I should revisit Gaucho. I love Steely Dan, but for some reason that was the album I had a hard time getting into. It didn’t help that if had to follow up Aja. But I’ll give it another listen, thanks!
The next Ashoka
I’ve thought about it with her, and I actually think it’s just she’s waaay too credulous. Someone she got close to told her that AMLO is like Trump, bam, magic words spoken for a lib. She doesn’t know enough about it, in any way, to actually know why she thinks this. She just does because someone told her so.
Good points! When you’re a communist you have to learn all of history and every nation’s politics while libs can just repeat this garbage. She’s a very nice and good friend, but she just believes what she is told too easily. Somehow she got in her head that AMLO is Mexico’s Trump because some middle class women from Mexico City told her so… And it’s been a frustrating to undo that damage after it’s dug in. But we’ve got to study and know our shit to combat this nonsense. I’m mostly venting lol.
I have some lib (nice but a kinda clueless) friend who’s convinced AMLO’s a fascist because some Airbnb owner told her so. But she is excited about Claudia Sheingaum… I never know how to address the layers of confusion when she brings it up lol
One of the (many) things that gives me a disconnect from someone is when I have to explain to them why they shouldn’t kill a random bug that comes across our path. It’s like, I don’t know how to explain that maybe it’s not cool to just kill any living thing you see because it’s “gross” or you just don’t like it.
I’ve got my own learning to do too, though, with many things. But it is disheartening.
Learn to wash yourselves euros, then you might have continent status restored.
Get fucked Europe
Millennium of humiliation
Return to being the armpit of Asia