Negro Matapacos (“Black Cop-Killer”) was a famous stray dog from thestreets of Santiago who joined student protests across the city from 2010, and in particular during the 2011 movement for free education.
he was a stray dog from the streets of Santiago, and began joining student demonstrations in 2010. The following year, one of the biggest social movements since the fall of the military dictatorship began, fighting for free education and against neoliberal reforms to the education system.
Negro Matapacos was then seen regularly at every demonstration, defying tear gas and water cannons and always barking at or attacking only the riot police, and never any students or rioters. He subsequently continued to appear sporadically at future demonstrations, and hung out on university campuses, becoming beloved to student and radical movements as a symbol of resistance to violent authority.
His last days were spent resting with people who took him in, with a crowdfunded veterinarian.
Some people who knew him sent us some of their memories of him, telling us how he defied tear gas and water cannons, and only ever barked at or attacked police officers, and never students or rioters.
After his death, his legacy lives on in songs, street murals, an award-winning documentary and in the memories of all those who knew him. He was a good boy.
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I’ve always said this, and the only reason it’s wrong is because the vibes are off and it sounds wrong.
Most English speakers don’t consciously know how their language actually works at all, but can absolutely point out when something is wrong
It is a wildly inconsistent language, so you just have to go off of vibes. I have studied multiple languages and can understand why they walks might be appealing, but they walk simply looks and sounds better.
It’s so interesting to me that even though no one consciously knows the rules when you hear it you know instantly. Like only one of these is right:
The big bouncy red rubber ball
The red bouncy rubber big ball
And if you speak English you instantly know which is which
I would probably say it big red bouncy rubber ball.but yeah it's such a weird language.
That’s what I put the first time and I second guessed myself. So I guess my own instincts aren’t that good. But definitely the second one is more wrong.
It wasn't far off, and had cool alliteration. English is such an order dependent language people just blue screen if I ask "The pepper and salt may I have?"