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Ghost Leviathan
Mar 2, 2017

Exploration is ill-advised.
Liberals just desperately more than anything want to be racist against someone openly

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mark immune
Dec 14, 2019

put the teacher in the cope cage imo

Turtle Watch posted:

there’s a dang chimp in the kremlin

Kokoro Wish
Jul 23, 2007

Post? What post? Oh wow.
I had nothing to do with THAT.

Ghost Leviathan posted:

Liberals just desperately more than anything want to be racist against someone openly

It's pretty much this. Seeing all these memes is triggering me, as a victim of this kind of poo poo, like nothing has in a while.

bedpan
Apr 23, 2008

Ghost Leviathan posted:

Liberals just desperately more than anything want to be racist against someone openly

Also a war they can publicly enjoy

Plutonis
Mar 25, 2011

Kokoro Wish posted:

It's pretty much this. Seeing all these memes is triggering me, as a victim of this kind of poo poo, like nothing has in a while.

Absolutely. When I saw a picture of George W. Bush holding a banana captioned "Commander In Chimp" in 2005, the memory of lynchings came in my head and I realized how much this great man has been vilified for a war he didn't chose to start.

AnimeIsTrash
Jun 30, 2018

:pwn: there are actual latin/south americans that post itt

Futanari Damacy
Oct 30, 2021

by sebmojo

Plutonis posted:

Absolutely. When I saw a picture of George W. Bush holding a banana captioned "Commander In Chimp" in 2005, the memory of lynchings came in my head and I realized how much this great man has been vilified for a war he didn't chose to start.

Just remembered the actual bushorchimp.com website that was voluntarily taken down like a week after 9/11

Though I have fewer suspicions about someone buying a MY PRESIDENT IS A MONKEY shirt in 2007 than in 2009

Tankbuster
Oct 1, 2021

Ghost Leviathan posted:

Liberals just desperately more than anything want to be racist against someone openly

oh no I am being racist against a head of state!

mark immune
Dec 14, 2019

put the teacher in the cope cage imo

Futanari Damacy posted:

MY PRESIDENT IS A MONKEY in 2009

Tankbuster posted:

oh no I am being racist against a head of state!

lol

Centrist Committee
Aug 6, 2019
please translate these posts about america into latin as per the thread title, thanks and god bless

Bk.
Nov 9, 2009

Centrist Committee posted:

please translate these posts about america into latin as per the thread title, thanks and god bless

Cogito ergo cum.

Cerebral Bore
Apr 21, 2010


Fun Shoe

Centrist Committee posted:

please translate these posts about america into latin as per the thread title, thanks and god bless

pedicabo ego vos et irrumabo

lollontee
Nov 4, 2014
Probation
Can't post for 10 years!
how is the resistance in Peru doing? i'm not sure if we even have any peruvians, but solidarity is all

ekuNNN
Nov 27, 2004

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
https://twitter.com/telesurenglish/status/1615768607002075137

Atrocious Joe
Sep 2, 2011

https://twitter.com/IndexCensorship/status/1614948078154309635?s=20&t=9Z982HNPjLqA0CZXp6pu4g

i say swears online
Mar 4, 2005

lol

i say swears online
Mar 4, 2005

oh this is good

quote:

López Obrador presides over a country which has the dubious honour of being the country in which more journalists were killed last year than any other. It is also the country ranked as the most dangerous place to be an environmental defender, according to Global Witness. The number of kidnappings, assaults and arrests under his watch has been huge. Mexico’s climate of impunity makes it possible. López Obrador has also cosied up to the military and Donald Trump and lashed out at women, NGOs and the New York Times.

Pacho
Jun 9, 2010
Tomorrow is a big day. General strike and a bunch of big protest caravans will coalesce in Lima. The main demand is for Dina Boluarte to resign and she has drawn so much aggro that it might be enough to cool things off until/when/if William Zapata (who'd become president) messes it up again. If Dina doesn't resign and suppresses the protests violently in the city, things could get even uglier and quickly

Futanari Damacy
Oct 30, 2021

by sebmojo

Not Trump!!!

tristeham
Jul 31, 2022



lmao

Some Guy TT
Aug 30, 2011

The tiny startup Make Sunsets, which had been experimenting with releasing sulfur dioxide into the atmosphere to reflect sunlight in order to cool the earth, said Wednesday it would cease operations for the time being and review its approach after the Mexican government cracked down on solar geoengineering.

The idea of releasing aerosols into the atmosphere to cool the earth has been around since the 1960's, but it had largely been relegated to science fiction until recently, as the urgency of climate change has become more apparent. The White House is currently coordinating a five-year research plan to study the idea, which is colloquially known as "solar geoengineering," and the quadrennial U.N.-backed Montreal Protocol assessment report for the first time included an entire chapter it.

Luke Iseman, a serial inventor and the former director of hardware at Y Combinator, believed all of that research was not happening fast enough. So he started tinkering with releasing sulfur dioxide particles into the atmosphere with balloons, raised venture capital to fund the startup, and brought on co-founder Andrew Song to manage sales.

Make Sunsets was planning to launch three latex weather balloons that would release anywhere between 10 and 500 grams of sulfur dioxide in January. But many industry watchers criticized its plans for being hasty and lacking sophistication.

On Friday, the government of Mexico issued a statement that it plans to "prohibit and, where appropriate, stop experimentation practices with solar geoengineering in the country."

The statement said, "The opposition to these climatic manipulations is based on the fact that there are currently no international agreements that address or supervise solar geoengineering activities, which represent an economically advantageous way out for a minority and risky for the supposed remediation of climate change."

The lack of an international governance structure surrounding global geoengineering was a big concern for industry watchers in regards to what Make Sunsets was doing.

In a mea culpa blog post published on Wednesday, the startup acknowledged it had barged forward.

"We appreciate the Mexican government's concern for protecting communities and the natural environment and support their call for scientific expertise and oversight of climate intervention activities. We also appreciate their concern for national and local engagement and regret that we had failed to take this into consideration sooner," Make Sunsets said.

Brayton Williams, a co-founder of San Mateo-headquartered venture capital firm BoostVC, who previously told CNBC the firm invested $500,000 in Make Sunsets, told CNBC the startup was "definitely not shutting down."

"When you work with super early stage startups you get very accustomed to roadblocks and naysayers. Not sure we have seen a success yet that didn't have to overcome massive hurdles early in the process," Williams told CNBC. "Onwards!"

Kelly Wanser, the executive director of SilverLining, an organization promoting research and governance of climate interventions, supports the move by the Mexican government.

"The Mexican government is right to halt irresponsible activity and emphasize the importance of scientific examination and science-based governance for solar climate intervention," Wanser said in a statement shared by a press officer. "Irresponsible activities and unfounded claims are an example of why society needs publicly supported research, scientific assessment, and the expansion of governance mechanisms like the Montreal Protocol, to help ensure a safe climate."

Both Wanser and Make Sunsets both indicated their support for thorough and detailed study of sunlight reflection technologies.

That's because sunlight reflection technology would be one of the fastest and cheapest options for bringing down the temperature of the globe, and there's already evidence it works: The 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines released thousands of tons of sulfur dioxide into the stratosphere, temporarily lowering average global temperatures by about 1 degree Fahrenheit, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

But it's not known whether the damage caused by sunlight reflection technology — possibly including damage to the ozone layer, increased respiratory illness, and acid rain — could be worse than the future effects of global warming.

"We agree that there are no alternative technologies that replace the need to reduce emissions to remediate climate change. We also see that the negative and unequal impacts of climate change are growing, and we hope to encourage the world to consider whether technological interventions have the potential to help," Make Sunsets wrote in its blog post.

Wanser echoed that sentiment. "Increasing the reflection of sunlight from the atmosphere is one of the only means that scientists have identified to significantly reduce global warming within the next few decades. Understanding its risks and benefits through research is critical for the world's most climate-vulnerable people," she said in a statement.

Fast Luck
Feb 2, 1988


some good quotes in the AP article on this

“We have delinquent ministers, presidents that murder and we live like animals in the middle of so much wealth that they steal from us every day,” said Samuel Acero, a farmer who heads the regional protest committee for the Andean city of Cusco. “We want Dina Boluarte to leave, she lied to us.”

Anger at Boluarte was the common thread as street sellers hawked T-shirts saying, “Out, Dina Boluarte,” “Dina murderer, Peru repudiates you” and a call for “New elections, let them all leave.”

“The leaders have understood that and say, they can massacre us in Cusco, in Puno, and nothing happens, we need to take the protest to Lima,” Cárdenas added, citing cities that have seen major violence.

“In my own country, the voices of the Andes, the voices of the majority have been silenced,” Florencia Fernández, a lawyer who lives in Cusco, said Wednesday ahead of the protest. “We’ve had to travel to this aggressive city, this centralist city, and we say, the Andes have descended.”

ekuNNN
Nov 27, 2004

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
https://twitter.com/KawsachunNews/status/1616212678426378242

https://twitter.com/telesurenglish/status/1616225571981389824

Nonsense
Jan 26, 2007

https://twitter.com/kennardmatt/status/1615784694036971520?s=20

AMLO owns and the Index on Censorship is CIA

ekuNNN
Nov 27, 2004

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
https://twitter.com/KawsachunNews/status/1616106944263077889

Fast Luck
Feb 2, 1988

lol AMLO is such a real one

Epic High Five
Jun 5, 2004




lol I guess the war against the cartels is going well then

Kaedric
Sep 5, 2000


Lol "Ruth Smeeth", definitely a real human's name

ikanreed
Sep 25, 2009

I honestly I have no idea who cannibal[SIC] is and I do not know why I should know.

syq dude, just syq!
I knew the instant I saw the media article about how dangerous and violent the protests in Peru were that if I went and checked this thread, I'd find out the police were violently savaging some leftist protests.

Atrocious Joe
Sep 2, 2011

https://twitter.com/KawsachunNews/status/1616859034409213957?s=20&t=OvXPfPnIKhpWjUpmr4YecA
https://twitter.com/KawsachunNews/status/1616854740880474114?s=20&t=OvXPfPnIKhpWjUpmr4YecA

ekuNNN
Nov 27, 2004

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
https://twitter.com/KawsachunNews/status/1617005454738997248

Futanari Damacy
Oct 30, 2021

by sebmojo
America wanted him to die in jail

Oglethorpe
Aug 8, 2005


:hmmyes:

my bony fealty
Oct 1, 2008

Futanari Damacy posted:

America wanted him to die in jail

Change that to present tense

Futanari Damacy
Oct 30, 2021

by sebmojo

my bony fealty posted:

Change that to present tense

I suppose it is naive to assume the story is over :smith:

Mr. Lobe
Feb 23, 2007

... Dry bones...


Futanari Damacy posted:

I suppose it is naive to assume the story is over :smith:

Not until the American empire and any of its successors are cast into the dustbin of history

Orange Devil
Oct 1, 2010

Wullie's reign cannae smother the flames o' equality!

Futanari Damacy posted:

America wanted him to die in jail

Well workers being able to consume what they produce would kill capitalism sooooo

Plutonis
Mar 25, 2011

Hell yeah we are going to do economic imperialism on the rest of south america like germany and france do on the EU

https://www.ft.com/content/5347d263-7f24-4966-8da4-79485d1287b4

Wraith of J.O.I.
Jan 25, 2012


ok who will be the germany and who will be the greece

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The Unnamed One
Jan 13, 2012

"BOOM!"
Brazil and Paraguay, because History is a cruel bitch

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