Lina Seiche
@LinaSeiche • 131,090 subscribers
Writer, cartoonist, plushie store owner, coffee person at @BeanofFire, living room concert pianist, making video essays ✍️
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What happens when a society can no longer define good and bad?
Lina Seiche58,426 Aufrufe • vor 6 Tagen
How did Nayib Bukele “flip the switch” and make El Salvador the safest country on the continent? The short answer: he didn’t. There was no “switch.” Bukele only declared the War on Gangs once he knew he could win it within weeks. But to get there, it took years. Part 1 of 4:
Lina Seiche316,844 Aufrufe • vor 5 Monaten
I want to share a little about the Salvadoran mission to Venezuela; the part you don’t see. The mission is handled by the President of El Salvador. Meaning it is literally handled directly by him. Every thread of the operation reports to Nayib Bukele. Rescue workers update the President by the minute and make decisions together: where to go, how to approach a location, how thin to spread the teams, how long to stay. The rescuers put their lives on the line to pull people out of the rubble. They squeeze into fragile buildings and dig with their hands where heavy equipment would collapse the structure. They have the President in their ear along the way. He monitors every person they rescue from the first point of contact until they reach the hospital, where he oversees their medical treatment plans. He decides whether to call off a search or keep it going. It’s an impossible decision, which is why he makes it. This is how El Salvador has managed every emergency of the last 7 years. It’s the first time Bukele applies his methods at this scale to help another country. I’m writing this because after the fact, people often post about how you merely need to “flip a switch to fix everything.” The truth looks a lot more like this. Missions from around the world have now deployed their teams. All of them are doing God’s work. May they be protected and save many more lives today.
Lina Seiche82,109 Aufrufe • vor 2 Monaten
When decaying societies go mad. Featuring a rhyme… from history.
Lina Seiche58,779 Aufrufe • vor 1 Monat
The New Age of Kings. Monarchies are dated, but kings are coming back. Our kings won’t wear crowns or royal titles. They won’t even be monarchs; kings they will be nonetheless. A conversation about power, a deep-dive into the rise of strong leaders, and why it was inevitable.
Lina Seiche253,657 Aufrufe • vor 9 Monaten
The problem with modern leadership is that many of us have actually never experienced it. I didn’t realize this until I saw the difference first-hand. Where I come from (Europe), it’s normal to hate your government, and we regularly feel pretty embarrassed by the people who run our countries. We’re so used to the state throwing obstacles our way that we forget it should actually be the other way around. Now I’m on my third year in El Salvador, and it makes perfect sense to me why the media would regularly belittle Nayib Bukele’s achievements. He makes people turn around and ask their leaders why they can’t do half of what he does with 2x, 3x, 20x the resources. El Salvador is proof that crime and regression are a deliberate choice by the state. Everything changes when your surroundings get progressively better. You subconsciously adapt your time horizon, your risk appetite, your commitment to the world before you. Public servants should serve the people, not expect to be served by the people. Those at the helm must work their very hardest, because their work defines the opportunities for everyone else. The fact that this is exceedingly rare doesn’t make it any less true; it only means that if we do find it, we should really seize it.
Lina Seiche193,232 Aufrufe • vor 7 Monaten
What people get wrong about Nayib Bukele’s “authoritarian regime”
Lina Seiche194,385 Aufrufe • vor 11 Monaten
The political philosophy of Nayib Bukele, the world’s most popular elected head of state.
Lina Seiche129,086 Aufrufe • vor 7 Monaten