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anarcola

op of the "you can vote fascism out actually" post turned reblogs off (lol) so i'm making my own post but

it is so egregious and insulting for gringo libs to use the pinochet as a shining example of how you actually can vote fascism away, especially as a chilean myself.

obviously a gringo wouldn't know this but for so many chileans the plebiscite itself was a monumental failure, the triumph of reformism over revolution, the cowardice of the older conservative wings of the opposition who effectively shat all over the people who risked their lives to fight the dictatorship.

let me reiterate: pinochet made a deal. he wasn't defeated, he made a fucking deal. and it allowed him to cement his own policy and constitution in the transition to democracy. this included the binominal electorate system that gave the right wing disproportionate representation in the government, the AFPs which are privatized pensions that LITERALLY STEAL THE PENSIONS of older chileans effectively keeping them in poverty and unable to retire, the privatization of water, the protecting of the military and the militarized police that actually comitted the atrocities of the dictatorship (as well as their income. to this day the copper mining industry provides a percentage of its profits to the military), as well as TOTAL IMMUNITY to Pinochet so he could never be tried at home and a special seat as a lifetime senator. like??? how exactly was this a win?

to this day chile suffers, the police beat and kill people with impunity, multinational corps have stolen our resources and wealth leaving us with nothing, the indigenous mapuche people are still under militarized occupation.

and this isn't even mentioning the collective trauma of our people, how do you heal from being exiled and tortured, from having your friends and family disappeared and murdered, from 17 years of terror and fear from the secret police if there is no justice? if that bastard never suffered any consequences for his atrocities? if the same shit keeps happening under democracy?

white gringos using our suffering as proof for their own agenda and their defense of biden the war-criminal is an insult and spits on the memory of all fallen. váyanse a la chucha gringos reculiaos.

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rthko

Mark Rothko on the "recipe of a work of art," lecture at the Pratt Institute, 1958:

1. There must be a clear preoccupation with death—intimations of mortality... Tragic art, romantic art, etc. deals with the knowledge of death.
2. Sensuality. Our basis of being concrete about the world. It is a lustful relationship to things that exist.
3. Tension. Either conflict or curbed desire.
4. Irony. This is a modern ingredient—the self effacement and examination by which a man for an instant can go on to something else.
5. Wit and Play..for the human element.
6. The ephemeral and chance...for the human element.
7. Hope. 10% to make the tragic concept more endurable.
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appsa

"they should be at the club" "they should be at the farmers market" "they should be at the public library" well i should be in my lovers arms but im not am i. life is full of disappointments

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there's a strike for monday, dec 18th btw for everyone who didn't hear about the first strike long enough in advance

palestinians are asking you not to use your credit cards/spend money on dec 18th. there are other asks but this is the primary and most important one.

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boyfriend and i have been trying to “get into” watching tv but we only talk about media with our parents and tumblrinas so we’re struggling to find something we agree on. condition #1: it must have homoerotic leads condition #2: cannot be part of superwholock condition#3: cannot be the big bang theory