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compilation of defaced racist monuments feel free to add more!
Queen Victoria bonus round -
And a John A. MacDonald bonus round for the road -
The ‘to serve and protect’ police hands memorial in Utah:
Beautiful
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Hi I'm here to donate myself.
*British museum version of history*
What is happening in Manaus, Brazil?
Manaus is the capital of the state of Amazonas. Ever since the beginning of the spread of covid-19 in Brazil, it has been the most affected state of the whole country.
For the past month, with the increase of cases all around, Amazonas' health system has completely collapsed.
So far, 5.9k people have died by covid in Amazonas. With the rising cases (the death rates have increased 183% in the last seven days), it has come to the point that the cemeteries in Manaus can not manage to bury everyone.
100% of the hospitals beds are occupied. Patients are being transferred to other states, because Manaus can't treat everyone that is coming to the hospitals.
All the oxygen stock in the hospitals is over. They don't have any oxygen available. Patients from covid are being manually ventilated. So far, over 50 covid patients have died by suffocation only in the last two days.
60 premature babies are going to be transferred to other states (mainly São Paulo) to receive proper care due to the collapse of the Amazonian system.
A new variant of the virus has been detected there, one that has a higher potential of transmission and reinfection.
Amazonas is in deep need of donations, even the smallest amount of money can help them found new resources (ppe kits, hygiene items, food, drinking water, medicines) and oxygen tanks. These are the contacts I have at the moment (I will be looking for new ones and put them as reblogs) and they accept donations through pix.
obs: CPF and CNPJ are Brazilian's social securities number that we use to identify people and business so you can use that to contact them apart from the emails and phone numbers.
This is a phone list of oxygen providers in Amazonas. To ring them you would have to put +55 92 and then each number. I know this is a harder approach if you are not a portuguese speaker but it is still an option.
I will put a link to a fundraiser as a reblog just to make sure it doesn't mess with the tags.
If you have the conditions to help, please do, you will literally be saving lifes. Spreading these information and making more people aware of it is still helping, so if you could please not ignore this.
This is insane
holy fuck, this is A LOT
Also that figure is way too low, modern population estimates might be as much as twice that. There were between 25 and 40 million in central Mexico alone, almost as many people in the North Amazon, almost as many in the Andes, and almost as many in the American South. All saw 80 to 99 percent population loss in the period of 2 to 3 generations.
The Greater Mississippi River Basin had a population somewhere between 5 and 12 million, the Eastern Woodlands had about as many, about as many in the Central Amazon, and almost as many on the American West Coast and North West Coast respectively. All of which saw 85 to 99 percent population losses in 2 or three generations after the others.
Multiple factions if European interests killed all the natives they could and destroyed all the culture and history they could. They were not limited by gender, language, religion, culture, ethnic group, nationality, geography, or time period; just every single person they could.
That’s not even genocide, it’s apocalypse.
Why are you all omitting the well known fact that it was not purposeful genocide but simply new microbes introduced that no one knew about at that time.
Cuz that’s not true.
Tw genocide, tw violence
When Columbus realized the pigs they brought were getting the Islanders sick he arranged to loose as many as possible ahead of them primarily into the Benne region, I believe. Cortez loaded sickened corpses into Tenochtitlan’s aqueducts, Spain deliberately targeted the priests of Mexican society first because they knew it would severely undermine the public ability to treat disease. When the post Incan city states developed a treatment for malaria, the Spanish deliberately targeted the cities producing the quinine treatment and made it illegal to sell it to non-christians. The Spanish took all the sick and forced them at sword-point to go back to their homes instead of to the sick houses or the temples throughout the new world, and forced anyone who wasn’t sick to work in the mines or the coin factories melting and pressing their cultural treasures down into Spanish coins. The English were just as bad, they started the smallpox blankets. A lot of the loss was not deliberate infections like this but it was preventable at a million different crossroads and every European culture took the opportunity to weaponize the plagues when they could.
They knew what they were doing, just cuz they didn’t know what germs were doesn’t mean they have some accidental relationship with it. Alexander the great used biological warfare after all, so it’s not like you can pretend the concept was alien to them, they wrote about it.
Besides they did plenty of old fashioned killing too, there were Spanish conquistadors that estimated their own personal, individual killings might have numbered over the ten thousands. They were sure they’d killed more than ten million in “New Spain” alone. They crucified people they smashed babies on the rocks, they set fire to buildings they forced women and children into and cooked their meals over the burning corpses, they loosed war dogs on people. They sold children into sex slavery to be raped by disease riddled pedos back in Europe and if taking their virginity didn’t cure the sick creeps the native children would be killed or sometimes sent back.
The English were just as bad, shooting children in front of their mothers and forcing them to mop their blood with their hair. Turning human scalps into currency. Feeding babies to dogs in front of their mothers and fathers. Killing whole villages and erasing them from their maps so that historians would think God had made it empty just for the English.
The Americans after them burned crops and drove several species of bison to extinction just to starve the plains tribes. They pushed the blankets too. On top of the wars of extermination and scalp hunting and concentration and laws defining natives as non-persons so that we’d never be protected by the Constitution.
And even if you wanna live in some dreamy fairytale where God just made a whoopsie and then there were no natives left, nobody forced them to erase our history. The Spanish burned every document they found to erase the literacy and literary tradition of the Central and South Americans. There are essentially three Aztec documents left and some excavated pottery, and some archeological inscriptions and that’s it. The single most advanced culture in math and anatomical medicine erased probably forever. Same to the Inca, the most advanced fiber and alloy engineers and economists gone forever. Nobody made them do that. Nobody forced the American colonizers to steal political technology and act like they invented democracy or sovereignty. Nobody forced them to build their cities on top of native ones and erase them from history forever. Baltimore was built on Chesapeake, which translates roughly to “city at the top of the great water” in most Algonquin tongues. My favorite example is Cumberland in Western MD, they didn’t even reshape the roads or anything, they paved the steps and walking paths natives had used for hundreds of years and now it’s almost impossible to drive cuz the streets are too narrow or steep. The culture that built them didn’t have horses. Phoenix AZ, called Phoenix cuz the settlers literally found an old city and “brought it back to life.” Did they save any history or cultural artifacts? No. Most cities on the east coast are like this. Nobody forced them to erase that history.
Colonizers are not innocent just cuz the germs did a lot of the work of the apocalypse.
(tlaxcallān had a democratic form of government)
Btw America BARELY acknowledges this, there’s no memorials or educational trips like Germany does the Holocaust, most schools don’t even mention that Native Americans existed
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What’s happening in Peru
Almost 200 people were murdered in Armenia in 3 days and y'all are still ignoring us.
This is not a war, this is a massacre Azerbaijan and Turkey are committing against the Armenian people.
Turkey's president literally admitted that he wants to finish what his ancestors started. He wants to commit another genocide, and this time he wants to kill us all.
Silence is violence
Update: it's been over a month. 2 thousand people were murdered so far. Please, I'm so scared, just reblog this. I'm not asking for a lot, if you can't donate that's fine, just share this.
If anyone knows where TO donate please interact?!
If you're willing to donate, here is the link:
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WARNING: blood, violence, revolution.... ꒰PERÚ TE QUIERO POR ESO TE DEFIENDO!!! 🇵🇪 🇵🇪 🇵🇪꒱
aI don’t usually do this but it is the best moment to spread all that is happening right now in Peru!!! 👀
A summary of all this (if you do not speak Spanish) The Peruvian congress removed the previous president (Martín Vizcarra) for having certain frictions and problems with them (Vizcarra was involved in corruption cases before he was president and because he wanted to remove parliamentary immunity, that is, allow congressmen to be investigated) . To put a new one (Manuel Merino) who does NOT have technical or university studies and it is known that he has 52 complaints against him. To this are also added events from previous and recent years (for example, the fact that Peru has 3 presidents in less than 4 years and that last year the congress was dissolved) that has caused great instability in the country and now with the recent protests. The police have responded violently, launching tear gas canisters amid peaceful protests, taking away the protesters and using “TERNAS” (an undercover police officer or a policeman wearing civilian clothes) to cause disorder.
I’m going to put some links about the marches / demonstrations and a little more here
WARNING: everything is in Spanish, may contain strong images and videos
Golpe de estado en Perú
INFORMATE AQUÍ, lo que debes saber para defender tu posición.
La Rebelión TikTok, explicada
¿Qué está pasando en el Perú?
GUÍA PARA ATAQUES DE PÁNICO EN PROTESTAS
La manifestación más grande de la historia del Perú
¿Sirve o No sirve salir a protestar?
This isn’t about Chile, but please help spread awareness about what’s happening to our Peruvian siblings!
UPDATE FROM PERU:
- THE POLICE HAS STARTED USING TEAR GAS
- THEY ARE SURROUNDING PROTESTERS SO THEY CAN'T LEAVE
- THE GOVERNMENT HAS ORDERED A BLACKOUT IN THE MAIN PROTEST PLACE
- SOMEHOW THEY MADE SURE THAT THERE WOULDN'T BE PHONE SIGNAL
- THEY'RE CUTTING ENTRANCES TO THE CITY
- THE GOVERNMENT HAS REVOKE THE PRELIMINAR DETENTION OF THE CORRUPT LEADER OF ONE OF THE PARTIES
- BUT TO OUR LAST PRESIDENT IS NOT ALLOWED TO LEAVE THE COUNTRY FOR 18 MONTHS
(Now the last thing is good BUT why do they think that Vizcarra is more likely to leave the country than the other? MAYBE it's because his party had already negociated that with the Usurper)
- I'M IN MY HOUSE IN A RESISENCIAL PART OF MY DISTRICT AND THE HELICOPTERS ARE FLYING WAY TOO LOW
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This is happening right now to our peruvian siblings, please help spread the word!
As a Canadian, what's your impression of what Americans are like? Since you said 'American' drowns out everything else as an identity component. I wanna compare notes.
ho boy absolutely nothing positive will come of this ask but ok sure here we go
the first word that comes to mind is "un-empathetic". Now I need to make this exceedingly clear: i am talking about the american so called left, the guys who vote blue, the guys who, particularly, exist in the same social spaces as I do. Theoretically. I make a point to say this because I say "americans" and people go "oh surely she means the republicans" and like no I don't I mean the guys who are supposed to be on the same side as I am, because if I was talking about the republicans I'd just say ABSOLUTELY UNHINGED
so, americans. man, americans are self-centered as FUCK. You can see it on the little things. If you're on a server with like 500 people from all over the world and someone asks what's your height, not only do americans answer in feet, everyone else does too for the sake of their comfort. "Only I use feet in the planet and yet everyone caters to me."
If I was ever to start a post about, say, Luciano Huck, who is a guy pretty much every brazilian knows, I'd start it with "So there's this guy who is a famous TV host..." But an american can and will start a post that goes "WE SHOULD MOBILIZE AGAINST BOB MCJOHNSON" and never once for a fucking second have the courtesy of even explaining who the fucking dude is, because hey, I gotta know, right? A post about Brazil starts with "In brazil...". A post about the USA starts with "THIS NATION"
I think I only truly realized the extent of this self centeredness when we had a disaster very near me and I posted about it and it got ignored over a trump tweet. Americans will go "well you can't expect me to have the energy for every disaster in the WORLD" but then fill every single pore of the internet, news and social media with news about their california fire when the pantanal in brazil has been burning so much, we've lost nearly 20% of the ecosystem and my dad can't breathe because of his asthma.
And that's just the thing - they take and they take and they TAKE but when the time comes you realize they won't as much as throw a look your way. Hey true, no one has the energy to carry the world on their back. But you know what? When I turn on the TV and I see there was a quake in mexico, the first thing I think about is "hey, some people I know live there. Even if we haven't talked in a while, I should check on them." Because I care. It doesn't have to be a huge tumblr SOS post. Just one fucking text - "I heard there was a quake. Are you okay?"
americans, save for very few exceptional people I've met, will make you feel like you're fucking invisible. And that's the worst feeling in the world. You know how many USA people have asked me whether I'm safe from the pantanal fires? Maybe two or three. You know how many americans I exchange regular conversation with, people who I, in turn, would ask whether they are safe in face of disaster? Yeah. More than two or three.
meanwhile my friends from other places don't always get the news - third world only makes headlines when someone is profiting from it - but when they do, they IMMEDIATELY go "Brazil was on the news, how are you??"
like seriously I don't think I'll ever get over the heartbreak of publicly talking about a huge problem so close to me that it directly involved me on a server, with people I cared for, and having it be completed ignored except for a couple europeans and latinos who actually took the time to go "sorry for your loss". that's it. that's all I needed.
americans are also immensely unsafe to be around. there's a paulo freire quote that applies well here, and you know what, I'm not gonna fucking explain who paulo freire is either. The quote is "When education is not freeing, the oppressed dreams of becoming the oppressor."
and that's how social movement spaces that are USA-majority feel. Americans feel, and I'm gonna get heat for this, but americans feel like fucking cops. I'll talk about the LGBT spaces because those are the ones I'm most inserted into, but this generally applies everywhere - they'll assume their experiences are universal and you have to fall in line and will jump at any chance to tear you down.
Like. We are not socially at the same situation. Not all concepts apply equally. I do not UNDERSTAND all concepts. I have my own struggles with abstraction. And mistakes are human and everyone makes them.
But when faced upon a mistake, you can choose to take the role of the educator or the role of the enforcer, and by god do americans choose the latter most of the time. And you know, you don't have to fucking be an educator all the time, but combing though people's words in the search of minimal mistakes so you can take the satisfaction sending them a violent, cruel message because you feel like you have a moral high ground? That's. That's not fighting the enemy. That's... a cop. That's a cop searching your car for a broken taillight so they can escalate this into an arrest, not because they want to make the world a safer place, but because they wanna fuck you up, because they feel entitled to this power. Except you and the cop come from the same place, and the big bad guys are looking at you two fight and laughing.
And that's what it all boils down to - the entitlement. I don't post the hate I get. But dude. I'm a gay ass latina living in a messed up country struggling with my mental health. I have been through Some Shit. And it fucking hurts to get people going "I think you're a shit doctor and I hope you lose your license" because you know what? People like me aren't usually doctors to start with. I struggle with that thought every single fucking day. People will go "I wish law/healthcare/etc was more diverse" and then immediately, upon meeting a minimally diverse person, feel entitled to treat them not as actual human beings, but as entities from which you demand unachievable moral perfection based on USA standards, giving no space to learn either.
Americans feel entitled to my life story, and if I don't promptly give it to prove whatever the fuck, then they feel entitled to be brutally emotionally violent towards me. I would never fucking address another human being with the tone, the cruelty, the sheer entitlement, the desire to harm in the most personal, hurtful way the way I've been addressed here. American centered movements do not include me. There's no space in the USA-LGBT movement for me at all, I'm not represented by it, my friends from the third world are not represented by it, we don't feel safe sharing our experiences, we don't feel included, we feel POLICED far more often than included, we don't feel like we MATTER. We are. Invisible. And silenced. Again.
And calling a movement global is nothing short of a hypocritical way of going "I hope the whole planet cares about this thing in the United States, but I sure as hell won't acknowledge the role of the USA in putting the most violently cruel people in power - people that will cause this exact same problem, but elsewhere, so none of my business and I'll ignore it over a trump tweet."
anyway that's the tea basically
hello @embracethenight138, i wanna have words about this series of comments:
I don’t really know exactly what you thought you could achieve with this, but this reminds me something i was taught in debate club: bait-and-switch. The condescending tone, playing “devil’s advocate” and after saying things so infuriating I literally had to stand up and brew a pot of coffee, say that this is just for a genuine discussion.
However, for the sake of people who are curious, I want to engage in this debate because i know that no matter how much this hellhole of a website is, there are still young people here that can learn and are willing to learn.
It is actually downright offensive that you’d assume our resentment exists because cm and celsius and whatever the fuck not. Most of us, even us poor people in a third world country, can use google well enough - if i can google what’s the currency in India, I can google another type of measurement. If the only thing the US did was to use different measurements, you can be sure we weren’t be having this conversation right now.
I can’t speak for Europe in here, because I am not european, but as a latin american woman of color, my resentment comes because the US backed a series of coups in my country. the US taught torture to military officials by kidnapping the homeless and torturing them until they died, then carrying on autopsies on the bodies to better demonstrate how the torture techniques worked. My resentment comes because the US funded a military police during the military dictatorship that still exists to this day, and it is the same poorly-paid police made of black and brown people (except for the officials bc of course they are all white) who go up in the favelas to kill and torture black and brown people for a war on drugs finance by the US and that serves absolutely no purpose other than drenching our soil whith blood.
My resentment comes because I know about American politics and american culture and American history not because I am curious, but because it is a NECESSITY. Did you think when Trump got elected in 2016 only you special snowflakes were affected? The Trump election kickstarted a wave of authoritarianism that culminated with the 2018 election of Bolsonaro, and the moment I saw Trump had been elected, I knew it was a matter of time until we got fucked over too.
And I see americans being like “oh we must vote him out!!! otherwise it’s just going to be authoritarianism!!!” and like, how nice it must be, to actually be able to elect someone for real. because the last time a president stood up against american interests, she was impeached in the most disgraceful process i’ve ever had to witness live. she had difficulties speaking because the torture she went through - the same one taught by the americans - shifted her entire jaw out of place.
so when you say “why don’t you stand up” it’s a fucking slap on the face. it shows you have no curiosity to understand beyond your comfort zone. it means that you are blinded by the idea that the US has seldom, if ever, been wrong. Dilma stood up, and she got tortured and impeached. I worked for the National Truth Comission and I’ll never forget learning about a woman who was tortured until she died, and she was pregnant, and her mother found her body in a barrel with the baby swimming in blood at the bottom. I remember going home and vomiting until I passed out. And this was because Brazil had it “easy” - since our elites had been in bed with the us for a long time, Brazil didn’t use as much brute force as, for instance, argentina, but the Operation Condor still killed 60k people all over south america for daring to contradict american interests.
Do you know about Operation Condor?
This is the reach of your legacy. Every step my country takes is monitored, evalued, weighted. American companies lobby for the privatization of natural resources, American officers pave the way for coups so the same companies can get a better deal when things are sold for dirt chip.
Clear example: Vale do Rio Doce is a mining company that used to be state owned, until it was sold in the 90′s, after severe pressure by american companies, by 5% of its actual worth. The company was then turned into a mining mogul that - and there is no other word for this - raped my state for iron and steel, destroyed most of the original nature, and has such a deep disgregard for their worker’s lives that last year, a dam broke and people were disemboweled and dismembered by a wave of toxic mud that destroyed an entire city. If you go close to the site, the stench of decomposition is awful. 300 people dead in 20 seconds. There are still bodies under the mud.
So if you don’t know any better, a good exercise is to shut the fuck up and listen. Really listen to what people are saying. Google what you don’t understand. And then come to people like “hey, so I read about this thing and I couldn’t get it, what’s your opinion on that?”. because when you, from the height of your american privilege, wants to get a fucking cookie for “trying”, i remember Dilma’s disaligned jaw, I remember a baby soaked in blood at the bottom of a barrel, and I remember the smell of death and despair of a mining dam built so poorly just so investors could get an inch more of money, and we latin americans we’re very good at bottling things up.
but sometimes when you go and say “i wish we could be more understanding” i think. dilma’s jaw, a baby in blood, a colleague so severely dismembered that the firefighters could only identify them by a leftover piece of brain. and yet, after all this trauma, after dealing with all this grief, after wandering around not sure where to go, after crying, after vomiting, after the panic attacks, after being born in a place that kills you when you stay but aches when you leave, after so many names of black boys murdered in the favelas i’ve lost count, after the death threats, after the nightmares-
when we finally scream-
you come to us and ask us to be quiet, because your ears hurt.
do you have any idea how that feels? after all of this, you’re asking me to be kind? how can i be kind? how can i be understanding? it’s not emotional labor, it’s not annoyance, it’s a knowledge that the problem here isn’t this spear through my chest, this pain that knows no limits, the blood coming out of my mouth. the problem isn’t what’s making us scream.
it’s how loud we are.
