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This is highly likely to further exacerbate our water shortages and power outtages. The petition is organised by Syam Nath and our demands are to:

call on the Government of Trinidad and Tobago to suspend approval of large-scale AI data centres until comprehensive environmental, water resource, and infrastructure assessments have been completed, independently reviewed, and made available for public consultation.

The link: https://c.org/DBqKPGTcGx

I really hope that as a country we can actually organise protests and show up. I don't know how much a petition can weigh in on a decision like this and I don't know how willing people are to take the time out of their day to fight against this. This is all we have at the moment.

Switching to Spanish because I assume you must be a fellow Latino:

Ser mestizo no te hace biracial. Se puede ser latino y ser biracial, igual que se puede ser negro y latino a la vez, igual que también hay gente que es latino e indigena, pero ser latino no te hace ninguna de esas cosas de forma automatica. Una persona que tenga herencia negra y latina se puede considerar biracial... pero la realidad es que la mayoria de los latinos no lo somos. Lo de "todos nosotros los latinos somos mestizos" es algo que los latinos que son racistas usan para negar que puedan ser racistas. Te puede ofender lo de "descendiente de europeos" o lo que sea, pero el porcentage de lo que ella esta hablando es que solo un 3% más o menos de la poblacion argentina es negra, indigena, o se identifica como tal. Podemos usar otras estadisticas incluso como, no se, esta que saque de Wikipedia, pero el resultado es más o menos el mismo: La mayoria de los argentinos son latinos blancos, y los negros son la minoria.

La razón de este post es que la persona que escribe el blog se ha visto afectada por la conducta racista hacia los negros que los hinchas argentinos han estado haciendo durante el Mundial, y de ahí la conversación se ha ido yendo al tema del Blanqueamento racial.

Disculpa... pero no me queda my claro que coño tiene que ver la Operación Cóndor con todo esto. Si, fue algo horrible y ojala tanto Kissinger como Pinochet se esten cocinando en el infierno... pero el post original esta hablando de racismo, y más especificamente racismo contra los negros (El racismo contra los indigenas también es importante, por supuesto, y por eso entiendo los dos primeros ejemplos que pusiste, pero ese no era el argumento principal del OP). ¿A que viene la mención del Plan Cóndor, excepto tal vez por puro "Esto lo hicieron los gringos y tu eres gringa, así que te callas"?

Switching to Spanish because I assume you must be a fellow Latino:

Ser mestizo no te hace biracial. Se puede ser latino y ser biracial, igual que se puede ser negro y latino a la vez, igual que también hay gente que es latino e indigena, pero ser latino no te hace ninguna de esas cosas de forma automatica. Una persona que tenga herencia negra y latina se puede considerar biracial... pero la realidad es que la mayoria de los latinos no lo somos. Lo de "todos nosotros los latinos somos mestizos" es algo que los latinos que son racistas usan para negar que puedan ser racistas. Te puede ofender lo de "descendiente de europeos" o lo que sea, pero el porcentage de lo que ella esta hablando es que solo un 3% más o menos de la poblacion argentina es negra, indigena, o se identifica como tal. Podemos usar otras estadisticas incluso como, no se, esta que saque de Wikipedia, pero el resultado es más o menos el mismo: La mayoria de los argentinos son latinos blancos, y los negros son la minoria.

La razón de este post es que la persona que escribe el blog se ha visto afectada por la conducta racista hacia los negros que los hinchas argentinos han estado haciendo durante el Mundial, y de ahí la conversación se ha ido yendo al tema del Blanqueamento racial.

Disculpa... pero no me queda my claro que coño tiene que ver la Operación Cóndor con todo esto. Si, fue algo horrible y ojala tanto Kissinger como Pinochet se esten cocinando en el infierno... pero el post original esta hablando de racismo, y más especificamente racismo contra los negros (El racismo contra los indigenas también es importante, por supuesto, y por eso entiendo los dos primeros ejemplos que pusiste, pero ese no era el argumento principal del OP). ¿A que viene la mención del Plan Cóndor, excepto tal vez por puro "Esto lo hicieron los gringos y tu eres gringa, así que te callas"?

they don't know how to read and this makes them mean and dumb. also even though their meanness and dumbness are the result of poor education, they are still personal character flaws that deserve to be mocked.

they are responsible for wide scale censorship in schools and on social media. because, as we all know, children are famously politically powerful, never want to see horny or edgy content, and love it when books are banned in their school libraries.

they love to spread misinformation around so they can all armchair diagnose each other and act like they have learning disabilities in order to excuse their laziness about doing school work. obviously they are all liars and just need to just get their acts together and grow up instead of shirking responsibility for their actions like this.

they are uniquely cruel in comparison to past generations, and this is because of Phone. and also TikTok. no one has ever been cruel like this before.

I wasn't even trying to get super deep with it, because I am not nearly as informed as people who are Latin American are!

I just am aware of what's going on, and I am aware that antiblackness is global. I don't like it when we act as though antiblackness is a US American only thing. Like, no, it happens in tandem with many other problems! That is something that has been an argument on here numerous times, the idea that somehow being antiblack just... isn't a real thing and therefore cannot be critiqued, else you're "looking at things with an American lens".

Seeing it so... Flagrantly on display by Argentina during the World Cup has been wild enough for some of us to say something. Like, idk what made people think we WOULDN'T say something after seeing a popular Black streamer get called slurs, live. WHY wouldn't we look into this? It reminds me of that one post way back when, that said "if you look into the history of Israel you'd get it!" And then when people looked into the history they just had more questions 😅

I been somewhat following the "Argentinians being Extremely Racist during the World Cup" saga, and like... BONKERS lmao. How do you manage to purge an African population of 30% without some true hate 😭

It does explain that mindset that I have always found odd about Latin American racism, which is that (valid!) resentment of the US for being part of the Global North and Imperial Core, while simultaneously sharing so many of its racist, white supremacist beliefs. It's like... So you don't hate the racism portion? That's not the problem to you? 😅

https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1551&context=law_globalstudies

Hi, biracial colombian here(making this clear since I’ve noticed one of the most common things people like you do is assume people on her talking about racism are always white and either from the usa or from europe). It is absolutely not a white supremacist myth to acknowledge the fact that Argentina did very much try to purge its Black population. Cut that “hiding my racism behind the facade of anti-imperialism” bullshit for two seconds and try to think on why the fuck did we latinoamericanos ended up having a lot of multiracial heritage. It wasn’t just something that happened on a whim, it wasn’t just “population just got mixed early on,” it was a result of trying to whiten the Indigenous (and later on the Black) population. Blanquiamento. A term that is still nowadays extremely important to our relationship with race as latinoamericanos, due to it still taking place in the context of individual and family settings. Yes, brown people in Argentina exist, but if we want to look at say, statistics, then you’d have to admit that the majority of Argentinians are white and of european descent.

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And yes a lot of them do very much believe themselves to be europeans lol ask anyone from any other country in latinoamerica, ask argentinians themselves, a lot of them will agree on the a reason why for a lot of us they’re not considered part of latinoamerica. Because they. They don’t really want to be.

y cuando digo que la idea de que en argentina solo hay gente blanca es un mito de supremacía blanco, estoy diciendo algo muy real. hubo todo un movimiento estatal, sobre todo a finales del siglo xix y comienzos del xx, para tratar de negar y ocultar el hecho de que argentina tenía una gran cantidad de población de color. se trató de tapar y ocultar estos colectivos. por ejemplo, hubo toda una campaña mediática y cultural por parte del estado para tratar de ocultar que buenos aires fue fundada por una misión enviada desde paraguay conformada por europeos, sí, pero también mucho criollo mixto y guaraníes.

el racismo estatal existió y existe, pero no tomó la forma que los gringos acusan. no hubo "purga" racial a la gente negra. llamar a los casamientos interraciales un "blanqueamiento" es de por sí muy controversial.

Ok so roads are important infrastructure. A lot of stuff that's important happens on roads. Now, let's imagine that quadrillionaire Matt Stench has decided that the next big tech innovation is the Wide Car. It's a car that takes up six lanes despite seating only one passenger.

The Wide Car is supposed to be the future, and everyone's going to be driving Wide Cars, even though nobody who makes Wide Cars is turning a profit. Employers are offering Wide Cars as an employee benefit, and getting "nah." Some employers are going as far as demanding their employees drive Wide Cars, and the result is that people take time out of their workdays to get in the mandatory gas usage for their Wide Car before driving home in a regular car.

In spite of the fact that the Wide Car is clearly set to fail, there's an enormous push to expand to twelve-lane roads to accommodate a bunch of Wide Cars that simply will not materialize. This is not an organic response to demand, but a speculative investment that amplifies the existing issues with road development for no good reason.

NOT THE CRABS WE EXPECTED BUT STILL SOME CRABS WE DESERVE!!!

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