Recent content by Dim Witty

Interesting: ..."the co-opting of private enterprise as State property" - How's that work?

IMF loans come with disastrous conditions. They require countries to implement rigid fiscal austerity measures, raise taxes, devalue currency, and privatize (more dismantling of “The State”). In short, a Neoliberal, Libertarian wet dream. A textbook modelling of a fascist oligarchy.

Some never tire of polishing a turd.

If you’re jonesing for soft pretzels: Moisha Bakery Recoleta Calle Larrea 1531. They don’t rise to the level of street corner NY or Philly, but they will curve your craving. Anyone know where else you can score them?

Come to La Plaza de Mayo tomorrow to commemorate the 30,000 victims on the anniversary of the March 24, 1976 military coup d’état. Keep memory alive.

Noooo, Frank, didn't know the kids were also barred. "Yep, Peluca, your political enemies are my political enemies", Trump grunts while playing the silent accordion.

That's a very likely storyline. But convicted criminals are banned from travelling to the US (also to Argentina). I just don't know if the law is strictly enforced, or just applied to political enemies.

The question “Is Trump good for Argentina?” (or any other place in the world) is as absurd as asking “Is poison a nutritious snack?”

Does it really surprise anyone that some people, often the products of generations of poverty, lack of education and health care, addiction, mental health problems, and now facing a repressive, fascist government on the way to replacing the state with an oligarchy which supports autocratic...

Yes, and Prez Malaise and Secretary Bullbitch are far better than the Nazis.

When Minister of Security, Patricia Bullrich, was asked about Pablo Grillo, a journalist, who remains in critical condition after being shot by projectile in the head, she replied, “He’s a Peronist.” She was then asked what that had to do with anything, and she remarked, “I like peanut butter...

My mother-in-law whom I never had the honor of knowing was a founder of the Madres de Plaza Mayo and among the persons “disappeared” by Astiz at the Santa Cruz church in Boedo. She then became a victim of one of several death flights, and roughly two decades after her body and those of others...

"Dumb ideas" usually come with explanations why they're dumb and not simply paranoid babble like, "You will understand later." Not Cool, Caribbean.