in that case: i wonder how much “soviet union” is still lives in russia and whether or not there’s enough to keep the economic progress from vanishing.

i wonder how much of that economic progress will remain after the ukranian war.

i wonder if it was an american military industrial complex fueled excuse to create a new profit stream in a new proxy war between russia and nato.

ukraine is perfect because the russians will never give them up for a myriad of reasons and that guarantees that american military contractors will be able to milk profits from ukraine as a proxy battleground country for as long as both russia and the united states exist; longer than any of us here today.

That would be perfect

Ukraine US proxies

not for much longer if trump has anything to do with it.

i hope that my 17 year old car holds out a little bit longer so that I can get a chinese EV at 1/2 the price of the telsa and with 95% of the capability; i will no longer buy american cars.

who? nato or the russians?

i bet this is why they drumbeat and so heavily decry on “TERRORISTS!!!” to exclusion of any kind of reasonable arguments like: that one man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter; particularly when it comes to a genocide.

it’s a bit like the democrat’s decrying “TANKIES!!” to shut out all criticism that lost them the election; except decrying “TERRORISTS!!!” does win, unlike the democrats.

i would judge; but i’m learning i’m your typical american reddit liberal and judging would be like the kettle calling the pot black; but only one of them is hot atm.

Yes. Besides Madrid.

i think i benefit from not knowing who my ancestors were and that they were genocided out of existence in this country until i was well into adulthood; because i don’t have to experience the visceral reaction you’re sharing.

studying this identity and my experiences that came as a results of my other identities have taught me that democrats are being mislead in service to maintaining our systems and; even when they know they’re being manipulated; they still go along with the program because it benefits them to do so.

it’s cliche and you’re justified in hating me for parroting it: “don’t hate the player, hate the game”

catalonia is the richest economic region in spain and my comment from earlier can help shed some further light for you: https://lemmy.ml/post/22333765/14861402

is puidgemont still under the specter of imprisonment for leading the independence movement?

When people protested the continuing support for Israel’s genocide, Harris’ response was “I’m speaking.” It’s hard to imagine a better example of Democrats showing themselves as self-important, uncaring, and entitled than that response. In effect, Harris told everyone who cares about Palestine to just shut up about genocide and defer to her.

that was the exact moment when i could no longer convince myself to vote for her after wrestling over it due to project 2025 & ukraine and i think if she had not gone diet-republican on immigration, i wouldn’t have been wrestling about it at the time.

this is definitely hitting a fevered pitch; i’ve had relatives that i hadn’t spoken to since i came out decades ago reach out to me for help for a friend and i’m proud of them for not shunning the migrants & refugees like too many of the mexicans like do and swallowing their pride to talk to me on someone else’s behalf.

it’s a pity that i’m leaving my job; the disgustingly fat paychecks would help A LOT rn.

with the trump going after arizona to get kari lake into power; agitators enshitifying hexbear; and isreali spooks triggering violence, it’s clear we’re heading into a new era of right wing agitation and i hope that the accelerationism leads to something like ubi once the dust settles since we got social security and unemployment the last time things were this bad.

the monarchy is definitely not doing themselves any favors with their behaviors and i think that they have to, to keep enriching themselves.

the last election result i saw regarding the support for monarch was at 51% a short while after the referendum and i don’t doubt that it’s gotten worse since then based on the few random updates i get from telemundo and univision.

i don’t think it’s harsh and i think that pointing this out is warranted for the people looking at this exchange and learning from it.

my experiences as an american born spanish speaker in the american tech industry; my experiences with my formerly illegal mexican family and how it relates to trump’s election win; and lemmy’s ignorance of the current events in spain despite spain being one the clearest examples of a western hegemony that won’t passively yield to the gazan genocide proves that this kind of interaction is necessary.

to answer your question: yes i am aware. the government is clearly struggling to keep spain to together since they perpetually have to form coalitions to govern instead of one party governing by itself like it is in the us or the uk. i’ve used the basque and catalonians as examples to help describe the political background for valencia and the spanish government and the monarchy. it’s continued presence in the discourse has turned from a digression into the main point in this thread and i think the conditions i mentioned earlier are some of the reasons why.

hamstrung in how they way that they can offer it; the americans are coming down hard on the mexicans whenever they try to help and i think that the russians are one of the few countries that can do it since the americans would have to further deplete their arsenal of leverages to sanction them further for it.

they’ve been ostracized in living memory by the west for franco and the eu puts them at the kid’s table because their socialist heavy political zeitgeist and all despite having their own well-known world-encompassing empirical hegemony of their own.

like the russians, seeing their influence descend to almost irrelevancy despite a history of the former serves a cultural unifier that the spanish desperately need right now; so if anyone in the west would be amenable to a change, it would be them and i’m certain that my government is aware and taking actions to mitigate it.