Masala Chai is spiced milk tea usually sweetened. Originating from India, Chai is widespread with many household and regional variations.
The folklore surrounding Chai dates back to between 5000 and 9000 years ago to an ancient royal court – either India or Siam. It was said that the reigning king created the recipe as a healing Ayurvedic beverage. Throughout the earlier years Chai was prepared via a diverse range of methods and contained an equally diverse array of spices. Between regions the recipes varied and it was served hot and cold as a remedy for minor ailments, but didn’t contain black tea until the 1930’s.
In 1835 the British East India Company established tea plantations in Assam in an attempt to reverse the overwhelming Chinese monopoly on tea supply to Great Britain. In 1870 approximately 90% of tea consumed in Great Britain was supplied by China but by 1900 this had reduced to 10% largely replaced by tea sourced in India and Ceylon.
From the 1830s black tea was gradually assimilating into the existing Chai spice mix and the beginnings of Chai as we know it now emerged. However the tea spice mix lacked appeal due to the high cost of tea and wasn’t popular until the 1900s when a hardcore campaign by the India Tea Company promoted the provision of ‘tea breaks’ for workers in an attempt to increase tea sales.
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There was an action in my town today where a group took over a vacant building near a houseless camp. The pigs drove them out after a couple of hours before they group were able to set up a warming area and pantry. Amazingly good intentions but as someone who was just a bystander I learnt so much from their obvious mistake. Number one... gotta have a solid fucking comms plan (both internal and external). It sucks, but if you want to mobilize support for direct action, you need to treat it like a fucking product, build a narrative and sell it to people. Even the material outcome is the same (kicked out the building) the comms plan should spin it into a W and build off of it so next time it works.
I know no one really cares about this, but I just need to rant. Armchair organizing...
Wouldn't you need shit tonnes of support, to begin with, for something like this? Although your point to get media attention around this isn't bad. I have been involved with small-time stuff around my town and it seems the best thing to do would be quit my job and work retail to organize people. But uhh I am not charismatic or brave enough to do that.
American society is so fucked...
Thats a politician after my own heart. Power doesn't exist on piece of paper floating down the hallways of a marble palace in a god forsaken swamp. It rests in the hands of the people. It's a shame the fascists understand this better than most of America.
It's news to nobody reading this that pols have always been greedy, stupid liars who are basically only interested in themselves and people like them. But before - at least they had some semblance of shame. For the GOP - shame is out the window. They are brazenly telling people "My entire focus is on me and how things related to me appear to be. Nothing else matters."
People like Cawthorn and Marjorie Taylor Greene are the right-wing vanguard. I fear we are in the "quiet before the storm" period of fascism. If the dems don't go big - the US will be fucked. After the huge 2022 and 2024 dem losses in elections - the GOP will totally control the country.
Couldn't agree more.
For nearly all of 2019 - I avoided this site because I knew I'd end up spending waaaaaaay too much time hanging out in the megathreads. And that's happening. Another problem is that I've gotten used to saying what I think with little to no filter. And on the net - once you're used to routinely sharing your thoughts that way - it can be a hard habit to break.
They are blinded by their West Wingian view of the world. The Capitol Building is a scared site of our democracy and I'm now going to vomit up other flag waving stuff I also heard on CNN...
If I made that "quiet" comment at reddit at the top of a hot thread - I'd have a dozen redditors lecturing me sarcastically about the attack on the Capital. But - of course - they experienced the attack live exactly like I did - via the internet. Real fascism is when attacks (including murder) can happen to nearly anywhere to the other.
When I saw a Qanon streetmob, marching against immigration, outside the US, attack a trans person in a counterprotest, in a place where this is totally out of the ordinary, it gave me pause. Don't want to be lib about it, but....
I mean, the right is defintely on the move the last 5 years.
I was an earnest lib before the 2016 elections. Around November of that year - I was worried about the rise of hate generated from Trump's insane nomination and the near chance he almost became president. The reality of the past few years and my move to the left makes those fears of mine seem risibly quaint now. Whatever happens politically with Biden - I think the following years will ones of right-wing terror and the possibility of stolen elections.
On a positive note - in the unlikely event that the dems go big and steamroll the GOP - I think the possibility of fascism in 2024 recedes greatly.
Fucking hell wtf is this move against the homeless. It's not just happening where you are. Being on the street isn't ideal, obviously, but I'm seeing reports of police forcing people off the street, where there is no other option apart from substandard group accomodation. In the middle of a global pandemic.
It's a good time to force through unpopular agendas.
Watching people on the street make the same mistakes over and over again this year has been really frustrating. I hope we go in to the spring campaign season having had time to learn. With Covid turning in to an eternal plague I figure people will be plenty pissed off and hungry come march.