@murosinvisibles i love it when western journalists criticize Bukele, but leave out the context of why such measures are necessary to maintain stability in the country.
> Bukele’s seemingly permanent “state of emergency”, which grants security forces broad powers to detain and surveil citizenry without warrants.
He isn't doing this for no reason, El Salvador has a serious gang problem caused by mass deportations of Salvadoran refugees from the US after they fled US-funded death squads in El Salvador during the Civil War between a communist people's movement and right wing oligarchs with millions of dollars per-day in US funding and arms.
After 30 years of gang violence, El Salvador has re-established the rule of law. They have re-worked their justice system to be both self-sustaining and rehabilitative. The ex-gang members are paying their debt to society through public works programs that grant them expedited release.
FMLN and ARENA have known ties to gangs. The supposed "hijinks" regarding Bukele's reelection are nothing in comparison to the millions of dollars and millions of lives stolen by the corrupt politicians and their gang connections.
@Moon no yeah they'd have to redo a lot of stuff to make it good.
it would be nice to have some way to control federation. it would be nice if moderation teams on multiple instances could collaborate so small instances don't have to build their own teams. it would be nice if users had control over who can contact them that isn't a ton of work to manage for people who are somewhere between "i only talk to mutuals" and "i talk to everyone"
@Moon@mangeurdenuage groups of people that recognize the value of cooperation are more effective in the long term than people that can only function by forcing other people to do things for them.
@mangeurdenuage@Moon well yeah, tools don't fix social problems they just change them. i think most of the discourse around AI ignores this factor. AI isn't intrinsically problematic, but the way our society is organized makes basically any new technology take on a sinister character because it can and will be used against you.
maybe that's because people recognize on some level that the common person doesn't actually have much say in what happens.
The US couldn't dominate the far east militarily and Chinese industry gave shareholders an easy way to lower costs by outsourcing to make their companies look more profitable. Deregulation led to a highly financialized economy where everything (especially tech) runs on cheap debt and outsourcing.
During the same timeframe US wage growth is pretty much flat and wealth inequality increased dramatically. Basically all US manufacturing is done in China by proxy these days. This represents a massive transfer of wealth from the working class to to upper class in the US, and a huge economic opportunity for China.
Maybe when I'm on my computer later I can try to explain better.
@tiskaan@Moon imo it has to do with deregulation & hypercapitalism starting in the regan era. Dodge v. Ford. and basically the American business man "taking matters in to their own hands" after the catastrophic failure of anti-communism in the far east. which is hilarious, because they played right into China's hands with that one.
you should compare this graph to US v. China GDP growth for the last 100 years or so. which, imo, also is part of the reason that right wing populism is growing so much rn. the US fash are being forced to reckon with their own limits and they hate it. there's nothing left to plunder except their own coffers.
i might be off on some details, but this is the general vibe i get.
my goal with this account is to be a singing and dancing far-left clown. i haven't been that funny of late because life is hard sometimes, but i want to get back into performing and stuff.
my goal with @r14c is to build fediverse software for a living and ensure that we maintain an independent network that isn't controlled or dominated by the megas of the world.
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