Salvador Allende, born on this day in 1908, was a Chilean physician and politician who became the first Marxist leader to be elected president in a Latin American liberal democracy. He was ousted by CIA-assisted fascists in 1973.
Allende, whose political career spanned nearly four decades, achieved the presidency as the candidate of the Popular Unity coalition, serving from 1970 to 1973.
As president, Allende sought to nationalize major industries, expand education and improve the living standards of the working class. His administration gave educational grants to indigenous children, implemented literacy programs in impoverished areas, and established a minimum wage for workers of all ages.
On September 11th, 1973, the military ousted Allende in a coup d'état assisted by Henry Kissinger and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
As troops surrounded La Moneda Palace, Allende gave his final speech to the public, vowing not to resign. Later that day, Allende died of a gunshot wound, concluded to be a suicide by an investigation conducted by a Chilean court with the assistance of international experts in 2011.
"Placed in a historic transition, I will pay for loyalty to the people with my life. And I say to them that I am certain that the seed which we have planted in the good conscience of thousands and thousands of Chileans will not be shriveled forever. They have strength and will be able to dominate us, but social processes can be arrested neither by crime nor force. History is ours, and people make history."
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Salvador Allende, September 11th, 1973
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Just got home from an Abortion Rights rally I organized in my city. About 350 people there, we got lots of signatures for people wanting to organize with us, and the entire thing was anti-capitalist in tone. Kept the libs in line, kept the rhetoric acceptable and hopefully pushed a few people into some actual long lasting action.
Feeling fucking great. :lenin-laugh:
Shout-out to the dude in black bloc attire at the women's rights protest who took his mask off so he could smoke weed.
Aren’t there forms of smoking that could be done through a tube so you don’t need to remove your mask?
even if you ignore the destruction of the towers themselves or any connections between the US ruling class and the Bin Laden family and just go off of their own admissions, they were aware of the attack for some time prior and decided not to stop it
I think they were talking about the other 9/11 but you aren't wrong
EXACTLY. Yes walkable areas with good public transit are nicer and better for the planet, but mostly I want to be able to get shitfaced and get home without killing someone
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I just dance in the sweet memories like a hurricane mixed with love and pain~
One of my coworkers was working from the hospital where he was visiting his sick dad. Fucking deranged work culture we have
saying this on a forum composed exclusively of libs is bold
Death to America
reported hate speech against Chinese people on :reddit-logo: , was denied. Hate speech against Chinese people is encouraged on :reddit-logo:
I’ve been exhausted for at least 2 years at this point
Worse, I'm waylaid by a perfidious species of nervous energy that saps my good humors
Non adoptees please stop saying anti choicers need to adopt.
Those people only abuse us and use us for their anti choice talking points. We are people not punishments for people with stupid opinions
Fucking :10000-com:
Placement is already such a dice roll. I’ve got too many siblings who were removed from previous houses…
CW intense physical child abuse
…after getting beat so badly they had to go to the hospital for a fracture. One of them had to learn to crawl in a cast. The doctor said a baby’s bones are so flexible that the “parent” would have had to take either end of their leg in his hands and snap it over his knee or something similar. Dude was a pastor and I don’t think he went to jail for that shit.
Adoption in and of itself is traumatic and so many of us later go to abusive homes.
Comrades who weren't adopted or in foster care I beg you to look into the adoptee rights movement and listen to us when we speak of our experience
I’d love to see it talked about more around here. There are few groups so well positioned to deconstruct the capitalist idea of family and the rates of abuse are insane
Yeah there are some books I want to read before making an effort post but I definitely think the site would benefit from the info because unless you're one of us, you probably haven't heard of the issues we face :/
I’ll be happy to read it once it’s ready. I haven’t actually engaged much with people in support groups or communities, so I have a lot of thoughts, but not a lot of coherence. I have infodumped to people before about attachment therapy though because holy shit
God i feel you on the thoughts without coherence cuz its like I know x goes with y but can I explain it? Would someone who doesn't have the same experience as me understand my logic? Probably not which isn't their fault
Very interested in your thoughts on attachment therapy though! Feel free to infodump on me via dm or just as a reply to this :crush:
Would someone who doesn’t have the same experience as me understand my logic? Probably not which isn’t their fault
This definitely took me a while to figure out and work through. Lots of resentment that teenagers saying “you just don’t understand” get portrayed as crazy or out of touch, but people legitimately did not understand so much of why I was doing things I was doing and no amount of explaining seemed to fix that.
Very interested in your thoughts on attachment therapy though! Feel free to infodump on me via dm or just as a reply to this
I don’t wanna do a full dump, but basically my parents adopted a kid with RAD and I got to see their idealism about foster care absolutely crumble over a period of ~10 years. We were his first and only placement. I don’t wanna talk about him too much specifically. Let’s just say it’s a lot of very strong mixed emotions.
But it’s weird seeing how people react to stories of the Evergreen model (I’m not sure how well-known the terms are, but attachment theory and attachment-based therapy are supposedly more legitimate, while attachment therapy is the name of the pseudo-Freudian bullshit that keeps killing foster kids). They react with appropriate horror, but not always at the same details I do. Like, my brother would spend a month slowly making a hole in his wall so that he could sneak into the pantry without anyone seeing him or hearing him and then he would gorge himself until he was really sick. How many times are you going to have to take your kid to the ER because of that before you start putting a lock on the cupboards?
I guess my point is that having control over a child’s care isn’t inherently bad and there are situations where exerting extra control for a kid’s own good is going to be necessary. And there are situations where having an emotional meltdown can be cathartic. But attachment therapy essentially induces trauma by physically overpowering the child, provoking that emotional meltdown, and then taking advantage of their vulnerability when they submit or start crying. It’s just teaching parents that dominance at all costs and in all forms is the only way to treat attachment disorders. You’re not “fixing” them, you’re making the parts of them that are unpleasant for you impossible to express.
The number of kids undergoing this therapy who are put into “therapeutic” foster homes and asphyxiated is crazy.
Also, attachment-therapy-rebirthing always reminds me of how psychoanalysts used to try and walk children back through the Freudian development stages by simulating psychosexual trauma. It’s just weird symbolic bullshit.
I hope @Tervell never stops posting about swords. It wouldn't be the same without them now.
The church I go to had some dogshit reactionary take about Roe v Wade. Made it out to be a charity issue if a woman is affected by it. I think I just don't need to go to church anymore.
edit: It's in this vein that I'd find some pleasure in seeing those people try to square the circle of a big beautiful union went on a big beautiful strike and their treats no longer came in.
I wanna start a liberation theology church so bad. But home growing a church is decades of unpaid full time work. I don’t know if I have it in me on top of everything else. I’m sorry you’re having a hard time finding a place to worship. Maybe the wiccans have the right idea about altars in your home.
The state of the world and society put me on this huge spiral and I thought maybe I could find some peace in religion. I can't; this shit keeps happening. I want to go get 10 acres somewhere, hide some precious metals under a barn, and never be heard from again.
I think there would be some solace if churches still pushed for people to go out into their communities and do shit, but the most engagement the vast majority of the congregation gets, assuming they do anything beyond showing up regularly, is tithing. It’s so transactional.
Yeah, for all the reddit atheists did wrong, they did have the right take on what christians want
Leftist Sam Harris: “When these people say that they believe their texts are the divine word of God, and that they want to establish a government formed in that image, we ought to take their word for it.”
Edit: gonna unironically say #NotAllChristians here. Leftist Christians are woefully underrepresented in formal institutions, but there are plenty out there, especially on this site. And Sam Harris is a ghoul and I don’t wanna do the shit he does where he takes the views of right wing terrorists and extrapolates them to the broader population.
Yeah “Leftist Sam Harris” should sound as absurd as “Leftist Mitch McConnell”
Those who’ve stuck with organized religion despite issues always seem to end up being the types who are “totally huge queers/allies” but then are anti-abortion, transphobic, etc. or “totally left wing” but just promoting small business owners
Yeah I know the type. This is my experience as well. But also I live in the US and it’s my understanding that there are Quaker communes in the country which practice liberation theology or some similar schools of thought. And that’s to say nothing or Christians all around the world. There’s just too many to make a big generalization
There are plenty of valid critiques of atheism online and in the imperial core. Reactionary figureheads, liberal individualism, a lack of organization, an edgy countercultural identity that alienates a ton of atheists who don’t want to integrate it into their personality.
….oh and the fact that they were so distracted by right wing Islamic violence that they just forgot about christofascism for a while
As Christopher Hitchison fan as a youth. Fuck those people. It’s a group of people that hate black and brown people practicing western religion. They’re contempt of whites is only about how brain washed and dipshits they are, but their fear is solely focused on black and brown people.
British tabloid: NHS official WANKED to my surgery application! Birmingham mum with 34R breasts is desperate for reduction -- and FED UP with men finding her attractive.
Latin American tabloid: Capybara eats the exact date and time of the Rapture into farmer's field
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what do the letters even mean?
I checked wiki and apparently she has a 47 cm difference between underbust and bust circumference, That's crazy
But is she okay after the surgery? I hope someone can take care of her kids while she recovers.
