• Chronicon [they/them]
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    22 days ago

    Lede buried!!!!

    The government also signed a decree for the Mexican State to regain full rights over passenger railroads.

    train-shining lets-fucking-go

      • TraschcanOfIdeology [they/them, comrade/them]
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        22 days ago

        By cutting through indigenous land and putting it in charge of the Mexican army who has been contributing to indigenous dispossession.

        Tren Maya was amlo ignoring indigenous peoples to build a vanity project. Fuck tren maya.

        • Formerlyfarman [none/use name]
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          22 days ago

          Also it's more expensive to use than buses, and ignores most tows, so only tourists use it.

          But other trains would be cool, there used to be a Guadalajara-Mordor city train, that one would get a lot of use.

          • Speaker [e/em/eir]
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            21 days ago

            Guadalajara-Mordor

            Wait till the Riders of Rojan hear about this! Gondór will never recover.

  • SkingradGuard [he/him, comrade/them]
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    22 days ago

    We already have many articles saying AMLO was an evil communist dictator. I can't wait until they start calling Claudia an evil dictator too.

  • PKMKII [none/use name]
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    22 days ago

    Well that’ll cost her 13 freedom points on the Burgerite-Eagleland Institute’s liberty scale.

    • Redcuban1959 [any]
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      22 days ago

      She is Jewish. Her parents came from Bulgaria and Lithuania, to escape the nazis. Weird, but former Brazilian president, Dilma Rouseff, was also Bulgaria and her mom or dad were a member of the Bulgarian Communist Party.

        • mathemachristian [he/him]
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          22 days ago

          Jews in german speaking nations were only allowed a few jobs so a lot of them have surnames relating to their location. Hence a lot of jewish surnames ending in -baum, -thal or -stein. The non-jews got surnames relating to their profession like Schmidt, Müller and Meier.

  • 2Password2Remember [he/him]
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    22 days ago

    what's the difference between "de-privatize" and "nationalize"? is this some weasel word bullshit or did something substantial actually happen here?

    Death to America

    • someone [comrade/them, they/them]
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      22 days ago

      The more that I think about it, the more I like the term "de-privatize". It explicitly lays out that it's a return to what should have been the normal state of affairs.

    • freagle@lemmygrad.ml
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      20 days ago

      Also remember that "privatization" was coined to describe what the Euro fascists did in their economy. So "deprivatize" is essentially "antifa"

    • Formerlyfarman [none/use name]
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      22 days ago

      They were never private. They are run by their respective trade unions, wich in practice work more like medieval guilds, were positions in the company can be inherited, sold, etc.

      Sometimes the companies subcontract stuff, and those are awarded to the families of other guild members.

      There are also a lot of benefits for high ranking members like I limited free electricity for life. On the other hand if I exceed my allowed use I get fined into space.

      There were some reforms made by the libs to make the companies more competitive, by bringing some accountability, but they were mostly half assed. And never did anything. Except annoy the most reactionary sectors in Mexican society, who all support amlo.

      This reform doesn't do anything except give them a guarantee that things will stay as they are. Rigthnow Mexico has oil for 15 years or so. And the government invests more money in pemex than it gets out, so it basically is subsidizing the high living standards of high ranking guildsmen.

      Death to america, of course

      • 2Password2Remember [he/him]
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        21 days ago

        This reform doesn't do anything except give them a guarantee that things will stay as they are.

        so this is indeed a bullshit headline. obama-sad

        Death to America

        • Formerlyfarman [none/use name]
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          21 days ago

          Not necessarily. It seems like a very strong guarantee. Any change as to how they are run, or movement towards privatisation would be almost imposible now, wich is both good and bad.

          Death to america of course.

          • 2Password2Remember [he/him]
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            21 days ago

            ah ok so it's not so much a swing to the left as it is a prevention of a future swing to the right, if i'm understanding correctly. i guess that's something to celebrate? i really just can't figure out why mexico -- its leaders but especially its people -- aren't more left-wing, given how much they suffer due to yankkkee imperialism, so i'm kind of at a loss as to why they aren't more based

            Death to America

            • Formerlyfarman [none/use name]
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              21 days ago

              Yhea exactly, it however also benefits some very reactionary local interests, so it balances out.

              I think the yanks just have too much influence.

              Besides that, Mexico has a propensity for fascism, it's one of those countries were the modern state developed alongside a warlord class instead of a capitalist class, so the state was modernity and the middle classes were beourocrats. So there wasn't the progressive force of new production arrangements, and similar to turkey this resulted in the warlords just assimilating into the resources of the modern state.

              As of now I think our biggest problem is organized crime, wich is backed by obama-drone

              And ignored by the Mexican government. Mostly due to collusion.

              Death to america of course

  • umbrella@lemmy.ml
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    22 days ago

    when i heard of this i was like fuck that another shitty wannabe socdem.

    but this looks actually big, and right on the empire's porch. is there a catch? there has to be a catch.

    the us will try another pinochet wont it? are they prepared to defend themselves?