It's former President of Mexico Vincente Fox, attending the color revolution protest against Claudia Sheinbaum
it fills my hear to see the hexbarians acknowlege this color revolution for what it is.
this post was submitted on 16 Nov 2025
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I sometimes feel anxiety that this is what my 30-something year old ass looks like when I wear an anime graphic tee lol
"What the HELL is a "one piece"?! I thought this thing was a Totenkopf in a sombrero!"
if only Platner had thought to do this as his tattoo cover-up
Looks like a fed to me
The man never watched an anime in his life
R/mexico is so fucking insufferable
The subreddits for geographical locations are consistently some of the most reactionary cesspools on the site
City subreddits on a video of homeless people: 
On the web you can connect to people from anywhere in the world, research anything you like, challenge your world view, find your blindspots, expand and update your mental model of the world.
Still some people just stay in their immediate geographical area and continue being ignorant and hateful and afraid.
I guess it makes sense that city subs are reactionary as fuck since that's where those people will cluster, forming the bulk of regular users.
what's the thing about upper-class education and international english speakers?
Most english speakers in non-anglophonic global south coutries come from the rich upper-class or the urban middle class. The working class usually doesn't have time or how to study a new language when they barely have time to learn their own (this is not a huge problem in regions where one or two similar languages exist, since they can easily talk to eachother, but that does allow the local elite to communicate with the global north better than the working class).
agreed and exclusions apply for border cities/towns.
It applies to place subreddits in Anglophone regions too though, like US / Commonwealth cities
sure but you'd naievly expect anglos to be terrible while not expecting r/vietnam or the like to be where the children of traitors hang out and badmouth the revolution, but for the class character of english speakers who would use reddit. (to the extent that location sub users are even from there and not feds or basement nazis making shit up)
Every latam subreddit is just full of chuds
i'm happy to learn that it's not just me. lol
Every ~~latam~~ subreddit is just full of chuds
Yep, 
Absolute cesspool 99% of the time but worth a decent laugh when Sheinbaum does something especially cool
PERFECT
In May 2005, a controversy arose over comments Fox made during a meeting with Texas business people in which he said, "There is no doubt that Mexicans, filled with dignity, willingness and ability to work, are doing jobs that not even blacks want to do there in the United States."
In 2006, after Bolivian President Evo Morales refused to sell natural gas, Fox said, "Well, they'll either have to consume it all themselves or they're going to have to eat it."
In 2006, Fox decided to cancel the parade commemorating the 96th anniversary of the Mexican Revolution which was scheduled to take place on 20 November, arguing it was an obsolete celebration that nobody wanted to participate in any more. Some commentators considered that this was a response to Andrés Manuel López Obrador's assumption of an alternative presidency to take place the same day.
In his post-presidency, Fox has drawn significant attention for controversial remarks regarding Mexican politician Claudia Sheinbaum, who has Jewish ancestry and recently became Mexico's first Jewish president.
In July 2023, Fox faced widespread backlash and later apologized after referring to Sheinbaum as a "Bulgarian Jew" in a since-deleted social media post, attempting to use her ethnicity and heritage to discredit her suitability for the presidency. He made a similar comment later when Sheinbaum wore a rosary.
Capitalism needs antisemitism.
I heard you kids like the anime’s. I myself am an anime.
Ich bin ein anime
Señora Presidenta, get his ass
:PAN: 
i had been wondering for some time now how long this would take, so i'm glad to get an answer.
As soon as I saw the headline, I guessed it
saw more than a couple olds waving one piece flags at the no kings protests
When One Piece began Vicente Fox was... 55. The man is in his 80s.
He looks pretty good for 83 TBH
Pickled in evil but hasn't overdosed like kissinger?
Maybe I'm misremembering. It was early in my radicalization arc, but I recall this guy being a Coca-Cola ceo, and I was very sceptical of all the articles swearing that this was a good thing.
Oh wait, he must be based because he’s a One Piece fan. That’s what all the kids with their animes told Bob Dole.
is he trying to sheesh?
Is that one piece
Why are nonviolent protests called "color revolutions?"
"Color revolution" is a term for western-backed regime change operations disguised as a revolution. Basically, intelligence agencies create protest movements in countries where they want to change the government, while working on a coup. This gives them the appearance of a democratic transition. The Maidan movement in Ukraine is an example of a successful color revolution.
I think them "creating protest movements" is too simplistic, it's more about cultivating sleeper cells that can hijack public discontent. From my observations the trend is this:
- The United States (now also the EU) fund various aligned NGOs in a periphery country. These pro-Western NGOs are way better funded than others and can pull off protests, media coverage, etc.
- Those countries have internal contradictions and systemic injustices, discontent rises.
- One day something triggers protests. Government violence (sometimes provoked by protesters) then leads to bigger protests.
- The pro-Western NGOs and activists are able to throw all their capital and expertise into it. They often emphasise vague feel-goods like anti-corruption and human rights that's conducive to big-tent coalitions.
- Their neoliberal beliefs are more compatible with the status quo than more radical proposals. Lack of class consciousness and political naivete often leads to reducing the structural issues to bad actors rather than institutional biases.
- Western media and politicians put pressure too, for obvious reasons.
- If the established politicians are truly corrupt opportunists and don't care, they can just give in and fuck off with their money to somewhere else, withdraw in the background, or switch sides.
- The new neoliberal order often ends up being the same, but with private corruption instead of state corruption and windowdressing over substantive reform.
Yes, and the term color comes from the fact the US literally makes shirts, flags and other stuff to match a certain color for "revolution". As seen in Georgia's Rose Revolution (2003), Ukraine's Orange Revolution (2004), Kyrgyzstan's Tulip Revolution (2005) and Armenia's Velvet Revolution (2018).
I only know about the Nazi problem resulting from US activity in Ukraine. With each color revolution is it the US's goal to spread Nazism in that country which it takes place in?
With each color revolution is it the US's goal to spread Nazism in that country which it takes place in?
I guess their goal is to install goverments that are friendly towards the USA and the West. If the local nazis are friendly towards the US, the US will support the nazis.
Yes. When you intensify the false scarcity most people will experience under capitalism you also have to create racial scapegoats to split any mass movement that would otherwise attack the bourgeoisie.
Although they will say otherwise, the only reason American elites do anything (particularly in another country) is to extract profit from workers. Necessarily, this leaves these workers living with greater precarity and with fewer resources to direct towards their needs. The Nazis are there (and supported by the US) to kill the communists that might point out the enemies are the rich and not jews or some other minority. If the American rich cared about workers anywhere they would do things like drastically raise the minimum wage throughout their own country and use state power to ensure all people are receiving adequate healthcare and are able to easily organize unions.
Sounds like what the US did to Ukraine, the US would do to the entire world if it could. That's truly disturbing.