Gabin Aguayo

Just another consciousness🧠 Chemical Engineer🧪 Strength & Mobility Coach 💪🏼 - I help people train with purpose

[Gabin Aguayo @gabin_af]

When the rain washes you clean, you’ll know

[Freckled Liberty 🔥 @FreckledLiberty]

men, is this true? 🧐

[Gabin Aguayo @gabin_af]

Fue buenísimo mientras duró

[Jorge Gómez Naredo @jgnaredo]

Las plataformas como Uber Eats llaman cínicamente “socios” a sus trabajadores.

“Socios” que no reciben ni utilidades ni seguridad ni nada.

Eso pronto terminará. Se viene reforma para que se respeten los derechos laborales de más de 600 mil trabajadores de esas plataformas.

[El Necio @ElNecio_Cuba]

‘‘Vinieron. Ellos tenían la Biblia y nosotros teníamos la tierra. Y nos dijeron: ‘‘Cierren los ojos y recen’’. Y cuando abrimos los ojos, ellos tenían la tierra y nosotros teníamos la Biblia’’

✍️ Eduardo Galeano

[Gabin Aguayo @gabin_af]

I never thought I’d live to see the day when everybody’s words got in the way.

[Luis F. Munguía @luisfmunguia]

1 Se acabó la veda electoral y ya podemos hablar de indicadores económicos, sociales y laborales. Creo que muchos de estos, pueden ayudar a algunas personas a entender mejor el resultado de las elecciones del pasado domingo. Empezamos por el salario mínimo:

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

Hungary's FM Szijjártó also had a great answer when asked about his country's relation with China, calling China "a huge chance and a huge opportunity" and revealing (which I didn't know) that actually the key reason why the Chinese invest in Hungary is "because of the Germans", i.e. to supply German companies that also have production facilities in Hungary.

This was also brilliant:

"Here again rationality is needed. We look at China, the cooperation with China as a chance, as an opportunity, as something that helps Hungary economy grow, as something that helps Hungarian economy to move to the next dimension, to be upgraded technologically speaking

And when I listen to those who say China is a threat, then I raise my question: don't those countries have secret services or something? Because we have our secret services, we have our national security structure and if this structure signals any threat or danger to us regarding some action, then we don't do that.

So what happens between us and China is absolutely, absolutely advantageous from the perspective of our national interest and national economy. What would not be in our national interest because of security reasons for example, then we would not do it. So I mean this is so simple from our perspective."

I really wish this type of rationality was more generalized in Europe instead of the mind-numbing "good vs evil" ideology that's so pervasive at the moment...

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

Quite extraordinary (and justified) rant by Hungary's foreign minister about sanctions on Russia, calling out the immense hypocrisy that's going on around them, and asking for "rationality" given the sanction regime didn't achieve its goals and hurt the EU more than Russia.

This is the source (worth watching in its entirety): https://t.co/8TTCKlJNcW

[Gabin Aguayo @gabin_af]

@benshapiro “He ended up becoming and underground fighter against the British”… talk about a euphemism for TERRORIST! The double standards are so evident… They love to cry out “terrorist” when someone resists them but they won’t think twice to do harm to others. It’s disgusting.

[Dr. Anastasia Maria Loupis @DrLoupis]

🇺🇸US rapper Macklemore has released a new song called "Hind’s Hall", in solidarity with student protesters across the US ❤️🇵🇸

[Viri Ríos @Viri_Rios]

1. Hoy es el #DebateINE sobre desigualdad y pobreza.

Va hilo 🧵con lo que se dice por ahí y datos sobre si es (o no) cierto... Agárrense!

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

🇺🇸SHAHID BOLSEN:

"The United States, the UK, Germany, and France—these are some of the most oppressive and repressive governments in the world if you remove all of the self-praise and the propaganda that they spew about themselves and about freedom and civil rights and so on.

They are a Western axis against freedom, and if you don't know that—I mean, if you live there and you don't know that—then you just haven't tested it.

The only way that you can live in any of those countries—and increasingly in the US—and not know that they are despotic tyrannies, is if you have been so numbed and so brainwashed that you hold no opinion in your head that wasn't put there by the state, that wasn't injected into your lifeless brain by the mainstream media.

So, you never had anything to protest about.

You never questioned your government.

You never challenged the official narratives about anything.

That's the only way that you can't know what I'm talking about.

And that makes you even more repressed, more oppressed, and more tyrannized than the people who are getting beaten and who are getting detained for objecting to their government's brutality.

You're even more of a victim.

You're even more abused than those protesters who are getting clubbed upside the head and getting choked and getting abused by the security forces because your government, your rulers, your ruling class has never let you live a day in your life without telling you what to think and sabotaging your ability to think for yourself.

You're the most abused in your society.

What they did to you is worse than beating; it's worse than detention; it's worse than imprisonment.

At least those protesters who are getting beaten and arrested by the police—at least their minds are free, at least they have their own thoughts in their heads.

But you—your leaders have made you a zombie that thinks that the right thing, the moral thing, is whatever power chooses to do; your government has put you into a moral coma.

You're morally comatose.

They put you under an induced coma so that you can't see them sponsoring the wanton murder of 34,000 people, some 24,000 innocent women and children.

You can't see that there's anything wrong with that.

You feel nothing, or even worse, you think it's the right thing, you think it's the moral thing, you think that what your government is doing is good by sanctioning indiscriminate slaughter; you think that's fine.

Why?

They've robbed you of your very humanity, and that's the only reason that you can believe that you live in a free society.

That's the only reason that you can believe that you live in a society with civil rights and liberty and free speech and all of those other wonderful things that you never had and never will have.

The only freedom that you have in those countries is the freedom to agree with power.

You're free to submit to the powers that be."

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

I dare anyone intellectually honest to find a single lie in this UN speech by Iran. I personally couldn't.

By contrast you have countries like the US, UK, France and Germany calling their attack "unjustifiable and highly irresponsible" (in the German Chancellor's words), which relies on everyone forgetting it was made in retaliation to Israel bombing the Iranian consulate (meaning there was a strong legal justification for the strike), and relies on everyone not looking at the reality of an attack which only targeted military sites and didn't kill a single person (meaning it was responsible).

Thinking about it, maybe more than anything, this might have been one of the key reasons for the way Iran conducted its strike. A strike, yet another one, on Israel and the West's credibility, designed to expose the mental gymnastics needed to maintain their narrative. And the West, again, fell right into that trap.

War, at the end of the day, is a battle of wills. Military strength is almost secondary: as we've seen time and time again the side with the strongest commitment, the side that feels their cause is the most righteous, wins. This is why, for instance, Vietnam and Afghanistan both won against the US despite the gigantic differential in sheer strength.

And this is why more and more people, including extremely prominent voices in Israel itself, are starting to say that Israel has lost the war: because in the words of a famous Haaretz journalist who wrote that "Israel Has Been Defeated – a Total Defeat" (https://t.co/Is8R0Y5bZm) it's become "internationally ostracized", meaning the world at large has become convinced that the Palestinian side is the righteous one.

Iran's strike further advances this international ostracization. It makes anyone with basic common sense tell themselves "ok, that was actually... a very reasonable response" and makes those acting as if that response was disproportionate or unprovoked sound like liars at best, deranged lunatics at worst.

We often say we live in a post-truth world, which in many respects is true. But if all this demonstrates anything, it is that losing that commitment to truth has immense and very real security implications.

[Santiago Armesilla @armesillaconde]

Como bien explicó Gustavo Bueno, el fundamentalismo democrático consiste en considerar la democracia liberal burguesa avanzada de mercado pletórico capitalista como el pináculo de los sistemas políticos, como el mejor jamás organizado, tachando de "bárbaros" a todos los demás, sean los que sean. Una persona no demócrata o antidemócrata será vista igual que una bestia, que un ser inferior, por el demócrata fundamentalista. Éste, además, considera que los "déficits de la democracia", si los tiene, solo pueden resolverse con "más democracia" (liberal burguesa avanzada de mercado pletórico capitalista).

El fundamentalista democrático, o democratista, es "occidentalista", liberal, procapitalista, propartitocrático (pluripartidismo competitivo), pro Declaración Universal de los Derechos Humanos de 1948, pro propiedad privada burguesa. Pero también es supremacista cultural. Dirá que Israel tiene derecho a defenderse, pero Irán no tiene derecho a hacerlo si atacan su embajada en Siria como hizo Israel. Solo las democracias liberales burguesas avanzadas tienen "derecho a defenderse" o a atacar. Los demás Estados del planeta son "la selva" (@JosepBorrellF), "la barbarie" (@JMilei), un conjunto de sujetos de razas "inferiores". El democratista no lo sabe, pero es xenófobo.

El democratista occidentalista considera que si la Ucrania gobernada por liberales que financian grupos neonazis cae, Rusia conquistará Europa entera. El democratista considera también que si la avanzadísima democracia feminista y pro-LGTBIQA+ de Israel, que mete a los palestinos en bantustanes étnicos como Cisjordania y Gaza en un claro régimen de Apartheid étnico, cae, el Islam conquistará Europa. No le importa que el sionismo sea una ideología xenófoba hija del romanticismo alemán. No es consciente de que el sionismo surge del mismo abrevadero ideológico del que nace el nacionalsocialismo, a saber, el idealismo alemán. Ni lo piensa siquiera.

El democratista (liberal y socialdemócrata) considera que está bien que la avanzadísima democracia feminista y pro-LGTBIQA+ de Israel mate 15.000 niños palestinos en bombardeos indiscriminados sobre Gaza, evitando así que se conviertan en adultos machistas y homófobos en el futuro. Es su forma de pensar y lo considera correcto.

El democratista (liberal y socialdemócrata) considera que está bien apoyar económicamente a grupos neonazis y neofascistas en Ucrania contra el "zar comunista" Putin, cuya Rusia desea balcanizar, como ya balcanizó el Imperio Español en el siglo XIX.

El democratista (liberal y socialdemócrata) considera que está bien apoyar dictaduras militares de derecha como las de Pinochet o Videla, e incluso regímenes abiertamente fascistas, mientras respeten la propiedad privada burguesa y estos regímenes sean "una solución temporal" antes de la restauración del régimen de partidos competitivos. No vayan a gobernar peligrosos comunistas aliados de gente de piel oscura.

Esa es su forma de ver el mundo, y no considera que su forma de ver el mundo es un peligro para la estabilidad mundial y de la paz.

[Blue Apple 🗝️ @YarielSuarez612]

Hamburgo. Abril de 1971. Una atractiva "australiana" entra en la oficina de Roberto Quintanilla, cónsul de Bolivia y el personaje más odiado de la izquierda. Breve diálogo. Tres disparos. La muerte tenía rostro de mujer. Monika Ertl, “la vengadora del Che Guevara”.

[Abro hilo]