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Sage Love, Venus in Sagittarius

Venus, everyone’s fave planet of LOVE, women, beauty, relationships, bling, and money enters fiery Sagittarius on November 15 at 10:09 pm PST/ November 16 at 1:09 am EST/ 6:09 am pm GMT to horse around in love until DECEMBER 9TH and she makes a lovely Square to Jupiter in PISCES earlier on that day at 29 Sagittarius. Venus in Sage’s Love language needs space, humour, adventure, learning,…

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Eu sei que não tem muitos brasileiros nesse site do capiroto, mas toda a conversa sobre a eleição americana trás algo importante: nossas eleição para prefeitos e vereadores é no fim do ano. Já temos que começar nossa pesquisa, principalmente em vereadores, porque não só do Executivo vive a política e muito menos só de presidente. E nós sabemos que a falta de apoio do Legislativo foi o que permitiu o Marco Temporal!! Vereador não preenche a câmara, mas é um começo, vamos aumentar nossos números! Tá na hora.

Brazil House Ethics Committee members pledge to remain dysfunctional

The House Ethics Committee accepted disciplinary complaints against seven lawmakers on Tuesday, in what was its first meeting in 41 days. Some members made it clear that they did not want the committee to punish anyone.

Mário Heringer, a congressman representing Minas Gerais state, said: “We need to end the fighting and revenge [among politicians]. This is not the Revenge Committee.”

The committee’s chair, Leur Lomanto Júnior, refused on Tuesday to set a date for the next meeting, saying that the House is busy with a series of parliamentary inquiries.

Congressman Ricardo Ayres said: “We are living in a very bad environment in the House (…) The population is disappointed with politics (…) It would have been different if the House Ethics Committee had worked harder in the past.” He is correct.

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Jan 6, 2023 … Uumm? … Happy Two-Year Anniversary? (An Opinion Piece) 

Sep 11, 2001 - Passengers and crew of Flight 93 sacrificed their lives to prevent terrorists from attacking the US Capitol.  THEY ALL DIED.  Passengers, crew, and the terrorists.

TWENTY YEARS LATER

Jan 6, 2021 - President Donald Trump goads his supporters into “fighting like hell” and they attack the US Capitol.  Who needs terrorists?

Jan 6, 2023 - GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy (as of noon this day per the New York Times) was still trying to become the Speaker of the House.  To his credit ... he has’t started a riot over not getting the votes!

Christopher Gladstone Booth for Philadelphia City Council At-Large

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Round Three

Big Mom Family (One Piece) VS the Ushiromiya family (Umineko When They Cry)

Big Mom Family

Members: Linlin “Big Mom” Charlotte, Katakuri, Pound, Cracker, Big Mom's 82 other children, and her 43 husbands

Propaganda:

"They are a giant family that is also a pirate group. Everyone is married and born to fulfill Big Mom’s desire to have a family. Basically all of them hate each other." "Big Mom...so first let me note that this woman marries a man for her poliical convenience, gets pregnant, then divorces him as soon as she has his kids. She maintains complete control over the destiny of her children. They will join her pirate crew, they will fight for her, they will marry as she asks, they will grow up to serve her. They won't know their dad, or anything else, and she will even kill them when she doesn't get like a food she asks for, for instance." Note: edited for length, full submission here

The Ushiromiya family

Members: Kinzo, Krauss, Eva, Rudolf, Rosa, Jessica, George, Battler, Ange, Maria, Natsuhi, Hideyoshi, Asumu, Kyrie

Propaganda:

"PEAK weird family drama. Fighting over the inheritance leads to multiple people dying in gruesome ways" "The whole plot of the game is that they all are so dysfunctional it would make sense for any of them to commit murder" "This family is dysfunctional and abusive on every levels. The parents are fighting for the inheritance, because the elder embezzled money. The grandfather, Kinzo, hides in his room and never shows up. Not unusual, he neglected his family his whole life. Seems that he preferred a mysterious mistress than his family. When he talked to his children, it was to scold them for being incompetents. The atmosphere is oppressive. The children of Kinzo were bully. Krauss bullied Eva, who bullied Rosa. Concerning the next generation: Battler is in conflict with his father because he cheated on his mother. Natsuhi is putting pressure on Jessica for her to become the heir of the family, and is losing contact with her daughter. Eva has deciced what the life of Georges is becoming, and that he will not marry a servant. As for the relationship between Rosa and Maria, this is just the best mother-daughter love-hate relationship ever. And everything ends in blood, for ever and ever." More propaganda here

”Hybe pulled out” seems like such a reach im sorry… i want to believe in taekook too but why is this more likely than them actually just dating. Like before open lgbt idols, they ought to at first be allowed to openly date and have relationships and be normal human beings in the first place and i feel like what tae is doing is representating that more than anything else. Like he wants to use his status for this, normalizing idols dating. And also to blame yg and hybe doesnt answer the fact that taehyung would have had to accept it and i dont see that he would do that if he was gay or in a relationship with a man. Because he would maybe have to hide (if sk is 10-15 years behind, wasnt that around the time in the west when gay artists etc began to come out?) but he wouldnt do this is my feeling, he wouldnt want to promote another straight couple, it would be disingenious. But ofc there could be other things going on behind the scenes that we dont know. And im obviously projecting my idea of taehyung onto him but i just feel like he sets boundaries, stands up for himself, doesnt care about haters to the point that this move seems out of character. What would be in character is not caring about some bullshit rule about not openly dating. (Even if i would have liked to keep living in my delusional taekook bubble… i guess its his life…)

"Like before open lgbt idols, they ought to at first be allowed to openly date and have relationships and be normal human beings in the first place and i feel like what tae is doing is representating that more than anything else."

My reaction to this bit in particular....

followed by this...

So let me get this STRAIGHT, before TAE can be GAY he has to DATE WOMEN... normally?????

As for the rest... well....

"Like he wants to use his status for this, normalizing idols dating."

"also to blame yg and hybe doesnt answer the fact that taehyung would have had to accept it and i dont see that he would do that if he was gay or in a relationship with a man."

Idols, even ones as influential as BTS still have to play the game and present as 100% heterosexual... Now, Tae may not like it, but he would still have to play along even if it's not outright denying it.

Also Idol cov⁴panies have been using their idols for years, that includes, fake relationships and gossip, creating fake storeis as cover for other things. . Several people who have worked in the industry have cons2istent said that is the case. Plus he's under contract and that contract probably as a certain level of control over his media image. And YG have been consistantly been using these tactics for years mostly to deflect from the shitty things they've done as company or to help protect their big named acts... or CEO.

"sk is 10-15 years behind"

I just meant poliically and culturally not in relation to idols. In about 15 years' time I believe there will be more progressive laws in SK and opinion from the GP on LGBTQ rights will be more accepting.

We might see more celebs coming out, but that's not a given especially in K-Pop.

"he wouldn't want to promote another straight couple"

He never did in the first place... you're projecting.

"he sets boundaries, stands up for himself, doesnt care about haters... What would be in character is not caring about some bullshit rule about not openly dating."

Yes he does set boundries, but at the same time, he's fully aware of how precarious things could be for him as an idol. Hence why I think HYBE/Tae allowed the speculation off the back of those early fake images to run rampant.

When I say "HYBE pulled out", it's clear regardless of whether HYBE were involved in the creations of the images or not, that when they dropped initially back in May last year, it benefited them greatly. So when the next set of images dropped in Aug/Sept last year they clearly supported the release of the images by not saying anything (along with YG), until both BP and Tae's schedules had come to a close. This "coordination" makes it clear that both both HYBE and YG were involved and for the HYBE it allowed a large slice of the fandom and GP to view Tae as straight... which further down the line protects his image and allow him a greater freedom.

Post Sept-2022 it's clear that HYBE became less involved and started be less coordinated with their business partners over the whereabouts of their artists and their release schedules.

So while YG started to use the situation to fend off BP contract issues, BigBang issues, G-Dragon issues, former CEO/legal issues, Baby Monster issues... etc..., it also meant that even more discrepancies started to occur such as the fact that the video in Paris was either clearly stages or not filmed when the photographer claimed because schedule meant that Jennie was nowhere near France. I also think YG might have been involved in JK's "leaked" video consider how close it was release to when a lot of shitty news about YG came out.

Anyway, one good thing about military enlistment.... no more Taennie Shit!

Relatives — Unknown birth mother and father. Adopted by the Getō family. Mimiko and Nanako , adoptive daughters.

Date of Birth — 3rd of February.

Sex & Gender — Cis-male.

Orientation — Homosexual ; information not shared with anyone at Jujutsu Tech Tokyo.

Significant other — 'find me someone strong with equal ambition.'

Height — 190 cm. Weight — 84 kg in his teens. 93 kg as an adult.

Hair Colour — Onyx. Eye Colour — Dark Purple.

Physicality — Long pin-straight hair with bangs , fox-like facial features , long limbed , broad of shoulders , extremely fit after his jujutsu tech days.

Discernable Markings — Pierced lobes on both ears , variety of minimal scars all over his body , discolored x-shaped scar cross his chest and pectorals following his fight with fushiguro tōji.

Blood Type — AB+.

Hobbies — Browsing the internet , reading conspiracy theories ( not actually believing in them ) , paper crafts , café and food vendor hopping , taking pictures of landscapes , cooking.

Favourite Curse in His Arsenal — The Rainbow Dragon. He never really thought of them other than curses and weapons to be used.

Favourite Animal — Lots of animals : foxes , lizards , raptors , whales.

Best Friends — In his youth , Gojō Satoru and Ieiri Shōko.

Favourite Colour— If he had to pick one, it would be black. Don't tell him black isn't actually a colour ; he doesn't care.

Technique — Cursed Spirit Manipulation.

Personality — 'Is this for a dating profile? I don't knooow. I'm average I guess. I'm not obnoxious like some people , that's for sure.' ( Teenage Suguru when asked to describe himself ). Before his break , Suguru was polite , kept to himself , and preferred to observe. He was friendly and helpful enough to strangers , often popular with women without putting an effort. Strangers saw a polite smile. Friends who really earned his trust got to see a genuine smile. In the company of those he likes and trusts , Suguru showed his sarcastic , comedic , and affection side however was never one to be open with his emotions and troubles. He went from lawful good to lawful evil , though he always had his own moral code and saw things in shades of grey as opposed to black and white. After his mental break , Suguru demonstrated how cutthroat he could be. Without friendships and jujutsu poliics weighing him down , his leadership and intelligence really blossomed for the worst possible reasons. He became openly cocky and more vocal. In private however , he was empathetic and gentle when it came to his found family. He was extremely affectionate , open-minded , and gentle with Mimiko and Nanako ; he gave them the love and attention he never had.

Biggest Fears — Mimiko and Nanako suffering. As a youth he feared the curses he consumed would in turn consume him as strange as that may have been.

If Suguru wasn't a jujutsu sorcerer, what would he be? — 'I'd probably be something boring like an office worker or barista. Being a doctor seems normal, maybe that. As a child I didn't think that far ; I just wanted to leave my home village.'

Favourite Season — Summer for all the delicious summer time food and going to the beach.

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The White Tiger Book Review

The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga is a satirical, political commentary that shows the bottom-up perspective of those who reside in the underbelly of India. In this case ‘Balram Halwai’ is the main protagonist, who on face value is an unremarkable, lower-caste, rural villager stuck in the chokeholds of the unforgiving hierarchical system of India. Adiga sets about his satirical view of India, by consciously writing out an allegory that employs multiple motifs and metaphors to cartograph India as a land of pre-determined hope or despair. The main crux of the allegory – the Rooster Coop – is a metaphor used to describe the oppression of the elite brought upon India’s destitute, which is only then perpetuated by the poor themselves out of entrenched poliical and cultural subordination. Adiga paints Balram Halwai as the exception, the one who breaks out of this cycle of oppression; however, he loses his moral fabric in exchange.

The book is composed as a letter to the Chinese Premier in Beijing, Wen Jiabao, who is addressed to the ironically named “Capital of the Freedom-loving Nation of China”. The main character, Balram, attempts to write out an exposé of the ‘real India’, almost akin to a whistle-blower stripping back the glossy façade to reveal an ugly and ruthless inside. A way in which Adiga attempts is through the use of the motifs of “Darkness” and “Light”. Balram explains how he was born in the “Darkness” and that “India is two countries in one”. Balram’s identification of the ocean brings ‘light’ to the “well off”, but where he resides is along the path of the “Black River” – the “river of death” which suffocates and stunts every “plant” that is grown there. Politically speaking, Adiga could be attempting a criticism of the various degrees of unequal social mobility. Although the Indian Constitution promises liberty and freedom, and anyone can effectively move to the ‘light’, India does not recognize the dire need for equity in these rural areas. The suffocating and stunted plants near the river are symbolic and representative of the people who reside within these rural and cut-off areas, they are not able to flourish on the social ladder or reach the full potential that lies ahead of them. The “black” and “sticky” river that “traps” is indicative of the pre-determined nature of these people and their inability to thrive in the conditions they find themselves in. The “river”, symbolic of the system – the lifeline - itself has failed them from the ground up. This sets a profound precedent in which Balram at first feels institutionalized in his fixed position in society.

This of course opens a psychological discourse of the dichotomy between ‘free will’ and ‘determinism’, another competing source of political misfortune in India, which Balram is symbolic of escaping from, the exception in the cycle of oppression. The caste system is front and centre to this dichotomy, with Balram admitting ‘my caste – my destiny”. Where caste was once a complex system of entrenched hierarchies, which the British Raj reinforced to classify the population, Balram believes he is now living in a simpler time of caste system: “men with big bellies and men with small bellies”. The White Tiger’s exploration of caste again takes a satirical turn in this way, as we can interpret this as the advent of global capitalism, simplifying hierarchy into means of consumption, what we have and what we don’t and of course the means of production. Balram and his family are subordinated to the upper-caste landlords, the ‘Animals’, which terrorize the village over their control of the agricultural land and therefore their means to a living. Politically speaking we can talk about the threat of democratic backsliding in India, but the idea of liberal democracy itself is but an abstract image in the eyes of the destitute, many of whom are trapped within the ‘Rooster Coop’ with the fences of caste and wealth disparity paralyzing them. The idea of a pre-determined fate in India is all too prevalent. The character of Ashok, the wealthy son of the Stork, is a reluctant but accountable individual in bribing corrupt politicians for leverage. Like the motif of the “black river” before, the source that Indians look to for benevolence has been poisoned and corrupted in the pursuit of the capitalist interests of the few – the most contemporary representation of this being the mass Farmer's Protest.

Balram’s escape from the ‘Rooster Coop’ is an idealization of freedom. Balram spits on the ground as he sees his village from afar, where the abandoned Black Fort represents the mystical and colonial past, his vantage point points toward the landlord’s mansion, a source of burden and heavy taxation, and the “glistening line of sewage” – representative of the rural degradation villages suffer as a source of egregious extraction and plunder. This harks back to the British Raj where only the upper-class elite was granted immunity from the harsh realities of imperialism. Balram’s escape from this is then remarkable, he is trapped under the remnants of a feudal system, and therefore his steps towards freedom would not be without consequence – losing his family as a safety net, but also not being there as a source of income for them anymore.

The White Tiger, although an escape from the true grounded realities of India, is still a profound satirical representation of India. The allegory of the ‘Rooster Coop’ is a constant throughout the book, which highlights the institutionalization of oppression itself within the poor, highlighting the lack of a means to social mobility whilst also subordinated by hierarchical social forces. Balram Halwai, the ‘White Tiger’, himself is a unique individual within a story of symbolic caricatures who represent the elite. Balram having to kill his ‘oppressor’ to ultimately emulate the capitalist elite he was subordinated under is ironic within itself and ultimately serves as a lesson in the perpetual cycle of oppression that is the ‘Rooster Coop’ – it is harrowingly “eat or get eaten up”.

Bibliography

Adiga, A., 2008. The White Tiger. 2nd ed. London: Atlantic Books.

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