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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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[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (5 children)

I'm officially a guy with a skull on his shelf.

It's a glass skull with vodka in it. Made my tongue go numb when I tasted it.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago

stonetoss cannot cum lmaoooooooooo

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago

TikTok Toe to the polls liberalism

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (6 children)

checks

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.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Im a lot of rage in a small package.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Fuvk I know I talk about my ptsd a lot here but I just can’t seen to cope anymore idk what to do and I haven’t heard anything from my therapist yet. All I can do to forget is to be social but I can’t be around people for more than a few hours a day

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago

Unicorn Overlord looking like a snack

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago

sleeping in without being scheduled for anything for the rest of the day is wonderful. unless you sleep past midnight then i just feel like a lazy failure for being too comfy to wake up for some reason

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago

it is march 12 and stalin saved the world from fascism

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago (3 children)

okay you had to have lost a bet to not just mention but quote the entire song "Istanbul not Constantinople" in your serious book about Ottoman history

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago

Tried to order some clothes i had bookmarked online but my size is sold out all but one thing kitty-birthday-sad Also does anyone know clothing sites that don't have the world's worst UI? Seems like everywhere I go to some exec decided they needed to dump money into making the website unusable

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago

Thinking about making a Worms Armageddon map using chapo.chat emojis

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago (4 children)

~~It’s~~ It was a warm, sunny day, when I woke up about half an hour ago. It gave me this hard to describe, vaguely nice feeling, almost nostalgic somehow. And then it hit me that they are gone.

Sunny, warm days remind me of them.

It’s partially because when it’s warm out they tend to wear—how do I say this?sexy outfits and I’m kind of ashamed of this.

But I think it’s mostly because this kind of weather makes them happy.

They’re asexual. I won’t lie about finding them really attractive. Like they are seriously so fucking amazingly beautiful. But I do not want to uh, you know. I’m ashamed of myself for sexualizing them at all.

Part of it is how they’re basically a child on the inside. It’s actually really fucking funny—they’re a drug dealer, they’re turning 31 this year, and they squee like an 11 year old when you bring them stickers, or candy, or a tiny spoon.

The sound of them going, “YyyyyAAAaaaayyyy,” over the phone when I told them I got them a tiny spoon for their tiny spoon collection, still echoes inside my head.

And I can hardly move if I don’t lie to myself that they might come back one day.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Potential bit ideas: start attending gun shows specifically to speedrun how fast I can find a copy of Turner Diaries

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago

I reconnected with a mutual friend of them and I. I thought she didn’t like me.

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