Calixto García Íñiguez, born on this day in 1836, was a general in three separate Cuban uprisings for independence - the Ten Years' War, the Little War, and the War of 1895, which bled into the Spanish-American War.
García joined the Ten Years' War at the age of 18. Five years later, when surrounded by Spanish troops, he shot himself under the chin with a .45 caliber pistol to not give them the satisfaction of capturing him. Although the bullet went out of his forehead and knocked him unconscious, he survived. The wound left a great scar and gave him headaches for the rest of his life.
García played a key role in the ultimately successful War of 1895 and protested the subsequent lack of Cuban autonomy in the conclusion of the war (no Cuban was allowed to sign the terms of surrender and the Spanish leaders in Cuba were allowed to keep their posts in Santiago).
After American military commander William Shafter excluded Cubans from negotiations for the surrender of Santiago, declined to invite García to the surrender ceremonies, and let Spanish authorities remain in control of Santiago until the U.S. could establish a military government, García resigned from the rebel army in protest on July 17th, 1898.
García died of pneumonia on December 11th, 1898 while on a diplomatic mission in Washington, D.C. Today, his portrait is on the 50 Cuban peso banknote.
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cw: discussion of pedophilia, sort of I guess, just playing it safe, because its actually discussion of things that are explicitly NOT pedophilia and people calling it that anyway.
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I'm so tired of ridiculous internet discourse that tries to expand the definition of pedophilia beyond what it is, attraction to children.
Hey, no, yaknow what? Those are all ADULTS. Therefor they cannot be pedophilia. The last one is probably the worst. The idea that an adult man presenting fem is appealing to the "pedophile gaze" or whatever this person is saying:
Like ok so adult men can't play with gender presentation and be openly sexual about it without it being pedobait lmao? Jesus christ. Yeah lets strictly enforce gender norms in order to avoid appealing to pedophiles? What?
Or lets infantalize adults with certain body types and bar them from practicing open sexuality and tell them that anyone who's attracted to them is a pedo? Come the fuck on. There's no height or body weight of consent please fuck off.
The only thing in her tweet that you can argue is bad is porn that specifically tries to appeal to the "barely legal" fetish. Like "I just turned 18 hehe, im literally as young as you're legally allowed to fuck" ok yeah thats messed up. Theres a few porn categories that play on that.
But no, femboys, twinks, short and petite women, thats not that. Thats just adults existing how they want to exist. Shuuuuut uuuuuuuup.
oh no
Noooo but this is my favourite laughably dogshit internet discourse! Tumblr users saying that being under 5'6" is pedo-coded!!!
But yeah it is fucked and Idk where the notion comes from. I think all the sex negative feminists from the 70s have new jobs, cause what the fuck else could this be?