Old people wars/bankers wars
"Boris Johnson arrived in Kiev and said that we won't sign anything with them at all, and let's just fight" - Davyd Arakhamia
Abhazian russian top manager government worker about negotiations with russians and Boris Johnsons directives from United Kingdom, in 2022.
Full interview on ukrainian:
Wiki of Arahamia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davyd_Arakhamia
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Curse my rotten luck,
just walkin’ and walkin’...!
The moon, just to be more of a moon,
wants to steal the wind away,
to carry it from palm tree to palm tree,
and never give it back.
The moon came down to the marsh,
just to see her own reflection,
the bulls, half-dead from thirst,
drank her up right with the water.
God made rum and He made man,
so they could get together,
God is Almighty,
so His will be done.
He who lives without lovin’,
is only just gettin' by,
and it’s too late when he realizes,
he's just a dead man walkin’.
I was saddlin’ up my horse,
and she started to cry,
so then, without a single word,
I started unsaddlin' again.
With my horse and my lasso
I live my life in peace
I carry a sign on my forehead:
"I am not for sale, nor for rent!"
Curse rotten luck,
just walkin' and walkin'!
I always wander everywhere
I always return to the old land
What is your hair style? How do you maintain it? Opinions on hair in general are welcomed.
art by zebrafish
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In 2003, one of the most viral moments of the Hispanic internet happened, a stunt that, to this day, remains unmatched. Two Miami Radio hosts, Enrique Santos and Joe Ferrero from the popular radio show "El Vacilón de la mañana," pulled the biggest phone prank in the history of the world when they decided to call Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez.
In January 2003, using some clips taken from a call of Fidel to Vicente Fox, they called the Miraflores Palace in Venezuela to reach President Hugo Chávez. In the call, they used a woman pretending to be an assistant of the Cuban presidency, and while pretending to represent Fidel for an urgent call, they got the private phone number of Hugo Chávez. During the call, they utilized nonsensical audio clips and feigned connection issues to keep Chávez on the line, systematically breaking down his guard. When they had enough, they broke character and told Chavez they were calling him from Miami and that he was live on air, told him to get the fuck out of Venezuela, called him a murderer and a shithead.
The call exploded, people couldn't believe it, international media went nuts reporting on how poor Chavez's communications were, the presidency sent a formal letter of complaint to the government of the US, and Enrique and Joe? 3-day suspension, no pay, pretty much just a slap on the wrist. But they haven't finished yet.
Come July 2003. After people stopped talking about the situation and the War of Iraq went harder by the day, one day out of the blue, they decided to close the chapter and now call Castro. Using the soundbites they got from Chavez's call, they pretended they were members of the secretary of the presidency calling concerning some luggage and documents. Using the same tricks but with more experience and finesse, they managed to trick the old Dictator into engaging in conversation. Once the timing was right, Joe went off on him and asked if he was happy with all the shit he did to the Island, which prompted Castro to get mad and call him a comemierda (shit eater), a mariconsón (huge faggot), and to tell him to go fuck himself (vete al coño de tu madre)
The consequences didn't wait. The FCC later fined the radio station regarding the prank call to Fidel Castro, as it involved the recording of a conversation without the consent of the other party, the DJs accepted and paid the fine in Pennies. To avoid further repercussions, the station accepted the pennies, paid the fine, and subsequently donated the total to charity.
Ultimately, the prank wasn't just a viral moment enclosed in the context of merchandise and entertainment. It was using humor as a weapon to spit in the face of power. It was a cathartic experience for the hosts, a way to confront the men responsible for their exile. Beyond that, it was a moment of profound solidarity. Cubans and Venezuelans have always shared deep cultural and historical ties; for these hosts, calling Chávez a 'piece of shit' wasn't just about going viral. It was a signal to Venezuelans that from Miami, people were watching, seeing through the facade, and using humor as a weapon to speak truth to power.
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Incompetence is a side effect of government officials getting older. Modern medicine keeps people alive longer, so leaders age out until they are in wheelchairs but are such sociopaths they will retain their grip on their position until they are on their deathbeds.
Incompetence comes with age, the human brain malfunctions as people get older.
Your brain is good for maybe 3 decades at best, after that its clown shoes.
Modernity, with all the good it came with, brought something else upon us: cynicism and materialism. Modern man is nowadays so enclosed in his own filth and ego that he forgets that, by definition and evolution, we are a social species, and because of it, we're meant to live in community. Living in community is not a passive act; it's an active one. Some people can lead, and others can follow, but they all share the same duty: to serve.
This is not a new crisis, mind you, but a culmination of a century-long fracture. The philosophical and ethical foundations of the West were blasted away in the trenches of the First World War and buried under the rubble of the Second. In the wake of this civilizational devastation, modern man found himself hollowed out by despair, stripped of the traditional certainties that once anchored his existence.
Some reacted to the horrors of the war by turning to the utopian illusion of twentieth-century state communism. By wearing the mask of the collective, claiming to be "for the people," it managed to gain hold not only politically but spiritually. Communism, by being built on a foundation of materialism and atheism, stripped away the transcendent spark of the human soul, reducing man to an economic unity, a cog in a vast historical machine. This Animal Economicus, as the communists called it, or Animal Racionalisticus, as the liberals called it, was the same thing; a man independent from God, and severing man from God reduced human lives to disposable raw material for the state.
Living under, or seeing from afar, the catastrophic failure of these regimes serves as a historical warning that community cannot be engineered by any means through state force or materialist dialectics. It can only be built on love, but not any type of love, but what St. Augustine of Hippo called the Ordo Amoris (the right ordering of love). St. Augustine understood that a healthy human society requires Caritas: a sacrificial, divinely inspired love for one's neighbor. Totalitarianism and authoritarianism have always demanded a fundamentally disordered love, forcing the citizen to worship the political system above God and the party above the family. When our loves are misordered, when we put the ego, the state, or material wealth above the transcendent, tyranny and isolation are the inevitable results. Communism tried to build brotherhood without a father, and in doing so, it became an engine for destruction and hate.
When the Iron courtain fell many intellectuals rushed to publish papers on how we were living in a post-ideological world, how capitalism won and how we're moving forward to a new era, and although positive elements were coming out of that deal, modern man is still surrounded by the echoes of that same chaos, the lack of purpose, the loneliness epidemic, and an ambient sense of gloom and doom makes easy to feel helpless and miserable. But no man has the right to surrender to that despair without at least attempting to serve his fellow man.
Ultimately, serving one's people is one of the highest duties a man can perform. It is a singular act of devotion executed simultaneously for his God, for his nation, and, in a profound paradox, for himself. In the absolute surrender of the ego to the service of others, the cycle of modern cynicism is broken. Through active service, you find a love that validates your own existence, a deep affection for the neighbor you shield, and ultimately, the one thing modernity promises but can never deliver: a true, unshakeable sense of purpose.
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