Jeff 🅱ez🅱os watching the Seattle city council votes roll in:
All glory to Space Empress Kshama
All hail!
@piecesolvingapuzzle Orion was polling ahead by about 8% on election night, but only a small amount of votes cast were actually counted then and those were overwhelmingly early and by-mail votes, aka rich people. Now that they’re actually tallying election day’s ballots (aka poor people), Kshama has had a strong majority in every batch of votes counted, and as of the most recent reports is ahead by about 1000.
It’s basically playing out the same way it did in 2013.
“Militant socialist Seattle City Council member Kshama Sawant has become, for the second time in six yeas, the “comeback kid” of city politics.
Sawant, who trailed challenger Egan Orion by eight points on election night, has wiped out a 2,000-vote deficit and pulled ahead by 513 votes in District 3, according to the 4 p.m. vote count by King County Elections. She has risen to 50.45% of the vote and is likely to increase the lead in a later release of returns.”
THE COMEBACK KID
I can’t believe I forgot to mention this in the run up to election day like some kinda brain genius, but check out how Egan “my baby must have an Aryan skull shape” Orion told on hisself in this attack ad:
First of all, that big Amazon smile should tell you everything you need to know about what kinda “““local”““ funding we’re lookin at.
Second of all, the red dot in Florida? I’m a part of that dot. And while Jeff Bezos was able to just idly drop a few million on the election like it was bus fare, a lot of us decided to skip lunch a few days so that we could kick Kshama our last $20. And here we are.
In our hands is placed a power greater than their hoarded gold, Greater than the might of armies magnified a thousandfold …
I’m in the red dot from NY!
It still amazes me how some people in the US seem to see socialism as the “Russian Danger“ when nowadays socialist parties are basically from the center, a bit to the left.
It also makes me wonder if there’s actually, a leftist party
Yeah, it’s called Socialist Alternative. It’s the North American section of the Committee for a Workers’ International. We just ran a candidate in Seattle.
Oh that’s great! Almost everything I see in US politics is about the Democrats or Republicans
On this day, 6 September 1925, anti-fascist resistance activist Freddie Oversteegen was born in Schoten, Netherlands. Together with her older sister Truus, she joined Dutch resistance aged 14. With her communist mother they initially helped shelter refugees and Jews, and later under German occupation joined a resistance cell in Haarlem alongside Hannie Schaft, sabotaging bridges and railway lines and assassinating Nazis and Dutch collaborators. Unlike Hannie, the Oversteegens fortunately survived the war and lived until their 90s. This is a podcast episode we produced about antifascist youths during World War II: https://soundcloud.com/workingclasshistory/anti-nazi-youth-world-war-iihttps://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1204120863106395/?type=3
this is called a punt gun. IT WAS USED TO HUNT ENTIRE FLOCKS OF DUCKS AT A TIME.
what’s that? you wish you didnt need to dispose of the body? WELL WHY DON’T YOU GET A FUCKING NINE BARELLED SHOTGUN YOU’LL BREAK YOUR ARM BUT YOUR VICTIM WILL BE RED MIST.
Give this to your party in the next dnd campaign. It’s called an apache revolver and every single fucking class can specialize in it.
You know how in a cartoon a gun will bend, and it shoots that direction? Well this fuck decided to create a gun like that, designed to shoot around corners.
This is called a PARASCOPE, gun. LITERALLY DESIGNED SO YOU DON’T POKE YOUR HEAD OUT OF THE TRENCHES.
“this isn’t even a gun?” NO IT IS. IT’S CALLED A POCKETKNIFE PISTOL AND WAS MADE FOR HOME DEFENSE. (on a side note we should still make these and have these be the only guns “for self defense” correct me if im wrong.)
“this is a mace?”
NO DUDE THIS WAS CALLED KING HENRYS WALKING STICK, AND WAS OWNED BY HIM. IT HAS THREE SMALL HOLES ON THE MACE THAT SHOOT.
take a wild fucking guess how you fire it. JUST GUESS.
YES. THE GUN IS FIRED BY FUCKING PUNCHING.
THIS IS A FUCKING RING. IT FITS AROUND YOUR FINGER. AND IT’S A GUN. A SIX SHOT GUN
“well that’s an odd frame for a gun.”
YOU KNOW WHY? BECAUSE IT WAS DESIGNED TO REPLACE YOUR BICYCLE FRAME. The reason these were made, was because before the automobile, the best way to transport your gun was on bike. SO WHY NOT HAVE YOUR GUN, BE THE BIKE
Yes. THIS IS DESIGNED TO LOOK LIKE LIPSTICK. IT’S AS BIG AS ONE TOO. I DON’T KNOW IF THESE ARE STILL LEGAL, BUT GALS, THIS COULD BE A GREAT THING TO CARRY WITH YOU.
You see this rifle? IT CAN DESTROY TANKS. AND YES, THIS BADASS MANAGED TO PERFECTLY HANDLE IT’S WEIGHT.
YOU SEE THIS GUN? IT’S CALLED A SMART GUN. THE ONLY WAY TO FIRE IT IS TO HAVE YOUR FINGERPRINT SCANNED, AND TO BE WEARING THE WATCH THAT COMES WITH IT. NOW THERE IS LITERALLY NO EXCUSE FOR KIDS TAKING THEIR PARENTS GUNS.
YEAH, THIS IS A PEN. For when a writers done with your shit.
This is called a vomit gun. and you’re right! this doesn’t fire bullets. INSTEAD, THIS BITCH SHOOTS A LED LIGHT THATS SO BRIGHT, AND DISORIENTING, THAT IT LITERALLY CAUSES YOU TO VOMIT, FALL OVER FROM INTENSE DIZZINESS, AND BLIND THEM. IT ALSO EMITS PULSES TO DISORIENT THEM, AND HAS A VARIETY OF EFFECTS THAT REALLY FUCK YOU UP. (the effectiveness and everything about it is being questioned, but it IS bright enough to blind you.)
this isn’t a special ammo shotgun.
it’s a grenade launcher.
this is exactly what you think it is.
30 barrel revolver. What the fuck can I think of for witty commentary. Just look at it.
HOW THE FUCK AM I SUPPOSED TO END THIS.
I need all of them. I need all of them right now. I have a urgeeeeee
The coup has hit its first major obstacle: the Federation of Neighborhood Boards (Fejuve) of El Alto. This powerful social organization had already stood out in the social struggles that preceded the arrival of Evo Morales to the Government, and was decisive in the fall of neoliberal president Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada in 2003, as well as in the expulsion of Aguas del Illimani, a subsidiary of the multinational Suez, after the privatization of water in 2005. This city located five kilometers from the capital was also the epicenter of the protests that in 2010 forced Evo Morales himself to withdraw the famous “Gasolinazo” [proposed cuts to fuel subsidies that were defeated by popular protest].
Hours after Morales presented his resignation on November 10, the Fejuve-El Alto leadership called at a press conference to “form self-defense committees, blockades, permanent and forceful mobilization, in different sectors of the Government headquarters”. In the same way, Fejuve-El Alto appealed to the police to defend the Bolivian population and launched a threat: “Otherwise, the civil union police are instructed to build up our population.”
The president of the neighborhood federation of El Alto, Basilio Vilazante, gave a period of 48 hours to those he considers responsible for the coup to leave the department of La Paz “for inciting division, convulsion and violence among Bolivians.”
The first of those cited by this social organization is Luis Fernando Camacho, a lawyer from Santa Cruz, capital of the Bolivian oligarchy, who began his militancy in the ultra-rightist and supremacist Juvenile Cruceñista Union, identified by the party of Evo Morales as the main instigator of the blow. The president of Fejuve-El Alto also cited Waldo Albarracín, rector of the La Paz University of San Andrés, who became a strong opponent of Morales, and Marco Punari, president of the Potosí Civic Committee.
El Alto is a city of almost one million inhabitants, mostly nourished by Aymara migrants from the Altiplano, located a few kilometers from La Paz, more than 4,000 meters high. In El Alto is the airport of the capital, many of the main fuel tanks and one of the obligatory steps to enter La Paz. The strategic value of El Alto and the power of the neighborhood boards, which are organized on a street by street basis, has made all the Governments that passed through the Burned Palace, since colonial times, look up with a mixture of respect and fear.
Hours after the announcement of the neighborhood federation, already on the night of November 10, hundreds of people cut the road that connects the capital with the airport and where the buses that go down to La Paz pass, and blocked the passage to the height of the toll.
Some scenarios and neighbors who were already protagonists of the famous Gas War of October 2003, when the clashes between the people of El Salvador and the army over the control of access to the capital became a real war, as epic as unequal . The imagination was on the part of the neighborhood boards, which were organized to resist for weeks, dug ditches in the cement and even derailed train cars to prevent the passage of military convoys trying to reach the fuel tanks. But the weapons were from the army and their bullets caused 77 deaths and 400 wounded. The then president Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada, educated in the United States and still having an English accent, had to resign.
However, much has changed since then. And the Fejuve, as well as the rest of the Bolivian social movements - after years off the streets, in which their leaders were included in different governments of the Socialism Movement (MAS) -, are no longer what they were. According to the critic Raquel Gutiérrez, these movements were largely “corporatized” and have lost initiative, in a drift of internal divisions and disconnection between the leadership and the bases.
In addition, as denounced again and again by the research center on natural resources of Cochabamba Cedib , the extractivist and developmentalist policy of the Government of Evo Morales, as well as the criminalization suffered by social organizations that did not align with the MAS, led to the Morales Government to lose many supports, even within the indigenous movement. Some of these movements were part of the protests against the alleged fraud in the last elections.
As the Bolivian analyst and former director of the international NGO Focus On The Global South - an entity not suspected of playing the game right - points out, the composition of the opposing sides is not homogeneous : “It is necessary to make it clear that both on the side of the government as of the opposition forces there are indigenous and workers. The government obviously has more support in rural areas, but in the opposition sector there are also coca leaf producers from the Yungas area [near La Paz], peasant leaders, mining workers, health and education workers and especially young students of both middle class and popular extraction ”.
It remains to be seen if the current crisis, which can be exploited by the oligarchic sectors of the richest departments of Bolivia to destroy the conquests of the so-called ‘process of change’, allows a new articulation of the previously all-powerful Bolivian social organizations.
Social movements in Bolivia begin to mobilise against the coup
Not just making it illegal, but making being gay punishable with death.
This is one of the many reasons why I walk by every single red bucket in the run-up to Christmas. They’re not getting my money, I don’t care how nice the people ringing bells are.
Ever since the time they threatened to close all their soup kitchens in NYC if a law that did something as simple as allow companies to extend spousal benefits to their employee’s same-sex domestic partners I have refused to buy from them or donate to them.
It’s that time of year again! In case people don’t know… the Salvation Army is shitty peoples.
Also, the married women are not paid (and therefore can’t qualify for assistance if they should ever divorce, etc). And worth “of course” less than a man.
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In the Army’s case, the agreement for compensation is that the officer allowance be paid jointly to the husband—the check is written in his name. Officially, the wife is a “worker without expectation of remuneration,” and her husband receives 40 percent more of an allowance as a married man than he would as a single man.
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To my American followers. Don’t support Salvation Army. Not only are they homophobic as shit, but I’ve also heard that they abuse a lot f homeless people.
They only care about money, please don’t donate to them and give your money to charities that actually help people
Never don’t reblog.
To be clear: this is specific to America. It is not necessarily going to be true for all countries. Please don’t boycott your own salvos without proper investigation: in many countries they do good work.
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