#dictatoship

[mitsuki91]

Snowbaird bingo card

Thanks to @kpchrs I will do my snowbaird bingo card. I'll explain the point, lol.

No need to explain, they know each other weakness (they are each other weakness, lol)

Lucy Gray at Coryo, lol

I know, I know, I don't have to feel this way, everyone is entitled to their vision of them, but I find that most of fandom miss the 'grayness' in Lucy Gray and she became the Holy Virgin Mary in this fandom. And she is not.

... Yes, they make me crazy. I can not stop thinking about them. I only post about them. You see I am obsessed.

They need to be the power couple to revolution Panem in a healty dictatorship (I know I know dictatoship is bad but they have to have it all)

Coryo can not function without his Lucy Gray, we all see that in thg :v he needs to die first in her arms

I understand the 'trust' part make everyone lol, but I feel after the fiasco if they meet again trust will never be betrayed again. Adoration, I need to explain? Lol

No need to explain, I love disfuctional ships in fiction

One kiss can not make difference but they have to kiss, ffs...

... Because they are obsessed with each other, even when Lucy Gray leave him she can not forget him, she is the one who knew Coryo best and can see his unhinged thoughts hidden in his eyes...

... So maybe one kiss can not fix them but all the kiss in the world could do it. And sex. Plenty of sex and obsession.

I want them in everyway, everytime, everyevery.

They are sooo soulmate AU I can't even. And I will die for the soulmate trope.

Yep, that's it!

[aphroditesknife]

Oldest Filipino political prisoner turns 85, appeals for executive clemency

via Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas - KMP Facebook Page

Yesterday, April 23, 2024, Tatay Gerardo Dela Pena turned 85 years old. Tatay Gerardo is the country's oldest political prisoner. As the oldest political prisoner, Tatay Gerardo suffers from medical conditions including hypertension, deteriorating eyesight, and hearing impairment, further exacerbated by his advancing age. Last year, the Department of Justice’s Board of Pardons and Parole (BPP) issued Resolution No. OT-08-02-2023, which states that "Persons Deprived of Liberty (PDLs) who are 70 years old and above, and even if they are considered high-risk, shall be considered for executive clemency if they have already served 10 years of their sentence. This consideration is especially applicable if they are suffering from old age, sickness, terminal or life-threatening illnesses, or other serious disabilities.” It is evident that Tatay Gerardo Dela Peña perfectly fits the criteria for executive clemency outlined in this resolution. Who is Tatay Gerardo Dela Peña? Gerardo Dela Peña is a Martial Law veteran and survivor. Just like many other martial law victim-survivors, Tatay Gerardo hails from the peasantry in the province of Camarines Norte in Bicol. Tatay Gerardo, as he is affectionately called, dedicated himself to activism and organizing within his community, standing up against the oppressive dictatorship of Marcos Sr. In 1982, Tatay Gerardo was subjected to arrest, torture, and detention by police and military forces. Trumped-up charges of subversion and robbery were filed against him, he later was acquitted of these charges. While in detention, Tatay Gerardo ran for Barangay Captain and won, a move that ultimately facilitated his release in 1983. Following his freedom, he continued his service to his community by instituting programs dedicated to peace and order, dispute resolution, and access to justice at the barangay level, among others. Later, with the downfall of the Marcos dictatoship and the founding of Samahan ng Ex-Detainees Laban saDetensyon at Aresto, (SELDA) Gerardo Dela Pena served as a founding member of SELDA and later as the chairperson of its provincial chapter in Camarines Norte. Tatay Gerardo remained steadfast in his commitment to peasant organizing and human rights advocacy within his home province. However, on March 21, 2013, at the age of 74, he was once again arrested, this time by the 49th Infantry Battalion in Brgy. Matango, Vinzons, Camarines Norte, on fabricated charges of murder. Ten months after his arrest, on December 12, 2013, Gerardo Dela Peña was convicted of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment, with a term of 20 to 40years. He is now serving his sentence at the New Bilibid Prisons in Muntinlupa. Human rights organizations both locally and internationally have fervently advocated for his immediate release, citing not only his deteriorating health but also his innocence. These organizations have tirelessly campaigned for his inclusion on the list of candidates for executive clemency submitted to the Board of Pardons and Parole (BPP) for the December 2023 review. Despite all the efforts, Tatay Gerardo Dela Peña’s inclusion for executive clemency was denied by Malacanang. Tatay Gerardo's fervent wish is to spend his remaining years with his beloved wife and family. It is our collective hope that he receives the immediate freedom he deserves, not only for humanitarian reasons but also in recognition of his innocence and unwavering dedication to justice and human rights. # Free Gerardo Dela Pena! Free all peasant political prisoners! Photo from KAPATID.

[rjtaylor]

VISIT TO THE TATE MODERN

PIECE 1: 

There were 4 black and white Photo portraits with a naked man’s body in 4 different poses and costumes. It made me reflect on my own body and left me feeling vulnerable with the subject of the photos, even with my clothes on. The photos were taken as “an aggressive assertation of sex positiveness.” The artist (who modelled for the pictures himself) posed in classical postures of ballet, having taken the images at the height of the AIDs epidemic, the poses helped to further reach the goal of “challenging the policing of the queer black body.”  

PIECE 2: 

The room has ornamental decoration all around it and in the centre of the room is a table set for tea with two chairs sitting across from one another. The artist wanted to reflect on the links between the UK and colonialised India and the role that drinking tea plays in each country, I think that the artist did well executing this as I felt comforted by the installation as it felt like a familiar space that I had been in before. When not an installation in the Tate Modern, it’s a performance, where the artist holds one-to-one conversations with another person, offering them a cup of tea she has grown and prepared herself. From there they will discuss, over tea, the impact that Britain’s colonialism and imperialism had on South Asia.  

PIECE 3: 

The art installation was 3 big bells hung with rope from wooden beams that were leant against iron bars. The installation made me feel overwhelmed as size of the installation and knowing how loud of a noise the bells could make. When looking into it, the artist wished to reflect on the impact of the church in European countries, using the bells to signify the everyday presence of religion in rural towns. With the bells now tied up they are silent but will always hold the power to ring again. Artist quote: “Bells represent language, a magnified human – and the enthusiastic roar of liberation.”  

PIECE 4: 

The painting is of a woman’s body with a helmet to the left of her, at the centre of the silhouette there is a zip opened revealing a woman’s naked body underneath. The painting is a depiction of the soviet cosmonaut, Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman in space. The artist decided to paint such a soft erotic image of her as a way to comment on her although being a feminist heroine, never really escaping the sexualised figure that she is, being a woman. The Artist’s work ahs been considered a ‘sexual revolution in art;’ combatting gender discrimination making a link between women’s political, social freedom and sexuality.  

PIECE 5: 

40 International article clippings, printed and framed, hung up alongside on another. The articles are some of the summaries of the first attacks when the Argentinian Videla military junta (a military dictatoship) came into power. Although an incomplete summary the articles give some insight into the otherwise censored time in Argentina. These articles were able to slip through the cracks and could explain the wrongly accused and secretly murdered, the crimes discussed are limited but to give some explanation into the wrongs committed by the FFAA in Argentina in 1976. The title of the installation comes from the statement made from those who were justifying the military at the time, stating ‘It will be for something’ an expression that was later replaced with ‘we did not know.’  

PIECE 6: 

A detailed illustration depicting people going around a maypole, with a person at the top of the pole, titled at the bottom ‘THE WORKER’S MAYPOLE’. The artist took inpiration from Walter Crane’s pieces of work from the socialist magazine The Clarion in 1894. The installation was done with permenant marker and drawn onto pieces of collated cardboar, to draw reference to the common materials used in protests by political activists to construct placards. The artist changed some of the slogans of Walter Crane’s work to better reflect the political issues we face today, ‘Adult Suffrage’ becomes ‘Equal Pay’ and ‘Neither Riches Nor Poverty’ becomes ‘Healthcare is a Human Right’. 

[walaw717]

“Populists (claim to) speak in the name of the 'oppressed people', and they want to emancipate them by making them aware of their oppression. However, they do not want to change their values or their 'way of life.' This is fundamentally different from, for example, the (early) socialists, who want(ed) to 'uplift the workers' by re-educating them, thereby liberating them from their 'false consciousness'. For populists, on the other hand, the consciousness of the people, generally referred to as common sense, is the basis of all good”.

This principle is well known aboard ships where populism would be called mutiny.

I struggle with media-controlled populism. More than anything I see the media using the bully pulpit of the news to manage facts and to then manage people. Orwell predicted this and Malcom X pointed it out as well over fifty years ago.

Mostly – when I read social media posts – I see emotional driven statements that demonstrate very little thought or understanding of the wider implications of what they are saying.  That is the nature of populism, left or right – create a position and appeal to the emotions of your particular populist group and condemn anyone who disagrees with you.

In my lifetime I have seen this worsening as journalists seem to have lost all sight of the concept that they are to report without taking sides. Instead journalists crave recognition and celebrity, they are driven for the “Scoop” – and they in turn are fueled by the political views of the owners of mega institutions controlling the media so we get anything but a fair and balanced view of what is happening  no matter who is harmed and whether the “scoop” is accurate or not. 

Add to that the average person seems to not understand or care about the value of a thoughtful response and generally resorts to name calling anyone not holding their position and you have the mess we are descending into now.

Understand, populisms are the social movements of polarization and the belief that an emotional reaction of the moment is a good basis for an utterance and/or decision.  In its extremes one ends up with Fascists or Bolsheviks and in the end a dictator like Hitler or Stalin, or the myriad of dictators we see worldwide because no society can be led by multiple factions and heads and retain its civility and coherence. So, in the end populist forces throw themselves behind a charismatic character until in the end that character thinks for them and reacts for them.  Whether Pelosi or Trump, it is all the same, in the end you never have to think again and can simply live out of emotion because you have turned your life over to someone else. 

There is a solution however and it does begin with the populace. It is a solution many will not embrace because it becomes a fundamental denial of narcissism, vanity and self-importance. It is a solution of holding oneself to a standard of behavior based upon well thought out values and at times, especially when one is emotional, doing and saying nothing and understanding that doing and saying nothing is often the first best response – often the second best response as well.  

Now, I am not saying that one should withhold criticism of politicians nor am I saying that one should do nothing in the face of “injustice. But as the image above illustrates – injustice is often a media manipulated point of view and the media holds the agenda of a very few wealthy people who control it far too often to their own personal ends. It is a reason to break up centralized control of all media social and otherwise. 

Also, the populist response is based fully in emotions of the moment which are generally grounded in a personal sense of victimization which is then projected upon others.

As a therapist I have found in thirty years of practice that clients come to me in a reactive emotional muddle and  most often I help them by remaining calm, not taking the emotional reactivity personally and  helping them look beyond the immature emotional reactions they carry in to adulthood.  Once people move toward a rational, systematic way of looking at the world and stop taking everything as an injustice toward their own childhood woundedness they are happier, healthier and less buffeted by the winds of emotional reaction employed by the media and others in social media.

In the end – all political populism requires is that your sense of victimhood is projected up others but is not recognized as your own woundedness and that some great leader or group of leaders can right the wrongs you are feeling and project onto the world.    

Politics was described to me once as a contest of my daddy can beat up your daddy. In fifty adult years of life I have seen that be true more and more.

This kind of thinking puts most into a role no more mature than of children on a playground.

The founding fathers understood this principle and Washington actively discouraged political parties for this very reason. 

The founding fathers also constructed the Republic” with principles which allow the forces of populism to not rise up into a dictatorship. 

There are forces at play now that absolutely want to break that system. Never for one-minute believe that the very wealthy owners of the media and social media companies’ think for one minute that they could not run your life better and do not use the power of all the medias to sow strife in your heart. And never think that the person down the street from your house does not feel the same way, they simply do not have teh power to control you as well as the owners of the media.

Sadly, every day we prove them right – and they continue to fuel our lack of real rational social responsibility – a reasoned discourse- to achieve their own ends. Ultimately a dictatorship is just a dictatorship of the elites and left or right will not matter.

“Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you.” - Henry Ward Beecher

[assasinationbycarscoveredinhamrs]

Everything was fine

Until I remembered my friend who died would be turning 16 tomorrow.

Edit:

My other friend corrected it for me

I also forgot to say he wasn't attended in an hospital because of political reasons when there was still possibility to save him.

[venezolanaencrisis]

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[animatealaopera]

(vía https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YW39Yw8NJY8)

Eleven year ago at the Teatro Colón, a concert in memory of the dictatorship of 1976. For memory, truth and justice. Malher’s second sinfony

[bisexualgarrus]

i’ve said this before and i’ll say it again: right-wing capitalist dictatatorships were (and in some cases still are) indeed very real in latin america. thousands of people were killed, there was censorship, absolute control over people’s lives, lack of freedom and lack of choice. capitalism does not inherently secure freedom because any system can be a dictatoship, not just communism like the global north wants you all to believe. latin americans still remember the horrors the right-wing had us living, many people who are alive today were alive during those years and that’s the reason socialism is so popular here. it’s not because we’re stupid or brainwashed, it’s because thousands associate capitalism with those times. also socialism is not the reason the global south is poor but that's another, much longer, conversation to have

[thelovelylights]

. . . As you said forecefully or are you really blaming children living and born under a dictatorship for the actions they have to undertake or face death . . .

I mean wow

Luna is literally the epitome of: You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become a villain.

[ironmess]

raul castro: so this is like the tenth time we won the elections can you please stop calling us a dictatoship and lift the economic blockade like the UN told you to 

usa: no!!!!!! stop this dictatorship madness!!!!!!!!!! we won't stand with those against freedom!!!!!

the literal monarch of a totalitarian state that’s denounced by amnesty international: buy us oil

usa: sure sweetie <3

[kiralmellonear]

#resist or #die. The #usa is becoming more like #dictatoship everday. Sad times in the USA. (at Georgia)

[tuliocerquize]

[fishisahappydog]

#RenunciaPiñera

So after 6 days of protests I feel the need to say some of the worst things that have happened in Chile that the national tv news refuse to acknowledge (after a read more due to the graphic nature of some of these images):

Also forgive me if some of the links don’t work but facebook and instagram seem to be deleting the posts.

The cops are using pellets and tear gas to attack people and break the protests and those cause a lot of damage as you can imagine. The pellets that carabineros and the military are using seem to be made of lead, are used indiscriminately against children and adults and have in fact killed people. 

The cops are outright violating the law they supposedly uphold by breaking in and kidnapping people (many of them underage). Some are kidnapped to instill fear, other because they belong to leftist political parties. All of them were just people who probably won’t be seen alive again.

The media keep talking about the bad aspects of the protests such as the fires and looting while knowing that the cops are mostly responsible for both

And the people, protesting or just dealing with the crisis, keep telling them to say the truth. This is because we know what they are trying to do. they want to criminalize a legitimate fight by making people scared, enraged with the protestors who are demanding basic rights and needs and making it look like the armed forces, especially the military, are very needed to bring order back. But we no longer trust either institution.

And certainly not after killing people, ignoring safe-conducts to arrest foreing reporters after threatening them with guns.

There is also the torture:

The fear:

And to top it all, today wednesday 23 of October the deputy Pamela Jiles,  woman who was tortured and sexually abused by military during the dictatoship, tried to show a picture of one of the dead to the Minister of interior Andrés Chadwick. This was his reaction

He laughed in her face and that of the victim.

Because that is what we are dealing with. A president who thinks we’re at war without realizing that the only opressor here is him, deputies who refuse to acknowledge the guilt they have in creating this situation and worst of all the armed forces abusing their power to try and keep the status quo.

But the good thing is that we are not afraid.

Everything they’ve tried has failed. The empty promises, the shock doctrine, the division. It’s not working and today we were even closer in the fight than yesterday!

So because we know we deserve better and we have the power that union brings we tell the world #RenunciaPiñera.

[realcleargoodtimes]

This is what the beggining of dictatoship look like-people just snached from the streets withnot reason given-no warrent or legal papersers served. MOst of this is preventive detention-the frivoulus docrintine that’something might happen’.;there by we have the right prevent the occurace of anevent..

One can lable anything preventale.

Attorney General Barr should be impeached and disbarredfrom the state and federal benchs.

[packmila]

hello guys, it’s claudia here! (@leathercamila) and i’m here to tell u that i live in venezuela, we started living in a dictatoship where government can literally kill you or take your house if they want, it’s a long story. i’m 15, and i wanna help my family to get out of here as soon as possible, so my tw mutuals created a gofundme for me to help me with some money for the plane ticket and i would really appreciate if you guys spread / donated. thank u so much. this means EVERYTHING to me. 

[awed-frog]

The fear of barbarians is what risks making us barbarians.

Tzvetan Todorov

So Tzvetan Todorov died today. I mostly read his studies about literature and the fantastic, but he was also an expert on dictatoships and totalitarianisms and an insightful observer of current events. He thought we shouldn’t relinquish our democratic, moral and humanist values under any circumstance, and despite everything, he remained optimistic about the future. 

Let’s hope he was right.

[Wikipedia | On the meaning of Europe  | Defence of the Enlightenment]