In Spain, people tend to accept that I’m a native speaker of Spanish from the Southern Cone, and nobody asks anything. But in the Caribbean I’m not fooling anybody.
“You speak so well, you could almost be a native speaker!” people keep exclaiming.
I stopped asking how they know I’m not 20 years ago when somebody answered this question with a kindly “porque eres muy blanquita, niña.”
Also, people here refuse to believe today is N’s and mine 16th anniversary. It’s not because we look extremely young (which we don’t) but because Klara is clearly not 15. It’s really funny.
Infuriating to see some media report “Kyiv and Moscow accusing each other” of ruining the Kakhovka dam. It puts facts and propaganda on equal footing. Ukraine is facing a huge humanitarian and environmental crisis. Ignoring this fact means playing Russia’s “not all obvious” game.
Nova Kakhovka, Kherson region. The russians are turning occupied territories of Ukraine into deserts, ruins, and flood zones. The world must join Ukraine in putting an end to russian terrorism.
This is the biggest man-made ecological catastrophe in decades. And now let’s watch our Green friends ignore it completely as they’ve ignored every real threat to the environment.
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That’s pretty terrible, my friends. The water that’s escaping will not only flood residential areas, it will not be able to cool the reactors of a nuclear power plant nearby.
The Russians seem to have decided to sacrifice the Crimea because here goes the Crimea’s drinking water for the next half decade.
We have found an excellent alternative to the Disney World, people. It’s a Nickelodeon resort in the DR.
First, there’s a beach.
Second, it’s cheaper.
The food is actually good. You can get different kinds of fish cooked right in front of you any way you prefer. Or steak, or chicken.
There are no people.
I mean, there are people but you rarely see them. There are definitely no crowds.
See? Empty.
The beach is almost always empty.
Everything is included, so once you pay for the trip, there are no additional costs.
Everything has an understated space-themed aesthetic.
Coffee is excellent.
Nothing is tacky. Really, there’s no tackiness. We’ve been here for a day and a half, and nothing garish or vulgar has entered our field of vision.
There are no lines. At all. None. No waiting for anything. Because, guess what? There’s always a bunch of space between you and other people. You practically don’t see them, which I know I already said but it’s too good not to repeat.
Unless you actively seek out characters, you won’t come across them.
There are ice-cream machines everywhere, and it’s all free. Soon your kid starts saying, “Mommy, I beg you, no more ice cream! Please, can I have a salad, please, Mommy, I’ll be good forever!”
Also, to quote N, “there isn’t a single Russian here!”
I’ll post more pictures later to illustrate my point about the lack of people.
The Russian mercenary group “Wagner” captured a lieutenant colonel of the Russian army, beat him, broke his nose, and made him beg their forgiveness on camera.
They have suffered absolutely no consequences.
Think about this. “Wagner” recruits convicts who are serving time for violent crimes. The people who kidnapped, tortured and humiliated an officer of the Russian army are convicted criminals. And nobody in Russia can as much as wag their fingers at them.
Earlier on the same day, Russian nationalist guerrillas took several Russian regular army soldiers captive and also mocked both them and the governor of the Belgorod Region in a viral video. Nobody did anything to them either.
These two incidents are just from today.
Now think about all the people who have been repeating the poorly cobbled together slogan about how “we are being walked into World War 3.” Would you say those people are:
A) stupid
or
B) liars?
There’s no other possibility, except maybe stupid liars.
Everybody expected Putin to say something about the war activities in the Belgorod Region. Instead he talked about the importance of developing eco-tourism.
One can only hope he isn’t planning to develop it in the Belgorod Region.
What’s curious, though, is that no matter what political system exists in a country, politicians invariably turn to eco topics when they don’t want to discuss something serious and urgent.
They have Cuban television here in the DR. I turned it on at random, and it’s all Fidel, Raúl, Sierra Morena, “the bearded guerrillero didn’t even have a beard yet.”
Decades go by but this incredible doofuses are still going on about their sad old revolution. Imagine the people who have to watch this news report about Fidel and Raúl their whole lives.
The Customs office of the Dominican Republic asks if you are “male, female, or other” at the entrance. Not surprisingly, this was imposed on the Dominican people by the exact same individuals who claim to be against imperialism.
The Dominicans don’t have a choice. They need tourism money and can’t upset the entitled American and Canadian “other gender” drama queens.
What a shame, though. What an absolute shame it is to be that kind of person.
