¿Alguien quiere pensar en María Jimena Duzán, Ana Bejarano y Daniel Coronell?
Pobres. Se jugaron todo el “nombre” que aún les quedaba como periodistas vendiéndonos la idea de que Iván Cepeda era el candidato demócrata, y Abelardo no se ha posesionado y ya se les cayó la careta.
Al fin y al cabo nunca han sido periodistas. Son activistas de izquierda.
We are going to do a terrible thing to you. We are going to deprive you of an enemy.
- Georgi Arbatov, Soviet diplomat, 1991.
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Arbatov predicted that if the Soviet Union collapsed the United States would face a profound identity crisis.
For nearly half a century, the US completely organized it policies and internal national identity around opposing the Soviets. So much that it knew nothing else.
Without a existential adversary to unite against? It would be harder for the U.S. government its own domestic politics unified.
Since people might turn on each other without a common external threat. Or turn outwards to justify their military spending.
He was right.
The "Middle Class" was a 50-year fluke designed to prevent a communist revolution during the Cold War. Now that the threat is gone, the elites are systematically dismantling it. You aren't "falling behind"; you’re being pushed back into the peasantry.
Remember when in 2021 Wall Street was talking about China’s Lehman moment? Well, here we are. The real estate bubble has been deflated without a crash. That’s the difference between free and managed markets. There might be a lesson for the AI hype in this.
I feel like Paraguay is creating a bit of confusion regarding the proper taxonomy of South American football. Please, understand the fundamental divide:
The decline of the Brazilian national team is mirrored by the decline of Catholicism in the country. This team lacks joy, replaced by dour Protestant work ethic that is alien to their culture.
Krugman isn’t boarding the Trump train, Krugman is finally arriving at what heterodox economists pointed to years ago. Frustrating to watch this get reframed as a win for Trump’s reckless tariffs, & even more so to know he won’t disown the textbooks he wrote arguing the opposite.
Mientras se juega el Mundial de la FIFA, un francotirador de "Israel" asesinó de un disparo a Saleem Al-Ashqar, portero profesional de la Primera División Palestina, de 32 años, mientras intentaba conseguir agua para su mujer embarazada, en el sur de Gaza.
Más de 1.000 atletas palestinos han sido asesinados por "Israel" desde octubre de 2023... sin embargo, FIFA y UEFA se niega a expulsar a "Israel" de sus competiciones.