I was born in #Argentina.

[angelastella@social.treehouse.systems]

I was born in #Argentina. I live here. I have no wish or expectation to leave. Why the fuck do I keep tabs on US politics? Why do I have opinions about it?

Let me introduce you to the idea of America's backyard. Take your time. When you grasped the concept, you may want to read Naomi Klein's The Shock Doctrine too. Or Eduardo Galeano's Open Veins of Latin America (you may wan to skip Isabel Allende's foreword).

As @aral said a few days ago:

If people in the US have to worry about x, y, and z, you can be damn sure you’ll have to worry about x, y, and z soon enough. When the US coughs, the world gets ill. Just one of the many joys of global empire.

[atax1a@infosec.exchange]

@angelastella the thing that makes us grind our teeth is that none of this had to be this way, nor does it have to

[atax1a@infosec.exchange]

@angelastella and the fact that it is this way is nothing short of highway robbery

[angelastella@social.treehouse.systems]

@atax1a

Yeah, I know a little about how it hits you. And how you're at the farthest conceivable distance from being proud to be an American; to carry that nationality in your papers, I mean.

[atax1a@infosec.exchange]

@angelastella you're fuckin' sharp as a knife, you know

[angelastella@social.treehouse.systems]

@atax1a

Am I? I wonder.

[atax1a@infosec.exchange]

@angelastella well we certainly think so.