Futility is resistant

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Cake day: June 19th, 2023

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  • Yup, PRI started as left, enjoyed seven decades of de facto dictatorship, during which it moved to center-right, then lost two times in a row to PAN, which is right-center. PAN lost to MORENA, in great part because PRI formed an under-the-table alliance with them. MORENA says its left, but in reality it swings all over the place.

    Now PRI and PAN have become shells of their former selves, and MORENA had made sure to change the electoral and legal systems so it will be very hard for them to lose. Its founder and former president had long dreamed for a de facto dictatorship return. He’s getting his son ready to take over in the next presidential election.

    Mexican (and Latin American) politics are always such a mess: presidents have too much power, and many disregard the law with impunity. I’m sorry to see USA is experiencing the same, Trump should be in jail for encouraging the Capitol riots.


  • Reading this list from Mexico: we used to have a disastrous economic crisis every six years, without fail, as the exiting president and their accomplices took everything that wasn’t nailed, and even contracted debt so they could steal even more.

    Compared to those awful decades, having no self-inflicted major crisis since 2000 has been sweet. Unfortunately, many of the people who caused those crises are in power right now, covering their backs. It’s a matter of time before the next one.

    I guess my point is: people will adapt, because they have to. Many will lose a lot, but somehow will survive. Things have to get much much worse before people can’t take it anymore.

    I wish your country reacts faster than mine did, and that it doesn’t fall back again like mine seems to be doing.




  • No one should have to. Most of us have decades to prepare for our old age, it’s unfair to place that burden on your children.

    That being said, I love my parents, and even if they are not expecting us to nurse them, I am prepared to hire a nurse to take care of them if needed.

    I also want to avoid cleaning doodoos if possible.