I read through his wiki entry and didn't notice anything of import except he made a bunch of flop movies and then he married a personal trainer 40 years younger than him
Just found out that "the world's poorest president", Jose Mujica from Uruguay, was an avowed Marxist guerrilla who was tortured and imprisoned for 14 years during the military dictatorship years. I first heard about him when Reddit fawned over him donating his presidential salary and driving his '87 vw beetle from his farm to work every day. Somehow they didn't mention how his ideological beliefs made him such a down to earth guy. He died a few months ago. Rip to a real one
Besides passive glance at headlines, I haven't followed the story closely at all. Here's the Rolling Stone exposé for anyone who has some catching to to do (published 05/2024)
Those who make peaceful change impossible make violent change inevitable. May the Egyptian government get what it deserves. Thank you for posting this, Mahmoud.
In 2020, green lasers were used regularly and Chad Wolf lied that multiple officers were permanently blinded by them (they weren't). They used the lasers as an excuse to use more repressive crowd control
goes on about how building socialism is similar to the medieval cathedrals of yore which were built over generations, and each laborer understood they wouldn't see the finished product but carried on anyway. And that's our current status: continue to provide the groundwork for the next generation to pick up the baton and carry the project to completion
I read through his wiki entry and didn't notice anything of import except he made a bunch of flop movies and then he married a personal trainer 40 years younger than him