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Can you also make Austin style kay-sow?

Another interesting thing about Menem is that his political career is believed to have been funded in part by the ransom money paid to the Montoneros for the Born kidnapping in the 70s. Much of that money is still has not been accounted for. The bulk of it went to the Cuban government (who acted...

Considering that during international travel your luggage will be x-rayed and inspected several times, you will most definitely be flagged at the very least for having 10K in cash, so you may not have a choice about not declaring it. Argentina is not some backwater Caribbean tax haven, law...

Similarly, Trump converted while in the office to appease his Evangelical base, going from Presbetarian to non-denominational. It might seem like a small detail, but it was very significant politically. Mainstream Protestants and Catholics are miles away from Evangelicals on a lot of issues.

I remember first hearing about him in the 90s during a puff piece on 60 Minutes about Argentina and how he made the country so rich that they could afford state-funded cosmetic surgery.

That's a common fetish for US-Euro white males (perhaps second only to their fetish for Asian women). There are plenty of films and TV shows that use the trope of the sexy and helpless Latina that needs a white male to civilize her. For most of them, their idea of a Latin American woman is based...

River Plate jerseys, the real Adidas ones, not the knock offs. They're virtually impossible to find stateside. If you're not a fan, then you can flip them on eBay at a substantial markup.

Personally, I prefer a jealous girlfriend (or wife) over one that wants an "open" or poly (or whatever they call it now) relationship.

All I learned about Argentine women over the past year was to stay away from the ones wearing green handkerchiefs.

Qué feo le dices a tu madre

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"Bullshitting is different from lying. The American philosopher Harry Frankfurt, who attempted to build a theory of bullshit, explains this clearly. He argues that whereas the liar cares about the truth – their aim is to prevent others from learning it – the bullshitter does not care about the...

There you go again. There's a mountain of difference between "challenging the certification process" which is basically a meaningless symbolic gesture, and a president creating widespread and violent hysteria by spreading false claims (with no evidence) that the election was stolen. Nothing even...

"It’s dangerously easy to misinterpret data, especially when it’s reported in percentages rather than absolute numbers. The author showcases a number of dangers by focusing on the vaccine-efficacy results reported in November of 2020."...

You know, with every subsequent post you're only reinforcing every caricature and stereotype about MAGAs. And the Obama administration was not the first to acknowledge the threat of White domestic terrorism in the US. At least as far back as the late 80s (when GHW Bush was president), even the...

You're making a false equivalency. The president literally incited his followers to violence against his political rivals and for them to storm the capital building and that he would be going with them (he didn't, of course), it wasn't just anger boiling over about "Trump being villified and...

The video as of this evening is all over the TV. It was rather unsettling to watch it in HD on a Samsung 50." She is most definitely attemoting to rush at the police through the window, and well within the unofficial "21 foot rule." As the internet says, "Play stupid games, win stupid prizes."

I've said it before, the USA has become a Banana Republic, with some differences though. In 2001, Argentines were in the streets because they were hungry, unemployed, and broke. In the USA in 2021, fat hillbillies (or patriots) are in the streets because they're angry about tweets and Facebook...

Data isn't subject to bias, it's just math. But how you interpret data can be biased and is vulnerable to manipulation, especially by people are not experts (like politicians and You Tube conspiracy theorists). Anybody with r could probably make a scatterplot correlating Covid mortality with...

The press is simply reporting publicly available data, they're not creating a fairy tale (or hoax, in Trumpian parlance). If you have a problem with how press spins the data, as most people do, fine. But that doesn't the numbers aren't real. I generally don't even bother with media coverage and...