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Rafael Igayara

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gonna tell my kids this was joelma

Charlize Theron as Calypso in Nolan's Odyssey (2026)

July 26, 2026 at 8:22 PM

Rafael Igayara

@igayara.space

I am simply pointing out, and you are exemplifying, how the chauvinistic ideology that foreigners are less human than american citizens is so deeply rooted into your psyche that y'all don't even realize you're doing it. Maybe read a book or two instead of issuing death threats! Cheers

2 airplanes dropping bombs, one says "republicans" and has the israel flag, thin blue line, come and take it and the other says "democrats" and has a rainbow flag, yes we can, black lives matter

April 20, 2026 at 1:29 PM

Rafael Igayara

@igayara.space

you leave me no choice but to tap the sign

american *sees something american happening americanly in america*: what are we a bunch of ASIANS?!?!???

January 24, 2026 at 7:16 PM

Rafael Igayara

@igayara.space

America has never not been a lebensraum for white americans territory

Manifest destiny

Cultural belief of 19th-century American expansionists

For other uses, see Manifest Destiny (disambiguation).

Manifest destiny was the expansionist belief in the 19th-century United States that American settlers were destined to expand westward across North America, and that this belief was both obvious ("manifest") and certain ("destiny"). The belief is rooted in American exceptionalism, romantic nationalism, and white nationalism, implying the inevitable spread of republicanism and the American way. It is one of the earliest expressions of American imperialism.

January 6, 2026 at 2:45 PM

Rafael Igayara

@igayara.space

Bom dia, habitantes do Hemisfério Ocidental! Conseguem pensar em algum país que possua Recursos Estratégicos que precisem ser Protegidos de Competidores Não-Hemisféricos e que possam ser Desenvolvidos em uma Parceria Regional?

National Security Strategy of the United States of America

November 2025

TABLE OF CONTENTS

I. Introduction - What Is American Strategy?.

1. How American "Strategy" Went Astray..

2. President Trump's Necessary, Welcome Correction

II. What Should the United States Want?

1. What Do We Want Overall?.

2. What Do We Want In and From the World?

III. What Are America's Available Means to Get What We Want?.

IV. The Strategy

1. Principles.

2. Priorities

3. The Regions.

A. The Western Hemisphere.

B. Asia

C. Europe

D. The Middle East.

E. Africa.

A. Western Hemisphere: The Trump Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine

After years of neglect, the United States will reassert and enforce the Monroe Doctrine to restore American preeminence in the Western Hemisphere, and to protect our homeland and our access to key geographies throughout the region. We will deny non-Hemispheric competitors the ability to position forces or other threatening capabilities, or to own or control strategically vital assets, in our Hemisphere. This "Trump Corollary" to the Monroe Doctrine is a common-sense and potent restoration of American power and priorities, consistent with American security interests.

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As we deepen our partnerships with countries with whom America presently has strong relations, we must look to expand our network in the region. We want other nations to see us as their partner of first choice, and we will (through various means) discourage their collaboration with others.

The Western Hemisphere is home to many strategic resources that America should partner with regional allies to develop, to make neighboring countries as well as our own more prosperous. The National Security Council will immediately begin a robust interagency process to task agencies, supported by our Intelligence Community's analytical arm, to identify strategic points and resources in the Western Hemisphere with a view to their protection and joint development with regional partners.

Non-Hemispheric competitors have made major inroads into our Hemisphere, both to disadvantage us economically in the present, and in ways that may harm us strategically in the future. Allowing these incursions without serious pushback is another great American strategic mistake of recent decades.

January 3, 2026 at 1:06 PM

Rafael Igayara

@igayara.space

counterpoint:

graph with 2 lines: "good thing" (starts high) and "bad thing" (starts low). when they reach a moment named "Ronald Reagan", "good thing" starts falling sharply and "bad thing" starts increasing exponentially

November 9, 2025 at 9:50 PM

Rafael Igayara

@igayara.space

Também destacaria que a neuroatipicidade extrapola em muitos os limites estreitos do prisma psiquiátrico, e esse é um dos pontos principais do ativismo pela neurodiversidade. Da mesma entrevista de Walker:

In terms ofscholarship, discourse, and praxis, there are two basic ways to approach the biopsychosocial phenomenon of neurodiversity. Sometime around 2010, I started referring to these two approaches as the pathology paradigm and the neurodiversity paradigm.2 The pathology paradigm starts from the assumption that significant divergences from dominant sociocultural norms of cognition and embodiment represent some form of deficit, defect, or pathology. In other words, the pathology paradigm divides the spectrum of human cognitive/embodied performance into ‘‘normal’’ and ‘‘other than normal,’’ with ‘‘normal’’ implicitly privileged as the superior and desirable state. Theneurodiversity paradigm starts from the understanding that neurodiversity is an axis of human diversity, like ethnic diversity or diversity of gender and sexual orientation, and is subject to the samesortsof socialdynamicsasthoseotherforms of diversity—including the dynamics of social power inequalities, privilege, and oppression. From this perspective, the pathologization of neurominorities can be recognized as simply another form of systemic oppression which functions similarly to the oppression of other types of minority groups. When we recognize neurodiversity as a form of human diversity, and recognize the pathology paradigm as a form of systemic oppression like racism or heterosexism, it’s easy to see that the concept of a ‘‘normal mind’’ is just as absurd and innately oppressive as the idea that white people are the default ‘‘normal’’ race or that heterosexuality is the one ‘‘normal’’ sexuality. And the pathologization of neurominorities—the framing of autism, for instance, as a ‘‘mental disorder’’ or a medical ‘‘condition’’—is no more valid and no less oppressive than the framing of homosexuality as a ‘‘mental disorder.’’

March 6, 2025 at 10:43 PM

Rafael Igayara

@igayara.space

É uma discussão presente no campo do ativismo pela neurodiversidade (vide excerto de entrevista abaixo da Nick Walker @dr-nicky.bsky.social - disponível em neuroqueer.com/toward-a-neu...)