Emiliano Zapata Salazar, born on this day in 1879, was a leading figure in the Mexican Revolution, the main leader of the peasant revolution in the state of Morelos, and the inspiration of the agrarian movement called Zapatismo.

Zapata was born in the rural village of Anenecuilco in Morelos State, where peasant communities were under increasing pressure from the small landowning class who monopolized land and water resources for sugar cane production with the support of dictator Porfirio Díaz.

Early on, Zapata participated in political movements against Diaz and the landowning hacendados. When revolution broke out in 1910, he was positioned as a central leader of the peasant revolt in Morelos. Zapata was responsible for defeating and ousting various invading armies from Morelos on multiple occasions.

On April 10th, 1919, Zapata was assassinated, double-crossed by a member of the Mexican Army who had pretended to switch sides. When Zapata attempted to meet with the would-be defector, he was shot to death.

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  • DeathToBritain [she/her, they/them]
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    3 years ago

    if there's one fucking thing I absolutely deeply hate in media, it's when drama is created via some contrived bullshit around miscommunication. I am autistic, and people not saying the thing that they mean and this then blowing up into a whole issue is a huge issue I have had in my life, and it makes me super fucking anxious all the time. when I see that in such a forced way in any media, like I will literally just immediately turn it off. it's not even interesting, it's just absolutely contrived because you felt you needed drama in this story and so pulled this out of your ass rather than any actually interesting drama. I hate it so much and cannot express how much it ruins like a solid 30% of any movie or TV show ever I try to watch

    • 420clownpeen [they/them,any]
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      3 years ago

      I watch a fair bit of anime, and it's particularly bad as a genre for dragging out plot contrivances like that. I feel ya

    • SolidaritySplodarity [they/them]
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      3 years ago

      I've got another fun one for you: members of a leftist org arguing with each other and repeatedly failing to get the basics right about each others' explicitly stated positions, even written positions. All during a general meeting / convention, all a complete waste of time because they didn't really read the other person's position, and this happening for an hour straight for different matters.