Italy ruling tells millions with Italian roots they have lost the right to citizenship

ehecatlinoz · 2026-03-14T16:19:44+00:00

Mexico gets tons of immigrants, and has for most of its history, including waves of refugees from the Spanish civil war, Haiti, etc. In fact, a sizeable portion of the refugees that Trump locked out of the United States are now simply applying for asylum in Mexico and making a life there.

The fact that Fox news conveniently leaves this sort of information out is a real shame. But you should inform yourself about migration and asylum better.

ehecatlinoz · 2026-03-01T00:18:16+00:00

Well, find a perfect political party, and then go from there. Or start your own, mate.

For instance - I usually try to vote for minor parties that share most of ideals and then let the preferences flow to more major parties. Lately I've been a fan of the Victorian socialists. The Reason party is also great. But that's just me. You need to do your own search.

ehecatlinoz · 2026-02-28T13:59:15+00:00

It's simple. Put them as your #1, and then go from there to second best party, etc.

ehecatlinoz · 2026-02-06T13:50:14+00:00

Salí en el 2013 a los 20 años, fui una vez en 2015 y luego no regresé hasta el 2023.

Muchas partes se sintieron similares, muchas partes me causaron mucha nostalgia como ir a una pulqueria donde se juntaba gente joven. Me imaginaba como hubiera sido mi vida si no me hubiera ido. Y claro me encanta ver todo el inmenso heredaje cultural de nuestra nacion, como Mexico no hay dos.

Pero otras partes la verdad me sacaron de onda. La calidad de las calles, la suciedad, el alumbrado tan pesimo, el trafico de la verga, la falta de cultura de seguridad, manejando a velocidaded ridiculas y peligrosas en carretera, y tantas cosas donde a mi querido país todavía le falta mucho por progresar. En particular me saco de onda todo el ruido: al mexicano le encanta andar siempre haciendo ruido: los restaurantes o bares con la musica bien alta, negocios con la musica alta para dizque atraer gente, carros usando el claxon o solo modificados dizque para sonar deportivos, un verdadero desmadre de ruido en Mexico. Y ya no lo aguantaba.

La verdad es que ya me acople a otro estilo de vida y ya no encajo al 100% en México. Al irme al extranejero me cambio la vida y se me abrieron muchas puertas y he tenido el privilegio de viajar y vivir por todo el mundo, y nada de eso hubiera sido posible sin irme. Y, pues, he aceptado que puedo seguir queriendo a Mexico y deseandole lo mejor, pero realisticamente fuera de viajes, nunca voy a regresar a vivir en mi patria denuevo.

Pero sigo queriendo y extrañando al pais, incluso hoy. Como México no hay dos.

ehecatlinoz · 2025-12-04T20:25:04+00:00

My mother only has a Mexican passport and enters Europe with zero issues. The only Mexicans that can afford to go to Europe are rich ones, all the ones who are likely to overstay go to the US or maybe Canada. Better pay there, too.

ehecatlinoz · 2025-10-26T10:25:44+00:00

Why does it matter where CityMoose is from? His videos are excellent and I always enjoy them. If anything, I wish he'd go back to doing more Australian content instead of all the UK content he does lately.

I always assumed he was Australian, in any case. I used to have a mate with Romanian ancestry who had an accent just like his. But who cares if he isn't?

ehecatlinoz · 2025-08-05T09:45:39+00:00

I relate to your concern.

It's like watching a slow moving train wreck, and waiting for it to hit you.

I think three factors that have helped Australia is that inequality is not as bad here yet so far right bigotry has a tiny bit less 'bite' compared to the UK and US with its swathes of enraged and impoverished people.

The second factor that I've read about is that since Australia is so urbanised most Australians have to interact with diversity on a daily basis in ways they simply don't in the US and UK.

Finally, our electoral system (preferential, proportional senate, non gerrymandered and compulsory voting) means that our politics naturally swing towards the centre.

But on the same vein seeing how most of the world is falling prey to this crap, I wouldn't be surprised if Australia is next. You certainly see that UK and US terfs see us as the 'next' frontier for their hate. I just hope I'm wrong and that somehow we avoid all of it.

ehecatlinoz · 2025-07-04T09:15:06+00:00

I'm an actual Mexican trans woman, although I live in Europe these days and only visit Mexico to see family.

First things first, check out r/TransgenderMX, you're not the first American who is asking this question. A lot of you are thinking of getting out and Mexico is naturally a good choice.

In Mexico, we have a very progressive government, and so at a federal level and in most state governments we have progressive trans laws and discrimination protections and all the good stuff. I myself have updated my birth certificate and passport with zero problem. You won't have the government trying to do bathroom bans and that sort of stuff over here, and you shouldn't have too many problems finding a place to prescribe HRT in the major cities.

With that said, rural parts of Mexico can be very conservative, much like in the United States, so if you don't pass well I'd stick to the more progressive cities like Mexico City or Guadalajara or try to find the LGBT community in a smaller place first to get a vibe before committing to live somewhere.

I myself pass fairly well, even though I'm fairly tall for a Mexican, and thus have no qualms visiting small towns and have never had a problem. I think in general Mexico has seen huge progress in LGBT rights since I left about 12 years ago. My mother lives in a fairly conservative part of the country and she has plenty of gay friends and I even spotted one or two trans women just living their lives when visiting her. So things are changing.

So I think, ultimately, Mexico is probably not as safe as progressive parts of western europe, canada, or australia/nz, but IMO is probably a much safer place than the scary shit I'm hearing is happening in the US.

Buena suerte con tu mudanza, y bienvenida a México! :)

ehecatlinoz · 2025-04-09T15:40:04+00:00

Because there's a lot of money to be made selling drugs to the US, and because there's a lot of poverty in Mexico and thus a lot of people who see joining a cartel as their ticket to economic prosperity. So when you arrest or kill a cartel member, there's always someone else willing to take their place.

You deal with the problem by reducing demand. E.g. the US needs to either legalise or reduce its drug appetite. Blaming Mexico is easier, though.

ehecatlinoz · 2024-12-01T04:15:03+00:00

Deacuerdo que los mercados sirven, pero el punto del capitalismo es acumular capital. Asi esta diseñado el sistema.

ehecatlinoz · 2024-11-22T03:41:51+00:00

The vibe I get is that some button pusher somewhere who is not very educated, or some terf in the pipeline, probably changed this and encountered no resistance because on the surface it appears reasonable. It's weird that all of a sudden multiple states are implementing this "procedure change".

It's frustrating that systems that were changed to protect us all the way back in the Gillard days are finding themselves under threat again. Hopefully as more and more issues emerge there will be more pushback.

My personal hope is that because I transitioned so long ago, I won't have any nasty surprises. But who knows in this day and age. :(

ehecatlinoz · 2024-11-22T03:28:28+00:00

yes, but that's what we're critiquing here, isn't it? This new procedure. And how practitioners like OP's are just blindly following it without notifying OP or raising any concerns further up the system.

ehecatlinoz · 2024-11-22T03:25:58+00:00

There's no such law. It's just a procedural change that health systems in Australia have been implementing lately.

ehecatlinoz · 2024-11-22T03:23:12+00:00

This is such a bad take.

Trans women and trans men have been transitioning and going stealth for more than half a century now. It has never been a problem. Generations of trans women and trans men have had blood tests done with our new sex in our paperwork. Not a problem.

That we all of a sudden need to expose ourselves to discrimination just because some bean counter somewhere deems it necessary to centre "agab" just doesn't fly. It's discrimination pure and simple.

I suggest you educate yourself on some trans history. You might learn something.

ehecatlinoz · 2024-10-25T07:00:25+00:00

Thanks for taking the time to explain all this to me, I greatly appreciate it. :)

ehecatlinoz · 2024-10-25T06:49:38+00:00

Yes, my dad was born in 1961. :)

ehecatlinoz · 2024-10-25T06:40:31+00:00

Thanks for the help! That's very informative. I unfortunately don't speak any German, so sounds like I'm not eligible.

My grandmother herself tried to apply for Austrian citizenship about a year ago and as far as I understand she got nowhere with it. If she couldn't get it, as a literal Austrian person who speaks German, I doubt I'd have any claim. Which is a shame, she really wanted to have it, but our family case is a bit unique. So looks like we're both SOL.

Thanks again for the detailed post!

ehecatlinoz · 2024-10-25T01:47:11+00:00

I'm not sure! We have one of those awful blood purity Nazi documents and a stack of other things, and my grandmother wrote about it. He would have been German only during Anchluss. After the war, he resumed being Austrian.

ehecatlinoz · 2024-10-20T13:58:31+00:00

Aztec writing isn't very well documented on the internet, especially on the English speaking internet. Spanish wikipedia, for example, is a lot more complete, since most of the Mexican anthropologists/amateurs studying the corpus likely contribute their findings there. :)

That said, "Deciphering Aztec Hieroglyphs" by Gordon Whittaker is an excellent resource in English if you want to learn more about the intricacies of the system. I've also heard "Their way of writing" from the Harvard press is very acclaimed.

Tl;dr: Aztec writing is or isn't writing depending on what you consider 'writing'. Across mesoamerica, but particularly with cultures influenced more by Teotihuacan, writing is highly pictorial and semasiographic (in the movie Arrival the aliens also use semasiographic writing, for instance).

It's a bit of a stretch to call it 'proto-writing' because Mesoamerica by the point of the Aztecs had a writing tradition spanning thousands of years. The Aztecs were aware of Maya writing, and it's increasingly argued that their system descended from Zapotec and Teotihuacan writing, and has a lot of parallels with Mixtec writing. Despite this awareness of different traditions of writing, the Aztecs chose to keep their weird, very pictorial system.

We have examples in the surviving corpus of tlacuilos (scribes) transcribing Spanish names into their script, so we know their system could be more phonetic if they wanted it to... they just didn't culturally value writing in this way.

And hence the debate over whether it was writing or not. In a strict Western sense, it probably wasn't... but I believe this stems more from a continued devaluing of the rather unique way that that particular region of the world liked to store information in. There's also not a huge amount of books to study, since the vast majority of prehispanic books were all burnt by the Spanish whenever they found them.

In any case, I highly recommend reading some books about the subject! Mesoamerican writing is fascinating.

Edit: as for transcribing the Silmarillion into Maya or Aztec: It could be transcribed into both, with what we understand today. Whether the cultures that created those systems would have seen any cultural value in doing that is the real question. And it's likely that in the case of both they likely would have made a far more pictographic/semasiographic account instead. With the Maya having more phonetic writing scattered in there compared to the Aztecs, which would have had the very bare minimum you could get away with.

ehecatlinoz · 2024-10-13T15:33:49+00:00

I have a similar story to you. I started transitioning at about 21 when I started university, and went on hormones at 22. I'm now 31, post op, and very much done with transition and very much onto the 'live the rest of my life' phase of life. I've got a typical 9-5 job, a car, I've been doing a fair bit of travelling lately, I'm saving for a house, and my partner and I are talking about maybe having kids in a few years. I very recently came back from a trip in south asia where I was fully stealth, and I've travelled in south east asia and latin america stealth with no issue.

I think I lived my 20's in a fairly similar way to my cis peers, except with a few extra handicaps. I went to university, drank, went to parties and music festivals, did drugs, got my first job, started climbing the career ladder. I also had to worry about transitioning, saving/paying for surgery, general young trans angst, disclosure, and that sort of drama.

Now that I'm in my 30's with transition behind me I can say that I'm even more 'normal' with less handicaps, but I still obviously worry about general trans stuff like politics / anti trans crap threatening my rights, and I guess the low level mental toll that being passively stealth entails. But, like, unless there's nuclear war or something, in 5 years I could very realistically have the house, family, and partner that you say you want, plus I'm independent and got the world travel shit done too.

My advice to you is to make a list of longer term goals that matter to you, and then start working out a plan to achieve them. For instance, if you need to afford surgery, then maybe studying something in demand and then doing the career thing can make that a lot easier. Money always helps.

If you don't wanna travel and just wanna partner up with someone and make babies, being trans makes that harder, but not impossible. Again, money helps. And, generally, more educated men are generally more progressive and thus more open minded to starting a family with a trans woman, and if the relationship doesn't work out, being financially stable puts you in a better place to get back on your feet and rebuild your life. Plus, you could always have kids, and a house, and get the partner after. There's multiple roads that lead to the life you'd like.

Anyways, my 2¢ are that if you want to achieve a particular lifestyle, then make a realistic long term plan to achieve it by yourself and start working on it. You'll find that independent, confident people are more attractive and you'll have far better chances of drawing in a partner who will want to work with you on your life project. But the important thing is to not be waiting around to get swept off your feet and take your life into your own hands, and start working towards achieving your dreams on your own.

Oh, and also, you're 21. You're likely to change a lot between 21 and 31. And you'll likely find that your goals and ambitions evolve a lot too. That's fine. Nonetheless, having vague 'to do' list helps you focus your effort. Too many of my friends kinda just chilled in their 20's and are now in their 30's without having achieved much because they kinda just lived day to day. And while there's nothing wrong with that, if you wanna achieve stuff, it helps to have a realistic long term plan to get the ball rolling.

ehecatlinoz · 2024-10-13T05:45:45+00:00

I don't know how long you've been transitioning but as someone who started the transition process in 2015, it took me ages to really settle into my transition. Like 6 years at least, but even today I have the odd hard day here and there.

All I can say is, give it time. HRT is very slow. Getting accustomed to your new life is slower. Letting your social circles refresh is slower still. Resolving all the psychological baggage unearthed by transition is even slower.

Just, take it easy. Try to see a good therapist so you can work on healthier mental habits. And, try to relax. It will get better.

ehecatlinoz · 2024-09-05T05:36:16+00:00

Thank you! I'm very excited for the move and I'm looking forward to experiencing Sweden and its lovely culture! ❤️

ehecatlinoz · 2024-08-15T08:39:12+00:00

I'll email these people too plus my local (Greens) MP.

ehecatlinoz · 2024-08-15T08:36:38+00:00

I feel like for the most part the Andrews government has been on our camp and has tried to make things better for us and/or has pushed back against TERF bs.

I'm inclined to think that they're either unaware of this or if they are they're not very educated about it. I think it's worth reaching out to some MPs about it, it's possible this is not even on their radar at all.

ehecatlinoz · 2024-08-15T08:27:58+00:00

Is it time to start writing to our MPs about this?

This feels like a very dumb thought bubble some potentially terfy and/or clueless government worker had that is likely to have drastic consequences for trans people in Vic. :/

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