Wat? Who’s this?

Here, some more bazooka material for your euronightmares:

Wait, you didn’t know about our trade bazooka? We are always talking about the bazooka! One day we might even use the bazooka – or not, but it sounds powerful and makes us feel safe so we’ll keep saying *bazooka*.

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“But we have a wider variety of restaurants and shops and it’s great”, and it is! Unlike in the villages where we might only have one and obviously is *checks the only restaurant in my village* Honduran.

“Multicultural cities vs racist villages”: sorry but like half the couples these days in a rural area like this one are between locals and someone from another country or continent, unlike in the cities of this part of the world where people usually marry in-group.

Yessss, I’m gonna break the screen by hitting the Like button so hard.

Yet I’m seeing so many otherwise smart people fall into that Trumpian [bc he’s the only one benefiting from it] trap of “rural people, out of envy, are trying to destroy the multicultural paradise that cities are” that these last days I’m afraid of opening this app: everyday, someone else fooled.

Why? Because it’s not its ruralness that makes a population more conservative: not here, not there either.

In Spain the biggest city, Madrid, one of the most populated metropolis of Europe, is significantly more far-right that the rest of the country: safe for a bunch of elections, they always give ample majorities to the “post”-Francoist right, with a growing % of the vote to a fully neo-Nazi party.

I don’t think a 2/3 of the vote going for Trump in rural areas (average) vs “only” 1/3 in the cities (again, average) points to any meaningful conservative/liberal divide along a rural/urban divide, just to a brain-drain towards the cities in a hypercapitalist society like the US is.

Buen diagnóstico. Aunque es más que el Bluesky de urbanismo: veo a muchos mutuals (no tú) reposteando o dando me-gustas a comentarios ofensivos sobre la gente del mundo rural y me hierve la sangre.

Aparte, mi título de nacimiento sería ‘infançon’, que no soy titular de ningún señorío.

No me llames señor, que no nos llevamos tanto de edad!

Speaking on the US now:

"We consider the people of the US not just our allies, but our friends."

Is that a pointed reference? The *people* of the US, not Trump, not the US - the people of the US…

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Yes, but watching out for new developments on the other half: as in… what are the chances of the Republic of Azerbaijan having to intervene on Azerbaijan proper if the regime falls and there’s a power vacuum?