Al Jazeera is saying that the pagers in the Israeli attack were indeed packed with 20g of explosives and were imported into Lebanese territory five months ago, and Axios says that the decision was made by the Israeli state to detonate the pagers a week ago.
"there is no place for political violence in a democratic society" is such a wild statement bc "political violence" exclusively means violence directed at politicians and not the massive amounts of both structural violence and literal physical violence that politicians inflict on the people every single day
pronoun circles suck fuck you. we should not socially hold strangers hostage to demand their gender identities from them oh my god. do you actually even need to refer to that person or do you just wanna know "what type of tranny" they are. if you're in an environment where you're going to be introducing yourself & meeting new people & actively referring to them, a bowl with an optional sheet of labels and a pen to write your own name and pronouns is infinitely better calling an impromptu meeting with the exclusive purpose of weeding out which people are trans and what flavour.
this sculpture of salvador allende's broken glasses -- no tiene nombre (unnamed) by chilean artist carlos altamirano, is in the lobby of the venezuelan foreign ministry. today is a tragic day not only for chileans but for all latin americans who dream of a free and better life for their countrymen and for their homelands to be free of us imperialism, whether it comes in the form of sanctions or multinational corporations or bought-and-paid-for right-wing governments.
if you ever wonder why i'm a marxist-leninist and not a democratic socialist, why i think a vanguard party and an armed and militant proletariat are necessary, why i think you can't just go through the established systems and peacefully improve the conditions of the working class by winning a bourgeois election, this is why. this is why. maybe the people of some countries have that luxury -- but not our continent. salvador allende tried to do everything 'right', and from him we can learn that it's never going to work. the only question left for us to figure out is, what will?
"Mucho más temprano que tarde, se abrirán las grandes alamedas por donde pase el hombre libre para construir una sociedad mejor."
— Salvador Allende
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