"I didn’t say I liked it. I said it fascinated me. There is a great difference."
Twitter reacts to the Michael Dunn sentence today. Dunn was sentenced to life in prison without possibility of parole.
The situation in Venezuela keeps getting worse, and the world doesn’t know.
Those protesting do not represent Venezuela’s vast working class majority that struggled to overcome the oppressive exclusion they were subjected to during administrations before Chavez. The youth taking to the streets today in Caracas and other cities throughout the country, hiding their faces behind masks and balaclavas, destroying public buildings, vehicles, burning garbage, violently blocking transit and throwing rocks and molotov cocktails at security forces are being driven by extremist right-wing interests from Venezuela’s wealthiest sector. Led by hardline neoconservatives, Leopoldo Lopez, Henrique Capriles and Maria Corina Machado – who come from three of the wealthiest families in Venezuela, the 1% of the 1% – the protesters seek not to revindicate their basic fundamental rights, or gain access to free healthcare or education, all of which are guaranteed by the state, thanks to Chavez, but rather are attempting to spiral the country into a state of ungovernability that would justify an international intervention leading to regime change.
They failed the last time. Make sure they fail again.
My friend is pretty unfortunate how much information you’re overlooking, let me tell you from my view of point, in which i face too these problems, because I’m living here.
The protests are still going, people from all ages are protesting due to the poor lifestyle that’s being promoted in this country.
We can’t go out without the fear of being killed in the streets, just a few weeks someone got shot in the forehead a few minutes from walking here in my house, the dead body laid there for hours, my mom passed by the dead body coincidentally.
I myself have been victim of insecurity countless times, out of them I have been physically assaulted 3 times, in 1 I got mugged from my bag which had nothing of value, they shoved me against a wall with a knife in my stomach. I know people that have been kidnapped. Everyone I know has been assaulted at least more than 3 times not in their lifetime, but in a year.
We can’t go just at night in most parts because that’s considered suicide here. And I love walking out at night, sadly that’s not something you’re supposed to be doing unless you want a few bullets inside your body.
We have one of the highest murder rates in the entire world, currently sitting at 3rd and rising. And it’s thanks to the death of Monica Spears that people started reclaiming their security, Monica was a beauty pageant titleholder who won Miss Venezuela 2004 and also represented Venezuela at Miss Universe 2005, who got shot several times in her car with her husband and their 5 year old daughter. The only survivor was the 5 year old with a few bullet injuries.
Also what about the economy status? oh yeah we have the worst inflation rate in the entire world too, #1.
What-not, with the scarce amount of basic food and other basic needs such as oil, flour, water, toilet paper, and a pretty big lists of products that are almost extinct.
Everyday when I walk to my institute, I look at the supermarket chain near my home, and there’s always an absurd long line to get in, even when it hasn’t opened, lines stretches sometimes to other blocks. I myself have been in those lines just to get a bag of cooking oil, we get marked by numbers like animals, so no one cuts in. There’s videos of people beating each other up to grab a bag of flour, an old man had an asthma attack while in line to buy a few things and no one helped him because the line was ridiculously long and they were afraid to wait another 3+ hours to get basic foods.
My dad is struggling to get money thanks to companies leaving the dust, I admire strongly the man and he works hard to still provide me and my brother with food, he currently works a taxi driver, which gives way more money than any minimum wage job and most professional jobs.
So why do these people protest? or an even better question, why don’t more people protest?
A large part of our humble population lives off Chavez’s legacy, most of them are too afraid to demand a better lifestyle, they’re so afraid that if another political side that’s not chavist were to being in power, they’d take the little they have.
But things are getting worst, there are no signs of recovery but instead we’re having a backwards pace, every day life gets more expensive, more people are getting poor and it’s touching rock bottom these last 7 months since the protests began (and are still happening in various parts of the country).
IF YOU NEED MORE RESOURCES AND WANT TO KNOW HOW BAD IN DEEP SHIT WE’RE IN AND EXPOSE THE HUGE AMOUNT OF VIOLATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS, CORRUPTION, INDOCTRINATION, I’D RECOMMEND TO LOOK INTO THIS POST. MAKE SURE TO READ IT. THIS NEEDS TO GO INTO THE SURFACE.
Probably the worst types of people are the ones that shut you down to make themselves look cooler than you, for example if you get excited and squeal and they’re like “woah what was that..” or if you talk loudly because you’re passionate about something and they say “relax dude wow” and then give a look… Like fuck off stop trying to act so cool and collected. You don’t seem more mature you just seem fucking boring and monotonously placid.
Reblog if you have made a friend online that you would love to hang with, but they live far away.
filmbride leading the way ~
Dark Ages, Schmark Ages. The De-Textbook cuts through that and so much more fake-fact bullshit.
cloudy with a chance of witch burning
your periodic reminder that a good chunk of Europe basically shat the bed for a few centuries while everyone else kinda did their thing.
I am sorry I’m going to be that person.
This map is extremely inaccurate.
1) China was not going through business as usual China was going through the TANG DYNASTY i.e. the Golden Age of Chinese culture, which would lay down legal and social and poetic norms for the rest of Chinese history. The Tang is so influential that a lot of languages call Chinese people 唐人 (People from Tang.) (We call Chinese people “people from Qin” so.)
2) Japan is _first becoming literate_ during this time period (due to the influence of the Tang they adopt Chinese script), which is a BFD for poetry, religion, politics, society. Japanese court culture develops, which near the end of this period (11th century, around the time Europe enters “high middle ages”) will produce The Tale of Genji (by a totally awesome woman named Murasaki),widely regarded as the world’s first novel because of it’s deft use of irony and social commentary.
3) The southern part of Korea is experiencing the emergence of Unified Silla, a state that will last the entire period and will see the importation of Chinese and Indian buddhism, the construction of the first Confucian college in Korea, and so on.
4) In Mesoamerica, the Mayans are inventing astronomy, writing (the third and final independent invention of writing in human history), and a whole crapload of other stuff. This is the triumph of their culture.
5) The Umayyads in Spain are a massive center of technology, learning, and (comparative) religious toleration.
6) The Eastern Roman Empire, which spans both the green and yellow portions of your map, isn’t doing too badly either, bouncing back after losing territory to the Caliphate.
7) The Polynesians are colonizing the ENTIRE PACIFIC using amazing advanced navigation technology not rivaled until the INVENTION OF GPS.
8) I am not equipped to talk about Sub-Saharan Africa in detail (cue rant about how we never learn about subsaharan africa in the western educational system) but you can bet there are some major, amazing developments going on there too. I’d be shocked if there weren’t.
9) HOLY SHIT INDIA.
10) OMG SOUTH EAST ASIA. SOUTH. EAST. ASIA.
11) THEY WEREN’T BURNING WITCHES IN EUROPE DURING THE MIGRATION PERIOD (dark ages). Witch burning took off in the EARLY MODERN PERIOD, nearly 1000 years after this. Europe was going through some tough shit, which would leave them backwards compared to the rest of the world for 1000 years, but also there were some amazing things happening there, at least have the decency to be like “angry dudes with swords stabbing people” not WITCH BURNINGS FFS.
12) And ABSOLUTELY Islamic Caliphate was a totally amazing flowering of intellectual, artistic, and spiritual culture, a mixing pot between a thousand cultures and languages, and totally amazing. Don’t in any way want to diminish that in any way.
PLEASE ALWAYS BE THAT PERSON
bill:
Computer simulations that teach themselves to walk.
evolution is weird
We can use this to calculate the average body shapes of alien life if we know the planetary conditions
^^^^
The moon looks fun!
Also that second faller in the third one seems to be watching the other two race away. Poor, square-headed dinosaur thing.
Here are some pictures from India’s Mangalyaan spacecraft.
Oh and here’s the stereotype-breaking picture showing a group of female scientists at the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) congratulating one another on the mission’s success:
Do you ever just like flex your foot wrong and it cramps and you’re just like this is it, this is how it ends