Gustavo Petro responds to Trump: “Overthrow me…the Americas and humanity will respond”

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Because empathy costs nothing, yet it is so hard to see it be spent.

Because I take no joy of seeing another human being suffer.

Because I want to show, even if only for a brief and fleeting moment, concern for you and your troubles.

Because I want to.

Why is going back the only option? Can't you work there?

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You need to decide whether you're going to troll me with gifs or if you are going to act like you care. Because it can't be both.

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Using a gif for a visual cue of my mental state isn't trolling. It's just me lacking words to perfectly express myself.

I'm not going to arm wrestle you to decide if I'm putting up a fake caring facade or if I'm being honest. That is solely up to you.

And to borrow your words: you are free to stop talking to me and be rid of me for ever.

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Do you post MBFC links on articles from outlets they classify as “unbiased” too, or just the “biased” ones?

I post links if I'm unfamiliar with a source and look them up, regardless of their conclusions. Sometimes I'll do research on a news source if they don't have an MBFC entry and share that as well. I assume there are others who are like, "cool story but... who the fuck is this?" I hope it spares them the extra steps.

If some people don't like that, I don't care. I count MBFC downvotes as upvotes. It helps people I'm overjoyed to help and pisses off people that I'm pretty okay with pissing off. I'm not letting a bunch of greasy misinfo ghouls call the shots.

A couple minutes of research shows that (although their contributors are all over the world) their legal entity People’s Dispatch Ltd. is registered in New York.

First, registering and operating are two different things. Human beings are not just bound by the laws of the country their corporation is registered in.

But... so what? If the information we have shows something that's problematic then new information becomes available that addresses our concerns... that's fine. That's how shit's supposed to work. MBFC is an information source, not the information source.

As others have pointed out many times before, the entirely flawed premise behind MBFC is that centrism correlates with credibility and/or factualness...

etc etc etc

Look, I've met my quota on debating weird MBFC conspiracy theorists. The reality is there are a lot of people who don't know what they're talking about posting links to webpages they haven't read. I'm not interested in someone's poorly thought out take on how they say the Guardian is quadruple Mein Kampf, or whatever. If you have links to peer-reviewed research that support those conclusions, I'd be happy to see them. You don't, though, because every bit of academic work on MBFC says those people are dead wrong.

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I didn't say you were free to stop talking me and be rid of me forever. I said when my daughter gets taken away from me, the universe will be rid of me forever.

Should have been rid of me forever before she was even born honestly.

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But why will your daughter be taken from you?

Again, isn't it possible for you to stay in the UK indefinetely? Just settle there? Or perhaps on some other european country?

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It's possible for me to stay here indefinitely. She is not a citizen and she would not get citizenship for 10 years. And she can only stay on a family visa if I make more than £29,000 a year, which I won't because no one wants to hire me.

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But can't your daughter apply for a work visa herself? Or a school one?

And what are your skills? If my countrymen, dumb as doorknobs go there and find work, it can't be that hard.

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She's 14, so no work visa. And there's no such thing a grade school visa.

As far as my skills, years of media production and post production, but between chronic health issues and having to put my daughter in online school due to severe bullying, I am 5 years behind the times and, unsurprisingly, no one is interested.

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She's too young, obviously. But being so young is she in risk of deportation? Families tend to enjoy a bit more liniency.

You may be a bit outdated but I'm going to risk you are not "unusable". I can't fathom what you actually do but there must be something you can do with those skills.

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Yes, she is only here on a travel visa. She can stay a maximum of six months until she's here illegally.

And you would think there would be something worth hiring me for, but apparently not.

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Strange laws. Children from immigrant families can enroll to school in my country even while their families are waiting for have their requests processed to become declared immigrants.

Squid, I'm going to be level with you. I risk we're in the same time zone. It's getting late and I've been awake since four a.m.; I'm running on fumes here.

Feel free to message me if you feel like chatting a bit. I spend way too much time here, under the excuse of getting some information in my head.

Keep trying, both for work and for a way to get your daughter to be safe there, here, in Europe, permanently. Please, Squid. From a father to another. We can never give up.

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Gustavo Petro responds to Trump: “Overthrow me…the Americas and humanity will respond”