Orlando Letelier del Solar (1932 - 1976) was a Chilean economist, politician, and diplomat during the presidency of Salvador Allende who was assassinated by fascists via car comb on this day in 1976. After Allende was ousted in a coup and Augusto Pinochet came into power, Letelier fled to the United States and accepted several academic positions in Washington, D.C. In 1976, agents of Dirección de Inteligencia Nacional (DINA), the Pinochet regime's secret police, assassinated Letelier and his colleague Ronni Moffitt in Washington with a car bomb. These agents had been working in collaboration with members of the Coordination of United Revolutionary Organizations, a U.S.-sponsored anti-Castro militant group. According to John Dinges, author of "The Condor Years", documents released in 2015 revealed a 1978 CIA report that proved they had knowledge Pinochet ordered the murders. A State Department document also refers to eight separate CIA reports from around the same date. Pinochet, who died in 2006, was never charged for ordering these murders.
I will add the rest when I get to my computer, hexbear mobile is weird
So three comrades we need to :rat-salute: @LeninWeave, @WhoaSlowDownMaurice, and @biden.
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From the buoy's point of view (floating downstream) the ships move away from it at equal speeds in still water. Then they return at equal speeds in still water. Thus the two ships reach the buoy simultaneously.
Who took the pencil, who took the eraser?
I turned my back on two hexbears, :sicko-hexbear: and :hexbear-retro:, and asked that one take a pencil and the other an eraser. I said: "Whoever is holding the pencil - your number is 7. Whoever is holding the eraser - your number is 9."
(One number should be prime, the other composite but not divisible by the first.)
":hexbear-retro:, multiply your number 2. :sicko-hexbear: multiply your number by 3."
(One number should be a divisor of the composite number you called out, as 3 is a divisor of 9. The other number should not share any factor but 1 with the first.)
"Add your products and tell me the sum."
If the sum is divisible by 3, :sicko-hexbear: took the pencil. If not, :sicko-hexbear: took the eraser.
Why?
Like usual have fun :soviet-heart: and dm @Wmill the answer.
Something that's always bothered me is seeing people generalize indigenous people by applying many romanticized ideas to them. There are thousands of indigenous cultures and there's a wide variety in beliefs. Some have third genders while others actively ostracize anyone who isn't binary. Some are very peaceful while others engage in frequent warfare.
It's nice to see a narrative that in't entirely based on them being savages, but it still generalizes a wide group of people.
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I love that the settlers came to the East Coast of the US and were like "wow there's no underbrush in any of these forests, god is amazing right this is lovely!" and the actual reason was because it was standard practice to burn the underbrush so game had less places to hide, and that the killing of so many indigenous folks and the dying out of this practice actually caused mild cooling (no more forest fires means less carbon emissions) in the form of the Little Ice Age
Not that you are saying this, but it reminded me — I think its a bit misleading when people say “native americans were violent too!” when comparing the violence in their society to US settler-colonialism, in order to dismiss or handwave it as “everyone is bad.” America’s imperialism & settler colonialism is way, way worse than what any warring peoples were doing at the time. The same can be said of similar people and situations.
Yeah I get that point. People say it about the Mayans here to justify whatever bullshit they experience. I just find it off putting when people forget the diversity of indigenous people, even among the many Mayan groups, and paint them with a broad brush.
I think it's one of those things where to try and correct for the 'undeveloped savages' bias, people have over corrected on a lot of things and really over generalised in that when they find one example here or there to talk about all native peoples. when, native peoples were and are just collections of humans like the rest of us, some had super cool aspects to their societies and culture, others had some parts that sucked, all of them had a bit of both. many of them are really cool and do have a lot to learn from, but to fetishise them in this romanticist way, is itself arguably an erasure of their identity, history, culture, and so on
That said, a lot of indigenous people did some dope shit and you should talk about it, just name them when you do it.
The Haudenosaunee invented western communism.
The Maya and Cherokee are revolutionary societies that overthrew their ruling class.
The Standing Rock Sioux defeated an oil pipeline.
The Yurok are on the cutting edge of abolitionist prefiguration.
Name them.