Been in Italy for work this week and thinking again about how setting a country or region up for "tourism economy" is fundamentally a drawn out humiliation ritual for the native people, even worse for migrant workers that are brought in.
“oh the flow of the beautiful game, wine, semesters abroad” pompous shit
are americans not familiar with most kids common football, the skin shredder 3000
stoner in 1976: i just smoked 12 joints in a row and now i like bluegrass music 10% more
stoner in 2026: i did a dab and gave myself wernicke’s aphasia
this is why you can’t make me care for the tourists. while tiktokers were telling you how cheap albania was this man lost his home so more tiktok tourists can take advantage of it. the 1% will turn gaza albania and any other marginalized country into dubai simply because they can
A heartbroken elderly Albanian man says Jared Kushner has taken everything he spent a lifetime building, including his land, his home, and the future he hoped to leave behind for his children.
He says he returned home one day only to find his property sealed off behind barbed wire, with men in black uniforms standing guard and refusing to let him step inside the house he once called his own.
In a single moment, he says, the life he had worked for was gone.
“It was the end of the world. The end of the world.”
“I felt imprisoned.”
“They took my freedom.”
“They took my livelihood.”
“They took my land.”
i cannot stress how incredible it is that times square has been all cleaned up by 8 am. those mfs lit a fucking bus on fire on42nd street. the knicks work hard but nyc sanitation works harder.
Fun part of this World Cup is learning about all these specific ethnic enclaves in the US, every game has some cut that’s like “and here’s the famed Curaçaoan community in Wilmington, Delaware” and it’s some random bar with like 450,000 people