Futility is resistant

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Cake day: June 19th, 2023

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  • The article explains it well, but TL;DR: Mexico doesn’t have presidential reelection, choosing Claudia Sheimbaum, someone completely submissive to the current president, will be like prolonging AMLO’s grip another six years.

    Why is AMLO bad? He’s following every step of the Latin American Dictator manual:

    • Giving unprecedented power and wealth to the army (who has to obey him without questioning).

    • Frequently stating that he wants in his cabinet people of 90% loyalty, 10% capacity (because them being inept makes it easy for him to replace them if they don’t obey him)

    • Wasting or opaquely handling enormous amount of tax money, while at the same time lying about using “Franciscan austerity” to optimize the budget, while at the same time hiding how he handles money because “national security”.

    • I could go on and on, suffice to say he’s been the absolute worst president this century, and one of the worst of the past.

    • AMLO is famous for lying and breaking the laws without consequences, even more now that he’s the law. He has weakened and destroyed institutions abducting wastefulness and corruption, but his whole plan is concentrating power on himself, making Mexico his property.

    Why is Claudia Sheimbaum a mini AMLO?

    • She has violated the electoral law by using tax money to put billboards all over the country promoting her to president.

    • As mayor of Mexico City, the subway has had two major incidents where lives were lost. It was caused for lack of funding and maintenance, but she and AMLO insisted it was sabotage from their “adversaries”, put the army to guard the metro, and let the issues cool down. Money that was supposed to maintain the metro has disappeared.

    • AMLO has a sick game of chairs with his three pre-candidates, Claudia Sheimbaum, Adán Augusto, and Marcelo Ebrard. All three have to kiss his feet if they want his blessing, he’s using that to keep them in check, but of all the three, Sheimbaum is the most submissive. Campaigns aren’t allowed to start until next year, but they’ve been illegally playing this game a year before, to gain mind share.