Heeeeyooooo! Please kill me. I had insomnia last night and still had to woke up way too early. God. Please. Why. My own personal woe aside, time for morning news roundup. Local level nothing new really. Just dumb stuff. Nation level, not much I've seen. But with Podemos going full "universal income" now they've seen a chance to put it into the law it's gonna be fucking interesting to see the clusterfuck. I do enjoy thay they seem to understand it would require stronger borders at the least, while the PP pundits keep going full globalist. Seeing how most people just immediately assume left=global right=national seeing the opposite play out is hilarious to me. I don't even know how the Moncloa Pact will end. But I'll give my thoughts in yet another spoiler rant tonight, when I have more intel.
The way more exciting news is, we now have government employees on the media calling out china. No joke, a biotechnologist has straight up said china's wet markets for animals and exotic animal consumption need to be closed and their markets need extensive regulation, and I quote "because as we know there's just so many of the modern plagues that come from their negligence", oh god thank you so much for this keking. China, eat your heart out.
This has reminded me of a prior time in history, specially due to what the PP is doing. You see. Before the civil war, and even during it, many spanish communists wanted spain to go full commie but ABHORED the idea of joining the soviets. You see, despite being commies they were pro-democracy, pro-descentralization and pro-transparency, so basically they claimed spain was the real communist utopia, russia was just a failed fudal state mascarading as communism. Which is so fucking hilarious to me. Dear god. That has to be the most spanish thing imaginable. "No, no, no. That's not how you go insane. THIS is how you go insane!"
Point is. The PSOE seems to just have surrendered to Podemos completely. But more importantly, the PP is measuring their words carefuly, and claiming they want transparency and decentralization as negotiating tools. And as I talked about even spanish right wingers tend to be left leaning by global standards, specially down south, they claim to be right wingers, they vote right, yet they'll be the first to defend public healthcare tooth and nail. So I think this universal income shit might actually pass. Which seems insane to me but they've combined thid with another weird proposal (basically after a certain time unemployed you go do forced labor in the farms for a while if you want to be able to keep getting the "universal" pay, or having to go there to access it again once you lost it.) So... it might just kinda work, in a very communisty and weird way. But I can see it backfiring too. Point is, it seems they've already talked behind the cameras and actually plan on passing it (except for Vox), so... we might see a return to that mentality. That "this is what real commies look like!" Stupidity. Podemos might've actually been commies for real but simply bidding their time until they could do it (as opposed to the dems screeching with no result obtained) and they might've just won. What I find most interesting is that if they really plan to decentralize everything and add extra layers of transparency and checks and balances, combined with our democratic system... we might just see actual non-authoritative communism here in spain. And honestly, I don't even know if it can work. I mean. I know I should be worried. But I must admit if there's one country that might just get away with it, it would be us, I mean we're already basically all socialists by murican standards. And the worry is drowned out by just how interesting this is. The part of me that should freak out is too busy trying to figure out how it could even be done. This is... so fucking weird.
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