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Cordobazo Uprising (1969) - New General Megathread for the 28th-29th of May 2025

On this day in 1969, the Cordobazo Uprising began in the city of Córdoba, Argentina as a general strike, with workers seizing the city, burning the corporate headquarters of Citroën and Xerox, and clashing with the army.

The rebellion took place under the military dictatorship of General Juan Carlos Onganía, who had seized power in a coup in 1966. Onganía's government had suspended the right to strike, froze workers' wages, suppressed communist movements, and extended the age of retirement.

In the wake of widespread violent state repression against protesters, the labor union "CGT de los Argentinos", led by Agustín Tosco, called for national strike on May 30th, 1969. In Cordoba, the general strike and protests began one day earlier.

On the first day of the protests, police opened fire on thousands of protesters, killing a worker named Maximo Mena, causing the strike to escalate into a citywide revolt, leading to widespread destruction of property and seizing of city spaces. Onganía crushed the rebellion with the military, and Agustín Tosco was arrested for his role in the rebellion.

Working class protest, popular revolt and urban insurrection in Argentina: the 1969 Cordobazo - James P. Brennan

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Learning about the dairy lobby. We MUST eviscerate the farmer class by force.
- Farmers as a class fucking suck. The yearly European tantrums where farmers will occupy some major city or literally throw poop everywhere because someone told them to stop poisoning the drinking water by itself should be enough to make that clear, even if one somehow missed the rampant slavery involved in the industry.

Had a weird interaction at work today, now to overanalyze it on my way home.

it is may 29 and stalin saved the world from fascism

Huge shout out to cats. I love them and thinking about them makes me happy.

It's kind of funny that Americans treated Morgenthau as crazy for his plans for Germany, but everyone memory holed that Roosevelt aired the idea of creating a country called Wallonia by handing over a third of France to Belgium (So the Wallonian part of Belgium would be so much bigger than the rest it would just be Wallonia) and then semi-permanently putting France under military occupation just to fuck with De Gaulle.
Edit: in case people don't believe me https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_military_government_in_France

I really like the phrase "mandate of Heaven". I want to use it more.
Butts in line
"Hey dude wtf, why did you butt in line?"
"It is not my wish to cut in the line in front of you. It is the world I simply inherited from Genghis. I didnt want this Mandate of Heaven but it is what I inherited."
- I use it all the time. It's become a saying at my work when making a call or sometimes while in the weeds (I'm a cook)you gotta have people just do a thing that seems to make no sense immediately and explaining comes when shit calms down. Part of my job is telling people what to do, so having fun ways of saying 'don't question me, just obey me for now' makes me much more comfortable and is more fun for everyone. If someone calls Mandate of Heaven we are to follow their scheme even against our own better judgment. Whoever called it can fall in their sword if they were wrong.
  Fuck, just tonight I heard someone who was back from maternity leave use one of my catch phrases after having been away for half a year 'Everything's fine all the time'

I'm starting to think too much about my relationships again. Wish my brain would stop doing that

For the second time this year I've had an issue pop up that I called out, which was initially hand waved, end up being confirmed a month or two later. I'm expecting a pay raise or promotion any day now... any day

DSA denounces, in the strongest possible terms, the concept of "cracker control
current dsa drama over the mlm causus reposting a statement from a maoist news account is very funny because a bunch of terminally online DSA libs are going on about how Blackredguard and the far-left are about to complety take over the organization and turn it into a a red army-like org. Deeply unserious people

I decided to stress test my Ural 4320 in stormworks to see if the engine's cooking system works, but couldn't even get the engine to the point where the cooling system activates :(
- Ngl I read Urinal 4320 and was very confused
  
  This forum is less into soviet trucks than I thought

^I ^love ^to ^invite ^liberal ^zionists ^on ^my ^show ^to ^talk ^about ^reforming ^America's ^tax ^policies
- You can always go back to the other one Sirota was on recently, 865, skip to the last 15 minutes and listen to Felix take down Sirota's whole Master Plan thesis until he says "uh guys I gotta go pick up my daughter"

If humanity ever makes an artificial general intelligence, we'll somehow fuck it up. No disaster, we probably won't even give it a terminal goal. No paperclip maximizer - SamsarAI. Feels apropos to me

Mariners blew it in extras

Nightreign is like kinda stressful as a game in a way no previous fromsoft game has been.

Another night where I spend five hours rolling around in bed trying to get to sleep. I wish I had an offswitch that just conked me out for 8 hours. I don't care if I die in a fire while I'm asleep
- This is why I work late afternoon to night time. I can't make myself sleep so I've arranged my life so I don't have to try. I hit the hay around 3am and depending on the day start at 1 for the earliest and 3 at the latest. Although I do instead get the outside noise and stuff in the early morning cause construction always starts in the middle of my night and commuters and their cars are loud af

decided to research why kiwi tastes so uniquely, i dunno, prickly
(how cactus should taste in my imagination)
finding lots of ai websites it's kind of an allergy, now i'm in
zone. What if one day glorious kiwi betrays me and i get anaphylactic shock

*ooh found a website that says it's some proteins, like pineapple, i will believe this one
- Have you ever had nopales/prickly pear cactus? Your imagination of the taste of cactus can be reality
  
  I can be
  while i’m
  ?
  Interesting. I think I’ve eaten some desert cactus, was very watery crunchy and bland

Started rewatching Please Save My Earth! last night and I love Issei and Jinpachi's relationship and that Issei is kindof a representation of a trans woman it's so sweet

I think they should've cast a black actor for the new Ron Weasley because it would piss off the "redhead erasure" crowd and that'd be funny

Maybe a hot take but if leftists are going to do an adventurism they have an obligation to at least try to get away with it.

i used to like DougDoug vids a lot but now hes frequently using chaptgpt and shit for stream challenges and "content" i just hate him now

Friend of friend: vote for Obama 3rd term liberal quickly turning towards "I hate homeless people and anything that helps people get a home conservative." After being with a partner in finance for a bit. This is why I can't stand libs because at any given moment they have no problem going fash.

just finished my second full day of rideshare driving. I guess it was really only a half day since I had other jobs lined up in the morning, but it felt like a full one. Took me three hours to drive thirty miles because I was in stop and go traffic for so long, fukken suuuuuucked.
but hey i averaged $25/hr so that's something. I'm also gonna be back in that area tomorrow cuz I have to go back to the same mall for my real job (that pays $50+ but doesn't give consistent hours) but my plan is to start the day earlier and go home at 4pm cuz fuck rush hour.

I'm reading "No More Tears", a book about the Johnson & Johnson company. It's kind of unreal how evil that company is, yet we don't hear much about it.
They were more responsible for the opioid epidemic than the Purdue Pharma. Not only did they fund more of the research that led doctors to over prescribe, they also grew the majority of the poppies used to make them. Far more people overdosed on their fentanyl patches than oxycontin. They also continued creating and selling new opiates as non-addictive, like tramadol and tapentadol, despite knowing this was not true.
They also sold talcum powder 30 years after they knew it was contaminated with asbestos, and at least 15 years after they had evidence that talc itself was causing cancers.
They sold Risperdal despite knowing it was worse than the Haldol it replaced. They created 2 new markets for the antipsychotic, children and the elderly, despite the fact it was never approved for anyone other than those with schizophrenia. More than 1.3 million elderly people died as a result of Risperdal, the vast majority of whom were being drugged by their nursing homes. J&J knew that nursing homes were using the drug to sedate difficult dementia patients, allowing them to get by with less employees.
- "Johnson and Johnson, a family company!"
  
  ☝️🤓 that's S.C. Johnson you libeler
- I'm never allowing my loved ones in these nursing homes. I recently had to see loved ones going through an elderly family member with dementia and it is a special hell, but damn if I'll let these nursing homes "put them down easy"

I finally caught another permanent ban on twitter
- luckily this time I already had my alt lined up but still, now all my stuff is gone 😭

- brosness is brosk

Made myself go on a walk and somehow I feel even more sad
brain turn off pls

Leaving treats out for my gangstalkers to show I appreciate their hard work.

I watched Babylon 5: The Road Home.
Spoiler-free thoughts:
You'll never look at a pair of blue socks the same way again.
This is very good. This is JMS putting in 100%. He is in peak form on the script. If you're a B5 fan and have been ambivalent about watching it, have no fears. It'll make you smile, cry, rejoice, despair, grin, smirk, think, and feel. It is peak B5. It's basically a love story, and fans of the show will know exactly whose love story I mean. The ending feels so right and so earned. The opening voiceover is amazing. The station looks gorgeous. The music is flawless.
This is not a phone-in by any of the returning actors providing voices. Obviously some recasting had to be done as half the live-action main cast have passed away.
Bruce Boxleitner returns to voice John Sheridan, and he is killing it. This wasn't "aging actor can't sound like they used to". From the instant you hear his voice you totally buy that this is genuinely Sheridan. And Bruce puts the same drive and emotion and slightly-nerdy-goofy vibe into the character as he always did.
Claudia Christian returns as our favourite slightly-snarky slightly-cynical always-ready Ivanova. And it's another blowout performance. You're not hearing Christian in a sound booth, you're hearing God Herself.
Peter Jurasik also returns as Londo, and my god he is every bit as good at reprising the role convincingly as Boxleitner and Christian. And not only are you hearing genuine Londo, but JMS is just as good at writing him as he was during the original show. Londo, Sheridan, and Ivanova are in a tragically comedic scene later on and every single line is convincing.
Patricia Tallman comes back as our snark-hiding-a-heart-of-gold resident telepath. She doesn't get much screen time but she makes the most of it. Same for Bill Mumy as Lennier, and Tracy Scoggins as Captain Lochley. I actually liked Lochley as a character in season 5, I think she did a fine job both then and now.
No major complaints on the recast voice actors except maybe Marcus. He just sounded too stiff. Marcus is supposed to sound way more casual even in tense situations. Fortunately he has very few lines.
JMS wisely showed a lot of restraint in nostalgia callbacks. They're there, but they're subtle.
The animation style took me a bit of getting used to, but I soon started enjoying it as its own style. Movements look realistic, characters look like they should, facial expressions are spot-on. Londo looks extremely Londo.
- Okay, I'll watch it. I'm a huge B5 fan and haven't wanted to touch it. Got into the show just a couple years ago and regret watching season 5 and half of the movies and for sure Crusade. If it's got the sauce like you say I'll happily gobble it up. Fucking LOVE B5.

Scrubs is transphobic as hell.

Presinald Trunt and the demacrogs around the world
- Vadimr Putin thought he could Finlandize NATO. We natoized Finland.
  
  I'm the only guy to get endorsed by John John Chevrolet's Long Cars AND the Portuguese screen door factory Jack, alright?

The Helldivers 2 devs made the invasion of Super Earth by the illuminate extra-hard so they could have an epic finale for the players in the defence of the Capital but Chinese players are going extra hard in defending the Chinese Megacity which is slowing the plans of the devs since they cant open the Capital defence map until the last Megacity falls
Its very funny chinese players have been meming about it
- Incredible
- If the devs are cool, they will incorporate this into the story as a Cadia stands-type thing

Let me introduce you to my partner, Gabagool Pizzarino.
Yes, he is Italian. How'd you guess?
- shame about pope election, eh?

Hexbear devs (@makotech222@hexbear.net ?) could you take a look at the alt text for emojies?

House MD has infected my brain. It is no longer safe to say the words "doctor", "house", "hospital", "wilson", "chase", "foreman" or "medicine" around me
- I would watch a show that was just his clinic hours. Every other part of that show is irrelevant to me.
- house md is television crack

Spinosaurus is cool, didnt understand why they had haters.

do germans have the most varied name across languages?
you have: german/tedesco/allemand/nemets/deutsch. Somebody like french spanish italians have semi-similar names, here they are just wild, with different starting points.
One would think it's cause they formed so late, but italy was also non-existent for majority of late middle ages
- maybe due to the reach of the Roman empire, a lot of languages named the region of Italy earlier
  
  but romans obviously interacted with german tribes, roman languages still fuck it up (between allemand/tedesco)

My heart sank for a second.
Ironmouse is streaming a game fundraising for the IDF.
It's the Immune Deficiency Foundation. She has an immunodeficiency that keeps her in her room. She is incredibly celebrated as she once held the title for the most subscribed to person on Twitch. Her good friend, CdawgVA, if memory serves, has raised over 3 million dollars for the cause. It's about as heartwarming as the situation could possibly be and moves me to tears.
- Really gotta title the stream "Fundraising for the IDF (not that one)"
- this is at least the second time this has happened. i don't know who that is but i remember "streamer raising money for IDF but it's an immune system thing"

The context is just dumb VTuber flame war shit that doesn't matter, but I had to share this comment I saw
Would you say the attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan by John Hinckley trying to impress an actress is also "idol culture"?
- In that same discussion I saw this completely unironic internet tough guy comment:
  I’ve already made too many enemies in my 26 years of life. I’m not afraid to make another
  VTubers are srs bsns
- Yes though

What's a good job for when you use public transportation and don't have a permanent address?
- I don’t know about public transportation, but for job options that will let you not have a permanent address:
  long haul trucker
  consultant in IT or accounting
  For the latter, the jobs tend to be 80-100% travel time. The company will pay for hotel and transportation when you’re with clients. Usually public transit isn’t very viable because a lot of places you’ll travel to may not have good transit and a lot of offices are located in suburban areas anyway.
  
  Oh yeah I'm not qualified at all for this
- What's your educational background/job history? (Insofar as you can reveal that)
  
  I'm a highschool dropout lol
- You might think of becoming a Health Care Aide or Certified Nurse Assistant - they do stuff like turning patients, feeds, mobilizing patients (as in going from bed to chair that kind of thing), constant (for people who need to be watched at all times), sometimes they even do blood glucose checks. Some hospitals are near public transit if a city has transit at all. CNA school is relatively short, 1 to 4 months depending where you are. Need a high school diploma. Some places do not require certification (no school), check the local hospitals. So long as you can get a wash in for work and keep scrubs clean you're good.
  That or kitchens, retail, you know the usual

Gonna start up a company called AirBnE, which lists vacant AirBnB properties for people to rob and/or stay in.
- purplepingers rebrand
  
  hell yeah, that guy is doing some serious praxis

Does anyone know an Android app I can use to keep my own background music playing during podcasts? The podcasts being on their own app
- if you have a samsung phone, sound assistant off the samsung store

goddamn I'm so beyond tired of listening to people in the FGC talk about age, these people act like the microsecond you turn 26 you're 3/4 of the way dead, even while watching people in their late 30s/mid-early 40s place top 8 at tournaments over and over and over
I think in general I'm just very weary of hearing people spout their baseless misconceptions and then just parrot them back at each other endlessly
very, very weary
- I've had this exact thought.
- My little sister was scared of turning 20 because to her that meant she was now old lol. It's way beyond games.
  When I turned 30 I barely noticed, they tried to tease me about it but it really didn't bother me. Weird generational thing
  
  I hate it, people are so weird about it. Meanwhile I'm trying to enjoy growing older, maturing, discovering new interests and foods and learning new things - growing older is the goal and a whole lot of people don't get to do it.
  So, it's endlessly jarring to hear people complain about it so much.
- I picked up games way faster when younger, but I don't doubt that I could do it with a current game if I wanted to devote the time to grind. Usually, I hop on a game for season 1, get OK at it, then they patch something and I just go back to MVC2
  People like Wong, Valle, Daigo etc. prove it's not age, it's the ability to read the opponent.
  
  Yeah, I mean I don't know if you saw but Itabashi just got 2nd at Combo Breaker last weekend, taking out many much younger killers along the way, and the dude is 44. But will people stop joking about being too old to play the game when you're 14+ years younger than that? Nope.

The r/asksocialists subreddit has been taken over by PatSocs. I'd care a little bit if it wasn't r*ddit

Theres so many "characters leave each other at the end" type endings in family movies i assumed there is a sinister motivation behind.

Ugh it's so transparent that when cops are doing transit ticket checks they're 100% operating off
. They barely glance at my card (which is empty) because I'm a
but the next to me a dude that isn't white gets hassled for an expired ticket.

Cheryl Hines is only reported considering filing divorce with RFK2 because she asked him if he'd love her as a worm and the worm in control of his body took that as a passive-aggressive threat.
- And then he did that stare interrogation Larry does in Curb Your Enthusiasm.
  
  RFK2: Are you implying anything with that question?
  Cheryl: Ummmm no, Robert.
  RFK2: closely interrogates her face like above for 5-10 seconds (softly, barely audible) okay.
  pulls his face away

Under communism, every autistic person will be doing what Nathan Fielder does
- Have a TV show? Fly a plane?
  
  Creating fake game shows just to tell applicants they aren't good enough and drink milk from a hose hidden in a giant titty

I have officially hit the 10,000 word mark on my fantasy novel, which means I'm actually making a habit of writing. I've written 1600 words today and intend to keep going. I'm making actual plot outlines and character bios. I'm like a real writer hell yeah
- Hell yea!
- that rocks, seriously so cool. delighted for you
  
  thank you! ive been really enjoying it, just hit the 2000 word mark for today so im gonna leave it there. i spent so long trying to craft the perfect story in my head before every putting anything to paper, and now im just vomiting out everything thats in my brain and loving it

why the fuck do people always make baked beans that are so god damned sweet? idk why this bugs me so much. i used to like baked beans but the canned stuff always tastes super sweet, and then my dad started making his own and made it even sweeter. Why the fuck does every baked bean recipe i've ever heard of make shit taste like fucking candy? make it a savory dish for once
- Agree super strongly. I used to think I hared baked beans. Turns out I just hate when they're bake in molasses.
- 9/10 baked beans are actually barbecued baked beans and the standard USian's understanding of BBQ is smokey molasses & corn syrup so they're gonna be sweet as hell.
  My family makes their own baked beans with a far more smokier/earthier flavor.

My hair has grown out to the point that when combined with being dyed platinum blond and summer poofiness makes me look pretty much just like my profile picture and I kinda wanna stick it out for that reason
- I've been encouraged to keep it growing. My hair when long is maybe a bit too fabulous for thr modern world. I grow a natural blown out 80s look which rules but it's so fucking thicc thar the maintenance in play in something else. I'm in there with shears and razor blades keeping it from becoming white dreads already

Can someone watch my vegan outdoor cat for a bit? Taking my pitbull to get circumcised.

If you were to pick me up and shake me around, my head would stay perfectly still like a chicken
- I was looking for a gif of that but I found chickens with great hair instead
  
  That chicken is in The Melvins

My adoptive mother has anxiety and when it would get really bad she couldn't drive so her solution was to keep a cup of wine in the car to sip while driving to calm her nerves
She did this to pick me up from school multiple times
- critical support

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