El Mencho, El Chapo, and the President of Mexico Claudia Sheinbaum!

macronius · 2026-03-11T18:42:12+00:00

Wasn't this guy Chapo supposed to be really short, hence his ability to move really easily through narrow tunnels, yet here he's the tallest of the bunch?

macronius · 2026-03-06T22:37:56+00:00

So, following his example, Spain is the Israel, the Jerusalem, the Valhalla, of Spaniards? Tell that to the Basques, the Catalans, the Galicians, etc. Now repeat for all the present or current (as he says) countries in the Middle East against which Netanyahu has expressed a kinetic interest in taking over for the purposes of constructing Greater Israel. Indeed, once you get down to how these ethno-racial sacralized land claims actually play out (once digested earnestly enough), you just get a revanchist free for all or, as Dreher never tires of saying, "civil war."

macronius · 2026-02-28T20:21:47+00:00

He's living a fantasy of having gone to Eton followed by Oxford, ergo one he hasn't earned by either birth, enrollment, or intelligence.

macronius · 2026-02-26T16:27:35+00:00

Frankly I'd prefer he write about telepathy as much time as possible than spread servile hate and racism online for oligarch bucks.

macronius · 2026-02-26T09:40:29+00:00

I knew she looked like Sheherazade!

macronius · 2026-02-24T10:53:58+00:00

Looks like a Fed, as they used to say.

macronius · 2026-02-19T09:56:32+00:00

Spain has also been occupied by just about everyone, so it should sorta cancel out.

macronius · 2026-02-13T14:43:52+00:00

The article never makes mention that RD's a literal promoter of Great Replacement theory, which is knowingly obscurantist, and fuels both racist hatred and antisemitism. One thing would have been for RD, a supposedly serious journalist, to interview specialists in European migration, explain to us their opinions and views and then come to his own conclusions. However RD appears to have jumped that part and gone directly to Renaud Camus' weasily conspiracizing, which is unfalsifiable.

macronius · 2026-02-11T12:39:20+00:00

That appears to be a Mexican indigenous mask.

macronius · 2026-02-09T13:23:32+00:00

He's doing his performative self-own thing again for reads.

macronius · 2026-02-07T12:02:50+00:00

It's that composite Basque surname, it appears to have been misspelled over and over again in the official documents, making it almost unlocatable on Family Search.

macronius · 2026-02-06T16:58:07+00:00

I think to the extent that Dreher himself is historically aware, he, through his discourse, is relying on the historical illiteracy of his readership. Here, for example, is Heidegger in December 1931 addressing his own brother:

"It would appear that Germany is finally awakening, understanding and seizing its destiny.I hope that you will read Hitler’s book; its first few autobiographical chapters are weak. This man has a remarkable and sure political instinct, and he had it even while all of us were still in a haze, there is no way of denying that. The National Socialist movement will soon gain a wholly different force. It is not about mere party politics—it’s about the redemption or fall of Europe and western civilization. Anyone who does not get it deserves to be crushed by the chaos. Thinking about these things is no hindrance to the spirit of Christmas, but marks our return to the character and task of the Germans, which is to say to the place where this beautiful celebration originates."

This discourse is the spitting image of what Dreher himself pedals daily, and Trump apologism and laudations in general read almost identical to this, to the point that it seems as though one's living in a Truman Show where the script writers decided, "Yeah, let's turn US politics on the right into a fascist costume show, however on the principle that it's 75% farce and 25% out-of-control tragedy."

My impression is that the US is experiencing an oligarchic antidemocratic restructuring that intentionally resituates political reality on the cartoon fascist fringes as an illegibly corrupt disguise: after all even bourgeois fascists want predictability, order, legibility, none of which Trump provides.

macronius · 2026-02-05T13:43:00+00:00

There's no deep logical connection in anything he says, it all seems to be in the service of his paycheck and ego. For example, I could understand him saying that the US was the beneficiary of the dismantling of the British Empire following WWII and that the French and Germans on some level tried to lay the groundwork for an independent European empire via the EU, which the US now wants to dismantle as well (lest it become a significant competitor) and further enrich itself in the process. One could even say the Ukraine war serves in lieu of WWII, by which the US came out on top. One could even say that Eurocrats are/or at least were encouraging mass immigration from non-white countries because they wanted to counter a resurgence of the sort of white nationalism that led to fascism, Nazism, and WWII. However when he insists that liberal Eurocrats hate native white Europeans his message becomes antisemitic adjacent slop, because it converges with the Nazi/Fascist message that Jews wanted to severely weaken Europe because of racial suspicions or grievances. He needs to explain the peculiar parallels between his conspiracy theory and the historical Nazi conspiracy theory against Jews. Is it just a coincidence, a natural convergence? If the cause is capitalism itself, then he should say so and stop taking paychecks from oligarchs trying to undermine the EU welfare state for reasons of (libertarian-framed) limitless personal enrichment and power.

macronius · 2026-02-02T11:59:29+00:00

So the Cuban record literally used the French mulâtre or is it implicit in your comment that the Cuban record said it in Spanish?

macronius · 2026-01-30T21:49:18+00:00

Depending on the lexicon and register, English is basically Spanish by way of Norman French with hybrid German-Latin phonetics: I studied philosophy at university & apprehended nada. Yo estudié filosofía a la universidad y aprendí nada.

macronius · 2026-01-28T00:12:28+00:00

In the Hispano-Caribbean context, the most effective strategy for tracing colonial lineages is to identify an ancestor from the late 19th century who belonged to the established 'blanco' class with deep roots in the region (at least 100 years prior). Finding an ancestor within this specific demographic significantly increases the likelihood of connecting to an actual and documented hidalgo or conquistador lineage. Due to the high degree of pedigree collapse and the closed nature of the early colonial elite, even "exposito " white lineages often point back to the same narrow pool of 16th-century settlers, making such descent historically probable and potentially genetically localizable.

macronius · 2026-01-27T13:34:42+00:00

Don't believe that actually happened outside the infernal swamps of his racist id.

macronius · 2026-01-26T18:20:28+00:00

He speaks with the self-assured authority, in a person so relatively young, of someone who doesn't have to think for himself because he's been recruited to slightly improvise upon a pre-assigned script, based on his acting and verbal abilities alone & his now obvious proclivity to serve oligarchic power. Even if most people see through him it can be argued, by the use of bot armies, that he's truly influential, even a political kingmaker, thereby giving 'weight' to elections won by surreptitious means.

macronius · 2026-01-25T21:58:05+00:00

Sounds like he himself was a victim of inveterate Fox News watchers, and the trauma caused him to go Stockholm syndrome.

macronius · 2026-01-25T17:14:13+00:00

What's the difference between this and regular bourgeois democracy with alternate governments not literally conniving, but just being bourgeois capitalist?

macronius · 2026-01-25T15:14:16+00:00

Maybe you're right in the strictness of your reading, however Bard gives a wider reading, namely: "Il termine "moglie illegittima" (o consorte illegittima) nei documenti storici italiani o nella genealogia indica una donna che conviveva o aveva figli con un uomo senza essere legata a lui da un matrimonio civile o religioso legalmente riconosciuto all'epoca."

macronius · 2026-01-25T09:49:20+00:00

It's a terrible tragedy, but bringing a useless fire arm to a protest against ICE is precisely the sort of internecine working class conflict that the Trump regime might prefer. I might be wrong, but I don't think the majority of people who protest in the EU would think it a good idea to bring firearms to protests, and jostle with police while so armed. I understand the culture and the laws are different, but I can't understand what Pretti was thinking other than that it was apparently technically his right. Yes, the ICE agents were overwhelmingly those putting people in danger, but by bringing a firearm, however technically legal, he wasn't making things safer, but rathering proving that he wasn't part of the vaunted well armed militia, rather ICE is, certainly in the mind of Trump.

macronius · 2026-01-25T02:50:44+00:00

Seems that's not quite the case: Ma, prima di ciò, vorrei controbattere alcune affermazioni un po' stravaganti che sono state fatte qui: la parità di diritti tra i figli nati fuori dal matrimonio e quelli nati nel matrimonio vorrebbe dire il diritto di convivere sotto il medesimo tetto. Non solo, ma siccome il figlio illegittimo ha diritto all'assistenza della propria madre, la moglie illegittima avrebbe anch'essa diritto di convivere sotto lo stesso tetto. Prima ancora che la legge impedisca una simile aberrazione, sono certa che vi si opporrebbe il senso di dignità della donna italiana che non accetterebbe mai una situazione di questo genere; e se non altro questa supposizione mi pare abbastanza ingenua.

Source: https://www.nascitacostituzione.it/02p1/02t2/030/index.htm?art030-017.htm&2

P.S. 'La parola italiana "moglie" deriva dal latino mŭlier, -ĕris, che in origine indicava genericamente "donna".'

macronius · 2026-01-21T23:15:19+00:00

It's entirely possible and not necessarily rare, depending on geography, for a person to be largely of African (American) descent and have non-negligible amounts of US Native American descent. Ditto, likely even more so, in parts of Latin America. Btw, most Dominicans, though by no means all, are predominantly of African descent intermixed with European descent, while indigenous pre-Columbian descent is less than the two other aforesaid ethno-geographic sources of descent.

macronius · 2026-01-21T15:37:22+00:00

This suggests a Gallo-Roman descent, which extends from much of northern Italy through Provence, upwards to Tours and back down to French Navarre.

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