Gabriel Boric has become the world's most powerful Tool fan— Populism Updates (@PopulismUpdates) December 19, 2021
― mark s, Sunday, 19 December 2021 23:52 (two years ago) link
Nazis lose again.
― When Smeato Met Moaty (Tom D.), Sunday, 19 December 2021 23:53 (two years ago) link
A victory for Bosch
― calzino, Sunday, 19 December 2021 23:59 (two years ago) link
I was searching Boric's Twitter feed to get a sense of his musical taste. He's also tweeted approvingly about Pearl Jam on multiple occasions.
― jaymc, Monday, 20 December 2021 00:01 (two years ago) link
uh oh
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 20 December 2021 00:03 (two years ago) link
Populist flavor runs high in Chilean election campaign ads:pic.twitter.com/tyvjFtQzVf— Brian Phipps (@brandstrat) December 8, 2021
― mark s, Monday, 20 December 2021 00:05 (two years ago) link
Sexooooooooo
― 《Myst1kOblivi0n》 (jim in vancouver), Monday, 20 December 2021 05:38 (two years ago) link
So happy, Kast winning would've killed me
― 《Myst1kOblivi0n》 (jim in vancouver), Monday, 20 December 2021 05:39 (two years ago) link
This is good. Who knew sick riffs were the answer
― imago, Monday, 20 December 2021 06:26 (two years ago) link
Time for Kast to, ahaha, 'walk away'
― Allegra do Povo (Bananaman Begins), Monday, 20 December 2021 10:34 (two years ago) link
Goose-step surely?
― When Smeato Met Moaty (Tom D.), Monday, 20 December 2021 10:40 (two years ago) link
And yes of courss
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 20 December 2021 12:03 (two years ago) link
henry kissinger lived just long enough to see a socialist take power in chile again.— Asinus Pervicax (@Cato_of_Utica) December 20, 2021
enshallah
― symsymsym, Monday, 20 December 2021 16:26 (two years ago) link
🚀 FUN FACT: The Swiftie candidate for the presidency of Chile, @gabrielboric has won the elections! 🇨🇱He shares that he discovered @TaylorSwift13 during the pandemic and that his favorite album is "Folklore." pic.twitter.com/683H746hhK— The Swift Society (@TheSwiftSociety) December 20, 2021
― CarlosDP, Monday, 20 December 2021 16:44 (two years ago) link
Mark Fisher, espectro y legado, a través de la lectura del ahora Presidente electo de Chile, @gabrielboric.https://t.co/vUT9FZLbBG pic.twitter.com/qS7gloSw4g— Caja Negra Editora (@cajanegraedit) December 20, 2021
― CarlosDP, Monday, 20 December 2021 16:45 (two years ago) link
there are also photos of Boric wearing Radiohead & NIN hats. hope he turns out to be a great president cuz I think he rules
― frogbs, Tuesday, 21 December 2021 04:05 (two years ago) link
lmao
Chilean reddit is going ham with Boric memes pic.twitter.com/vn5CnoI5Oi— ❄️🎄☃️🌹Garrison Grogan🌹 ☃️🎄❄️ (@gammison) December 20, 2021
― frogbs, Tuesday, 21 December 2021 04:06 (two years ago) link
These CIA budget cuts have been brutal. https://t.co/Rr8HZkiuRP— David Weigel (@daveweigel) December 20, 2021
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 21 December 2021 09:58 (two years ago) link
https://t.co/LCot5R9JpV pic.twitter.com/eBQWxVyV49— Crowsa Luxemburg (@quendergeer) January 22, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 22 January 2022 14:44 (two years ago) link
The Estallido Social in Chile from 2019-2020/-the present was one of the most powerful revolts of the last ten years. It went further than toppling a government, it won the chance for the social movements to rewrite the Constitution.As predicted, that strategy has failed. pic.twitter.com/tYXNk7dN1P— PeterGelderloos (@PeterGelderloos) May 16, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 17 May 2022 09:40 (two years ago) link
Yeah, attempts to nationalize the mining sector in Chile have not historically gone without complications...
But there are 499 articles in the draft, and even if the entire document is rejected (as looks likely) in the September plebiscite, we don't know to what extent its tenets (such as recognition of greater autonomy of indigenous nations) will be implemented via other means.
This story ain't over.
― keen reverberations of twee (collardio gelatinous), Tuesday, 17 May 2022 21:15 (two years ago) link
Yeah, things are built stone by stone. A lot of anarchists ofc are writing it off (see also Peru) because voting, but my distanced sense is that these things won't go away.
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 17 May 2022 21:18 (two years ago) link
Few things messier in the world than trying to finalize a constitution (hell, it's a nightmare just trying to agree on a non-profit's Mission Statement).
It's definitely not as fun as crowding into the Plaza de Italia and singing your lungs out.
― keen reverberations of twee (collardio gelatinous), Tuesday, 17 May 2022 21:25 (two years ago) link
Ugh. ^ I’d like to take that last sentence back. Comes off totally disrespectful.
― keen reverberations of twee (collardio gelatinous), Thursday, 19 May 2022 02:55 (two years ago) link
Cry more bitch!
It is a woke and fiscally irresponsible mess https://t.co/TlzZriYrqs— The Economist (@TheEconomist) July 6, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 7 July 2022 16:44 (one year ago) link
they really need to stop calling things woke
― symsymsym, Thursday, 7 July 2022 16:50 (one year ago) link
Does the Economist do this a lot? It's a bit of a surprise..
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 7 July 2022 17:00 (one year ago) link
Is that a joke
― Osama bin Chinese (gyac), Thursday, 7 July 2022 17:07 (one year ago) link
Instructive to compare this to their enthusiastic support of the Pinochet coup.
https://www.economist.com/news/2008/07/03/the-end-of-allende
― Piedie Gimbel, Thursday, 7 July 2022 17:11 (one year ago) link
the editorial does not in fact deploy the word "woke" in the headline or in the text
― mark s, Thursday, 7 July 2022 17:16 (one year ago) link
I didn't want to register (Esp after that picture of a bog roll).
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 7 July 2022 17:20 (one year ago) link
It's not only a much better constitution than the precedent one (imo), but would look to be pretty dope on its own regards (imo again).
― Van Horn Street, Thursday, 7 July 2022 17:22 (one year ago) link
I assume you were joking xyzzzz__ but I guess if anyone didn’t know
At various points in its storied history, @TheEconomist opposed famine relief to Ireland, expressed sympathy for the Confederate States of America, was lukewarm about universal suffrage, opposed Britain's entry into World War I, and cheered the coup against Allende in Chile.— Dhruva Jaishankar (@d_jaishankar) April 1, 2020
― Osama bin Chinese (gyac), Thursday, 7 July 2022 17:24 (one year ago) link
Xpost
Wokeness is a clear subtext in the piece ("lol, talking about gender, being nice to animals and the right to housing??"). I guess it's the mullet approach to editorial: business at the front in print, party at the back on social media.
― Piedie Gimbel, Thursday, 7 July 2022 17:24 (one year ago) link
Or just saying the quiet bit out loud for the clicks.
― Piedie Gimbel, Thursday, 7 July 2022 17:26 (one year ago) link
Beautiful.
I don't know guys, I think the new Chilean constitution actually sounds pretty good! https://t.co/Wp8QMKTDpt pic.twitter.com/gofKzsCWGC— Gary McQuiggin (@ggaaarrryyyy) July 7, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 7 July 2022 18:42 (one year ago) link
Thinking it's too good to get passed.
I'm sure The Economist patted Sri Lanka on the back.
sri lanka has been under 16 IMF programs and none have worked— jude 🌍 (@whoajude) July 7, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 8 July 2022 08:37 (one year ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FXG6xgKVsAEKLKL?format=jpg&name=medium
sick burn
― calzino, Friday, 8 July 2022 12:38 (one year ago) link
I guess it's the mullet approach to editorial: business at the front in print, party at the back on social media.
― no one wants to twerk anymore (will), Friday, 8 July 2022 12:43 (one year ago) link
Finally done decent reporting on the constitution.
https://www.thenation.com/article/world/chile-constitution/
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 16 July 2022 18:17 (one year ago) link
*some
🚨🇨🇱 Scores of UChicago professors and alumni have written to President @gabrielboric to slam the "shameful legacy" of the Chicago Boys that collaborated with Dictator Pinochet to write the 1980 constitution that has strangled Chile https://t.co/BaywoAfgEq— David Adler (@davidrkadler) September 2, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 2 September 2022 15:32 (one year ago) link
Don't forget: 80% of Chileans voted to bury Pinochet's constitution back in October 2020. The plebiscite today will come down to the wire, no doubt. But regardless of the outcome, there is no going back. Only steps forward on the path to a new Chilean republic.— David Adler (@davidrkadler) September 4, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 4 September 2022 15:29 (one year ago) link
not quite down to the wire
― flopson, Monday, 5 September 2022 03:54 (one year ago) link
Yup, Adler is in "fight continues" mode. And the only reason we've had this vote is because of street protests.
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 5 September 2022 07:20 (one year ago) link
The proposed new Chilean constitution began the year with majority support, which then crumbled as the disinformation specialists got to work and rumors spread that it would legalize abortion up to the moment of birth, allow people's homes to be confiscated, etc. pic.twitter.com/4eDDIHqUVg— 🦀 Jon 🦀 Schwarz 🦀 (@schwarz) September 5, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 5 September 2022 08:01 (one year ago) link
The Mapuches were colonized in the Occupation of the Araucanía (1883) and the Quechuas and Aymaras in the War of the Pacific (1884). Pinochet passed terror laws to steal Mapuche lands in the 1980s. The plurinational constitution would've returned Native self-determination. 2/— New Amauta (@AmautaNew) September 5, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 5 September 2022 08:40 (one year ago) link
Like so many Chileans, I'm painfully disappointed that the majority could reject principles of equality and respect outlined in #NuevaConstitucion - principles that came out of a direct cry from the estallido https://t.co/WDjz470DdW— Naomi Larsson Piñeda (@naomilars) September 6, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 6 September 2022 13:04 (one year ago) link