If Rajapaksa resigns, Sri Lanka's Speaker Abeywardena may be interim President
If Rajapaksa resigns, Sri Lanka’s Speaker Abeywardena may be interim President
Sri Lanka Crisis: After the demonstration in Colombo, the capital of Sri Lanka, the name of Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena has been approved for the interim President of the country in a meeting called at the Speaker’s house. Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe has resigned from his post. In the demonstration held on Saturday, July 9, the protesters were demanding the resignation of…
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The bjp government introduced the ucc bill in Uttarakhand which has made it mandatory for live in couples to register with the government and a copy of the registration will be sent to respective families. It also added the father as a first class legal heir for inheritance of property, encroaching upon the the right of the mother, wife, daughter (the actual victims of patriarchy, who most likely did not have any social right to gain access to financial independence or inheritance from other family members) to accommodate the father, who more than likely than not already has financial freedom and ownership rights over land property. Moving on, they removed the Muslim personal law, which guaranteed the rights of the daughter in a fixed inheritance percentage. Not to mention the whole act is modelled after hindu personal laws and demanding other religions to bend according to it is inherently regressive no matter how progressive the law on paper looks to be. So should I just bang my head against the wall right now and be done with it or watch as the bjp government slowly sets fire to all our lives?
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"Yeah, block celebrities for not speaking about Palestine"
You'd have to be the stupid3st person alive if you're actully convinced that blocking celebrities is having any sort of positive impact or making any kind of change!
Do you really think the kids under rubble in gaz4 are concerned with the number of followers Kim Kardashian has!?
WHERE TF WAS THIS ENERGY WHEN WOMEN AND GIRLS IN IRAN WERE (AND STILL ARE) GETTING K1LLED FOR NOT COVERING THEIR HAIR!?
WHERE TF WAS THIS ENERGY WHEN GLOBAL TEMPERATURES REACHED RECORD BREAKING NUMBERS AND GOVERNMENTS WERE STILL FUNDING LITERAL PLANET DESTROYING OIL PROJECTS!???(THEY'RE STILL DOING THAT!)
WHERE TF WAS THIS ENERGY WHEN STUDIES CAME OUT REVEALING THAT YOU ALL ARE FUNDING THE G3N0CIDE OF BILLIONS OF FARM ANIMALS FOR A FKING BURGER, WHICH IS LEADING TO INSANE AIR POLLUTION, HABITAT LOSS AND SPECIES EXTINCTION!???
WHERE TF WAS THIS ENERGY WHEN UGANDA CREATED A D3ATH PENALTY BILL FOR BEING LESBIAN OR GAY? (ITS LITERALLY CALLED "K1LL THE GAYS BILL"). WHERE WERE YOU WHEN BISEXUALS IN SOUTH AFRICA WERE HELPING MEN LURE LESBIANS OUT OF HIDING TO GET R4PED!???
But when it's P4lestine, suddenly everyone's an activist!? Drop the act and get off your fking high horse!
Now it's "where are the feminists when women in gaza need pads", "where are the lgbt+ activists when gay people in Palestine are dy1ng" YOU LITERALLY DON'T GAF ABOUT PALESTINIANS! You're just using their suffering to throw shade at people you already didn't like!
We all know you don't give any other oppressed group going through just as much, THIS level of attention and "support"!
This is a trend!!!! A trend that will go away and you all will go back to acting like the terrible hypocritical human beings that you are!
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also also I know everyone likes to talk about how good of an archon Venti is because he left mondstadt to do its own thing and hey look Zhongli's doing the same now with his retirement but I also like how the story shows it isn't without flaws, with so much freedom in the city it's all too easy to take control with power, Mondstadt's people may be free but they also don't have a god to actually uphold the ideal they stand for and how personal freedoms conflict, discrimination(eg. against Eula and her clan) is allowed because the people are free to do whatever they want, the fatui really wormed their way into mondstadt during the webtoon + nearly did with Davalin bc the people of mondstadt do whatever they want so Jean is overworked and the knights are ineffective(according to Diluc), and how mondstadt might have been the least free place for the common people during the Lawrences rule despite being the region governed by the archon of freedom
Zhongli at least first tested his people were ready before retiring, Venti kinda acended, organized a bunch of celebrations for his people, then left them to have fun with their newfound freedom only interveining when things get really bad
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What if for pride this year the Australian government decided to cover gender affirming surgery on Medicare so we stop going into debt and killing ourselves over not being able to access it.
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America will never have an actual revolution where all its citizens rise against the government to demand better living conditions cause we'll always hate each other more than we hate the government and Republican leaders especially have convinced a large portion of the country that every oppressive measure is good actually. Who needs aid programs? Social security? Better wages? Affordable housing? Health care? Pick yourself up by the... whatever or whatever, and stop demanding the people you pay to make your life better make your life better instead of worse
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Q. if you are unable to legally strike, how close have we come to some #publicsector workers being press-ganged into service?
If you are forced to work (given that having no job/being sacked would under current benefit arrangements be severely detrimental to wellbeing) then its no wonder it might be against those aspects of #internationallaw related to #workersrights.
But I guess the #Tories will see this as breaking Int.Law in a 'limited & specific way'!
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also. tell me more about your Kas!Eddie please 🙏
ohhhhh Lui gravity is the AU that has just. grabbed me in its jaws and will not let go. I think about it CONSTANTLY and I don't think that will stop anytime soon. I've got a few asks about this one though so I'll START with talking about What's Going On In Hawkins circa the start of the fic. If you would like to know more about The Boy, Kas!Steve, then may I direct your attention to this post :D
So Eddie and Steve swap places right before the final fight, because Steve is injured at that point and Eddie isn't (and they figure staying at Eddie's trailer will be less dangerous that going to the Creel House). Everything else from that point proceeds as in canon; the bats get in, Steve dies, Max dies temporarily and the four gates connect and drive a massive rift through Hawkins.
From there, Hawkins basically descends into a semi-apocalyptic nightmare. The rift from the end of season 4 has caused major structural damage all over town, many buildings have been destroyed and lots of people have either evacuated or had to move into a local motel that's been converted into emergency housing for the people of Hawkins (that's where the Munsons are now staying). On top of that, the rift has basically destroyed the structural integrity between the Upside Down and our world; while the rift itself is not really a functional gate, there are a bunch of smaller gates randomly opening up around town now. More and more of them show up as time goes on. Some are small (think like the tree Nancy goes through in S1), some are much bigger (think bigger than Eddie's trailer roof gate), and most of them tend to fluctuate a bit in size/fade in and out of existence. This means that some creatures from the Upside Down are starting to bleed through these gates and end up in Hawkins looking for food.
The government, realizing everything went to shit the moment the rift opened up, rolls into Hawkins about 3-4 days after the "earthquake" saying they're here to "help with the relief efforts". (For those keeping score at home, yes this is after Team Russia & Team Cali have arrived back in Hawkins.) The official government cover story is along the lines of "hey, remember when HNL got shut down a few years back after that tragic chemical leak incident? Well, we've just discovered that a Rogue Individual (Brenner) was secretly dumping toxic chemicals and experimental materials into the local wilderness/burying them underground instead of disposing of them properly. This is the cause of the geological weirdness and mutated wildlife that some people are reporting. Everyone should leave Hawkins immediately if they can, and comply with any and all government orders if they can't". Not everyone believes this, of course, but the truth is so much more insane that most of town is at least willing to go along with it - and that's not counting the people who just up and leave because Hawkins is so super duper cursed at this point.
The main things the government is doing are:
regular patrols around the border of town and known gate hotspots, to catch and kill any UD creatures before they're spotted by civilians
nighttime curfew; you shouldn't be out after sundown unless you are going Directly from wherever you were during the day (i.e. your job) back to your home. you're not gonna get ARRESTED but the military will absolutely Escort You back to your house lmao
urging citizens to stay the fuck away from any weird sightings and report them to the armed forces as soon as possible, so the military can handle it
and yeah, they kind of are helping with the relief efforts in that they're making sure food and other important supplies are still getting into hawkins and making sure the recently-homeless have somewhere to stay, but they're doing the bare minimum really asfjknjvkdan
Essentially, as of the start of the fic (approx. a month after the rift opens up/the end of S4) the situation is this: Eleven and the Party know that in order to fix this, they have to defeat Vecna first and THEN close up any existing gates/the rift. (They also have a strong hunch that the Upside Down is Like That due to Vecna's influence.) The government officials in charge of the Hawkins occupation Do Not Believe That Is The Solution, and instead spend a lot of time wasting Eleven's time and energy by forcing her to close up gates as they appear. Between that and the fact the Party can't just storm into the Upside Down to get Vecna without a solid plan and probably armed back up, they're all feeling kind of hopeless about how to actually fix this. Especially since tensions are rising in Hawkins by the day, and the gate/monster sightings are only getting more and more frequent...
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