On this day in 2013, Turkish protesters began occupying Gezi Park to oppose its demolition, an act with led to widespread protests and strikes with approximately 3,500,000 participants, 22 deaths, and more than 8,000 injuries.
The wave of civil unrest across Turkey began after the park occupation was violently evicted by police, who used to tear gas, pepper spray, and water cannons to try and break up the protests, injuring more than one hundred people and hospitalizing a journalist.
The protest quickly grew in size - by May 31st, 10,000 gathered in Istiklal Avenue. In June, the protests became national in scope and transcended any particular demographic or political ideology. Among the wide range of concerns brought by protesters were issues of freedom of the press, expression, and assembly, as well as the alleged political Islamist government’s erosion of Turkey’s secularism.
Millions of Turkish football fans, normally divided by intense sports rivalry, marched in unity against the government. Protesters displayed symbols the environmentalist movement, rainbow banners, depictions of Che Guevara, different trade unions, and the PKK and its leader Abdullah Öcalan.
On June 4th, Taksim Dayanışması (Taksim Solidarity) issued a set of demands that included the preservation of Gezi Park, an end to police violence, the right to freedom of assembly, and an end to the privatization of public spaces. Deputy Prime Minister Bülent Arınç met the group on June 5th and rejected these demands.
Erdoğan blamed the protests on “internal traitors and external collaborators”, demonizing his political opposition as the former. Despite the popular mobilization, Erdoğan remained in power and no major concessions were won from the government.
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I. REALLY wish youtubers would stop TALKING. like THIS.
There is objectively no cooler type of gun than lever action rifles. Revolvers are up there but lever actions are peak.
Hot take: Furiosa was better than Dune 2
I’m traveling alone now. Just separated from my final friend and I’m in an Airbnb in the middle of a city I’ve never been to in a country where I barely speak the language. I’m about to go to an MMA class. Life is pretty good for me in particular at this particular moment
based and not really speaking the local language but diving in anyway pilled
Death to America
WHY does rubbing your eyes feel SO FREAKIN’ GOOD
I think people say you shouldn’t rub your eyes because it’s addictive.
I wonder why though? Like, since it feels so good is there an evolutionary reason for that? Also I think if you rub too hard you can scratch your cornea or something like that, too. Luckily that hasn’t been the case for me as far as I know.
Not everything has an evolutionary purpose. Sometimes things are incidental and stick around cause there’s no reasonable way or reason to select against them.
I researched getting lasik and the post op care was like “and you can’t rub your eyes for the rest of your life”. Hard pass.
Fuck, how does one even avoid it?! My allergies are the worst during spring time too, sounds like torture to NEVER be able to. Luckily I have astigmatism and can’t get Lasik anyway
In Andean countries, the two most powerful economic forces are the cocaleros and the cocacoleros
Can’t decide whether to boo or clap for this one so im doing both
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Setting 4’33 as my ringtone
My last will and testament
My loot tableClimbing mount olympus to find zeus and demand thunderdome
Me waiting for the Nvidia ™ driver 555 to move out of testing in Fedora RPM Fusion is the most painful thing ever. Then I also have to wait for Plasma 6.1 to release in June and wait for that to move into Fedora main.
Me looking at arch users who can build the drivers from the AUR
listening to gorka trying to use big smart words on a shortwave radio site rn lmao
I’ve been playing The Outer Worlds recently, and if I’m being honest it’s a little bland.
The hypercapitalist space dystopia is fun to laugh at and all, but after reading the nth message log about a company cutting corners and abusing their workers for greater profit it gets monotonous. Also, it’s all so similar to Fallout that it could almost be called plagiarism. They even do a kind of 50s/60s aesthetic.
The item system is cluttery, there’s too much of the generic consumables you need like ammo, lockpicks and weapons, and there isn’t much excitement in scouring boxes with loot. When you find a new weapon type, there’s bound to be 5 others of the same type close by.
I’m playing on hard difficulty, and apart from the early parts of the game the combat hasn’t really been much of a challenge. I try to do stealth kills for fun, but honestly at level 20+ I could just run up to a bandit or monster group and take them all out with a machine gun without them getting much chance to do any damage.
The colourful environments are nice though, and you can tell that the artists put a lot of effort into it. The Unreal Engine really shines in indoor environments.
Thank you for reading.
What country do you think is most appropriate for forming a Federation of the Andes, Venezuela, Gran Colombia, Bolivia, Chile, Argentina, or Paraguay
I’m doing Bolivia r/n because it seems like the easiest, but
Also random but it’s kinda weird to me that the primary cultures of all these nations are “north andean” but it’s considered European and they discriminate against actual indigenous andean cultures. What’s andean about that
It’s fucked up that adderall only lasts llike 4-5 hours max for me and it makes me spend 30 minutes of that crappin my brains out
