Idk, but if Putin doesn’t want the Wagner Group to continue challenging him, maybe he should just give the Wagner Group whatever Russian territory they control. Do it for peace and to stop unnecessary bloodshed, like he told Ukraine to do.
friendly reminder that today (9/11/23) marks 50 years since the coup in Chile. I have literally not seen anyone talking about it.
Chile was under dictatorship for almost 17 years. over 3000 people lost their lives, and many others were forced to flee the country. artists, socialists and communists were given absolutely inhumane treatment. the coup leader were never charged for his crimes.
as we all know, history repeats itself when we forget it. i just hope that we’ll never forget what happened in Chile. that we will recognize the early stages of persecution of political opponents, and ensure democracy. that we will remember the ones who gave their lives to the fight.
anyone and everyone who has been affected by the coup in Chile: my thoughts are with you today.
The fucking audacity of some people to say "well, you can still use the internet so it's not all bad for you!" while I'm literally in Myanmar.
I'm sorry, you, a person who literally lives thousands of miles away from me KNOW and can DECIDE the amount of psychological trauma I've endured??? And you know that from how much internet I can still use?
In Myanmar, people literally take videos of their home being burned down by the military junta. They take videos and pictures of explosions, gunshots etc etc because the fucking dictator doesn't care. They know for sure other people from other countries don't care so they don't even bother cutting the internet off in some cities anymore. They kidnap children so that parents can't run away and we have tons of evidence and they can do nothing. If you go on tiktok and you can see those who fucking killers waving stuff like guns and uniforms around, talking in Burmese about their victories (ie how they kill villagers and childrens). I live in fear of talking back to anyone. I can't stand up for myself because if I get reported I'll get thrown into jail. Do you know they get rotten rice in jail? Or that their drinking water is infested with mosquito larvae? Well, it's alright! Because people who get sick will just be locked in solitary confinement until they die or they get better. So, I don't have to fear about anything right? It's not like I have to live in a state of perpetual fear. I can just delude myself into thinking I'm ONLY in danger. It's not an actual danger since I can still use the internet. Sure.
What the military dictators want is for everyone to "act normal" so they aren't gonna close down banks or cut internet in big cities where they can get fucking money, you fucking idiot. That doesn't mean there's no oppression or injustice happening where I live. It just means they like to pretend there's nothing so fucking knuckleheads like you can go "oh well, there's nothing wrong with this" and move on with your life while WE suffer in silence.
Anyways, if you think I'm "not actually going through anything" or "if they can use internet they must still be in a good place" fuck your performative activism, your performative allyship. I hope everyday you live will strip away those lies of yours until you can't say "I care for other people" without you and everyone around you knowing that you're a fucking liar.
Notes for those who actually care: Half of Myanmar is a literal war zone right now. We can use your help. There are many internally displaced people and moreover, there are many revolutionaries fighting for our future in Myanmar. Ask around in your community because Burmese people are literally everywhere. A lot of people had to run away because it's not safe to live here so you can find Burmese people everywhere. You can donate no matter where you live. Minimum wage here is around $1.5 per day so even if you donate a single dollar, you can feed someone in a war zone. Or feed people in prison because the sum of prisoners is only increasing per day.
To the Free Xanxon Army and the Imperium/Novo Alliance.
Do not presume, even for a second, that you will win this war.
To Kathryn, spokeswoman. (Yeah, yes yes yes, that videyo you just received ist off your drone going down.)
Tell your commanders to surrender NOW. I no play games, woman. I know you can see the vehicles outside the palace, it is from youer offitz vindov-c, tiyihn khyn. Yornkelov, he must meet me outside of the building, twenty minutes from now, or we will begin executing hostages and firing on that location. Again, as you already know by nau, I yamnh Kommandant He Hyn, I will speak to him in dzea open, no? No, no guards, no tanks firing, just two of us, and maybr you, or your little friends. If you chose to pick them, 1rst notify me, on this channyel, and 2nd Sekaound, I vill be using my own lieutenants and my own friends. Do not play games with me, if I go down I will happily die for the glory of the Empire, knoving your army will die off.
You must also be familiar with that drone we just shot down, what in dzea hell did you think would happen? Broadcasting signal for a ll to hear?; Woman, you play stupid games and win even dumber prizes knowing you and your kind. Don't test me or my crew like that again, idiyot. What kind if fool tries that?
If your troopers do not stand down and surrender immediyatelly, within the timespace between now and dauwn, at 0600 Xanxon City local time, zone AB11,GDZ is AA, I repeat at siks'z'hyn ocklock our tayenmn, hyn? you must all be vafving vait flags off shrr surrender, surEST surrender. Iff not, I vill schoot and open fayar on you all. Your armies are losing! After all! Do you vantkant to make more vieo vidowes? No, so make it easiy on everybodiy, and jast give ap alryeadyiy.
And to you, Markovich.
I do *not* know who in dzea hell you *think* you are messing vit, accusing us of plotting terroristic sattack on Dokal?!, bat I ckan assure you that it is all lies, rumnours and ledjends. This tayp off deceit and mytologdjikal thinking leads you to novere bat dzea lyunattyik adsaylyum! Qvit it alryeady vit zea "Operatziyohn Dropbox" bullzhiht, bekaus'z ist jast dzat, bullshittery, I knouw ackuze you of crimes, now do aiyhn? S'dzyohn back off! And if you even TRY to assist our littel rebelliyouhn, I svear to you, I will PERSONALLY assure Dokal City is left nothing more than ruins. You ar e fucking with TME, dzea most powerful empayar vorld ever sea!
Hayl Xanxoni!
Azul Xanxoni!
Praiz Xanxoni!
Death to all of you Onperiyals and traitors to Xanxon Empire.
Forensic study finds Chilean poet Pablo Neruda was poisoned
The toxin clostridium botulinum was in his body when he died in 1973, days after Chile’s military coup
One of the most enduring mysteries in modern Chilean history may finally have been solved after forensic experts determined that the Nobel prize-winning Chilean poet Pablo Neruda died after being poisoned with a powerful toxin, apparently confirming decades of suspicions that he was murdered.
According to the official version, Neruda – who made his name as a young poet with the collection Twenty Poems of Love and a Song of Despair – died from prostate cancer and malnutrition on 23 September 1973, just 12 days after the military coup that overthrew the democratically elected socialist government of his friend, President Salvador Allende.
But some, including Neruda’s nephew, Rodolfo Reyes, have long believed he was murdered because of his opposition to the then incipient dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet.
Ten years ago, a Chilean judge ordered the exhumation of the poet’s remains after his former chauffeur, Manuel Araya, revealed that an agitated Neruda had called him from the Santiago hospital where he was being treated to say that he had been injected in the stomach while asleep. The poet died hours later.
The head of Russia's Wagner mercenary group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, has vowed to "go all the way" to topple Russia's military leadership, hours after the Kremlin accused him of "armed rebellion"
Yevgeny Prigozhin said his Wagner fighters had crossed the border from Ukraine into Russia, entering the city of Rostov-on-Don.
Mr Prigozhin said his men would destroy anyone who stood in their way.
Mr Prigozhin claimed that his forces had shot down a Russian military helicopter that "opened fire on a civilian convoy". He did not give a location and the assertion could not be immediately verified.
The Wagner Group is a private army of mercenaries that has been fighting alongside the regular Russian army in Ukraine.
Tension has been growing between them over how the war has been fought, with Mr Prigozhin launching vocal criticisms of Russia's military leadership in recent months.
On Friday, the 62-year-old mercenary leader accused the military of launching a deadly missile strike on his troops and vowed to punish them.
You like thrillers? You like politics? You like military fiction? Go into this blind and enjoy the ride. Also, a rare story where the villain is the protagonist.
12.12: The Day (Korean: 서울의 봄; RR: Seoul-ui bom; lit. Spring in Seoul ) is a 2023 South Korean historical action drama film directed by Kim Sung-su, starring Hwang Jung-min, Jung Woo-sung, Lee Sung-min, Park Hae-joon and Kim Sung-kyun.