On the 13th of March in 1979, the People’s Revolutionary Government (PRG) was proclaimed in Grenada after the Marxist-Leninist New Jewel Movement overthrew the state in a socialist revolution, with Maurice Bishop serving as Prime Minister.
After coming into power, Bishop stated the goals of the NJM: “We definitely have a stake in seeking the creation of a new international economic order which would assist in ensuring economic justice for the oppressed and exploited peoples of the world, and in ensuring that the resources of the sea are used for the benefit of all the people of the world and not for a tiny minority of profiteers”.
The new government developed an ambitious social program, initiating a literacy campaign, expanding education programs, worker protections, and establishing farmers’ cooperatives.
During the PRG’s reign, unemployment was reduced from 49% to 14%, the ratio of doctors per person increased from 1/4000 to 1/3,000, the infant mortality rate was reduced, and the literacy rate increased from 85% to 90%. In addition, laws guaranteeing equal pay for equal work for women were passed, and mothers were guaranteed three months’ maternity leave.
The government suspended the constitution of the previous regime, ruling by decree until a factional conflict broke out, ultimately leading to Maurice Bishop’s assassination. President Ronald Reagan launched an invasion of Grenada a few weeks later, on October 25th, 1983.
“We have attempted to show in this Manifesto what is possible. We have demonstrated beyond doubt that there is no reason why we should continue to live in such poverty, misery, suffering, dependence and exploitation…The new society must not only speak of Democracy, but must practise it in all its aspects. We must stress the policy of ‘Self-Reliance’ and ‘Self-Sufficiency’ undertaken co-operatively, and reject the easy approaches offered by aid and foreign assistance. We will have to recognise that our most important resource is our people.”
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Grenada’s Revolution History :hammer-sickle:
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Grenada: The Future Coming Towards Us (1983) :red-fist:
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Maurice Bishop Speech – In Nobody’s Backyard (13 April 1979)
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I wish I was invincible again
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Saw a ig of a jp race car driver and shes humble bragging and the first comment is based, “rich parents we get it”
But the rest of the responses are cheering for her clapback of “yes but actually i found my own way and money to do this”
Girl but fucking how did you do it? You have a psychology degree and have a 7 year old pet german shepard.
You didnt do shit on your own and it ignores all of the shit that you didnt waste ur time with because you werent poor
Eat the rich and wipe your face with the fucking apologist, i hate this planet why are we like this!!!
So i tried listening through October by China Mieville but it sucked and was not very friendly to listen to anyway.
Listening to one blowback episode multiple times has been great for my understanding of the war.
At work. Few people in office. Small office with the usual DIY LAN mess, no internet monitoring. Day’s half done, all work is done, bosses travelling, so now I’m ssh’d in to my VPS and am finishing up my Tor-browser-defaults-friendly from-scratch pastebin-with-improvements clone. Functionality is 100% complete, but holy cow the CSS is so finicky.
Update, finally fixed (well 90% fixed) the stupid CSS. It’s not quite aligned quite right but it looks mostly right, and the functionality is complete. I’m not paid for this hobby project so I’m going to consider it good enough for now and move on to the next project.
I hate all the ADHD problems posted on Reddit looking for advice and there’s always some asshole in the comments like “yeah so I followed the Eightfold Path and let go of all attachment and now none of this bothers me” and it’s like, oh great, so I have to become a monk just to avoid problems no one else has, thanks asshole! The very strange but still persistent variant of this is the Christian proselytizer that says you need to turn to Christ to find peace.
What if I WANT to have a normal life with attachments and shit, huh? Did you think about that? Did you think about how I want to have friends and loved ones despite my disorder? Did you think about how I don’t believe in Christianity? Fuck You Reddit Christian/Buddhist/Self-Help Guru Asshole (yes there’s also always the person who says Just Exercise and they’re just as if not far more annoying than the other two types)
I’m an atheist/annihilationist/Marxist, I’m not trying to find freedom from the wheel of Samsara, or earn a place in God’s holy realm, or become an ascendant tech-bro billionaire, I’m just trying to find some level of happiness as a normal fucking person because I think that’s what matters
Edit: Also I think friendship and attachments are genuinely essential for most people’s mental health so
Westerners’ approach to Buddhism (I can’t speak to the diversity of belief in the regions it comes from) is hella individualist and nihilist too, verging on hedonistic. Like, their “no attachment” nonsense is just a way of dissolving personal responsibility to social functions that the person still extracts value from themself.
There’s a ton of excuses and philosophies people use to justify uninvolvement, detachment, checking out etc, they all reek of privilege and whiteness tbh.
And wrt to your edit I wholeheartedly agree, meaning and happiness are created socially, not solipsisticly.
That sucks. i always conceived it as learning to avoid hope and regret, accepting that what happened has happened and what will happen will happen, and instead of tormenting yourself over possibilities focus on what you can do now.
I feel like there’s an emotional space that exists where people can have hope for something without real regret if it doesn’t come to pass, but it takes effort to get into that mindset. Idk if that makes sense though
I think so. Hope isn’t an adequate term.
just exercise
It’s not “chad” it’s genuinely dismissive of a lot of mental health issues people have, especially when they have physical issues on top of it
all true, i’ve had some of those issues myself. but very few people have all of them at full intensity. if you do, just stop reading, i don’t have good advice for that.
i’ll admit it’s paradoxical in a way because it feels like it takes a miracle to get started but once i do it regularly it vastly improves my mood/energy/focus, and thus my motivation to exercise.
exercise doesn’t have to mean hitting the gym and lifting the biggest weights, you do what your body can handle. take a walk. do a stretching exercise. lie down on the floor. jump around. dance. swim. flail your arms around. curl up in fetal position. squat. whatever. there’s always something you can do. then do it again the next day and eventually it gets slightly easier.
maybe we should stop using planes until we figure out how lift works
about to accomplish this year’s goal at the dick-sucking factory (my job)
surely that means I’ll be given no further work until next year
right?
i want to play so many video gaymes im getting decision paralysis
it’s been impossible to get a job for like, a year now, and yet im still judged for having not had a job for a year
lmao
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Okay, no rule against weirdly overpersonal megathread comments regarding people who aren’t even on the bear website. No subtweeting.
So, chat: how cool or uncool is it if someone you’re talking to (online) disappears without so much as a word or anything in late December (22nd), and then doesn’t say anything in any of your mutual servers or DMs or anything until March (10th) ?
I get it right, she is autistic, among several other things (audhd gang) and has nonsocial periods. I could probably benefit from that too. But I had kind of assumed that she had either quit the internet altogether or been killed irl or something. I know a lot of that is just what I’m thinking, but it burns in my brain as she barrels back into my DMs and starts talking about a WIP draft she’s been writing. Oh yeah, I remember that, from fuckin november
As a bonus, this is one of the social links I have where the other person talks literally exclusively about themself. She left me on read when I was talking about my social ability degrading and my general mental health being kind of dogshit. I’m not one to traumadump constantly, and she’s extremely prone to talking about herself all the time, so that was like the second time ever that I’d opened up like that. But while she’s content to pick the chat back up & carry on about what’s going on in her life, her interests, she just ignores what I said before, the “how are you” is a total fucking formality. It’s almost like I don’t even need to be there, why is she talking to me even? It’s weird & I hate it.
…this does at points look like catty bitching to me, but seriously who the fuck ghosts somebody with no notice for three months, and then just comes back to pretend nothing happened? I want your opinion, comrade reading this. Tell me how in-the-right or totally stupid I am, please.
Stop dealing with them if you want to talk to someone who cares about you. I’ve been in a similar situation and they’re not going to change, even if you tell them this and they agree to change about it.
Oh I wasn’t even considering telling them about it, lmao. The only person who cares about me is my wife basically =)
So, I do the first part of the kinda a lot, so I totally understand that. But I don’t just talk about myself, so imma rule that person uncool
I see, that’s what I’m trying to gauge I guess. She just up and started messaging me again about shit we were talking about three months ago, and it’s kind of fucking with my brain’s perception of time. Feeling unwound and deeply stressed about it. Is it cool if she just walks in and out of my social life at totally random intervals?? How do you usually manage this stuff?
The vibe I’m getting from the low amount of replies is that I am the asshole.
Also, holy shit it’s March already. I have several people I haven’t replied to since late December also… I should do that. But now I’m even more anxious about that
Please don’t let my bitchy rambles cause you anxiety. Everyone else is much less neurotic and weird than I am.
Idk if it’s just gamers, or Americans generally, or what, but when I say “You are not correct, this is how the thing actually works” and get retorts of “you’re elitist! You’re gatekeeping! You’re an asshole!” no matter how I parse it or how gentle I try to be, what is htat? Anti-inellectualism where people are reactively hostile to anyone who demonstrates knowledge or expertise? Arrogance?
Pathetic: I will basically get invested in anybody who is remotely nice to me, or can keep a conversation going. Doesn’t matter if we have anything in common or whatever, I’ll fold to whatever you’re saying just for the human contact because otherwise it is such a struggle.
Fwiw I can also build a bridge to a social connection by getting into someone’s big interests, but that mostly leads to them talking about their thing and nothing else 24/7.
I hate people so much I have no idea how any of this is supposed to work. Who let me post online, anyway?
