Maurice Bishop, born on this day in 1944, was a Grenadian revolutionary and the leader of New Jewel Movement, which seized power of Grenada in 1979 and instituted widespread reforms of food, healthcare, education, and workers' rights.
Bishop headed the People's Revolutionary Government of Grenada from 1979 to 1983, when he was dismissed from his post and shot in a coup, leading to civil unrest and a U.S. invasion of the country.
Although Bishop grew up in Grenada, he left to study in London as a young adult. While there, Bishop acquired a law degree and studied the works of Lenin, Mao Zedong, and Julius Nyerere.
In 1970, he returned to Grenada and was active politically, representing striking nurses in court and leading the New Jewel Movement (NJM), a Marxist-Leninist vanguard party. In 1979, the NJM successfully led a coup against Eric Gairy and made Bishop the Prime Minister of Grenada.
Among Bishop's core principles were workers' rights, women's rights, and the struggle against racism and apartheid. Women were given equal pay and paid maternity leave. Sex discrimination was made illegal. Organizations for education, health care, youth affairs, and literacy were also established. Due to his government's efforts, illiteracy and unemployment greatly declined.
In 1983, disputes within the party culminated in Bishop, along with seven members of his cabinet, being captured and executed. After his assassination, the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) and Grenada's governor-general Paul Scoon appealed to the United States to resolve the political situation. Within weeks, Ronald Reagan launched an invasion of Grenada.
-- March 13, 1979: The Grenada Revolution
-- One-on-one with then-Grenadian PM Maurice Bishop in 1976
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The prisoners placed 1 piece of chain (10 pounds) in a basket and sent it down. Into the empty basket that came up they put 2 pieces of chain (20 pounds). They kept adding 2 pieces to each basket that came up until they sent a 70 pound load down, getting back a 60 pound load.
Khecho replaced the 6 pieces of chain (60 pounds) with the servant (80 pounds). The girl woman descended as 7 pieces of chain came up. He unloaded 6 pieces and signaled the woman below to climb out. He lowered the remaining piece of chain, bringing the empty basket up.
The servant got in the basket again (total weight 80 +10 =90 pounds) and Daridjan( 100 pounds) descended. They both got out, Daridjan on the ground, the servant in the tower. Down went the basket still with 1 piece of chain in it, and up came the other basket, now empty.
Khecho repeated the first set of actions and soon lowered the servant to the ground again. He signaled Daridjan and the servant (100+80= 180 pounds) to get in, allowing Khecho(180 pounds) to descend with 1 piece of chain. Now the two women were in the tower and Khecho on the ground.
The servant was brought down as before, then Daridjan replaced her on the ground. In due time, the servant made her fourth and last trip down, bringing up 7 pieces of chain. As she stepped out, Khecho fastened the basket to keep the chain in the top basket from falling.
:oh-shit: that was a bit difficult and but here is a new one.
How many times as large?
Given two numbers, if we subtract half the smaller number from each number, the result with the larger number is three times as large as the result with the smaller number.
How many times is the larger number as large as the smaller number?
Dm @Wmill like usual and have a great :soviet-heart: day everyone.
It is mind blowing to me that someone was like "y'know what we need? a movie that makes people sympathize with the lady that wants to kill puppies literally named Cruel-la"
wasn't her backstory that her mother got killed by some dalmatians :michael-laugh: :michael-laugh: :michael-laugh: :michael-laugh: :michael-laugh:
Not just killed by some dalmatians, she was comically murdered by being pushed off a cliff by some dalmatians
holy fucking shit Disney just hire me I can write better stories than this man
Checked my horoscope on this weird app my sister made me download and it legit said:
"Do your laundry. Right now."
WTF kind of Jordan-Peterson-Ass horoscope is that?!
Accidentally drawing every woman super jacked is gonna be my contribution to feminism I guess
“What if this girl had arms I want to hold me?”
“Haha, but what if?”
see irl jacked women are the fastest way that i forget about my Volcel Pledge
My booty is actually p strong lately. Strong arms and shoulders is the new goal :soviet-huff:
New haircut is see my reflection in the bathroom mirror and get startled by how good I look tier
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Vibes are particularly fucked today. Every cell in my brain is screaming. I no longer want to be a part of this. I want out. Something else. Anything
ugh... just had to bail out a friend from a party cuz someone was coming onto her :cringe:
for a bit after since we had nothing to do we just sat in a dollar tree parking lot listening to blowback which was hella fun tho :meow-bounce:
Lmao my high school ex is transgender and communist now. we were T4T and had no idea
Can I rant for a moment? :meow-cactus:
I went to a family event this weekend and for some fucking reason the only two boomers thought it would be ok to shit talk millennials after everyone was done eating. I'm not sure why they thought this would be appropriate while there were millennials there, much less when we outnumbered them. They started out with a strong "The millennials at my job are so fucking entitled and lazy, they never get any work done." A few of us brought up pay differences and how very few promotion opportunities there are but naturally since we weren't circlejerking them they ignored us. Then it was "Entitled millennials demand health care and our company is actually giving it to them (not for free, they still have to pay for it, but of course they didn't bring that up) as soon as they hire them! Back in my day we had to work X years before we got it!" Like holy shit, just because you were treated unfairly doesn't mean future generations should too. My cousin brought up how it's now normal to switch from job to job every 3-4 years, and that's the real reason corps are expected to offer (an option you still have to pay for) health care to new hires. I'm sure my cousin was also implying people don't stay in one job for too long because your wages stay the same (aka stagnate and actually go down in value) over time and that you're basically forced to either switch jobs or wait 10 years for a promotion if you want a pay raise. But that last point went over their heads.
At this point my sister leaves the table claiming she has a massive headache and needs to go lie down. Fuck, I should have done that. But the boomers don't take a hint and keep going. I try to space out a bit as they talk about how millennials can't do half as much shit as they can (my mom completely omitting how her corp paid her to take extensive training courses in management while most new hires are lucky to get a full week of powerpoint training) but they just kept fucking going while the rest of us got quiet. I thought they were done so I tried to get back into the conversation, but then out of fucking nowhere my mom brings up how "birth control only costs a few dollars more then it did when I was working minimum wage, and yet these entitled millennials want me to pay for it with my taxes under Obamacare". I'm not sure why, but that was my breaking point. I started with "Not everyone can afford $20 a month for birth control since they're more likely to prioritize rent and food first." She countered back with a "anyone below the poverty line can get it for free anyways". So I told her "the poverty line is incredibly low in America, to the point where someone working full time at minimum wage in our state wouldn't qualify for free care. They do this on purpose so that most people can't qualify." She ignored my point and went back to "they should just budget better like I had to". We bounced off each other for a few minutes with things gradually getting more tense, including me bringing up more selfish reasons as well as ethical reasons like preventing unwanted/unloved children from being born, but nothing got to her. Finally my mom attempted a shitty joke to ease things up: "Maybe if these millennials want a free hand out they should just go on Go Fund Me for their birth control pills like everything else!" I got pissed and yelled at her asking if she thought it was funny that our lives can depend on how well we can appeal to people based on charisma, good looks, and how many people we knew before we got cancer or diabetes. I yelled at her that Go Fund Me was a clown show we were forced to do to survive in this country.
Well, I yelled and wasn't civil for more than a few seconds so she stormed out of the room with the other boomer on her tail. They proceeded to have a pity party for themselves in the kitchen, presumably calling me yet another entitled snotty millennial that only pretends to give a shit about society. I really should have just left at that point, but my grandma wanted me to stay so I did. I think the lessons I learned today are that I figure out an excuse to leave early before the event even starts like my sister did (she claimed to feel bad even before the event, very smart) and that you typically can't teach an old dog new tricks. FYI, I think the gen Xers and older on this site are very cool and based, and for those that only became leftists recently I think you're extra swell. But unfortunately you're a minority as far as I've seen. I hope I never become the kind of person that does nothing but complain about zoomers and gen alpha as I get older. I want the generations ahead of us to have better lives than us, but all I can do is :vote: :isaac-pog: , and that's not going to make an ant shit of a difference by the time climate disaster strikes.
Opened this site by accident, closed it to do something else and once again I opened it :agony-soviet: it's like my subconscious is telling me this is the only site now.
Laying around, watching my cat groom, and trying to form a psychic connection with him. I'll post updates
Canadian news is actually sort of covering the 215 dead children found at a residential school site.
Kinda surprised, really.
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"Well ackshually that billionaire has paid much more in taxes than you have!"
"What do you mean other people made that billionaire's money? How can this be exploitation? He paid his employees wages!"
I hate having to listen to liberal talking points so now you have to as well.
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