#Spain attacks

[renonv]

I have nothingggg so here’s a snippet i started working on bc I kept thinking about ouiaboo Russia and his little fascination w François

[maxedes]

literally so sick of lando always getting driver of the day. it‘s not a popularity contest. he fucked up a pole and isn‘t winning in the probably strongest car on the grid what is he getting dotd for

[useless-englandfacts]

sure spain may have “tactics” and “strategy” but england has the power of friendship :)

[nando161mando]

In Barcelona, Spain, Pro-Palestine taxi drivers held a car rally to show solidarity with Gaza.

#GazaGenocide

[sscarletvenus]

Rachel Corrie, February 2003. 21 years ago.

[ellavei]

Interestingly enough I do think Antonio's rage is also quite bad. Laughs.

So, what is Antonio's bad side?

Now I'm curious if you have one for other characters like Austria or England.

On the outside, we already know that Spain is a bubbly and sociable person. But on the very inside, Spain has many aspects that he doesn't like to show. Especially when it comes to... rage.

It would be very debatable on this topic but my view concluded that Spain is quite a judgemental person 😂 When he judges, he judges hard and this even applies to himself. I believe sometimes Spain is more honest with his feelings when he lets out his anger.

But... Spain really knew how bad he was when he got into that state (Hima even drew the ''caution keep out'' tape 😂). If that rage gets him some benefits (e.g.: showing his enemies that he is not the easy guy for them to deal with), the situation would be more convenient for his emotions. But life is more complicated. Most of his rage I think comes from possessiveness and jealousy.

So is there any reason why Spain tried to cover up his rage?

Funny how Spain loves to know that people really like him and will be very proud if they praise something like ''Oh, Spain is such a nice man to talk with'' or ''I love spending time in/with Spain''. So most of the time, he likes to keep that beautiful image. It became more evident when he joined the EU and more people started to get to know about him.

Our Spain really surfing the Internet to read how much people like him and save it.

Like it or not, people would die to have such a good impression on people like the way Spain is doing right now. It is even more enviable when Spain actually feels comfortable being that kind of person most of the time. He is like a magnet that attracts people from the beginning.

I think Spain has the behaviour of someone who finds it hard to deal with anger and frustration in a good way. He can get extremely violent when he gets angry and he really knows it. But he also deeply cares about how people think of him, it is even crazier if it is a person that he likes.

So if he still had a little bit of composure, one of the ways he does is hiding the ''not so beautiful'' part. And that attitude has had a huge impact on his personality.

I feel like many people judge Spain as a bland and shallow character. But if you read more of the manga of Hetalia (I highly recommend some of the old chapters), you will find more interesting canon about him. So... let's have ''a buono mood'' Spain to chill this post 🧊

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(if I can summarize my thoughts and have time I would love to write about Austria and England. Thank you for sending a question and reading this <3)

[momo33me]

During my stay covering the effects of the Valencia flood, people’s faces reflected despair and brokenness in the face of the disaster, whose death toll exceeded 205 and dozens were missing. Everyone I met, when they found out I was Palestinian, hugged me and expressed their solidarity. One of them stood in line for water for 5 hours. He told me: “What we are suffering here is a joke compared to the suffering of the Palestinian people. This is nothing at all. Everyone around the man greeted me and hugged me!!! The people there overwhelmed us with their emotions.

[rmelster]

I think the main reason some guys are still salty about the “bear or man” debate is because they have failed to understand, -the discussion does not limit to the hypothetical situation of a woman being alone in a forest with either of the previous. It has a deep, disturbing history. It’s the story about the soldiers that came to nunneries, to humble houses in the fields and to hospitals, to drag the women, the girls and the little children away from any safety and do things that have no name. It’s the story about the men that kidnapped very young women from foreign lands to keep them in a harem; men that married little girls and forced them to have children at ages so young not only their well-being but their lives were at great risk. It’s the story of men who created places were human beings were worked to the bone at best, used as lab rats at worst. It’s the story about men who would do anything but take a no for an answer. It’s the story about men who knew of women being abused, and told them to offer their suffering to God and stay.

Men are not inherently inclined to commit such crimes, nor are they the only ones that SA women, or torture them. But history has it that many have been nothing but the Wolf to their own kin.

[jackredfieldwasmyjacob]

pues ya estamos todos

santiago abascal is the leader of the far right party vox, who flew today to israel to have an audience with netanyahu, shortly after spain has recognised palestine as a state (needless to say the current president is from the main 'left' -with giant quotations- party), in order to basically pronounce himself an ally of his cause.

btw israel has been threatening spain ever since the president said he was gonna recognise palestine, with of course no response. it's funny cause among all the missile and bomb threats, israel also recognized catalonia as an independent state - something vox and other right-wing parties are against -, but I guess coherence is out of the picture of them.

[0na22]

no, js no. I actually can't I've only seen and found these photo's and im obsessed- like surely this isn't healthy..

Anyways!! I love these photo's and I'm 100% going to make one be somewhere on my profile and all of my other profiles on other socials :))

[freddiemercurylegendabovelegends]

Today, December 13th, 1974 - Queen Story!

Barcelona, Spain, Palacio de los Deportes de Barcelona

'Sheer Heart Attack Tour'

📸 Source photo: "Disco Expres", december 27 issue of a Spanish magazine

[fatehbaz]

[D]omesticated attack dogs [...] hunted those who defied the profitable Caribbean sugar regimes and North America’s later Cotton Kingdom, [...] enforced plantation regimens [...], and closed off fugitive landscapes with acute adaptability to the varied [...] terrains of sugar, cotton, coffee or tobacco plantations that they patrolled. [...] [I]n the Age of Revolutions the Cuban bloodhound spread across imperial boundaries to protect white power and suppress black ambitions in Haiti and Jamaica. [...] [Then] dog violence in the Caribbean spurred planters in the American South to import and breed slave dogs [...].

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Spanish landowners often used dogs to execute indigenous labourers simply for disobedience. [...] Bartolomé de las Casas [...] documented attacks against Taino populations, telling of Spaniards who ‘hunted them with their hounds [...]. These dogs shed much human blood’. Many later abolitionists made comparisons with these brutal [Spanish] precedents to criticize canine violence against slaves on these same Caribbean islands. [...] Spanish officials in Santo Domingo were licensing packs of dogs to comb the forests for [...] fugitives [...]. Dogs in Panama, for instance, tracked, attacked, captured and publicly executed maroons. [...] In the 1650s [...] [o]ne [English] observer noted, ‘There is nothing in [Barbados] so useful as … Liam Hounds, to find out these Thieves’. The term ‘liam’ likely came from the French limier, meaning ‘bloodhound’. [...] In 1659 English planters in Jamaica ‘procured some blood-hounds, and hunted these blacks like wild-beasts’ [...]. By the mid eighteenth century, French planters in Martinique were also relying upon dogs to hunt fugitive slaves. [...] In French Saint-Domingue [Haiti] dogs were used against the maroon Macandal [...] and he was burned alive in 1758. [...]

Although slave hounds existed throughout the Caribbean, it was common knowledge that Cuba bred and trained the best attack dogs, and when insurrections began to challenge plantocratic interests across the Americas, two rival empires, Britain and France, begged Spain to sell these notorious Cuban bloodhounds to suppress black ambitions and protect shared white power. [...] [I]n the 1790s and early 1800s [...] [i]n the Age of Revolutions a new canine breed gained widespread popularity in suppressing black populations across the Caribbean and eventually North America. Slave hounds were usually descended from more typical mastiffs or bloodhounds [...].

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Spanish and Cuban slave hunters not only bred the Cuban bloodhound, but were midwives to an era of international anti-black co-ordination as the breed’s reputation spread rapidly among enslavers during the seven decades between the beginning of the Haitian Revolution in 1791 and the conclusion of the American Civil War in 1865. [...]

Despite the legends of Spanish cruelty, British officials bought Cuban bloodhounds when unrest erupted in Jamaica in 1795 after learning that Spanish officials in Cuba had recently sent dogs to hunt runaways and the indigenous Miskitos in Central America. [...] The island’s governor, Balcarres, later wrote that ‘Soon after the maroon rebellion broke out’ he had sent representatives ‘to Cuba in order to procure a number of large dogs of the bloodhound breed which are used to hunt down runaway negroes’ [...]. In 1803, during the final independence struggle of the Haitian Revolution, Cuban breeders again sold hundreds of hounds to the French to aid their fight against the black revolutionaries. [...] In 1819 Henri Christophe, a later leader of Haiti, told Tsar Alexander that hounds were a hallmark of French cruelty. [...]

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The most extensively documented deployment of slave hounds [...] occurred in the antebellum American South and built upon Caribbean foundations. [...] The use of dogs increased during that decade [1830s], especially with the Second Seminole War in Florida (1835–42). The first recorded sale of Cuban dogs into the United States came with this conflict, when the US military apparently purchased three such dogs for $151.72 each [...]. [F]ierce bloodhounds reputed to be from Cuba appeared in the Mississippi valley as early as 1841 [...].

The importation of these dogs changed the business of slave catching in the region, as their deployment and reputation grew rapidly throughout the 1840s and, as in Cuba, specialized dog handlers became professionalized. Newspapers advertised slave hunters who claimed to possess the ‘Finest dogs for catching negroes’ [...]. [S]lave hunting intensified [from the 1840s until the Civil War] [...]. Indeed, tactics in the American South closely mirrored those of their Cuban predecessors as local slave catchers became suppliers of biopower indispensable to slavery’s profitability. [...] [P]rice [...] was left largely to the discretion of slave hunters, who, ‘Charging by the day and mile [...] could earn what was for them a sizeable amount - ten to fifty dollars [...]'. William Craft added that the ‘business’ of slave catching was ‘openly carried on, assisted by advertisements’. [...] The Louisiana slave owner [B.B.] portrayed his own pursuits as if he were hunting wild game [...]. The relationship between trackers and slaves became intricately systematized [...]. The short-lived republic of Texas (1836–46) even enacted specific compensation and laws for slave trackers, provisions that persisted after annexation by the United States.

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All text above by: Tyler D. Parry and Charlton W. Yingling. "Slave Hounds and Abolition in the Americas". Past & Present, Volume 246, Issue 1, February 2020, pages 69-108. Published February 2020. At: doi dot org/10.1093/pastj/gtz020. February 2020. [Bold emphasis and some paragraph breaks/contractions added by me. Presented here for commentary, teaching, criticism purposes.]

[nando161mando]

"It does us no good to recognize the State of Palestine if you continue to sell arms to Israel."

A student at one of the protest encampments at Spanish universities responds to news that Spain will recognize the State of Palestine.

[sscarletvenus]

an extract from an article published by the Middle East Eye, authored by Jonathan Cook (a/Jonathan_K_Cook on twitter) :

A handful of Israeli whistleblowers have revealed that Palestinians are incarcerated for weeks on end in Israel's secretive prison Sde Teiman as they are tortured – both through formal interrogations and through the conditions they are held in.

They are forced to sit blindfolded outdoors on a thin mattress through the desert heat of the day and sleep in the cold of the desert night. Continuously cuffed, they are forced to remain motionless and silent. At night, dogs are set on them. Anyone who speaks or moves risks being savagely beaten till bones are broken.

People’s hands and legs are tightly zip-tied for so long that, according to the report, some have needed limbs amputated.

As one Israeli whistleblower recounted to CNN, none of these abuses are about intelligence gathering. “They were done out of revenge,” he admitted. The inmates are punching bags for the Israeli soldiers and guards.

But this is about more than simple vengeance. Understanding what is happening at Sde Teiman provides a clearer picture of what is happening on a far bigger, even more industrial scale in the torture chamber of Gaza.

Especially revealing are the conditions in a field hospital at the detention camp, housing Palestinians either maimed in Israel’s savage destruction of Gaza or injured by beatings from Israeli soldiers.

They are handcuffed to gurneys in row after row, blindfolded and naked apart from an adult nappy.

They are not allowed to speak. There they lie day after day, night after night, in a state of utter sensory deprivation, with nothing to distract from their wounds and pain. In the midst of this, Israeli medical interns can use their exposed, vulnerable flesh as a canvas for experimentation.

According to one whistleblower, the detention centre has quickly gained a reputation for being “a paradise for interns”.

There, they are allowed to use Palestinians as little more than lab rats and encouraged to carry out medical procedures they are not qualified to perform.

A whistleblower told CNN: “I was asked to learn how to do things on the patients, performing minor medical procedures that are totally outside my expertise.”

Such procedures were frequently done without anaesthesia. Unlike doctors in Gaza, Israeli doctors have ready access to painkillers. It is a choice not to use them.

link for the full article :

Just one example of why there can absolutely be no coexistence with these monstrous colonisers.

[ellavei]

me summarized France with Spaus:

(he used to curse the House of Habsburg every day)

[prancing-in-doodles]

The Spamano family!! They're children are Oikawa (HQ) and Marco (SNK)

They seem like the kind of family to get a portrait and hang it in their living room.