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India: Hindutva terrorist kills senior colleague and 3 others in train
Palghar; 2 Aug 2023 (UMMN): A Hindutva terrorist shot dead a senior colleague and three Muslim passengers on board a train, while hailing PM Modi and UP CM Yogi Adityanath.
The terrorist was identified as Chetan Singh, 33, from Hathras in Uttar Pradesh state, a constable of the Railway Protection Force (RPF).
In one of the videos widely shared on the social media platform, Singh, after the…
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#AmitShah#bhagwa terror#BJP Government#cow vigilante#Crime against humanity#Dictatorship in India#Fascism in India#Fascist Government#Hindu terrorists#HinduTerror#Hindutva#HindutvaTerror#Human Rights India#human rights violation#Indian terrorist#ModiTerror#Pogrom#PragyaSinghThakur#RSS
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not to sound controversial but american (and british) people's perception of other countries is absolutely buckwild. have yall tried not looking at each part of the world through different shitty instagram filters
#so much talk about the news and theyre indoctrinating my kinds etc etc#my dear sir you are not immune to propaganda#north korea. iraq. india. russia. ukraine. spain. china. mexico. etc etc#this is not me defending russia or the russian government in any way#what putin is doing is so fucked up#but yall REALLY have absolutely NO idea what is going on over here#not in the oh were actually the victim way#but just in the holy shit you really have a hilariously skewed view of what its like to an average person.#we arent an evil dictatorship this isnt 1984
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Headcanon that Hobie Brown struggles with conveying his emotions/is emotionally unavailable
When we were introduced to Hobie, he seemed like a very outgoing, funny guy who's friends with the optimistic, friendly Spider-man India, and we assume that he's the same way, what with all the jokes he makes, the slightly high-pitched voice and the vibrant color-changing nature of his animation. However, when he takes his mask off, he immediately reverts to a deeper tone of voice, no longer cracking as many jokes, not really expressing any visible emotions. He keeps a straight face for most of the movie, only managing a smirk or a slight smile when talking to Miles. He doesn't talk much, and all his lines have a deeper meaning behind them or a specific goal in mind.
"eh what of it?"
This scene specifically is what fuels this headcanon. We see all of the Spider-men reflecting over their canons, showing visible anguish at these past events, ex. Peter B. Parker looking away from Miles and kissing Mayday on the forehead, and Jess Drew adding on her little "and me" when Miles asks if the canon happened to them.
However, Hobie seems to be looking at the canon event with a completely straight face, showing very little emotion at the death of his police captain. Now its completely plausible that since he is most obviously ACAB, he killed his police captain himself and doesn't feel much guilt for his death, but if we look closely, he does look a little sad before he turns his attention back to Miles. He then proceeds to say, "what of it", brushing off the incident, and acting as if it wasn't a big deal. This, plus his fairly emotionless behavior from the rest of his scenes made me feel as though he might be emotionally unavailable, especially in the specific emotions of sadness, guilt, regret, etc...
We do see Hobie laughing, smiling, being cocky and sarcastic, but we never see him sad or regretful, compared to the rest of the Spider-men who are all shown experiencing some kind of negative emotion. (This includes even Ben Reilly, Spectacular Spider-man, Pavitr, etc...)
Being emotionally unavailable can also result from trauma, which we can be pretty sure Hobie has. Canonically, he was homeless before being bitten by a spider, and considering most Spider-people get bit from the ages of 13-16, we can assume that he spent most of his teenage life homeless. Being a homeless black teen in a fascist dictatorship in the 70s most definitely would have left some kind of impact on him, making the headcanon that he would be emotionally unavailable even more valid.
Either way, headcanons are headcanons and they don't need to be 100% accurate or even really have to make sense, but I like the idea of Hobie not really being the type to open up to people and I think it would be an interesting concept to explore in fanfictions, Hobie x readers or even Hobie x OCs!
#atsv#hobie brown#across the spiderverse#atsv hobie#spiderman atsv#spider man: across the spider verse#spiderman across the spiderverse#across the spider verse#spiderman across the verse#hobie brown x reader#hobie spiderverse#hobie x reader#spider punk#hobart brown#spiderman#beyond the spiderverse#hobie brown headcanons#headcanon
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Today the government of my country is going full on genocide denial 'the victims were the actual killers and the dictators were poor innocent babies' discourse. Even publishing a video rewriting history. It's like a ticking clock right now.
If you want a summary of how fucked we are: the Vicepresident is the daughter of a genocidal piece of shit that tortured soldiers during the Malvinas war to the point that even the Brits were horrified. She defends the dictatorship, says it was 'necessary' and that the thousands and thousands of dead people and babies stolen were just 'excesses'.
Remember the movie we had at the Oscars last year? Argentina 1985? Well, the government is basically denying everything that happened there and trying to free the monsters that were condemned.
(No es un post explicando a los gringos, para que sepan. A los gringos no les importa pero tengo seguidores de India y otros países y sólo nos podemos comunicar en inglés).
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I love to find people who style themselves as scholars of fascism who repeat hindutva apologia like hindutva isn't fascism bc hindutva ideology does not necessarily imply violent reorganisation of society or dictatorship because there is a theoretically possible hindutva (much like a good zionism) that won't do violence or dictatorship. real people living in india under a steadily declining democracy? citizenship laws? lynchings? state sponsored dispossession of muslims?murdered journalists? race mixing fears like love jihad? we're just hallucinating the increased control of the sangh over everything.
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The way how some people are just not aware of what the British Monarchy did in the name of 'trade' and 'civilization'..... Genuinely asking, what the hell is going on in your history classes?
When I was 10 years old, I learnt about the Mughals invasion, how the British set foot into India to trade spices and then established British India in the name of 'civilization'.
When I was 11 years old, I heard about the divide and conquer strategy, the livelihood of workers in plantations, how various handloom and weavers went out of work and starved to death.
When I was 12, I learnt about the Nizams cruel rule over my birthplace, Bhagath Singh getting hanged, Jallianwalabaagh massacre, cops torturing common people, Bengal partition, 1857 revolt, the salt satyagraha, Quit India movement, Civil rights, Independence, division of states and the Partition.
When I was 13, I learnt about the great depression, 2 world wars where the British just sent most of Indians to fight, the diary of Anne Frank, dictatorships and nuclear weapons.
When I was 14, I learnt about the cold war where two superpowers had the strength to topple governments and establish new ones, the CIA, the Arab spring and the horrible exploitation of natural resources of Africa by MNCs and Dutch shell company.
When I was 15, I learnt about the history of various other nations like China, France, Nigeria, America, Congo, Russia, Britain, Ireland, etc. and also various policies and acts introduced by the British government in India like the 1935 act and arms act.
I remember looking at an illustration of 200 persons from Africa cramped into a tiny ship on their way to America. I remember the illustration of a moving train, where people took cover under dead bodies to avoid bloodshed during the partition of India and Pakistan. I remember listening to Martin Luther King's speech.
Was this not written in your history books? Did you not see the museum displays where the stolen goods are proudly shown around? How the fuck are you still ignorant in the age of internet is beyond my comprehension.
#i am frankly sick of some people saying they just recently got to know why colonialism is bad#uk#british#anti colonialism#anti imperialism#queen elizabeth#ding dong the witch is dead#india#desi
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Whatever Joe Biden wrote in that WP article China won't allow any alternative to One Road One Belt One World that the US wants to run through India and Israel. It won't ever allow it to happen because it will bypass Moscow-Tehran-Beijing Axis alliance of resistance. It will erase Israel and Kosovo and Ukraine along with all the Central Asians countries to prevent it from happening. New Fronts Balkans, South China Sea. US can't fight on 4 fronts at once against China. US losing already in Ukraine. Ukraine falls, Israel falls, US/NATO loses and then Russia with China will control the Eurasian continent from Vladivostok to Manche as Medvedev (second in command to Putin) declared. The Ultimatum was to US/NATO not to Ukraine and Israel. US capitulates in Europe and Middle East and then capitulates in South China Sea and Taiwan. There will be no more flagship of democracy. BRICS will rule the 21st century when dictatorships win the hybrid world war. They already won demographically.
1. Good. Death to America.
2. 'they won demographically' my man if you were hoping to convince me with, insane racism, you are barking up the wrong tree.
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মনের মানুষ - Soulmate
[Steve Rogers x Indian!bengali!GN!reader
Summary: your heart is aching for a home that no longer exists. Steve finds you in the middle of emotional turmoil.
Warning: homesickness, childhood trauma if you squint, mention of political disturbance, fluff, cursing, Steve being an absolute sweetheart, Steve also getting the feels]
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After the third round of knocking incessantly at your bedroom door, Steve huffed. He didn't want to intrude, in case you weren't decent or something.
"Sorry y/n," he muttered before twisting the handle, fully expecting to find it closed, unyielding.
His eyes widened, first in mild surprise at the ease with which he'd made it in: no locked doors. Then in shock, since his favourite person - you - was currently curled up on the floor, facing the sunset. Knees pulled up to your chest and tears streaming down your face as you whimpered softly now and then.
The next emotion was confusion at the music playing in the room - something that sounded like a folk song sung by a gravelly male voice in a language he didn't understand. However, he'd heard you speak or sing in it to yourself enough to know it was Bengali.
He joined you on the floor, quietly tapping your arm.
You turned your head to look at him, making no effort to wipe away the salty moisture on your cheeks. "I miss home."
Three words. Just three words from you tugged violently on his heart-strings, making him scoot closer and wrap his arms around you, pulling you closer. You let him engulf you, finding comfort in him.
He didn't bother asking any questions. He knew the answers. Unfair elections and totalitarian practices had completely destroyed the political opposition in India five years ago. You'd watched democracy fall apart slowly but surely within fifteen years. Your beloved state of West Bengal, safe from the ruling party till then, had been overpowered too.
You'd run. You'd wished you could stay and do something, be a patriot, but you'd run. Forced yourself to throw yourself and your best efforts into medical school, even if your heart had ached for a different subject instead. You'd clenched your jaw and survived five years of suffocating dictatorship (nobody ever called it that but that's what it was) and communal riots. Then, the moment you'd graduated, you'd packed your things and left your homeland for a stable future.
You hadn't taken anyone with you. Your family wasn't the best and you'd made the decision to go no contact with them while still in high school. You'd lied to them about where you would be living, promised them you'd call. At the airport, just before boarding, you'd sent your mother the final text you'd silently prepared beforehand, listing everything she'd done wrong and refused to make up for and why you felt wronged. You'd apologised for being so harsh, and for abandoning them, but explained that you needed to protect yourself and you couldn't do it while staying with them. Then you'd thrown away your phone.
It was for the best, for your best, but you still missed the carefree life of your early years. Carefree, not in the sense that you weren't being hurt over and over, but carefree in the sense that you were naïve enough not to realise you were being hurt. You were alone in this new environment. Yes, you'd found friends, you'd found Steve. But a part of you still felt lonely.
Steve knew all of this. He'd held you close the day you poured all of it out. And he held you close now as the homesickness returned.
"I'm a fucking coward," you sniffle. "I should've stayed and tried to fight. Spoken up. Done something. Said something. Anything. I didn't even try. Like a selfish bitch."
He pressed a kiss to your head, stroking your hair and shushing you. He'd save that conversation for later. Right now you didn't need a response from him, you needed to let your feelings out. He'd always be here to wipe your tears away and get you back on your feet.
You hugged him tighter, and he pulled you into his lap, leaning against the bed as he closed his eyes, focusing on the song playing on loop.
Weirdly, it felt like home. Nevermind that he understood nothing. There was something earthen and rustic about the song and its ambience, something that called to him. He thought of his mother. A little voice in him said she'd love this music too. He felt his own eyes water as well, and blinked to prevent them from spilling.
You turned in his arms a little so now your back was to his chest, and you both watched the sun go down in silence.
When you'd calmed down, he brought one of your hands up to his lips. "Do you feel like going out and getting some ice cream? Or brownies?"
You giggled - despite the surge of emotions earlier. "I'd love that. Thank you," you met his calm and loving eyes, genuine gratitude in your own.
"Of course, honey."
Minutes later, as you held on to him from behind while his motorcycle wove in and out of traffic, you felt some of the weight lifting off your chest. Life had been rough, but it was better now. You were better now. Safe and loved. You'd be okay, right?
You rubbed his arm softly. He found your hand and squeezed it three times at a red light.
Yeah, you'd be okay.
[AN: This is the direct product of me being homesick, while sitting in my hometown, and being terrified for the future. Steve is my comfort character so I wrote this solely to calm myself; this is the most self-indulgent piece I've ever written. I know most of you won't relate to this much, but I hope that for once, you can put yourself in my place and at least try to understand the emotions in this fic rather than agonise over the details which don't apply to you.
AN 2: India is quasi-federal in structural, meaning while there is a Prime Minister to govern the entire country, every state also has their individual Chief Minister and Cabinet of Ministers for the affairs of said state. The party in power at the Centre isn't always the ruling party in every state. West Bengal is one of such states where the part in power is different from the one at the Centre...so far.
Current affairs in the country are really bad. Abuse of legislation, silencing the national press, completely altering the Constitution, bribing the judiciary, rigging the polls - it's all happening. It's bad enough that the UN and even other countries have criticised the central administration here. This fic is me being super scared that what I mentioned here will actually happen. Elections are this month, and like many other civilians, I'm desperately praying it doesn't take a turn for the worse.
AN 3: The song linked above is the inspiration for the title. মনের মানুষ (moner manush) translates to "soulmate". It is one of the most popular Baul songs. Baul are a category of Bengali folk songs which have double meanings. Most songs, at first listen, appear to be aimed at a lover, however, they can also be meant for God. It depends on how you wish to interpret them. They're a highly respected part of Bengali heritage and can be easily identified by the sound of the ektara in the instrumental, a one stringed musical instrument.]
Tagging my desi friends:
@mainly-marvel @slut-for-henry-cavill @averageambivert
#steve rogers#steve rogers x reader#steve rogers x indian!reader#steve rogers x bengali!reader#steve rogers x you#steve rogers x gender neutral!reader#steve rogers x gn!reader#steve rogers fluff#steve rogers comfort#Youtube
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All Tomorrows: Vanga-Vangog’s Grazer Hc’s
As the fanmade descendants of the Titan’s from the original novel, Vangog’s fanmade Grazer’s are, in a way, their antithesis. While the Titan’s are the largest of the posthumans and are likely to have been gentle giants, the Grazer’s are much, much smaller, (Merely the size of a buffalo) and far more aggressive to compensate for this lack of size. (Basically chihuahua syndrome on Satyriac crack) As a people, the Grazer’s are very hierarchical and herd-like in structure, with governments almost exclusively consisting of absolute monarchies and dictatorships, and only a few dominant men having acccess over the woman.
As people, they do not sound pleasant in a first point of view, but the same could be said of the Killer Folk, Asymmetric People, and even the ever selfless and kindhearted Modular’s, atleast in terms of appearance. Although their culture is incredibly regressive and violent, Grazer’s we’re still individuals with their own thoughts, goals, family and friends, just like us, their ancestors.
TW for transphobia in HC 5. If there is any issues you have with the Hc’s I made up, please tell me.
-Inspite of their herbivorous nature, Grazer’s did have domesticated animals. One of these animals were the non-sapient descendants of Titan’s, smaller than the sapient wooly ones but still absolutely huge! (Twice as large as the Paraceratherium.) They were often used as very powerful draft animals, capable of moving dozen of tonnes of ore, wood, and people.
-Although having evolved from grass eaters, the Grazer’s throughout their history only ate wild grass out of necessity during times of war and starvation. In more peaceful and plentiful times, their food often consisted of root vegetables similar to radishes and pumpkins, tree nuts, and heavy starches like domesticated wheat and tubers. Often, the crops they grow were selected to grow extremely large. (Their wheat-based crops were 4 meters in height and their potatoes were around more than 2 meters in diameter) The Grazer’s posthuman cousins often joked about how “Everything’s bigger in the Grazer’s homeworld except for the Grazer’s themselves!”
-Their societal hierarchy was historically divided into several sections. At the bottom were the non-dominant males, who were meant to respect and follow the leads of the much more dominant men at top, and the woman in the middle of the hierarchy. “Third gender” or nonbinary people were often a priestly or the advisor caste in societies that recognized them as an official gender. Nonbinary people were the only ones allowed to transition for much of their history, with both biological sexes being allowed to transition.
-Their modern society was a little less strict in the overall herd hierarchy, with less dominant men, woman, and nonbinary folk being allowed a leadership position if they were to prove themselves worthy. (They did this via very, very difficult competitions involving both strength and intellect.) Dominant caste members could also be demoted if they were considered incompetent or a threat to the overall herd.
-Children however are mostly raised by the female caste communally, and these children were not called a specific gender during their childhood. What caste they go to when they grow up is determined by their skills and gender identity. See Hc number 3.
-Even today, their societies do not have any respect for trans people who aren’t nonbinary. Historically, these two groups would be brutally killed for existing, and even today they are ostracized and kept out of most positions in society, comparable to India’s Dalit or Untouchables. Thankfully, there are organizations and groups, (Both of their people and other posthumans) who have come to their support, providing safe housing and food for these ostracized people, some of whom have even been protesting or aiming to get on top of the hierarchy to stop this discrimination.
-Grazer’s of each caste did a lot of stuff communally due to their herd behaviors, from watching movies, to eating, bathing, and even sleeping in the same living spaces with one another. This was not exclusive to the non-dominant male caste either, as all of the castes did stuff in a communal manner. Indeed, most Grazer’s are often very happy and willing to share their food or whatever item they have on them to another person. Indeed, the concept of “private, personal property” does not exist in their culture, as even the dominant caste will share ideas and spaces with eachother.
-This also meant the Grazer’s never developed an actual currency system or system of capital, with all castes existing (In theory) to support the overall herd. Grazer’s were also surprisingly open-minded on disabled people due to this herd lifestyle, with them making sure to provide support and accommodation’s for these individuals.
-As for entertainment, people of all castes enjoy plays and theatre together, often joining in to support their friends and loved ones. They also enjoyed mass feasts, sports, concerts, and the occasional swimming/mud bathes to keep their skin clean and parasite-free.
#all tomorrows#all tomorrows titan#titan#grazer#cm kosemen#nemo ramjet#posthuman#headcanons#worldbuilding
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A very interesting editorial by the journalist, political analyst and activist Vicent Partal. I've translated it to English for more people to understand:
The psychological impact of historical violence against Catalans
The time has come to consider the reparation of the historical violence committed by Spain against the Catalans. Because it's a mark that we carry every day and that defines our society and the behaviour of our oppressors.
I started Sant Jordi celebrations on Saturday going to Via Laietana [Spanish military police headquarters in Barcelona -capital city of Catalonia- famous for being the place where the police have tortured many people in brutal ways] to listen to some of the witnesses of the book Tortured. Via Laietana 43. Twenty-two women witnesses of terror (1941-2019) by Gemma Pasqual. They explained, with an exemplary bravery and dignity, how they had suffered in that horror house -under the dictatorship and the democracy. Since 1940 until nowadays. The attendees cut the street, we were carrying banners condemning torture and the torturers as we listened for half an hour to those women's narrations about what they had been through right there, behind those doors, one by one.
It was precisely in one of the most intimate and chilling moments when a man who was walking behind us, precisely through the door of Via Laietana 43 [the police headquarters], dared to shout insults to the protesters, and continued walking in front of the policemen stationed there. It's evident that he did not feel any respect nor interest for those women's experiences, and I assume that he didn't care about everything they went through, all the opposite. But behind his action there was the security and the arrogance of knowing that he would face no consequence. All the opposite: that, if someone tried to get back to him, he had the police there to protect him.
This verification reminded me of a book I read recently with a lot of interest: Caste, The Origins of Our Discontents, by the journalist Isabel Wilkerson. The book has had a great impact in the United States of America but also in countries like India, because Wilkerson explains how and why racism works not only in the USA, but also in more places -in the case of India, it talks about the dalit caste. And in what it explains there's a few lessons -because after all, she's talking about oppression and resistance- that are perfectly applicable to the Catalan case.
I'll start with this very Spanish man who insulted us on Saturday. How can there be someone so insensitive?, many of us asked ourselves after seeing his attitude. And Wilkerson's answer is clarifying: "The only way of keeping a group of intelligent people artificially oppressed, below others and below their own talent, is with violence and terror, psychological and physical, applied with the intention of stopping them from resisting it, even before they can imagine that they could resist to it." And she explains that this terror, that this violence, is not spontaneous at all, but is fabricated by the oppressors throughout history and they pass it down from generation to generation. She says: "Dehumanizing another human being is not only declaring that he's not human, and it doesn't happen by chance one day. In order to dehumanize a human collective, a very long process, a methodic programmation, is needed. It needs a lot of energy and effort, it needs resources, to accomplish such an antinatural thing as denying that another member of your species is your equal and, thus, denying that he has the same rights."
And with a quote by the sociologist Guy B. Johnson she explains that accumulated historical violence is the key to this oppression process: "To understand the conflict, you must understand that during the years of slavery white people got used to the idea that they could 'regulate' black people's insolence and insubordination through force, without consent and with the support of the law and the state apparatus." Exactly the same as here. And it's as simple as this: for the last 300 years, but very specially during the years of the Francoist dictatorship [1939-1978], Spanish people -particularly Spanish people who live in Catalonia- have gotten used to the fact that Catalan people's "insolence and insubordination" can be regulated through the use of violence and with the explicit support of a law that always is and always will be discriminatory against Catalans and favourable to them, Spaniards.
The security given by decades where this always happens like this, systematically, explains the arrogance and shamelessness with which a passerby is able to walk in front of a group of women explaining that they were tortured right there, in the building in front of them, and, even seeing they're accompanied by hundreds of people, he allows himself to confront them all, him alone, with an insulting shout. Simply, he's psychologically convinced that those insolents and insubordinates will be put in their place by the state's violence, as, in fact -and this is the maximum gravity of what happened in 2017-, the Spanish state did on October 1st [the Catalonia independence referendum, when the Spanish government sent the military police to beat up voters, kidnap votes, and close the voting places to avoid the referendum from taking place] and after the declaration of independence. If today we have the Spanish nationalists encouraged -and autonomists scared- it's because the Pavlov works. We have been beaten again.
In Isabel Wilkerson's book, a calculation catches the reader's attention. She asks in what year will the citizens of the USA have spent as much time having slaves than not having them. And the answer is 2111. In 2111, for the first time, African Americans will have spent as long in freedom -at least theoretically- than the amount of time they spent -and which weights on everyone's consciences, black or white- being slaves. In 2111 maybe African Americans will no longer feel the historical weight that they feel now and maybe -we'll see about that- white people will have gotten used to the fact that they're equal humans, with the same rights. By highlighting this number, Wilkerson explains to what point the past's weight is expressed nowadays and the importance of taking it into account. The way in which it's particularly important among oppressors, who continue thinking that they can do whatever they want with us -and that they have the right to it- and they are not afraid at all, because experience has proven that if someone gets hit, if someone gets arrested, if someone gets jailed, if someone gets exiled, if someone gets tortured, it will be us and not them.
The book has made me reflect and has impressed me a lot because of how it approaches such a deep psychological component of the relation between oppression and freedom. (...)
I'll continue with the example of Via Laietana. The torture witnesses in Gemma Pasqual's book range from 1940, when the Francoist troops had just entered Barcelona, to 2019, during the protests against the Supreme Court's sentence [jail sentence for Catalan civil society leaders, NGO members and democratically-elected politicians for insubordination to the Spanish government because of their involvement in Catalonia's independence movement]. That's 79 years. Assuming that from now on they won't torture again, until the year 2102 Catalans, and particularly those from Barcelona, will have lived as long without being threatened with torture and violence in the Via Laietana headquarters as they have lived used to -and scared of- this torture and violence. And do you think this doesn't matter? That it doesn't leave a mark? That it doesn't condition our behaviour and, above everything else, our oppressors' behaviour?
#actualitat#catalunya#països catalans#human rights#anti torture#spain#minorities#minority rights#current events#social justice#catalonia#coses de la terra
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DON'T VOTE FOR MODI. PLEASE!!!
I am having to make an effort at writing a coherent post instead of just screaming. Please don't vote for Modi.
He is not a saviour. He is not a God.
Here's what he is: A terrified extremist who has to maim the mainstream media to keep his support, who NEEDS to plunder the Hindu Muslim divide in India, and spread hate and fear about communities that can very peacefully coexist, in order to gain people's support, to be seen as an saviour for upper caste Hindus in India. He needs to shut down the internet, so many times that India had the largest internet shutdowns in the past year, to shut the voices of people. He is the leader of the party that drafted a bill that would maintain stringent control over OTT platforms, the only free and accessible source for information in India at this point, AFTER THEY SUSPENDED 140 MEMBERS OF OPPSN. Who maintains silence over protesters of his own country being attacked by tear gasses and pellets, who welcomes RAPISTS into his party.
And a lot of his actions suggest that he will bring dictatorship in India.
Here's what a lot of you are going to say: OMG, what is the other opinion, Rahul 'Pappu' Gandhi? Well, sorry to inform you guys, but India (fortunately) is not a two party system. It is a MULTIPARTY nation. There are a lot many options. vote for your MP's, who you think will have your voices heard.
#india#narendra modi#bjp#indian elections#ladakh#communal divide in India#indian politics#rahul gandhi
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In 1965 and 1966, under the authoritarian rule of General Suharto, Indonesia killed hundreds of thousands in a blood-soaked anti-communist purge.
Nicolae Ceausescu, notoriously anti-Semitic, began his steel-fisted rule of Romania in 1965, a 24-year tenure that included blocking Holocaust survivors from leaving.
Over nearly 29 years, the Duvalier family mass murdered and exiled political opponents in Haiti until their regime's belated collapse in 1986.
In all three cases, the dictatorships in question enjoyed warm - and politically lucrative - relationships with Israel.
But you don't have to crawl too far back in history to find such grim examples. From the European Union's borders to the US-Mexico frontier, and from Myanmar's violence against Rohingya to India's assaults on Kashmir, Israel has played a part in supplying its weaponry or technology later used in violations of human rights.
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Kukri from the Kingdom of Nepal dated to the Mid 19th Century on display at the Gurkha Museum in Winchester, England
This kukri belonged to Maharajah Sir Jung Bahadur Rana who wore it at the Siege of Lucknow when commanding the Nepalese Contingent in 1857. The Nepalese forces assisted the British Empire in putting down the Indian rebellion against the colonial forces occupying much of India. Jung Bahadur is a controversial figure as he is seen to have set up an oppressive dictatorship called the Rana Dynasty that lasted for over a hundred years. Others blame his nephews, the Shumsher Ranas for this.
Photographs taken by myself 2023
#military history#nepal#nepalese#19th century#rana dynasty#art#kingdom of nepal#gurkha museum#winchester#barbucomedie
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In the nineteenth century the going Orientalist wisdom was that unlike Europe, Asia could never industrialize because of either some inherent race-character or because their culture was simply too bound up in Tradition or something. Well, then, guess what, Asia did industrialize, Asian economies are some of the biggest in the world, China is a manufacturing hub that would put nineteenth century Britain to shame, Japan is a largely post-industrial consumer economy bigger than any in Europe and South Korea isn't far behind, not to mention the fact that SK went from impoverished military dictatorship to high income consumer economy in basically a single generation.
Turns out things don't happen instantly; industrial manufacture was born in Britain and began spreading to the rest of the world, and it takes a little while for massive society-upending economic revolutions to fully play out. Did you think that it wouldn't? If you expected the entire world to be industrialized the next morning, and when that wasn't the case took this as a sign of the inherent inferiority of everyone else on earth to the West, I think you were making a straightforwardly silly inference—and indeed one that looks a lot like motivated reasoning, a lot like being so high on the concept of your own superiority that you forget to ask if what you are saying makes any sense.
So there are people who say that Africa will never industrialize, that Africans just aren't capable of it. Obviously these people are racist, but that's not an objection that will mean anything to them. Better to say: just like the nineteenth century Orientalists, I think they're making a prediction that's ill thought out in a really straightforward way. There's nothing about the trajectory of economic development in countries like Nigeria that looks really different to me in any obvious sense from the trajectories of early industrial economic growth elsewhere. I mean, I'm not an economist or an expert on industry or on Nigerian politics or whatever, but then neither are most of the people who say this kind of thing. So, like, from the epistemological position of a layman that both me and the people I'm speaking to share, why even come to this conclusion? I mean, I know why they come to this conclusion. It's a rhetorical question.
Anyway, you know. Probably neither of us will be around to collect, but if anyone wants to bet me a large sum of money that in 100 years Africa will be at least as industrialized as Asia is today, and Asia (which presently has some very poor parts, e.g. India) will be as industrialized as Europe, I'll take that bet in a heartbeat.
Disclaimer that this post sort of conflates industrialization with wealth and takes industrialization as an unexamined positive; I'd rather be more nuanced about this, but I'm making a point here that's orthogonal to these things so I've opted to leave any discussion of this out.
#society#oh the absolute most unpleasant people are going to get on this one and be unpleasant to me now#well#ya know
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Rishi Sunak's speech yesterday about the need to "protect democracy" is incredibly rich coming from an unelected PM, and it proves the closeness we are to despotism.
I am speaking from someone who partly grew up under a dictatorship. In some ways, I actually think that we're entering an even scarier era. Where I was growing up, at least officials were open about their regime. Yes, they made their people suffer greatly. But they did it openly. Still very horrible, but fascism under the disguise of democracy is, in my mind, more dangerous. And so very near.
Sunak's speech, filled with falsities, continued what his government have parroted ever since October in reaction to what is happening in Israel and Palestine. And that is the broadening of the definition of extremism to encompass dissenting voices, potentially criminalising those opposing political and financial support for Israel. That's not an exaggeration. Sunak said as much in his rambling speech.
A ceasefire should be the minimum expectation, yet leaders of the 'free world' can't even support that. If we lived in a just world, we'd have sanctions, trials and prosecutions. We'd have an end of diplomatic ties and an end of the occupation. We'd have war reparations, restoration of land and a right of return for all Palestinians.
This week, we've witnessed the extreme act of protest in the form of self-immolation, which saw a US air force airman dousing himself in gasoline outside the Israeli embassy in Washington and lighting himself on fire. Days later, the IDF targeted Palestinians seeking aid and food after killing over 30,000 of them. It's very concerning that 24 hours after the most grotesque image of someone being bulldozed by a clearly labelled IDF tank went viral on social media, that was the statement Sunak chose to make.
And yes, his speech is in reaction to what is happening in the Middle East, but its implications go beyond. His words run deep even if the current situation was magically solved tomorrow. The very act of protesting is under threat, making his lecturing on division exploitation outside Downing Street hypocritical, considering that is the driving force behind his government. He is right. There is a group in the UK fostering extremism and threatening democratic freedoms – the Conservative Party led by him. Sunak's warnings about extremism would carry more weight if his tenure as prime minister hadn't consistently promoted it.
His speech also included an endorsement of Voter ID, disenfranchising thousands. You cannot claim to protect democracy by making it harder for people to vote. The man, who again became PM through clearing and without a public vote, also said that people voting for an MP he disagrees with is an attack on democracy. It's like we're living in a dystopian satire that not even the greatest writers of our time could imagine.
And Sunak's assertion that Britain has never been on the wrong side of history in his concluding remarks is particularly troubling, considering his background and lack of acknowledgement for his ancestors who endured colonial rule for nearly 90 years in British India.
The worst part? Sunak is just one of many. If he goes, there is someone next in line to replace him and crackdown even further.
It's like playing an endless game of whack-a-mole. You get rid of one, but another pops up, and then another and another and another until we all get sicker, poorer, and sadder and die.
#rishi sunak#democracy#gaza#palestine#geopolitics#protest#right to protest#i hate doing tags#writing this has made me miserable
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