Do you even understand what I’m trying to say here? I’m not blaming immigrants for the far-right, but rather saying that it’s dangerous to assume that countries like Mexico have “solved” the far-right when in all likelihood the conditions for a strong far-right to emerge just aren’t there yet. How to prevent fascism in the 21st century is still an open question, and hasn’t been answered by Mexico as the article implies.

Mexicans come from all sort of indigenous & international backgrounds, not just Aztecs & Spaniards.

Yes, but they’re all Mexican, whatever that means. This sort of national identity, not ethnicity, is the primary driver of far-right fascism nowadays. Americans also come from all sorts of backgrounds yet Trump won the election, so being ethnically heterogeneous isn’t an indicator against fascism.

The far-right doesn’t require foreign-born population to function.

True, but far-right movements in the 21st century have generally formed around a core of anti-immigrant sentiment and failed to materialize without a large immigrant population.

the lack of it doesn’t change the mechanisms that give rise and prominence of the far-right

True, but it seems that without a sufficiently low-hanging fruit the modern far right can’t gain enough steam to then go after less vulnerable segments of society, such as LGBT people or Jews. This is as opposed to early 20th century fascism, because then these groups were vulnerable enough to be the core targets of a fascist movement. Either way it’s a fact that foreign born population (the more foreign the better) and the strength of the far right are highly correlated.

As of 2024 Mexico had a count of 1.7 million of naturalized foreign born citizens

Naturalized citizens? You sure about that? Because the numbers I found (which to be fair are from 2020) list 1.2 million foreign-born residents, not citizens.

But there is no exact census by the INEGI of what percentage of migrants stay in Mexico or just travel across.

Even if we assume as many undocumented immigrants as documented immigrants, that’s less than 3% foreign born residents. Compare that to Germany’s 20% or France’s 13%.

In essence Mexico has always been very multicultural and multiracial.

I mean so is America and… uh… yeah. These days nationality, rather than race, is the main form of xenophobia.

So take your propaganda elsewhere gringo.

My point is that Mexico’s example doesn’t teach us much about how to counter the far right because the single biggest predictor and cause of far-right politics in the 21st century, foreign-born population, is too low in Mexico. I mean if you told me that only 3% of Mexico’s population was foreign-born I’d guess based on that alone that Mexico doesn’t have a strong far right.

I’d say having a foreign-born population share of less than 1% helps.

My only solace in this is that fascism is coming for sick fucks like you. Enjoy the concentration camps, Zionazi.

Yeah I saw the company name and was like “wait, aren’t these the Israel AI people”, turns out they’re just universally morally bankrupt.

Okay let’s look on the bright side of this: This is $600k of disposable income that politically motivated MAGAts could’ve been using for more productively fascist ways.

Sorry but I think your grandma is winning this one.

I wouldn’t move even if money wasn’t an issue personally; you have a really good arrangement there unless there’s something important you didn’t mention. You get to save money on childcare and rent and don’t have to do housework, your son gets to spend time with his grandparents (especially important given his mom is out of the picture) and your parents get to spend time with their grandson. Why would you want to change anything here?

I just picked a default wallpaper with a dark to grey color palette and made it both my wallpaper and lock screen. Wanted something easy on the eyes.

Glad you understand.

Well thanks :)

It certainly isn’t just guys that have sex or masturbate.

Of course, that’s not what I’m trying to say though. My point is that I doubt a significant fraction of girls find it desirable to, say, jack off to a picture of a guy with his shirt off, while if we ignore the ethics of it most guys would have no problem jacking off to a picture of a moderately attractive topless woman.

Obviously there are, but the objects of attraction differ. This person made my point for me so see: https://sopuli.xyz/pictrs/image/406debe5-3997-43d4-a930-abfc9cb2252b.webp

How do you live like this? Scrambled for the win my man/woman/compadre.

You think that rating somebody by hot or not does not change your view, nor anybody else’s? Teenage girls are not subject the influence of popularity, it’s only teenage boys? Teenage girls aren’t going to gossip about the dads, share pictures, jerk off to them,

Admittedly I don’t understand popularity dynamics on either sex so I can’t speak much to that, but jerk off to them? I wouldn’t think so no. I mean what’s the most sexual a non-porn picture of a man can get? Abs? Muscular thighs? There’s a lot more room for sexuality in a woman’s appearance than a man’s (and men are just hornier).

dream about being in a relationship with them,

That sounds possible, but you’d be better off asking a woman rather than speculate.

worship them, non of that?

I don’t think even guys worship hot women.

That makes it right, doesn’t it?

No, it makes it its own event worthy of consideration on its own merits, not by analogy because the analogy assumes symmetry that doesn’t exist.

I know girls are very much capable of being horny, but the magnitude differe. I can’t provide a source but I read somewhere that this is actually something trans men struggle with.

If you think teenage girls are have as much libido (and standards for jacking off material as low) as teenage guys then… Uh… No. That’s like arguing guys have boobs and we just don’t notice them. Good point on gay dudes, but those aren’t exactly a majority of the population, and in the first place according to OP the majority of students are their son’s school are girls.

You believe that Dad #1 wouldn’t be treated or viewed differently?

Yes, exactly. Why do you believe he would be?

I’m sure you wouldn’t be arguing if it was the mothers that kids were rating.

Yes, because if it was teenage dudes collecting pictures of hot moms the first thing they’d do is jack off to them. The dynamic is completely different.