#Political Figures

[whowouldwininafite]

[tmarshconnors]

“You can not be a party of women, when you can’t even tell us what a woman is.”

Sarah Elizabeth Huckabee Sanders is an American politician serving since 2023 as the 47th governor of Arkansas.

[thespoliarium]

On this day in 1971, Nikita Khrushchev died. It was 7 years since his forced retirement. He died of a heart attack and was denied a state funeral.

While Pravda only announced it in a sentence, Western media had more coverage.

I have a book about him that I treasure, as I think this is a vintage book (Soviet history books here are rare!)

[savage-kult-of-gorthaur]

ASSEMBLE THE PARTY MEMBERS -- VIETNAMESE LIBERATION IS NOW.

PIC INFO: Spotlight on a shot of Le Duan, general secretary of the Vietnamese Communist Party, with Ho Chi Minh at a rally in Hanoi, North Vietnam in 1966. 📸: Nihon Denpa.

OVERVIEW: "As any account of combat in the Vietnam War will tell you, America fought an “elusive enemy”: guerrillas who would strike and then disappear; battalion commanders who refused to engage in open battles. But there’s more to the cliché than most people realize. Even by 1967, America’s military, intelligence and civilian leaders had no real idea who was actually calling the shots in Hanoi.

To some extent, this is what the North wanted — the impression that decisions were made collectively, albeit under the gentle guiding hand of President Ho Chi Minh. But the American confusion also, inadvertently, reflected the messy, factionalized reality of North Vietnamese politics, one that historians are only now coming to grasp. Thanks to the slow if capricious process of historical declassification, the publications of renegade memoirs and histories, the dissemination of “open letters” by disgruntled former leaders, and the careful and painstaking research and analysis by Vietnam specialists, we now have a better understanding of who was on top in Hanoi and what battles he waged to get there.

During the war, American intelligence experts cycled through a long list of suspects. At one point or another, intelligence reports and analyses at the time named all 11 members of the top Communist leadership, the Political Bureau or Politburo (Bo Chinh Tri), as the true leader of the Vietnamese Workers’ Party.

The obvious choice, and the one portrayed as the North’s leader in the press, was Ho Chi Minh, a grandfatherly figure whose global travels and illustrious anticolonial career made him a world-renowned figure. Another popular candidate was Vo Nguyen Giap, the general credited with foiling superior French forces in spectacular fashion at Dien Bien Phu. Even Prime Minister Pham Van Dong, who represented the Democratic Republic of Vietnam at the Geneva talks in 1954, was put forward as the real mastermind behind Hanoi’s war.

In fact, it was none of these. The real leader was Le Van Nhuan, who later took the name Le Duan, a nondescript party official from humble origins in central Vietnam."

-- THE NEW YORK TIMES, "Who Called the Shots in Hanoi?," by Lien-Hang Nguyen, published February 14, 2017

Source: www.nytimes.com/2017/02/14/opinion/who-called-the-shots-in-hanoi.html.

[choppedcowboydinosaur]

It's AI but still funny.

[ivygorgon]

My local dems sent me a crossword to do. Can you complete it?

[ravenkings]

you can take the white man out of apartheid south africa………

[oneofthosecrazycatladies]

This is your daily reminder that autocrats thrive on hopelessness. They thrive on fear. They win when the people become resigned and believe that fighting back is impossible.

Listen, there’s simply no denying that we are on the road to autocracy. But, believe it or not, we’re not there yet. (Yes, it’s true!) We can turn back!

But in order to do that, we have to believe we can.

There’s an Eleanor Roosevelt quote that gets repeated so often, it’s almost lost its meaning, but I still think it’s worth revisiting in a new light:

“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”

Don’t give them permission to make you feel lesser! That’s what they want! They want you to just roll over and accept their dominance!

Listen, I know this whole situation is so fucking exhausting. And wouldn’t it be so great if we didn’t have to fight so hard for our basic rights and freedoms? But these are the cards we’ve been dealt; we’re in this fight whether we like it or not.

So, do whatever you need to do to keep yourself sane. We’re in this fight, but we need to take it in shifts or else we’ll get burnt out and then they win.

Keep yourself sane. Find the moments of joy wherever you can. And remember that no one gets to make you feel lesser just because they want you to.

[frodo-a-gogo]

Let us be brutally honest with ourselves and with eachother for a moment. If he weren't obese you motherfuckers would be capable of percieving evrart claires sexy sexy moral ambiguity and complex charms

[thespoliarium]

On this day in 2009, former president of the Philippines, Corazon "Cory" Aquino, died.

After the assassination of her husband Benigno Aquino Jr. in 1983, she rose against the cruel Marcos regime in the elections of 1986.

Winning against the cruel Marcos regime, she became the first female president in the Philippines. TIME named her the Woman of the Year in 1986!

One of my favorite political figures, I look up to her initiative to take down the cruelty and injustice.

I hope that one day, I'll be like her — not necessarily president but one of the figures that changed the course of history.

[screwpinecaprice]

I'm retaining my headcanon that he's like a human heater. Perfect for winter seasons.

[bugbear55]

oh boy do i love . the gods and their whims

Said nobody ever especially not odysseus

[haunted-xander]

I keep thinking about baby Athena & Simon

[rot-to-the-core]

i really like the headcanon that aventurine texts like a boomer because he doesn't spend time with teenagers and mostly uses tech for work purposes and dr ratio has picked up some slang from his students

that being said i can't stop laughing at the idea aventurine discovering stickers on microsoft teams and whatsapp good morning gifs and texting like this as a result

vs ratio 😭

[atomicmonkey1122]

Maybe I'm going into conspiracy territory but fuck it what have i got to lose now?

My real question is. What the hell happened? In 2020 Biden had 81 million votes to Trump's 74 million. This year Kamala's sitting at 66 million to Trump's 71 million.

So what the hell happened to the record number of single day voter registrations a while back? What happened to Kamala's record number of small donations? Why are strongly historically blue counties swinging so far the other way? (Starr County in Texas was blue every election since fucking 1896 but is red this year). I know the internet doesn't reflect real life but it really felt like the energy for Harris was way higher than for Hillary or Biden. So where did that go?

Were there really 15 million people who voted for Biden that decided they're single-issue-Palestine voters? That seems rather high.

I can't help but feel like something is fishy here. Trump established that its totally normal to launch investigations and sue a bunch of places when losing maybe Harris should try some of that idk

[ravenkings]