about the “murderous” abortion agenda and the “Marxist agenda” of a belief in climate change. And he, too, was ultimately there under a broad umbrella of Trumpism: He and Trump exchanged “an ecstatic hug” backstage, according to the Associated Press.

All of this, of course, is a bet on Trump’s second term. The politicians and former politicians who traveled from abroad to CPAC are guessing that his reelection is nigh, and that it’s time—no matter how incendiary the language or strong the censure at home—to strengthen a relationship with what they reckon is the past and future face of power in the United States.

[possibilistfanfiction]

your latest rebloghad me snickering i never have understood the obsession with her. anything youve been listening to lately that you rec for someone looking for something new?

ok before anyone comes for me lmfao i do want to say that i generally find her music mostly fine, sometimes good, occasionally a song will make me absolutely feral for no discernible reason lol. i think she's an eco-terrorist basically but like... her music is fine & ppl being normal fans is... normal lol

what is BEYOND to me is when ppl will literally like... post abt her like she's their friend, or defend her music when like sometimes artists u like make mediocre shit! that's fine! lol like i have two lorde tattoos & i do think overall as a project solar power is beautiful & cool but was it earth-shattering like pure heroine or melodrama? no! which is fine! i don't need it to be! i also have no idea what lorde is doing day to day lol

also i will say i love pop. i love being a fan of pop. i think the world runs on pop music & it should! i named my dog after charli xcx! not everything i listen to (or consume in general) aligns with my personal politic of a free palestine & a free world! my ultimate weakness is drag race! so the level of insanity surrounding taylor swift (& beyonce tbh) by (at least in my community) gay white men (or gay men trying to perform whiteness / gain proximity to it) is just... bonkers! i could go on about this forever but i will not lol. [if u like podcasts tho, a bit fruity did an ep on the political power of taylor swift which is quite interesting. their episode becoming a woman with miss benny also talks abt gayness, femininity, & pop (in an illuminating way!!) -- check them out if u want!!]

ANYWAY SORRY. some stuff i'm currently loving:

tierra whack's new album whack world. super funky, smart, heartfelt, she's the weirdest in the game & we are all better for it

BRAT ERA BABEY aka charli xcx's new singles. my favorite is club classics atm but B2b & von dutch (& the remix w/ addison rae) are summer bops. can't wait to be drunk on the beach listening to them

constantly going back to ethel cain's preacher's daughter, especially when i'm in nature w/ char. it's one of my favorite albums of all time; so fucking beautiful. hymns.

as the world's no1 bangerz apologist, & bc of jojo siwa being absolutely delulu & kind of iconic lately, i've been returning to 2013 miley for a laugh, & bc that album is so good. feels rly sad now? idk. her cover of jolene ate so hard no one will ever come close, sry

random but a cover of breezeblocks by taylor rae

honestly also whatever i loved II MOST WANTED lmao. it's gay. the only reason ppl are saying it's not is bc beyonce is on the track. it's gay i will die on this hill

lastly listening to a lot of lonnie holley

[sistematraumado]

Presentation of us — English

Us:

We are a C-DID system, with a 'Totality' of +300 alters [we are more, but for privacy we will not say] although complete and semi-complete alters we only reach 200 or a little more.

we are mainly non-human and Introjectives [more on the "fictive" side].

We feel comfortable using VERY specific roles, since it gives us an idea of how each one works, even though we don't kill ourselves looking for each role.

We have other disorders but the most "Important" ones that I want to highlight are that we are NPD and BPD Traits.

We feel comfortable calling ourselves "plural" and "System", we do not feel connected to the term "Person with DID" for the same reason that we do not consider ourselves people, nor do we use the term "patient with DID" since we do not want being all the time, every second, remembering that we have a disorder that will be with us all our lives.

Warning:

We lack empathy and it is difficult for us to put ourselves in the shoes of others other than our "favorite person" or our "supply."

We don't make friends easily, so we may be curt when speaking.

It is mandatory that you use tonetags when talking to us.

Although we have no problem with questions, it is not something we want to listen to and we prefer to use the internet to relax.

We have spelling mistakes.

There are alters who use "Comshipp" and "darkshipp" as a relief method.

We consider "loving your nation" as barbarism and indoctrination.

We are Peronists leaning towards Kirchnerism, but lately we are separating ourselves from several ideals that they follow.

We support self-recognition.

We are not interested in activism, even though it is possible that our opinions can be confused with one.

¡Más!:

We believe in the Virgin Mary and we pray to her only, but we do not believe in God or in Jesus [although we take into account their existence but not as dictated in the Bible]

collective pronouns:

He/they/it/vamp

We are all transmasc, also that for the most part we are either trans men or enbys with masc alignment, in addition to that collectively almost all of us are gay.

We like being on the internet and we use it as an escape from our lives and a respite from it.

DNI:

Basic dni

neurotypical

passive-aggressive

hetero-cis

radqueer

non-traumagenic "systems"

people who are not responsible for their system

pedophiles, necrophiles, zoophiles

transphobic radfem

white feminism

"menstruation causes infections in men"

miley fans

<<defenders of coscu, spreen, carre, nimu, dalas>>>

anti-shippers

They romantically ship aroace characters

believe the victim is to blame

Peronists, Kirchnerists, Macristas or any political party in Argentina [we are going to get along badly because I criticize everyone JSJDJD]

does not believe in the 30,000 missing

blame the Malvinas heroes for losing

accuses the pencil night boys of being terrorists.