I finally understand what Machiavelli meant when he said, "Never play fair in a game where others cheat." It doesn't mean become evil. It means stop being naive. Stop bringing honesty to people who study manipulation, stop giving access to people who weaponize closeness, and stop expecting clean hands from people who already showed you they'll throw dirt.
Sometimes wisdom is not revenge.
Sometimes wisdom is learning the rules of the room before the room uses your goodness against you.
Piénsalo. Cuando tu mascota viene desde otra habitación solo para encontrarte, significa que por un momento estaba en otro sitio… y decidió ir a verte.
A su manera, su pequeño cerebro pensó en ti. Se preguntó dónde estabas, qué estabas haciendo, y fue a buscarte.
No necesitaba nada. Solo quería estar cerca de ti.
Eso es amor en su forma más pura. Tranquilo, leal y completamente incondicional.
The US empire is waging a neocolonial assault all across Latin America.
The US blatantly meddled in Colombia's election. Trump and Marco Rubio backed the far-right, multimillionaire candidate Abelardo de la Espriella (a defender of fascist paramilitaries), and there are serious irregularities in the results.
Colombia's current left-wing President Gustavo Petro has been very pro-Palestine and pro-China. He cut relations with the genocidal Israeli regime and joined China's Belt and Road Initiative.
De la Espriella vows to form a close alliance with the US and Israel, and minimize relations with China. Just a few weeks before the elections, he was in Florida, meeting with far-right US politicians who are close allies of Trump and Rubio.
The same thing is happening across the continent. The US carried out a blatant electoral coup in Honduras, to put a drug cartel-linked, pro-US, pro-Israel, anti-China puppet in power.
The US is currently trying to steal the election in Peru, to put the daughter of the fascist former dictator in power.
The US empire already has far-right puppets in power in Argentina, Chile, and Ecuador. The leader of Chile is the Pinochet-defending son of a Nazi war criminal. The dictator of Ecuador is the son of the country's richest billionaire oligarch.
Brazil is the next target of the US empire's neocolonial assault, in this year's election.
This is the colonial Monroe Doctrine in the neo-fascist era.
Game theory explains why forgiving someone who has not paid a cost for betraying you is a vicious mistake dressed up as a virtue. Forgiveness without consequence never 'resets' the relationship. It updates the other person's model of your response function.
You now taught them that betrayal costs nothing. So, the next defection is cheaper than the first one. You have effectively lowered the price of breaking your trust.
Genuine repair requires that the cost of defection be visible and proportional before the relationship resumes. Everything else is an invitation to defection.
My "Roman Empire is the realization that my life is a lottery win. Somewhere in Sudan, Pålestine, iran, Afghanistan, Iraq or Congo, there is a boy smarter than me. He is more disciplined, more resilient, and holds more potential in his single finger than I do in my entire career.
The only difference? I am siting in a train and he is sting in the rubble of his dreams.
My "bad days" are his wildest dreams.
My "burnout" is a luxury he can't afford because his only job is staying alive.
It's geographical luck and it's a haunting injustice that we all refuse to acknowledge and look away
We haven't been able to bring any supplies into Gaza, Palestine, since 1 January 2026, because Israeli authorities are blocking aid.
Read from our medical adviser in Gaza about how this is affecting operations in our hospitals and clinics:
https://t.co/UNWPQirHcd
Les invitamos a conocer el programa de gobierno de nuestro candidato presidencial Iván Cepeda Castro (@IvanCepedaCast) y nuestra candidata vicepresidencial Aida Quilcué (@aida_quilcue).
Por favor difundir para que todo colombiano y colombiana, lo conozca.
Mi tía fue la oveja negra de la familia.
Eso decían todos.
Que era inestable.
Que cambiaba mucho de trabajo.
Que nunca sentó cabeza.
Que siempre andaba “buscándose”.
Yo crecí escuchando eso.
Así que aprendí a mirarla desde arriba.
Con lástima.
Con juicio.
Con distancia.
Cuando murió, fui al velorio por compromiso.
Vi mucha gente que no conocía.
Demasiada.
Una señora se me acercó y me dijo:
—Tu tía me dio trabajo cuando nadie me contrataba.
Otra me dijo:
—Pagó parte de los estudios de mi hijo.
Un hombre dijo:
—A mí me recibió en su casa tres meses.
Yo me quedé quieto.
Porque en mi familia la contaban como un fracaso.
Y afuera había un montón de personas hablándome de su generosidad como si hubiera sido gigante.
Después entendí algo brutal:
A veces la familia solo recuerda de ti lo que no encaja con sus expectativas.
Y el mundo, en cambio, sí alcanza a ver todo lo que hiciste con lo que te dolía.
Bloquear el estrecho de Ormuz durante una semana provoca un escándalo mundial, pero bloquear el cruce de Rafah durante años, impidiendo la entrada de alimentos y ayuda humanitaria a Gaza, no causa indignación. Es evidente que este mundo valora más los mercados, las ganancias y el capitalismo que las vidas humanas.
Hipócritas!!
This is the consolidation and hardening of the multi-pronged US attempt to reclaim Colombia in the upcoming presidential elections.
First, after the Venezuela attack, Trump's threats of military intervention.
Then, the use of the US's Ecuadorian proxy to destabilise Colombia's economy and fabricate a border crisis and violate its territorial sovereignty.
Now, Lawfare against the president to create a false narrative, especially egregious given how Trump has given the real narcos a free ride (think Juan Orlando Hernández).
None of this comes as a surprise. Colombia was for years the US deep state's most committed vassal in the Western Hemisphere. Under Petro, Colombia has taken the first steps to try and emancipate itself from this historical subjugation. Which is why the Miami neocons who are running the show in the Trump administration's Monroeist approach to Latin America are scaling up their direct interference in the Colombian elections.
https://t.co/p6bkpsnvxx