The Paris massacre of 1961 occurred on 17 October 1961, during the Algerian War (1954–62). Under orders from the head of the Parisian police, Maurice Papon, the French National Police attacked a demonstration by 30,000 pro-National Liberation Front (FLN) Algerians. After 37 years of denial and censorship of the press, in 1998 the French government finally acknowledged 40 deaths, although there are estimates of 100 to 300 victims. Death was due to heavy-handed beating by the police, as well as mass drownings, as police officers threw demonstrators into the river Seine.
There were multiple episodes of violence between French police and the French Algerian community during the Algerian War. The police department was racist on an institutional level and terrorized Algerians with violence; pro-liberation Algerians targeted and killed police with bombing campaigns.
It was in this context that the head of the Parisian police, Maurice Papon (a former Nazi collaborator later convicted of crimes against humanity) ordered police to kill Algerians, insisting that they would be protected from any consequences.
Under these orders, the French National Police attacked a demonstration by 30,000 pro-National Liberation Front (FLN) Algerians on October 17th, beating dozens to death and throwing people into the Seine river, where many drowned.
Forty years after the massacre, on 17 October 2001, Bertrand Delanoë, the Socialist Mayor of Paris, put up a plaque in remembrance of the massacre on the Pont Saint-Michel. How many demonstrators were killed is still unclear. In the absence of official estimates, the plaque commemorating the massacre reads, “In memory of the many Algerians killed during the bloody repression of the peaceful demonstration of 17 October 1961”
October 17, 1961: A massacre of Algerians in the heart of Paris
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Journalist so used to using passive voice, he can’t turn it off.
“At 3 O’clock today, candles were blown out in a cake involved eating.”
I’m not doing so good mentally
I keep telling people that and they’re like “that sucks, hang in there”
They listen but it doesn’t really provide any long term relief
I don’t know what else there is
I’m sorry comrade
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Is therapy an option? Medication? I was in a really rough place this time last year and now I’m in a much better place
I’m in therapy and have learned some tactics to escape the spirals.
I tried sertraline a couple of years ago and had very serious side effects (including auditory hallucinations and severe sexual dysfunction) and have been very much scared off of psychiatric medication by that experience, but I do think about setting up another appointment sometimes.
Maybe give it another go. It really helped me just turn down the volume on my anxiety enough that I could work on it. I’m tapering off it slowly now
I heard that one of my leftist friends in the US broke a Vaushites jaw after an argument over Palestine. Never felt more second-hand pride in my life.
Hell yeah!
You had me at “broke a Vaushite jaw”
cw for all the bad stuff that's been going on lately
is anyone else finding it really hard to connect with the terrible things happening recently? like I read the stories about hospitals being bombed and arab children being stabbed by landlords and I think its bad but I dont get angry or upset, I just kind of take it in. my convictions and beliefs are firmly with palestine and against suffering and I know I should be feeling some righteous anger but I just dont. its like Ive become so desensitized to everything bad that I cant even summon any strong emotions
It’s normal, it’s a defence mechanism when put under intense feelings for a long time, you become numb in order to be able to go through it.
It’s ok to take a break from the world now and then to do something that relaxes you, mental health is very important.
However you’re feeling is okay, comrade
We live in actual hellworld. In order to get through the day you need to be desensitized. All of us just lived through a mass death event where 20 million people died from a virus in 3 years. The only correct response to that is to lay on the ground and weep. But we can’t even begin to process that emotionally because living in capitalism forces you to become completely desentisized
Did Israel really release a fake phone call of supposedly two Hamas fighters talking about blowing up the hospital? Apparently they’re just riffing in a bad Gazan accent? This shit is so dumb man, they’re doing E1 bits as propaganda.
Feeling a little extra gay today as I build furniture in my plaid pj’s and a messy ponytail.
goals
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“We send a warning to the hospital we never bombed” oh ok
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They don’t need to convince anyone in particular. They can just fill the air with bullshit to create confusion and uncertainty.
under communism bedtimes will be mandated and joyful
Excuse me comrade, I just saw you yawn. If you are tired you must take a nap. I don’t need to remind you that being overtired is illegal and punishable by mandatory time off with full pay or even temporary relocation to a beach town or ski resort.
You joke but at primary school in China we legit had to go home and take siestas in the summer. When we got back to school after lunch, everyone had to report to the teacher whether they took a nap, and if you didn’t you had to have a good reason
Any time I have to wake up before 8am I’m like “What the absolute fuck are we doing”
Why the hell does anything ever start before 10am this fucking sucks, it’s dark, it’s cold, and I’m so tired. Every cell in my body is screaming at me to go back to sleep for at least an hour.
Framing this on my wall
Recommended people read The Wretched of The Earth to get more perspective on current events and the Palestinian struggle for freedom.
Got blocked for antisemitism by a German person.
We should have splintered the German state into a million little fuck off archbishoprics and dutchies. Retvrn to tradition
Also, saw a privileged ass post stating how it’s totally ok to not follow anything that happens in the world, just block and mute and carry on with the circle jerk of Optimizing your Self or whatever. The puncline was: Put Yourself First.
And fucking hell, maybe the hyper-individualized bs is one big reason why we are in all the messes in the first place.
(I am not saying stepping back for mental health reasons isn’t ok. I am saying checking out fully and celebrating it like it’s some form of mental health advocacy is.)
I wish FF7 REMAKE kept the materia naming convention from the original. Fire II sounded clinical and made in a lab which fit the setting of FF7 as opposed to fira :/
“If fire’s so good how come they haven’t created fire II?”
Fire II sounded clinical and made in a lab which fit the setting of FF7 as opposed to fira
Hehehe
I think the Fire 1/Fire 2/Fire 3 was only in the English localization of FF7 and the earlier game brought outside of Japan.
Oh really? I still like Fire 2
Just checked a Japanese guide, they have Faia (fire), Faira (Fira), and Faiga (Figa). I bet they needed Fire2 etc to fit character limits on FF1s English release, and only changed it with FF8 because they started to put more care (ie budget) into the localization then.
Never thought of pronouncing Fira in English with a long I sound, though! Always read it in my head as “feerah.”
The idea of having a more corporate or clinical name for the spells is still a really cool world building concept.
Yeah like the corporation has such a broad reach that there are corporate names for the weaponized life force of the planet and theyre widely used and unquestioned
Do care + did ask + strong + W opinion + accept + I love you
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The Wikipedia page on the Soviet “invasion” of Afghanistan is sooooo bad.
Like, it doesn’t list Pakistan as a belligerent, but then lists 6,000 Pakistani casualties. It also refers to Afghanistan as “Soviet controlled” despite the Soviet Union repeatedly refusing aid to the afghan communists and eventually helping to coup them.
Like. Literal self contradiction and factual inaccuracies.