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Rodrigo Aguilera 🇲🇽 🇺🇦 🇵🇸

@rodaimonia.bsky.social
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Economist. Author. Former Chatham House and Economist Intelligence Unit. Democratic Socialist. Diogenes Mindset. Currently writing a book about Mexican elites.

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Rodrigo Aguilera 🇲🇽 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 @rodaimonia.bsky.social · 15h
Yes, that's why I said "for nearly everything else". The UK is not the best place for trans people right now and even if places like London are very trans-friendly (I should know since I lived there), the fact that the law will work against you if you need it is like a shadow that clouds everything.
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Rodrigo Aguilera 🇲🇽 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 @rodaimonia.bsky.social · 15h
The worst universal healthcare system in Europe is still better than the US's though. And if you want open space, there's always Scotland...
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Rodrigo Aguilera 🇲🇽 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 @rodaimonia.bsky.social · 15h
Universal healthcare, better work-life balance, walkable cities, easy travel to anywhere in Europe, history everywhere, and now thanks to climate change even the summers are decent. 😎
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Rodrigo Aguilera 🇲🇽 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 @rodaimonia.bsky.social · 16h
Having lived in both, I still prefer the UK for nearly everything else though. 🙃
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Rodrigo Aguilera 🇲🇽 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 @rodaimonia.bsky.social · 17h
Yup, unless you're in straight up MAGA land, the US is far more progressive on average on trans rights than the UK.
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Rodrigo Aguilera 🇲🇽 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 @rodaimonia.bsky.social · 18h
Pleasantly surprised that this is the first half-decent U2 song to come out in around two decades. Having said that, Bono's voice and vocal range is now so bad I really think they should replace him with an '84-'87 era AI version of himself. 🤡 www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUuV...
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U2 - The Greatest Show On Earth
YouTube video by U2VEVO
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Rodrigo Aguilera 🇲🇽 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 @rodaimonia.bsky.social · 19h
Britain living up to its TERF Island nickname.
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Rodrigo Aguilera 🇲🇽 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 @rodaimonia.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Batman also doesn't live in NYC, he lives in Gotham City.
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Rodrigo Aguilera 🇲🇽 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 @rodaimonia.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Zero surprise from a publication that simps for Putin.
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Rodrigo Aguilera 🇲🇽 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 @rodaimonia.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
First NFL game I watch this season and damn this felt good. Is this finally our year? 💪 #Niners
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Rodrigo Aguilera 🇲🇽 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 @rodaimonia.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
For someone who really wants to be president, he really doesn't want to actually win the nomination.
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Rodrigo Aguilera 🇲🇽 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 @rodaimonia.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
This is now officially my favorite Halloween video 🎃 www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-9U...
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Pumpkin Spice - White Woman Season
YouTube video by MeatCanyon
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Rodrigo Aguilera 🇲🇽 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 @rodaimonia.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
You said that they had refused to condemn the invasion which is categorically false, they did. I also hope you are smart enough to know a UN resolution (the March 9th 2022 vote) carries more weight than a joint statement which has no legal standing. You do know this, right? Tell me you do.
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Rodrigo Aguilera 🇲🇽 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 @rodaimonia.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Your friendly reminder that if your country cannot organize a general strike, you do not live in an actual democracy. In a capitalist society, only unions bring about democracy.
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Rodrigo Aguilera 🇲🇽 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 @rodaimonia.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I will always be baffled why Trump seems to hate Canada more than Mexico, even more considering how much he hates women. My theory is Trump seems to be attracted to rulers who he would wish to be (hence his love of tyrants), and admires (possibly envies) Sheinbaum's popularity.
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Rodrigo Aguilera 🇲🇽 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 @rodaimonia.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
It is telling of your Morena Derangement Syndrome that you don't even bother reading the news: Mexico condemned the invasion from day one 👇 P.S. I'm not a "Social Democrat", mate. www.reuters.com/world/un-gen...
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U.N. General Assembly in historic vote denounces Russia over Ukraine invasion
The United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday overwhelmingly voted to reprimand Russia for invading Ukraine and demanded that Moscow stop fighting and withdraw its military forces, an action that a...
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Rodrigo Aguilera 🇲🇽 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 @rodaimonia.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Honestly would be the least worst thing to happen to humanity given ongoing trends.
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Rodrigo Aguilera 🇲🇽 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 @rodaimonia.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Morena Derangement Syndrome 👆
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Rodrigo Aguilera 🇲🇽 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 @rodaimonia.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Between his new hair color and his rage face CR7 now looks like Homelander which is kind of funny since both are immature, entitled man-children.
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Rodrigo Aguilera 🇲🇽 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 @rodaimonia.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Really hate that Haaland has been turned into the poster boy of Man City's downfall despite him not being on the team when a single of the charges took place.
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Rodrigo Aguilera 🇲🇽 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 @rodaimonia.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Funny that Michael Tracey blames the perpetrator for the involuntary consequences of doxxing him, yet blames the victim of gang-rape for the involuntary consequences of getting drunk in the proximity of frat boys.
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Rodrigo Aguilera 🇲🇽 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 @rodaimonia.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This is average by the standards of the man, the legend, Adrian Chiles. A national treasure.
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Rodrigo Aguilera 🇲🇽 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 @rodaimonia.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Adrian Chiles is a treasure of British journalism
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Rodrigo Aguilera 🇲🇽 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 @rodaimonia.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Meanwhile, on that other site, Michael Tracey and Glen Greenwald competing on who is the biggest rape apologist on the planet.
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Rodrigo Aguilera 🇲🇽 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 @rodaimonia.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
My kingdom for a law that forces every company to disclose last fiscal year's dividend payments as a share of profits on every PR statement they release. "We are committed to our customers by investing X amount" will fall flat when it becomes obvious half their profits went to shareholders.
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Rodrigo Aguilera 🇲🇽 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 @rodaimonia.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This has been pretty obvious with all the crackpot dictators Trump cavorts with but also his bizarre fawning over Mandami whose popularity and looks he probably wishes he had. Also explains why he likes zero women at all, even populist right ones (ex: Meloni): he wouldn't ever want to be one.
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Rodrigo Aguilera 🇲🇽 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 @rodaimonia.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
When your response to a point I raised is to call me an incel and not address the point itself, yes, I won. Hope this helps. 👇 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_homi...
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Ad hominem - Wikipedia
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Rodrigo Aguilera 🇲🇽 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 @rodaimonia.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
By people, OP explicitly is referring to those who left nasty comments on that substack piece. ALL of the people who made nasty comments were women. So even by twisting my words and trying to turn this into semantics, you failed.
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Rodrigo Aguilera 🇲🇽 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 @rodaimonia.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Femcels gonna femcel.
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Rodrigo Aguilera 🇲🇽 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 @rodaimonia.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
These people know how insurance works. Their voters know how insurance works. This is just a test of how much cruelty they're willing to sign on to by continuing to support MAGA.
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Rodrigo Aguilera 🇲🇽 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 @rodaimonia.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Nope. I'm reading what you all write. Own it or keep finding excuses.
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Rodrigo Aguilera 🇲🇽 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 @rodaimonia.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I literally wrote "increasingly incapable". I never said "weren't capable". Twisting words is easy isn't it?
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Rodrigo Aguilera 🇲🇽 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 @rodaimonia.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
If that's your best reply I clealy struck a nerve.
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Rodrigo Aguilera 🇲🇽 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 @rodaimonia.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Spare me the therapy-speak and tell us which gender went apeshit over the stadium video and subsequent substack post which is the whole origin of this thread.
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Rodrigo Aguilera 🇲🇽 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 @rodaimonia.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
My point, in case it wasn't obvious, is that a type of toxic online behavior that was hitherto mostly limited to a particular subset of men (incels/manosphere) is now thoroughly normalized by women.
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Rodrigo Aguilera 🇲🇽 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 @rodaimonia.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"Incel-posting" = pointing out womens' bad online behavior. Because women can do no wrong! 🤡
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Rodrigo Aguilera 🇲🇽 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 @rodaimonia.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The only people who went on a rage meltdown because of this video were women. The only people who are still having a meltdown in the responses to her substack are women. Own it and call out your side. We do when it comes to the incels. You all stay silent.
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Rodrigo Aguilera 🇲🇽 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 @rodaimonia.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
By people, you mean women. Women are increasingly incapable of engaging with other human beings as human beings, especially if they are men. It's been like this for a few years and will only get worse.
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Rodrigo Aguilera 🇲🇽 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 @rodaimonia.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I know shitting on economics is par for the course on this site but literally no economist I know (and I probably know more than this guy) has ever once described themselves as a "scientist" unless it's absolute sarcasm. But cool story bro!
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Rodrigo Aguilera 🇲🇽 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 @rodaimonia.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
If the revolving door had a face and a name, it would be Nick Clegg.
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Rodrigo Aguilera 🇲🇽 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 @rodaimonia.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Another unsurprising addition to the team:
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Rodrigo Aguilera 🇲🇽 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 @rodaimonia.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Turn this into a renaissance painting #JudasPriest #London #Live 🤘
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Rodrigo Aguilera 🇲🇽 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 @rodaimonia.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Also if anything you can make the case that public spending via debt when private investment is weak is what can actually keep economies afloat in periods of protracted stagnation (Japan post-bubble case in point). Austerity never works. Period.
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Rodrigo Aguilera 🇲🇽 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 @rodaimonia.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Crowding out has always been among the dogmas of economic faith that I have found to be complete BS, in both theory and practice. Glad El-Arian is helping to make it obvious.
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Rodrigo Aguilera 🇲🇽 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 @rodaimonia.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Danny Dyer is based a.f. 👍 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Danny Dyer among celebrities at water public ownership protest
Activists are calling for the water industry to be returned to public ownership.
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Rodrigo Aguilera 🇲🇽 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 @rodaimonia.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Sewer Socialism works.
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Rodrigo Aguilera 🇲🇽 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 @rodaimonia.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Tell me who your friends are...
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Rodrigo Aguilera 🇲🇽 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 @rodaimonia.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Maybe it's time for a 2nd edition 🙂
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Rodrigo Aguilera 🇲🇽 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 @rodaimonia.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Shameless plug in, but I literally wrote a book debunking him and his progress BS (and that of other pseudo-intellectuals like him) back in 2020 and there was a whole chapter on his anti-wokeness. repeaterbooks.com/product/the-...
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The Glass Half-Empty: Debunking the Myth of Progress in the Twenty-First Century - Repeater Books
Despite the doom and gloom of financial crises, global terrorism, climate collapse, and the rise of the far-right, a number of leading intellectuals (Steven Pinker, Hans Rosling, Johan Norberg, and Ma...
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Rodrigo Aguilera 🇲🇽 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 @rodaimonia.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Just when new traditional architecture was making a comeback, Trump vulgarizes it for his gilded strip club aesthetic.
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