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https://theintercept.com/2020/07/23/the-u-s-supported-coup-in-bolivia-continues-to-produce-repression-and-tyranny-while-revealing-how-u-s-media-propaganda-works/

the united states is fucking with latin american democracy because of their own greed. AGAIN.

here’s a little background:

bolivia is a country that is beautiful and very rich in natural resources. & right now, the united states is supporting the ousting of the popularly-elected socialist left-wing party (MAS) in favor of the capitalist right-wing party in bolivia. bolivia could have been considered a fairly stable democracy for many years, but that has all changed with american intervention.

president morales is unpopular with american politicians because the main platform he ran on back in 2005, advocating for the people’s control of the country’s ample natural resources like the cocoa plant and its supply. cocoa in particular is something that is primarily cultivated by and is very important to indigenous communities in bolivia. he is a huge advocate for indigenous rights in bolivia, in a country that has the largest population of indigenous people in south america.

i’m not gonna say that evo morales is perfect though. much of the current civil unrest began in bolivia when morales tried to get the bolivian courts to allow him to run beyond the constitutionally mandated term limit.

american politicians have been trying to pressure bolivia for years to eradicate their supply of cocoa plants as a way “to stop the flow of cocaine” into the united states. sure jan, okay. whatever you say. not as if you wanna just control it yourself and exploit a less powerful country’s resources in the process? 🙃

there’s really no other reason. the united states is mad that one of the poorest countries in latin america had the gall to stand up to the united states’ drug policies, and not only that, they were successful.

i only bring up cocoa to put this in perspective, how bolivia has successfully stood up to the west when it comes to the refusal to privatize of its own resources or bend to the whims of the west — but bolivia has many important natural resources that the west needs desperately for their capitalists, including lithium. most of the country’s important natural resources are controlled & owned by the people & the government, and that has made american capitalists really fucking angry for a long time, especially considering how resource-rich bolivia is.

after constant western pressure for nearly 15 years on bolivia and a fucked up election in 2019, the left-wing bolivian president evo morales was exiled to mexico, but civil unrest in bolivia has not stopped. the current president of bolivia, jeanine áñez, is NOT democratically elected — she tries to say she is but don’t get it twisted. MAS is still very popular there. the right-wing party of bolivia knows that they’re gonna lose in the coming election and so they are trying everything they can to stop the election from happening in the first place.

tldr; how does elon musk benefit from this? bolivia has one of the largest supplies of lithium in the world, a material that is required to make electric cars.

elon musk supports the american-backed coup in bolivia because the bolivian government told him that it was not going to privatize the country’s natural resources.

Abnus and Tonkin are in love 💕

Gator husbands from the @r-n-w one-shot adventure Spike Patch Grove! Last time I ran it, my players loved them so much, I wanted to get some special art made ☺

Tonkin bakes the best bog muffins in the grove, and Abnus loves eating them. But when Abnus takes a bag of muffins to work watching over a clutch of precious eggs, disaster strikes...

Get the adventure here 👉 r-n-w.net/play/spike-patch-grove

I’m streaming on twitch for fun lately, hoping to make affiliate so I can get myself a little more support with my job kinda up in the air. https://www.twitch.tv/benigndirector

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A redbubble, including some fishkeeping stuff and DBH stuff, here. masks available

A dragon is nothing without its hoard. Upon realizing that Swordfish takes a different approach to accumulating tons of treasure, by taking a trip to the nearby swamps!

ALSO, did anyone ever notice that all of the Witches whose point of view we’ve read have some sort of “other mind” who talks to them. 

Tiffany, who thinks a LOT invented two versions of herself to explain those thoughts - she named them, and we see in Wintersmith even a name like “third thoughts” was strong enough to give them a kind of life. 

Agnus, who’s always been made to feel guilty about her desires and wants, who wanted to be thinner and attractive and more interesting and was then guilted for wanting that as well, she gave all those feelings the name Perdita. 

Magrat, who’s always wanted to be better, stronger, more confident, able to fight her own battles finds a portrait of one of her supposed predecessors and turns the woman in the portrait into the epitome of everything she wants to be, she believes in Ynci so hard she makes her real and she puts the spirit of Ynci in the armour. 

Granny, who’s always worried about her power and worried that she’d go to the dark, who sees her sister Lillith and her ancestor Black Alice as examples of what she might become develops a dark version of herself - we see her in Carpe Jugulem when she’s kneeling by the anvil trying not to be a vampire and a voice tells her “because of you some died who may have lived, I know every dark thought you’ve ever had” and Granny says “I know who you are now Esmerelda Weatherwax”. Because Granny is the only one who didn’t give that other part of her a name, who accepted that it was a part of her, she’s the only one who can have full control over it. 

((Idea comes from @i-m-snek))

Can we just talk about how “Goth Anime Legs Uncle” IS A FAMOUS ARTIST AND AUTHOR, BUT HIS NIECE OR NEPHEW NEVER THOUGHT TO BRING THAT UP?! No no no, you have a famous artist/author for an uncle, but screw that, here’s his goth phase.

Bisexual - attraction to multiple genders where gender is a factor within the attraction, and can include a preference for one gender over another, or attraction that feels different when it’s directed at a specific gender.

Pansexual- attraction to people regardless of gender. Gender is not a factor, you’d expect a blanket sensation of attraction regardless of which gender it is attracted to, and no sense of intuitive gender preference (though perhaps a logical one).