Mind you, I do chuckle when people act like Punta is some 'elitist' paradise. It's really not.
One part of it - Jose Ignacio, where the rich and famous tend to flock - is. The rest of it's actually pretty inclusive.
So much so that if someone lives here between March and December, rents are extraordinarily low. Essentially because the winter weather sucks.
But if you're lucky enough to be a digital nomad - able to work from anywhere with a good internet connection - it is the perfect place. Safe, clean, full of beautiful beaches and affordable (within Uruguay's admittedly expensive context).
In the summer, unlike say the south of France, it's full of families and very warm and friendly. There's nothing elitist about it other than for a few super-rich types.
Uruguay is like Argentina - without all the craziness and constant chaos. Punta is the ultimate example.
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And if I see one more inadequate, entitled, clueless male on this website come out with pathetic, condescending beyond belief, passive aggressive bullshit like:
That one lousy England cap was as part of our worst team since 1993. The ONLY one not to qualify - and you weren't even good enough to be picked for it more than once.
In fact, you have MORE CONVICTIONS FOR VIOLENT CRIME than England caps, you absolute waste of skin.
Gary Neville can tell his grandkids about the absolutely magnificent career he had in the game.
You can tell yours about the time you stubbed a lit cigar out in a youth player's eye.
Or when you violently assaulted a teammate, leaving him unconscious with a detached retina.
Today, in the world of sensible centrist liberal media 🙄🙄🙄
1. Thomas L. Friedman is worried for the world and tries to explain what's happening to it. He explains what's happening to it by... saying THIS.
Yes folks. The difference between Dubai and Gaza isn't that one is staggeringly rich in natural resources and the other is a rock. And it isn't that one is independent and the other has been illegally occupied and blockaded for so long.
It's 'visionary leadership'.
I'll tell you one of the very many things wrong with this awful world, Tom. It's that racist Orientalists like you - utterly incapable of EVER treating Arab people as equals - get given such a high profile platform to pump out such constant ignorant beyond imagination drivel.
THREAD: Argentina. Why has this happened - and what's going to happen now?
The first thing to say about why this has happened is pretty simple. The options facing a desperate, frantic Argentinian public were APPALLING. All of them.
In August, at the primaries, the mostly centre-right Juntos por Cambio (which governed, very badly, through Mauricio Macri between 2015 and 2019) voters made a dreadful, in my view indefensible blunder.
They selected Patricia Bullrich over Horacio Rodriguez Larreta.
Bullrich is right wing. She's also maybe the most completely talentless politician I have EVER seen in this part of the world.
She's charmless, utterly unlikeable, and has made an absolutely preposterous political journey from militant leftist to now, the far right,
When the provisional IRA tried to assassinate the entire British government, the British government did not respond by carpet bombing Belfast for weeks on end.
Nor did it impose a 16-year-long siege on the island of Ireland.
Nor did it cut off electricity, water, food, fuel and communications.
In fact, much of the world - including, notably, the US - understood that the nationalist community in Northern Ireland had an entirely legitimate grievance. And were victims of an historic injustice.
UK politicians wouldn't have even dreamt of such a response. Had it been attempted, we'd have been ostracised by the entire world, maybe forever.
And in the end, peace was achieved. Draining the swamp of support for terrorism through dialogue, power-sharing and democracy.
"Research by the IJPR shows about 2% of the population of Great Britain can be characterised as “hardcore” antisemites - defined as those believing multiple anti-Jewish tropes simultaneously - whereas 70% is found to hold no anti-Jewish views at all".theguardian.com/world/2023/oct…
"A 2021 survey by the institute, conducted two months after the last war in Gaza, found that almost three-quarters of Jewish adults in the UK felt that non-Jews held them responsible for the actions of the Israeli government during the conflict..."
"More than half said that public and media criticism of Israel at the time made them feel that Jews were not welcome in the UK".
Several things here.
1. Anyone attacking or insulting British Jews for the actions of Israel is an antisemitic arsehole.