#pero bueno...

[cliffburton]

tengo una (media) hermana 11 años menor que yo y siempre que mi mamá viene (con ella) nos dice "niñas" para referirse a las dos y no sé me hace sentirme como una de las niñas de dance moms cuando abbey les dice "girls". es decir, ligeramente insultante, entiendo que para mí mamá siempre seré su niña y etc etc pero meh.

[axel-tiredstudent]

Osamu Miya (23) owner of Onigiri Miya, your hand in marriage PLEASE

this tweet was the inspo btw:

[taimanzano]

Los ángeles morados🤡🎹🎵🎶💜

(sé que los instrumentos están mal y Megs toca cuando no pero ya ni modo, ni siquiera sé por qué hice ésto)

[latinotiktok]

Cuentos de escritores latinoamericanos que me encantan y me generan una sensación absolutamente extraña al terminar de leerlos (si quieren agregar sus recomendaciones, son bienvenidos):

"Un hombre sin suerte" de Samanta Schweblin

"El almohadón de plumas" de Horacio Quiroga

"La fiesta ajena" de Liliana Heker

"Casa tomada" de Julio Cortázar

"Los ojos más verdes" de Liliana Colanzi

[ttec77]

Have this drawing I made like a month ago and completely forgot about while I work on finals.

[bubbarnes]

“... do you think it's still fresh?”

[j3nnix]

gracias @michellemouse por tirar la idea de miguel en el carrefour😼

[th3e-m4ng0]

finally finished the wfc trilogy woohoo

[conobarco]

yo queria participar en la trend, mi primer confort character y mi mas reciente confort person i guess

[thebolter-gotthebeststories]

People be like "Okay, but what Argentina gave to the world?"

Pens, darling. We did that.

[elbiotipo]

Something worth noting is that the constitutions of many Latin American countries were based in the US constitution, which was at the time seen as an example of a liberal republic. So yes, indeed, Argentina once had an electoral college for example.

And indeed that electoral college and restrictive voting laws (the República Conservadora of 1853-1916~) was used to suppress popular will (something like 1% of the population could vote). After the reforms by the UCR, universal male suffrage was achieved, the electoral college always voted proportionally to the popular vote (unlike the US where it's a winner takes all system), though afterwards there was decades of coups so there weren't many elections. Woman suffrage came with Perón and Evita, as well as the 1949 constitution that enshrined worker's and social rights (later repealed by the military dictatorship, though worker's rights are still guaranteed explicitly by the current constitution)

It was with the 1994 constitution when we finally stopped that stupid system and went directly with the popular vote. In any case, as I said, the electoral college voted proportionally to the popular vote so it was more redudant than anything. (I understand, though my knowledge there is limited, that Brazil and other countries had a similar history)

This all happened because like most constitutions, the Argentine constitution has been reformed multiple times. It started mostly as a copy of the US constitution which was a model at the time, but situations changed. Worker's rights, women's right, indigenous rights, environmental rights, changes to the procedure of state, the defense against our history of coups. Many things changed (and indeed the constitution and I argue the whole political system is overdue for a change) and they did by long popular struggle.

The United States remains the only country in the world with an electoral college. Many archaic and unequal things like the all powerful supreme court or the strange voting system in the United States simply aren't found in other such democracies because they changed. It's strange to pretend the United States is a paramount of democracy because their own model of democracy is actually very obsolete, and in fact doesn't even approach the ongoing developments in popular sovereignity in countries like China (which I don't have time to write about but they're very interesting) or indeed, other "average" democracies in Latin America, Africa, Europe, and the rest of the world. And yet democracies in general are having a hard time in responding to the needs of the people (which is natural given the state of class conflict) and there are some that are particularily ossified and not a model for anyone, such as the US and the UK. If you attempt to study or measure "democracy" by their standards, you're doomed to failure.

In the coming decades new ways of concieving the state and the "res publica" will emerge. From an outsider's perspective, the liberal capitalist model of the United States is hopelessly outdated and those who cling to it (like our own Milei) are walking fossils. There is a future for democracy but it will be very different from what we know.

[marv-el-spot]

FILMS WATCHED IN 2024 Argentina, 1985 (2022) Dir. Santiago Mitre

[latinotiktok]

tengo un testimonio, quiero perunaizar a senshi de dungeon meshi porque visualmente es igualito a mi papá (menos los músculos xd), cada vez que veo a ese enano me digo "ese hombre es peruano chiclayano, cocinero del mejor menú a 10 soles"

Hombre peruano spotted

[hermywolf]

[berry-s0da]

9 de Diciembre

[proyecto-remanso]

Leftovers