Posted On: Tuesday - June 30th 2026 9:03PM MST
In Topics: Movies Geography Race/Genetics Peak Stupidity Roadshow
This is the 2nd installment of a quick series from our S. American roadtrip, continued from the 1st.
I'll make this one quick. Graffiti abounds in Montevideo, Uruguay, at least in the downtown. I was a bit surprised. I've thought of graffiti as a mostly Black! thing, but then I haven't been around Los Angeles or Miami much in a long time. I suppose wherever you have gangs, they've got to mark their territory, as cats back up and piss on the corners of houses and vehicle trim. I really like how Michael Douglas's character observes this in one of my favorite movies, Falling Down.
I've got my own start/end, but you may want to watch the whole scene for the 1993 movie:
OK, Uruguay, sure, it's in South America. There are Hispanic people there, but I expected more of the "Conquistador-Americans" (h/t, Steve Sailer) per wiki demographic numbers. They don't plaster graffiti everywhere, do they?
That historic building of some sort is right on the waterfront, this coastline that is geographically a curve from the coastline of the 50 mile wide Rio de la Plata to the Atlantic Ocean coast. The wide strand avenue is called the Rambla de ABC, where ABC goes from President Wilson (uggh!) to Charles de Gualle, to Peru, and Mahatma Ghandi has a big stretch of it named after him. (I have no idea what that was about.) Anyway, nobody is taking care of that building, I guess.
Also right there on the Atlantic coast, CCW from the point, that wall has what seems like one of those combination murals and graffiti sessions. You don't want to piss off the home boys, so you act like this is art. They do that in American inner cities too.
That's an architecturally beautiful old residential building, on what should be a pretty corner in downtown Montevideo. WTH, man? I see that these "taggers" don't bother to get higher than they can reach. Aren't our American taggers less lazy, at least?
OK! Now that there, on a park bench on the touristy walk-street downtown, is some graffiti that I would sponsor myself! Maybe someone can help me here. Does that last line read "Communism is death"?
PS: While trying to find the name of that walk-street (it's been a year and a half) on google maps, I took a look around the city some more. (I can look at maps for hours.) We got around but surely not around 90% of the city. Perhaps we got a bad impression as with someone spending time only in the inner city of a Midwestern medium-sized city here. I am hoping reader/commenter Possumman can fill me in on more as his son and family have spent more time in Montevideo.
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Adam Smith
Thursday - July 2nd 2026 2:21PM MST
PS: Good afternoon, Mr. Moderator...
Yes. It is hot out there. Currently ~92ยฐF on the porch. (at 5:21pm) The car told me it was 96ยฐ in town. We had a decent breeze yesterday evening, which made it seem about 10ยฐ cooler than the thermometer said it was. Right now, it is quite still. Fortunately, we have good shade up here which helps a lot.
I should probably mow the lawn, but I might skip it for now. (If I were smart I'd wait until about 8 o'clock and do it, but I'll probably have a few glasses of prosecco in me by then, so it might not happen tonight.
I hope you and the Newman family are all going well and staying cool. (Looks like it is pretty hot your way. A little hotter than here but that is pretty typical.)
I'm going to go check out your new post...
(Right after I shuffle these 84 cans of cat food.)
Happy Thursday! โฎ๏ธ
Yes. It is hot out there. Currently ~92ยฐF on the porch. (at 5:21pm) The car told me it was 96ยฐ in town. We had a decent breeze yesterday evening, which made it seem about 10ยฐ cooler than the thermometer said it was. Right now, it is quite still. Fortunately, we have good shade up here which helps a lot.
I should probably mow the lawn, but I might skip it for now. (If I were smart I'd wait until about 8 o'clock and do it, but I'll probably have a few glasses of prosecco in me by then, so it might not happen tonight.
I hope you and the Newman family are all going well and staying cool. (Looks like it is pretty hot your way. A little hotter than here but that is pretty typical.)
I'm going to go check out your new post...
(Right after I shuffle these 84 cans of cat food.)
Happy Thursday! โฎ๏ธ
Moderator
Thursday - July 2nd 2026 10:51AM MST
PS: Good afternoon, Adam. Is it 95F up on the hill there too?
Adam Smith
Thursday - July 2nd 2026 10:33AM MST
PS: Good afternoon, gentlemen,
To paraphrase Jean Raspail,
๐โ๐๐ฆ ๐ค๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐ ๐๐๐๐ก ๐ค๐๐กโ ๐ฆ๐๐ข๐ ๐๐๐๐ข๐ก๐๐๐ข๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐...
It's another hot one today. (~95 out there)
So we're going to run some errands while we keep cool.
I hope you guys have a wonderful day! โฎ๏ธ
To paraphrase Jean Raspail,
๐โ๐๐ฆ ๐ค๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐ ๐๐๐๐ก ๐ค๐๐กโ ๐ฆ๐๐ข๐ ๐๐๐๐ข๐ก๐๐๐ข๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐...
It's another hot one today. (~95 out there)
So we're going to run some errands while we keep cool.
I hope you guys have a wonderful day! โฎ๏ธ
Moderator
Thursday - July 2nd 2026 8:36AM MST
PS: Haha, Alarmist! Wha the heck, here's the whole thing (if they sue me, it'll only make Peak Stupidity stronger, during discovery.):
NEW YORK, NY โ Cuban Americans across the city reportedly took to the sea, eager to once again escape the terrors of communism in homemade rafts that some believed may not even be capable of making the trip.
Following the election of three socialist representatives to Congress and with the city under the leadership of Mayor Zohran Mamdani, Cubans began breaking down old wooden furniture and forming rudimentary rafts so they could once again sail away from communism.
"I don't care where I go, but it can't be here," said Juan Rodriguez, a successful Cuban immigrant who had made quite a life for himself on Wall Street. "I escaped Cuba years ago to find a better life, but now communism is chasing me down again."
He elaborated, "It's like that movie Final Destination, I guess. You can't escape communism. It just keeps coming. It follows the pattern, chasing the people it has chosen. We're all going to run out of bread if we don't get out of here."
Hundreds of Cuban New Yorkers abandoned the city, nearly clogging up the East River with their rafts as they attempted to find a better life somewhere across the Atlantic.
"I'm certainly not going to Canada, I can tell you that much," said Ricky Ricardo (no relation to the fictional character from I Love Lucy, but still Cuban). "Maybe Greenland? I don't know. I hope this baby can make it."
At publishing time, thousands of Cubans were presumed missing after accidentally colliding with an iceberg somewhere in the northern Atlantic.
NEW YORK, NY โ Cuban Americans across the city reportedly took to the sea, eager to once again escape the terrors of communism in homemade rafts that some believed may not even be capable of making the trip.
Following the election of three socialist representatives to Congress and with the city under the leadership of Mayor Zohran Mamdani, Cubans began breaking down old wooden furniture and forming rudimentary rafts so they could once again sail away from communism.
"I don't care where I go, but it can't be here," said Juan Rodriguez, a successful Cuban immigrant who had made quite a life for himself on Wall Street. "I escaped Cuba years ago to find a better life, but now communism is chasing me down again."
He elaborated, "It's like that movie Final Destination, I guess. You can't escape communism. It just keeps coming. It follows the pattern, chasing the people it has chosen. We're all going to run out of bread if we don't get out of here."
Hundreds of Cuban New Yorkers abandoned the city, nearly clogging up the East River with their rafts as they attempted to find a better life somewhere across the Atlantic.
"I'm certainly not going to Canada, I can tell you that much," said Ricky Ricardo (no relation to the fictional character from I Love Lucy, but still Cuban). "Maybe Greenland? I don't know. I hope this baby can make it."
At publishing time, thousands of Cubans were presumed missing after accidentally colliding with an iceberg somewhere in the northern Atlantic.
The Alarmist
Thursday - July 2nd 2026 7:06AM MST
PS
Speaking of NYC communists โฆ
https://babylonbee.com/news/cubans-living-in-nyc-begin-boarding-rafts-to-escape-communism-again
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Speaking of NYC communists โฆ
https://babylonbee.com/news/cubans-living-in-nyc-begin-boarding-rafts-to-escape-communism-again
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Moderator
Wednesday - July 1st 2026 6:30PM MST
PS: "Long live free Nicaragua" is anti-Communist.
Ortega is a dictator and a #%@%. You've got to have better penmanship, especially if you're going to write in Spanish on a park bench. (Yes, perhaps he was in a hurry, haha.)
My question mark was outside the quote, but he could have put in an upside-down exclamation point. Maybe he was a displaced ex-pat New Yorker who has gotten disillusioned with Communism after Mayor DiBlasio and Governor HulChulMinh. He wouldn't have seen nothing yet, had he stayed. "You can't go home again."
Ortega is a dictator and a #%@%. You've got to have better penmanship, especially if you're going to write in Spanish on a park bench. (Yes, perhaps he was in a hurry, haha.)
My question mark was outside the quote, but he could have put in an upside-down exclamation point. Maybe he was a displaced ex-pat New Yorker who has gotten disillusioned with Communism after Mayor DiBlasio and Governor HulChulMinh. He wouldn't have seen nothing yet, had he stayed. "You can't go home again."
The Alarmist
Wednesday - July 1st 2026 12:27PM MST
PS
Wouldnโt that be โยฟMuerte al comunismo?โ
I canโt make out the last word, but I get the gist that communism made something.
A lot of the graffiti looks similar to what I used to see in NYC. Hmmm.
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Wouldnโt that be โยฟMuerte al comunismo?โ
I canโt make out the last word, but I get the gist that communism made something.
A lot of the graffiti looks similar to what I used to see in NYC. Hmmm.
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Doing well... (But you know the thing.)
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