friedmacguffins wrote:
May I ask the state of your highschool? You don't have to answer, if you don't like. I've lifted lots of weights, not out of machismo, but because I was mortified. Existential threats came to mind.
On the geopolitical level, I would consider it more of a drawn out process.
it has been noted that Mexico controls it's own southern borders, somewhat viciously. Yet, Islamist paraphernalia is found in the desert. People from across the Atlantic wash up in craft, which are not sea worthy. How does that work, without a complicit Mexico.
What attempts has Mexico made, to improve the Malthusian carrying capacity of it's own land, using it's notorious labor surplus or industrial army.
I'm willing to credit the sulfurous stench to fumaroles, but can smell the Salton Sea, over two counties. MS-13 is gratified, where I walk my dogs, and drunk Santa Muerte cultists beat their wives, in the church parkinglot, within direct line of sight from my front porch. Probably, through no fault of their own, subsidized labor has displaced 85% of the neighborhood, where I have lived for 25yrs. They are afforded credit with no strings attached, with their own special line at the bank, driving up prices for everyone, look down their nouveau riche noses at white people, then their luxury cars get repossessed in rushhour traffic. There is a season when credit runs out, and their entire neighborhoods go up for sale, every so often.
We are forever being told there is not enough to go around.
Anyone who feels that I am being bigoted is invited to research Fox's ancestry and Mexico's treatment of the indigenous. Mexico is a political movement, not a race, and those are negotiable.
Of course Mexicans aren't a race, anymore than Americans are. And yes, the indigenous population are treated abominably, while African Mexicans are all but invisible in their poverty.
I can't speak intelligibly about Latino people in your neck of the woods, as I don't live there, save for the fact that racism is often directed at them in the Southwest.
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-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer