#Political resignations

[wowsillies]

I WISH Jorge had referenced the part of Luck Runs Out where Odysseus tells Eurylochus to be quiet because I feel like that’s an element missing from a lot of Eurylochus interpretations.

“I need you to always be devout and comply with this /Or we'll all die in this” is important because Eurylochus fails to do it by questioning Odysseus’ words (the bag is NOT treasure, it’s storm) and opening the wind bag and his actions lead directly to the facilitation of the death of most of the crew. I hesitate to say he’s to blame because, well, Poseidon is taking revenge due to Odysseus’ decision, but Eurylochus handed him means and perfect opportunity to do it.

So, after that, Eurylochus obeys everything Odysseus says to do. He takes men to explore Circe’s island. He stays put instead of running when Odysseus goes to rescue him. He follows intl the Underworld despite the fact that “hey this witch is helping us now by sending us to death’s realm, this is definitely not a trick” probably raised some questions. He doesn’t (or at least we don’t see) stray or talk to the souls in the Underworld even though Odysseus ends up doing it. He traps and kills the sirens.

He lights and gives out six torches.

So, if devotion to Odysseus wasn’t enough to save them? If Odysseusnis now using that devotion and trust to get them killed as long as he gets to make it home to his wife? What is he meant to do now?

Eurylochus doesn’t sound… fully there, during the second half of Mutiny. Whether there was divine intervention pushing him or madness or simply the pain of it all, he’s not acting rationally. He just saw six of his trusted men brutally murdered, asks Odysseus to lie and say it was a trick, and can’t even kill him when the truth comes out. Odysseus’ wounds are bandaged! (I’m not sure that he doesn’t actually know where Helios’ statue is from btw, both due to the melody and bc it seems outrageous)

We’re all talking about Odysseus pleading for Eurylochus to stop before killing the cows, but Eurylochus is pleading too. He asks how much longer is he expected to suffer, to push through doubt, to follow the orders. And Odysseus’ first plea is “I need to get home�� (later “we can get home”). Let’s not forget Odysseus is selfish and Eurylochus knows that, maybe even loves that, but he’s not just hungry, he’s tired.

When Polites gets the location of the sheep cave from the lotus eaters and takes the men to it, he leads several of them to death and himself to his doom. When Eurylochus stumbles upon the cows, does he remember that? Does he deliberately invoke it?

Killing the cows isn’t about the hunger, not really. It’s about the devotion that was asked of him, the price he paid to learn that lesson, and the pain that silence put him through anyway.

[fantastic-nonsense]

Ok it's been 24 hours and my official post-mortem is literally just "Elizabeth Warren was right: Democrats should have appointed an Attorney General who was committed to prosecuting Trump and everyone who enabled him, cleaned house of Trump's appointees, nuked the filibuster to pass DC and Puerto Rico statehood, and prioritized dealing with corruption"

[reportwire]

Chinese vaccine plans spark hope for end of 'zero COVID'

Chinese vaccine plans spark hope for end of ‘zero COVID’

BEIJING — A campaign to vaccinate the elderly has sparked hopes China might roll back severe anti-virus controls that prompted protesters to demand President Xi Jinping resign, but the country faces daunting hurdles and up to a year of hard work before “zero COVID” can end. Stock markets rose after the National Health Commission on Monday announced the long-awaited campaign. A low vaccination…

[borealalice]

News has just broken (the press have gotten their hands on internal emails) that the regional government in Valencia sent their employees home at 14:00h ahead of the flash floods brought on by the DANA on the 29th precisely because "it's a red alert, with conditions that the national metereological agency indicates will pose the highest risk to the population". At that same time, the right-wing president of the region had just been on TV lying between his teeth, saying that they'd been informed that the storm would have lost strength by 18:00h. It took them SIX MORE HOURS to raise the alarm and issue an emergency message to the rest of the population. SIX. This was a deliberate assassination of working class people, there are no other words for it.

[faelapis]

the US supplies the majority of israel’s arms. you are fucking kidding yourself if you think “being pro-ceasefire” is the only kind of leverage the US president has. if Biden was pro-ceasefire, he would stop sending the fire. if Harris was smart, she would support a weapons embargo today, seeing as 61% of americans don’t want the US to send israel weapons. the US is being run by zionist extremists.

[destielmemenews]

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[politijohn]

Brave!

[unspuncreature]

today is an excellent day to reach out to your local socialist and anarchist organizations, food not bombs chapters, mutual aid organizations, queer organizations and support groups, palestinian liberation groups, refugee organizations, reproductive rights groups, or somewhere else in your community with unique need for your time and resources

ask when their next meeting is. ask how to join their effort

if you have the privilege to grieve, you have the ability to act!!!

let’s get organized and get to work

[oidheadh-con-culainn]

obviously take into account tactical voting for your area and do whatever you need to do to kick out the tories, but if you're in a complicated area where there isn't a clear tactical option, this is a thorough way to compare parties' stances on various options and work out what you're most aligned with

i'm only partway through it but occasionally there's an option that seems so cartoonishly evil that i can't believe it's real so i'm guessing that's probably the tories...

[nabwastaken]

Holy shit.

Sheikh Hasina fucking resigned.

Can we PLEASE stop caring about the western world for one second just to process everything going on in Bangladesh? A world leader just resigned and now the government of Bangladesh is going to be controlled by the army.

The whole damn country is in anarchy. They cut off internet access. They closed the airport.

All eyes on Bangladesh.

[dontyoulistentome]

Reading the second Bloodright Trilogy book and I just know the Captive Prince girlies* would love Bonds of Brass

*gender neutral

[unofficial-project-2025]

Okay so Biden has resigned.

I think that things may actually improve if the dems chose a good candidate. We still have quite a bit of time, though it's not a lot.

On the bright side though, this might get younger people to help stop Project 2025! The big problem with Biden was Israel and Palestine, so if the next candidate likes Palestine, then I think it's going to be okay.

We MUST have hope. Everything will be okay in the end, and if it's not okay it isn't the end.

And also: get a weapon. In case Trump wins, it will be useful for self-defense.

Let's keep having hope.

EDIT: wording is a bit wonky. He hasn't resigned, hhe just isn't running for president in the next election.

[reportwire]

Today in History: November 30, birth of Winston Churchill

Today in History: November 30, birth of Winston Churchill

Today in History Today is Wednesday, Nov. 30, the 334th day of 2022. There are 31 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Nov. 30, 1782, the United States and Britain signed preliminary peace articles in Paris for ending the Revolutionary War; the Treaty of Paris was signed in September 1783. On this date: In 1803, Spain completed the process of ceding Louisiana to France, which…

[pinktinselmonstrosity]

"that sense of kindness, decency, and tolerance, that has always been the british way" not sure i agree with you there rishi

[deadpresidents]

I know this is a big what if but if Nixon hadn't had Watergate who do you think he would have wanted to succeed him after his second term since it obviously wasn't Agnew

Nixon very much wanted John Connally to be his successor. Connally was the former Governor of Texas best known for also being shot in Dallas when JFK was assassinated. He was a Democrat and a longtime protege of LBJ, but he switched parties after LBJ died in January 1973 and Nixon thought the world of him. Even before switching parties, Connally had served as Secretary of the Treasury for about 18 months during Nixon's first term and then led a "Democrats for Nixon" group during the 1972 election. Considering the fact that Nixon won 49 of the 50 states, Connally's group probably helped with the landslide.

When Agnew resigned as Vice President in 1973 because of his own corruption charges, Nixon badly wanted to nominate Connally as his VP. However, the fact that Connally had just recently switched parties made it highly unlikely that Democrats in Congress would vote to confirm Connally as Vice President. And since Nixon in a heap of trouble himself at that point it was pretty clear that Nixon's new Vice President could very likely assume the Presidency in the near future. Connally undoubtedly had Presidential ambitions, so that was also a strike against his chances of becoming VP since that would have given him an inside track for the 1976 election.

Even without being appointed to the Vice Presidency, Connally probably would have been a strong candidate for the Presidency in 1976, however he ended up ensnared in his own scandal. Just a few weeks before Nixon was forced to resign as President, Connally was indicted on bribery, perjury, and obstruction of justice charges. He was ultimately acquitted, but it sidetracked his political career and he couldn't gain any traction when he sought the GOP nomination for President in 1980. But if Richard Nixon could have had his way, John Connally likely would have replaced Spiro Agnew as his Vice President and been Nixon's successor as President.

[bluetinge]

uncanny.

(adapted from here)