The Paris massacre of 1961 occurred on 17 October 1961, during the Algerian War (1954–62). Under orders from the head of the Parisian police, Maurice Papon, the French National Police attacked a demonstration by 30,000 pro-National Liberation Front (FLN) Algerians. After 37 years of denial and censorship of the press, in 1998 the French government finally acknowledged 40 deaths, although there are estimates of 100 to 300 victims. Death was due to heavy-handed beating by the police, as well as mass drownings, as police officers threw demonstrators into the river Seine.
There were multiple episodes of violence between French police and the French Algerian community during the Algerian War. The police department was racist on an institutional level and terrorized Algerians with violence; pro-liberation Algerians targeted and killed police with bombing campaigns.
It was in this context that the head of the Parisian police, Maurice Papon (a former Nazi collaborator later convicted of crimes against humanity) ordered police to kill Algerians, insisting that they would be protected from any consequences.
Under these orders, the French National Police attacked a demonstration by 30,000 pro-National Liberation Front (FLN) Algerians on October 17th, beating dozens to death and throwing people into the Seine river, where many drowned.
Forty years after the massacre, on 17 October 2001, Bertrand Delanoë, the Socialist Mayor of Paris, put up a plaque in remembrance of the massacre on the Pont Saint-Michel. How many demonstrators were killed is still unclear. In the absence of official estimates, the plaque commemorating the massacre reads, “In memory of the many Algerians killed during the bloody repression of the peaceful demonstration of 17 October 1961”
October 17, 1961: A massacre of Algerians in the heart of Paris 
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Columbo memes have me watching Columbo now
Those of you able to argue with Reddit drones for hours on end have my respect. I get worn out responding to the same bad faith talking points from the same communities over and over. Not even sure if it’s even worth it because Reddit isn’t even that big anymore. I’d have more ground gained on TikTok or Instagram where people actually are.
Honestly the only way to deal with reddit-brained losers
Met a guy who repairs cymbals today. I played for a little bit for him on some cool rare cymbals he had, I think he was interested in what I was doing.
I’m about to wrap up my german grip studies, im about to move to french grip and then forearm… and then rolls because my teacher said itll open up my playing even more.
After some experimenting at the bar, Templeton Rye is probably the best rye whiskey for a Manhattan.
I wish FF7 REMAKE kept the materia naming convention from the original. Fire II sounded clinical and made in a lab which fit the setting of FF7 as opposed to fira :/
“If fire’s so good how come they haven’t created fire II?”
Fire II sounded clinical and made in a lab which fit the setting of FF7 as opposed to fira
Hehehe
I think the Fire 1/Fire 2/Fire 3 was only in the English localization of FF7 and the earlier game brought outside of Japan.
Oh really? I still like Fire 2
Just checked a Japanese guide, they have Faia (fire), Faira (Fira), and Faiga (Figa). I bet they needed Fire2 etc to fit character limits on FF1s English release, and only changed it with FF8 because they started to put more care (ie budget) into the localization then.
Never thought of pronouncing Fira in English with a long I sound, though! Always read it in my head as “feerah.”
The idea of having a more corporate or clinical name for the spells is still a really cool world building concept.
Yeah like the corporation has such a broad reach that there are corporate names for the weaponized life force of the planet and theyre widely used and unquestioned
The bass player/singer Esperanza Spalding is apparently based.
Can’t even get a soda at subway without suddenly being invited to a marxist book club smh
I wonder if seeing all those depictions of Hell in my medieval history books as a child had any effect on me
To the person that linked the QAA Premium RSS feed a few days ago- having taken a closer look at it, it hasn’t been updated with premium episodes in over a month, just the free ones, just like the previous one I used.
Looks like Julian got to it already
Neat thread I made:
I’m so tired
Fallout 3 The Pitt: “what if we just made everything suck and be miserable and depressing? That would be fun, right?”
It was not fun.
It’s the first time I’ve had to institute a headcanon to make myself feel better in this game
spoiler
I sided with Werhner but made myself Lord of the Pitt and will free the slaves and immediately lead them out of the Pitt so no one gets sick anymore. I’ll personally make sure no harm comes to Marie. Probably bring her to the Brotherhood and Madison Li who have more scientific know-how and capacity than whoever Werhner puts in charge.
eugh the pitt is so dumb. the new raider armors are sorta kinda a little fashionable tho
i think you might be destroying most the industrial capacity of the region though, you probably need to take the machine tools on the exodus, and in order to make the brotherhood not confiscate it all like the nazis they are they’re also going to need a change in management
I never really got why the industrial capacity of the Pitt was such a big deal, though. Shiny new steel buildings won’t make much of a difference when you haven’t solved food and water. I guess the ammo press is useful, but you never get the impression that guns and bullets are too scarce in the area
I only ever did the alien ship expansion. I got burnt out on FO3 before getting to them.
None of them are super stellar, so I wouldn’t say you’re missing much
Friendly reminder: There is no difference between a fed and someone who behaves like a fed
Running Morris Watermaze and my rats are all white so they need a tiny little life jacket to show up on camera
This just in Montgomery from Montgomery Gentry has come out for the Palestinian cause.
“Well I was talking to a few folks from Gaza and they talked about how their family kept dying in explosions. I got to thinking, my daddy died in a helicopter crash, my wife and son died in an helicopter explosion, my band partner died in an helicopter explosion. I realized these folks ain’t that different than us, we live the same kinda life.”
Montogomery is releasing a new song next month titled “Just Another Small Town” about the recent conflict.
American and Palestinian
One of us dies in a helicopter crash
One of us dies in an Israeli Clash
But that don’t mean much to me.
Just another kind of small town ya see
