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jdlopes777-blog · 5 months

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DAY - 1 - MAJOR RESET - World War 7 within myself. DEC 2nd 2023 ,

RESTART - from World War 6 in JANUARY 2023

I’m 38 , and I about to hit 39 , this is a everlong struggle to be a better SPIRIT , SOUL , inner man , the outer man has had dominion over my temple. I belong to Jesus Christ almighty.

Fighting the good fight of FAITH and WELL BEING. ITs been tough just to be here now typing this. Im either typing my life on TUMBLER , or writing it down on my journal.

My life has been bitter sweet , I made decisions that led to where I stand today. I do believe wether terrible painful 😞 decisions The Lord doesn’t mean no harm. FREE WILL can make you or break you. Even to your grave.

I have intoxicated my existence to the point of death. I tried to take myself out when I was 27 years old and my last breath never came at 5:30am. The enemy is real but why can I not let that hit home and register and a new MIND SET be born at 27.

I had a chance at 17 , 20 , 21 , 24 , 26 , 27 , 29 , 31 , 33 , 35 , after those catastrophic events war at within myself all due to external and internal factors deriving from bad circles of influence and decisions that infected my soul by un equally home myself to another human being and the 🌎 world.

I am like a land , I’m like a wholly land the entire world wants to take over and run over and destroy it because I am the RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD in Christ Jesus for what he has done for humanity. Took the punishment for all of us all. I have been made righteous for what HE DID , not anything of me. For my penalty of sin is death and Christ tells step aside son , this is not your battle but MINE.

Receive it , it is my GIFT 🎁 to you , GRACE…..

I was born in DEC 12th , 1984 , according to my mother and gramma a 4am baby before the sun came out. Gramma takes and took amd stole the center stage , per the family in Managua Nicaragua I was the baby of the BARRIO , along with my baby girl side quick NINOSKA , a girl baby born around the same time.

At 17 she was the one for me , so I THOUGHT , ….she was beautiful to me. I thought this at a point in my time I was in my prime , healthy , virgin, away from the toxic world that was ever so fast unraveling at light speed with technologies that I had yet to be introduced to so at that very moment all I had was 📝 📄 PAPER and PENCIL .

She was my sweetheart PEN PAL , from NICARAGUA the barrio I was born in MANAGUA , and me in WHITTIER , CA - Fred C NELLES. Youth Correctional Facility. A little more back , this all started from when I was 10 years old , my father lifelessly beat me for at least once every 2 weeks , a savage beating with a shiny leather belt with a piece of metal from a business suit any opportunity he had , sometimes 3 times every 2 weeks since I was 5 years old.

WHY DAD ???

Father of mine , sent my mom to learn English , and go to adult school , my mom was about 22 years old , and she only spoke u less she was spoken to. THE SANDINISTA way , the very thing that gave me ASSYLUM , to enter the USA , as a political ASSYLEY , the very thing we left that country for was the very thing that my father brough with him to 🇺🇸 AMERICA in 1987 , Los Angeles then Santa Ana OC , in CALIFORNIA.

The derailment of my childhood which then DOMINO EFECTS into my teenage hood troubles and eventually ADULTHOOD. My father prior to this was a HERO 🦸‍♂️ in my life like any child should grow up into am adult and say. ………….

Before I go ( I DONT BLAME my father anymore, I have grown up to accept my up bringing. and realize that it was tragic but like a song I heared my SWEDISH MADIA , The Lord has helped me and is still helping me get through it all as he goes before me everytime anywhere good or bad.

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The song above has a BAR that says , SHOW em how you backflipped from TRAGIC

Show em how the struggle made MAGIC.

THE NUCLEUS of the journey to a KINGDOM of TRAGEDY, TRAGIC KINGDOM ,

It was 1989 , had to have been a week day I was already getting ready to start KINDERGARTEN at FAIRHAVEN ELEMENTARY in Santa Ana , CA , My father was a powerful self employed man , a prosperous salesman. He lives a FRUGAL lifestyle. My father one afternoon , in a studio apartment we lived in , had just recently paid for my moms younger sister to come to USA to live with us.

She was probably 18 years old fresh low hanging fruit from the tree 🌳 virgin probably. While my beautiful poor mother was at school learning to speak English , something my father and her should have been doing together. The very thing that could have made my family into BILLIONAIRES. My mother was a woman of HONOR , gracious , humble , natural beauty , with a cute squint , a queen 👸, my father threw away a BILLION dollar club ticket to BRENTWOOD , CA over a an AFFAIR with my moms younger sister , my father tells me and the twin younger brothers of mine. Kids get ready in 15 minutes. We are going to the park.

Those 15 minutes were longer or so I recall , so I went inside the room the only room in the apartment that had only one restroom a tiny studio. There he was having sexing with her in the bed my mother and father shared. The ONLY bed in the place. I saw it and I remember it like it was yesterday. The door was unlocked , and I saw them both naked , fucking , FORNICATING , or ADULTERY , destroying a married Front row seat ticket. VIP pass I helped myself to ,

You can’t tell a CHILD wait for 15 minutes!!!! A child won’t give you not even a a minute. But yet I remember waiting for at least 7. I was obedient in life up to that point. I was alway trying to please my dad and be the best kid for him , I would look for him up that point. Like any 5 year old child does today. I was forced to grow up quick at the speed of life up to that point.

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There seeing it for at least 4 seconds , my world got hit with a NUCLEAR WEAPON of full destruction, I COULD NOT UNSEE the scene. Now my father becomes the enemy , a terrorist in a child life . My father died that moment in my life. He died and I died too , the moment he walked out and beat me to death a savage beating. The first time I had ever seen the BELT that would torment me the next 7 years of my life a TRIBULATION of 7 years , I am in awe 🫢 to think 🤔 about it and I type and reflect this very moment here now in the present.

for the next 7 years I lived in a prison , a child like prison , locked up and the key was thrown away In fear that I might say something to my mother when she came back. It was a very EXPENSIVE price , blood 🩸, sweat 😓 and tears 😭. To keep me intimidated , full of fear , afraid , I couldn’t be a child have fun be loud , run around , make friends , go out and play. While I noticed other kids play in my neighborhood I couldn’t. I guess that’s what led to my first attempted SUICIDAL idea in my life. When I was 6 years old after many beatings , I jumped off a second floor BALCONY. from that same apartment ,

Wether I was actually trying to kill myself or not subconsciously or consciously , I would hang out in that balcony which was the only thing I was allowed to do. It was like 5 by 12 , place crowded with junk. I played alone there UNSUPERVISED , I thought I could fly , how could I have not thought of tue danger in falling , well I did , next thing you know I get up , walking all the way around and climbed the stairs bleeding 🩸 from my CHIN I think I could have snapped my head back , but truly THE LORD avoided the loss of life. I know this now looking back.

I was a WONDERER , I would wonder off , to get away from my father , I was afraid of him a real fear. So I would purposely wonder off and get lost in public , and then I would get scared of him finding me so then I would return I was not brave enough to follow though running away.

Anyway …. Back to the situation at hand I just almost killed myslef , and I walk back up bleeding tore up from my chin because I landed flat on my stomach on concrete below from 20 ft , I had to climb the balcony and stand in top on the balcony wall , in order to get maximum flight time of 20ft or so or more. 24 ft max , ( I’d have to go the crime scene and measure to be exact ) …….

I open the door amd as soon as my mom saw me I CRIED , and she calls the ambulance and 911 and all that chaos. I went to the hospital , NUMB , I’m not sure what my mother told the paramedics , but the hospital wanted to know what happened. I remember the doctor asked me if I was trying to be like Superman or Batman. I wish I was either so I could have kicked my fathers ass raw like he did to me. I got 12 stitches under my poor child chin and with NO ANESTHESIA probably because they were I afraid I had a like a concussion and the hospital rather let me feel it then put me to sleep and risk not waking up.

I cried like I was dying I felt every stitch going in and out. They had to tie me down on a board as they tried to stitch me up and my mother had to help along with nurses. Then I got passed that , it came to pass , then I was hospitalized for like 2 or 3 maybe 5 days until results came in that I was clear from severe trauma to my head. I still had one more person to deal with , my father , I could see him in the door of the hospital room door with his arms crossed , I wanted to cry 😢 not because I was happy to see him , but because I knew he wanted to whoop my ass for that stunt.

And so this is how It all began , I wish I had good news , but this is not a happy story , it’s just a moment in my present time to remind myself where I have come from and what I have survived , and that life is not over and it won’t end here NOW , the Lord has proven to me that after trying to take my own like 3 or 4 times maybe 5. HE never allowed it and hasn’t yet to happen , he hasn’t called me back ,

HEAVEN HASNT CALLED ME HOME 🏡, the Lord is not done with me here on earth. I’m back flipping from tragic things. And making struggles into prosperous things with a PURPOSE for HIM. His word says that the work HE started in me HE will complete , the moment I’m called by HIM.

Imagine living like that for at least 7 years until came times that I was being a menace to myself and others , I was confused , I was sent to NICARAGUA , at 7 to 8 and was dropped off I another monster being replaced for another , it’s like JOSEPH sold to slavery by his siblings , I can relate being una foreign land and not knowing anyone , and this is where I meet my baby queen at 7 years old , first time swing her after my father had fled the FEDERAL investigators , for his fraud schemes , we fled the country in 1992 to 1993 , drove Two cars and packed them with as much stuff as we could , and drove away to NICARAGUA 🇳🇮 in car through MEXICO , with my mother , my mothers younger sister , whom is now PREGNANT with child , my father seed , something my mother DID NOT know about , I wonder what my aunt told my mom to make her not suspect the AFFAIR , stay tuned for that story , in another chapter.

There were some other things that happened to me as a child in this country under the care of my gramma now but even a loving 🥰 sweet woman could not spare me from more trauma , I nearly died of a skin cancer like desease , I got like a skin cancer , and by the GRACE of God I did not die. For some reason I attracted creeps , But aside from all that , it was Summer of 1992 , and I spent Christmas of 1992 in Managua under another fear of someone hurting me. I got home sick and I missed my mom. For the love of God why can’t I be with my mom under her arms hugged and feel safe. without a creep after me in MANAGUA , and another tyrant like my father watching every little thing I was doing.

The only good memories I had was with ERNESTO a boy friend of a girl called ROSA a daughter of NINOSKAS mom , the Doctor NINOSKA of the Barrio. I was a child who needed LOVE and I thought I was in love with this girl. That was short lived. My parents left back to USA to face the hard truth and reality of their actions with the government. And they took with them the pregnant woman my moms younger sister , who is close to giving birth to CHRISTOPHER LOPEZ , my little half brother , half cousin. He was born in FEB 2nd 1994 , my fathers SECRET CHILD.

I came back to USA 🇺🇸 Never knowing when I would see NINOSKA again. I came back in time to jump on the second grade with Ms HETZEL , at FAIRHAVEN Elementary , Now my aunt was public enemy in my world # 2 because now she was mistreating me afraid of the same thing because she knows I know I saw her stupid naked ass , losing her VIRGINITY to my father , God only knows how many times they fucked , aside from that one time I witnessed.

Back to blood 🩸 sweat 😓 and tears 😭, clashing heads with my father and my moms younger sister and my mom never aware of any of it , bottled up inside for YEARS !!!! at least 7 in the presence of those 2 evil 👿 people. I was DAMAGED GOODS , at times the savage beating would welt my skin and trigger the shape of the belt with blood marks , had to hide those. Most were on my back and arms and even hand whenever I would beg my father crying 😭 to stop it hurts. Grabbed me my one arm and whooped me with that belt from another.

By now at 7 years old I have so many issues. Sexual and physical and mental and emotional.

The rest is for another time …….. lots more to talk about that…from 1992 to 1999 …..

Then from OCT 20 th 1999 to FEB 14th 2005 at the age of 20…. and on …………

BACK TO TODAY …….. 12-2-2023 …………..

story to be continued ……………

DAY 1 is today , and I pray to the Lord I am given the strength to ABSTAIN , from yesterday mindset …..

#my life story #from rags to riches in christ jesus #as far back as I can remember I always wanted to be a good kid #tragic childhood memories #I want to be made whole #I want to be free from my self #I want to be healthy and prosperous in all areas and aspects of life #a book 📚 in the making #from Nicaragua to USA #political assailee #life reflections #music #from nothing to something for CHRIST #DONT GIVE UP #keep fighting the good fight of faith #great things coming #Youtube

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shadowyarcadeblizzard · 2 years

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#Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 #Cessna Citation Longitude #from Nicaragua MNMG to Los Angeles USA KONT.

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themakeupbrush · 1 year

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Most of the 2022 Miss Universe National Costumes

Not a favorites list, just a compilation of some of the costumes I could easily put together from publicly available, relatively decent and evenly sized photos

In order (top to bottom, left to right):

Nigeria, Ghana, Cameroon

Mauritius, South Africa, Angola

Iceland, Ukraine, Greece, Netherlands

Czech Republic, Malta, France

Colombia, Ecuador, Argentina, Paraguay

Venezuela, Bolivia, Peru

Dominican Republic, Trinidad & Tobago, Bahamas

Laos, Vietnam, India, Bahrain

Haiti, Jamaica, Curaçao, Aruba

Thailand, Indonesia, Japan

USA, Nicaragua, El Salvador

Panama, Guatemala, Mexico

#miss universe #miss universe 2022 #national costume #national costume contest #pageant #let me know if there's one i haven't posted individually you want to see in more details

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arrogantwerpen · 3 months

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ideally, what would happen if the icj finds isreal guilty of genocide?

quoting this news bulletin from the United Nations, what should happen is that Israel, as compliant to international law and the ruling, will cease any military actions in Gaza. However I won't see this happening from their own volition.

[Image ID: What are the consequences of a court ruling?

The rulings of the ICJ are final, and there is no possibility of appeal.

It is up to the States concerned to apply the court's decisions in their national jurisdictions, and, in most cases, they honour their obligations under international law and comply.

If a country fails to perform the obligations incumbent upon it under a judgment, the only remaining recourse is to turn to the Security Council, which can vote on a resolution, per the UN Charter. This happened in a case brought by Nicaragua against the United States in 1984, demanding reparations for the US support for Contra rebels.

The ICJ ruled in Nicaragua’s favour, but the US refused to accept the finding. Nicaragua then took the matter to the Security Council, where a relevant resolution was vetoed by the United States./.End ID]

It's the responsibility of the Security Council to enforce it but as it has happened before, the USA might/will veto it.

But that's not the end of it

Even if the ruling ends up getting grid locked in the UN, it's still valid. Which means that other countries, activists and organisations have the legitimacy to handle against Israel, such has boycotts.

When people are saying that international law is also on trial, this isn't just about the ICJ ruling, if Israel is found guilty and the Western countries don't do anything, they will loose any legitimacy as well.

If Israel is found guilty of genocide, they can't appeal the verdict and neither can the other countries (Germany, UK, France and USA are Israel's biggest supporters). The final ruling will still be really, really important.

#palestine #palestinian genocide #icj hearing #israel

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have-you-been-here · 13 days

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April 14th update

Nothing new in the USA, but three new countries worldwide

On the statistics by number (which I send you on Google), America is third place again with 42% countries visited

Thanks for the stats!

Countries we're missing as of today (from what I can see) under the cut:

Americas

Belize

El Salvador

French Guiana

Guyana

Haiti

Honduras

Nicaragua

Paraguay

Suriname

Uruguay

Venezuela

Africa

Benin

Burkina Faso

Burundi

Cameroon

Central African Republic

Côte d'Ivoire

Djibouti

DRC (Democratic Republic of the Congo)

Equatorial Guinea

Eritrea

Gabon

Ghana

Guinea-Bissau

Lesotho

Liberia

Libya

Malawi

Mauritania

Mozambique

Niger

Nigeria

Republic of the Congo

Rwanda

Somalia

South Sudan*

Sudan*

The Gambia

Togo

Western Sahara

Zambia

Zimbabwe

*These appear to be one country on the stats map?

Eurasia

Afghanistan

Azerbaijan

Bangladesh

Belarus

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Brunei

Iraq

Iran

Israel

Kuwait

Kyrgyzstan

Laos

Nepal

North Macedonia

Oman

Qatar

Syria

Tajikistan

Turkmenistan

Oceania

Papua New Guinea

Various islands that are too small to tell

#hybh stats

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unitedfrontvarietyhour · 6 months

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The Yellow Parenti Tapes (Color Corrected), Pt.2: History of the USSR, Pt. 1 ft. Michael Parenti (US Interventionism, The Third World, & the USSR)

This is an excerpt from Professor Parenti's lecture at the University of Colorado on April 15, 1986.

For current context, the methods described here by Mr. Parenti that are used against revolutionary or non-compliant states by the USA have been and continue to be used against: Cuba, North Korea, Venezuela, Iran, Yemen, Libya, Nicaragua, Panama, Iraq, Afghanistan, Korea, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Chile, Syria, East Timor, Burkina Faso, Angola, and many more not mentioned.

#united front #imperialism #anticapitalism #communism #capitalism #socialism #michael parenti #the yellow lecture #yellow parenti #history #ussr

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deafaq · 8 months

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I'm not HoH but I have hearing loss—I'm an indigenous linguist and I'm currently working to revitalize my native language. I wanted to get the thought of some Deaf and HoH people about if it would be appropriate for me to create a sign language for my native language. We had one in the past and it's been lost to colonization. The language doesn't have a written form, so there's really no way to communicate anymore with deaf or HoH people in the language.

Hi,

just a note, hard of hearing is usually used for people who have hearing loss, so if you have one and its impacting your life, you are hoh.

As for your question... Well, I recommend more readings into linguistics of sign language in general. Sign languages and spoken languages usually don't align - ASL has very different vocabulary and grammar from English and English speaking countries like UK and Australia have different sign languages, as does USA. So if you are working on revitalizing your native spoken language, you would be adding *another* different language to it.

Is it appropriate? Its not really a question of whether its like... allowed to create language, its more of a question of "do you want a living and used language"? And if you want any language to be living and used by community, it needs to be communal effort.

I recommend googling sign language in Nicaragua - in 1970s, a new sign language actually did emerge there. It wasn't created by one person, however. A new school for deaf children was built there and it put lot of young deaf people into one place. These kids usually used "home signs" (basically signs they made up for communication at home, every family has different ones and its not a language, more like a communication code) and gestures. And from this, new sign language was created and is constantly evolving. It happened in conversation, kids were trying to communicate and so they started agreeing on what specific hand movements meant.

So how do you create or revitalize language? You need to get a community together. Both younger people and elders (who might remember some signs from their youth). Have them talk, have them communicate.

Also, research. You write your language has no written form - I am not sure if you mean the spoken one or signed one? Either way, that's very common for minority languages. But that doesn't mean the language couldn't be preserved in some way. Video and pictures, descriptions in majority language, etc. It could also "carry on" in commonly used gestures of speakers.

If you want to undertake this and you are serious about it, I recommend reaching out to local universities which teach Deaf studies and linguistics, if you have one in your country. In USA, its Gallaudet university.

Good Luck!

Mod T

#sign language #mod t #deaf #linguistics

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sir-yeehaw-paws · 2 years

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kaz for the character thing!

Send me a Character to Talk About/5 Things About Them

Kazzz Kaz Kaz Kaz.

I may not discuss him as often as some of the others, but I do indeed have many a feeling on him. Character wise, I love him. He’s a great character and I really love that he’s included the way he is. He has one of the most complicated stories and general personalities within the series, and I think they built up an absolutely great concept with not only having him be mixed race and culture, but in such a way that he’s a perfect character for the metal gear environment as a whole. For characters that transcend the ideology of nations, of personal connections to said nations, to living for yourself, not a country or concept, Kaz might be the most fitting character for that.

He’d have been “low class’ growing up. Others I talk to point out he probably didn’t attend public school. He wasn’t allowed on family registries, he wasn’t able to feel at home either in Japan, or in the USA, and someone like him who’s headstrong and feisty and has been fighting for his placement in the world since day one is so interesting to look at. And I love watching him and his growing character and I guess you could say ‘personas’ of the self.

And I don’t think I’ve ever seen a character that so embodies the concept of ‘fall once get up twice.” the way Kaz does. Absolutely NOTHING stops him. Unaccepted in Japan? Fine he’ll go to America. Unaccepted in America? Fine, he’ll figure it out. But he’s going to attend University anyway. He has a brain, and does know how to use it.

Put in charge of a unit with little combat experience? That’s ok, pretend to surrender and pull a grenade on your would be killer. Oh, your base goes up in flames? And your partner is comatose? BUILD A NEW BASE. Oh, that same partner has not only left, but you were captured, brutally tortured and out two limbs and left partially blinded? KEEP GOING ANYWAY. Kill the person who did that to you. Oh, what’s that? Now there’s more to be done? Fine, go back to your ex and train his son to defeat him. Absolutely NOTHING stops Kaz short of well, being assassinated. I’m pretty sure that was the only way he could be taken down. I’m a little surprised he didn’t crawl out of his grave with ‘AND ANOTHER THING-”

RIGHT ANYWAY, SO FIVE THINGS:

1. Kaz is very smart, and clever.

Listen, someone kept Mother Base afloat and it sure as hell wasn’t Big Boss doing paperwork. He’s also far sharper and more ruthless than the people around him give him credit for. I do think some of the characters do under estimate him. And it’s not entirely surprising that they do. It’s not hard to look at ‘party hard and get laid’ peace walker Kaz who’s definitely in a lot of this for the money and for a place to call home and not come to that kind of conclusion. But he is. He has a university education. He is probably quite handy with numbers and keeping things in order. Combat Accountant is not a thing, but I imagine if it were, then Kaz would fit the bill for it. In the midst of characters who are sometimes louder, and more openly ruthless than he is, it is easy to see why sometimes people can forget that, underneath the playboy happy go lucky attitude is a man with as much capability to be ruthless and cold as any other.

I’m not just talking about MGSV Kaz either. Even though MGSV is the darkest and most angry Kaz we know, he wasn’t just a party hard guy in Peace Walker either.

After all, in Peace Walker, he WAS working for Cipher. He was the one who gave Big Boss the idea to have the nuke from Peace Walker removed from Lake Nicaragua and brought to the MSF. Kaz is still the guy Big Boss met that tried to pull a grenade on him. He still tried to choke Paz (I firmly believe to death in the moment) in Ground Zeroes. He’s still a morally grey character in a morally grey series.

Which leads into my second point.

2. Kaz’s biggest flaw is his anger. And it’s a terrible, poisonous anger.

Kaz has the kind of anger that burns hot, bright and all consuming. Kaz experiences and has many flavours of anger within him, and I think anger was a constant companion within his life. Even at his absolute calmest in Peace Walker, Kaz has been angry for a long, long time. An anger I’m sure started out by being the eternal ‘outcast’ and grew from there. Possible anger towards how his mother’s life was. Towards the father he never knew that abandoned them, towards a country in tatters that didn’t want or accept him, and another that gave him the cold shoulder.

In Yakuza 0, a character named Tachibana Tetsu (A Chinese-Japanese gangster turned businessman), has this line about his life to Kiryu:

‘In China, we (himself and his sister) were considered ‘too Japanese’. In Japan, I was to Chinese.”

A line that I think could easily apply to Kaz as well. Too Japanese for America, too American for Japan. When he’s neither of those things, but rather a mix of both. I can imagine that anger he felt towards his eternal displacement carrying him through much of his life, and something that never left him.

When Kaz is angry, he loses all sense of himself. He’s the kind of person where anger infects him like a virus. Whether it’s a slow building one, or an intense quick attack, when Kaz is angry, all bets are off.

This kind of raw hot-headness can quickly spark into an inferno that gets people killed. Choking Paz (a place where his anger is fully understandable but extremely damaging in the current crisis) is only one example. It’s the kind of anger that kept him going all throughout MGSV, up until he got his revenge, realized it helped nothing, and tried very hard to make peace with himself, and the situation.

And while I personally think Zero’s body double plan was insane, I don’t blame him for not telling Kaz about it. Because nothing would have stopped Kaz from marching onto the hospital himself, grabbing Big Boss and Venom and leaving. Zero wasn’t wrong about considering Kaz a threat to the plans, but not because he’d blab to everyone but because he’d possibly try to stop them, in my opinion.

3. Kaz (to me) is deeply sentimental.

This has been explored before and has canon backing, but I think the biggest appeal of the MSF to Kaz, to anything, was never the war economy, or helping the world per se. I think he truly, deep deep down just wanted a place to call home. He never had one in his mind, and every home he did have (aka the units) he had to build, contribute to. I think he forms deep attachments (yes, even being a flirt and non-monagamous aside), and I think he desperately clung to any form of it he could get. I also think it’s why he took the MSF attack the hardest. Big Boss was hurt, but able to move on. I don’t think Kaz ever really did.

4. He has lots of regrets, but nothing that’ll stop him.

I center this with the raw, powerful determination Kaz faces the world with at all times. A man who is going to see things through, and come back up swinging if you knock him over, and I think that people should have possibly considered him a bigger threat than they did.

One way this could be interpreted is the fact that Solid Snake really only exists through the cloning, and large parts of Kaz’s own training of him. All with the conclusion of ending Big Boss. Anger, determination, hurt, betrayal, all of these factors helped combine into a bitter, intense man who is going to get the last word in (figuratively), and literally.

I don’t believe he has this nearly to the degree Huey does, but I think Kaz sometimes refuses to see how many of the issues throughout his life he played a role in. Yes, Big Boss did abandon him. Kaz still lied to him. Kaz still betrayed him, at a tenuous time when Big Boss was reeling from the Les Enfants Terribles betrayal, and the fact that almost everyone he’d come into contact with had used him. Kaz was also the one who decided on the nuke, not Big Boss.

I don’t think this is a good excuse for Big Boss to just..help create Venom and completely abandon Kaz, but I think Kaz has a tendency to gloss over his own shortcomings in favour of letting that aforementioned anger take root and blind him too it. He has the capacity for personal hypocrisy.

With all that being said, though.

5. He’s a dork.

Let’s end this off with something more light hearted eh? Because I do love the guy and think he’s a fascinatingly well-written character who’s an absolute delight to watch and engage with. I love that he loves train noises, I love that he’s an utterly shameless flirt. I love that one of the happiest we ever hear him is when he’s going on and on about trying to make the perfect burger. I think he’s a deeply loving man with a colder, more heartless underbelly that was born into a situation that favoured nobody within it. A man with something to prove and the ability to prove it provided literally anyone took him seriously for five seconds.

I love that he can go off on tangents and come up with some of the weirdest things, that he has that ruthless stubbornness that kept him alive as long as it did. I could say more about good old Kaz, but for now, I think I’ll end off here.

Thanks for sending in!

#asks #kazuhira miller #nates headcanons #nate rambles #mgs #I HOPE THIS IS READABLE MY EYES STILL BURN #from the eye dr #light hurts very kaz of me #answered asks #this was so much fun thank you #character posts: kazuhira miller

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proton-wobbler · 6 months

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Warbler Showdown; Bracket 1, Poll 1

Grace's Warbler (Setophaga graciae)

IUCN Rating: Least Concern

Range: western Americas, from Colorado to California in the USA, down through Mexico and into Nicaragua

Habitat: pine-oak forests across most of the range, sometimes in pine savanna in southern regions.

Barbuda Warbler (Setophaga subita)

IUCN Rating: Vulnerable

Range: the island of Barbuda

Habitat: waterside scrub and thickets across the island, though they've been noted in xeric conditions as well.

Image Sources: Grace's (Michael Stremciuc); Barbuda (Jeff Gerbracht)

#NWW Showdown #grace's warbler #barbuda warbler #setophaga #parulidae #bird poll #animal poll

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Carolina Gutierrez, 21 (USA 1996)

When Carolina was only 13 years old, she came to America from Nicaragua as a refugee. She didn’t know that permissive American abortion laws would lead to her early death.

When Carolina was 20, she was happily married with two children, a boy and a girl. She became pregnant again in 1995. At first, both Carolina and her husband José were excited and even bought clothes for the baby. But Carolina started to worry about money and had second thoughts. José didn’t want his child to be killed and tried to reassure Carolina that she didn’t have to have an abortion, but his efforts were in vain. Carolina got a friend to drive her to an abortion facility on December 19, 1995. She paid $225 in cash for the abortion that took her child, her legs and her life.

The night after the abortion, Carolina was in terrible pain. She called the abortion facility for help, but they hung up on her. Over the next two days, Carolina left messages on the abortion facility’s answering machine, but nobody returned her calls or helped with her rapidly worsening condition. On December 21, Carolina’s family called 911 because she could barely breathe at all. By the time she was rushed into the emergency room, she was already in septic shock.

Carolina had a torn uterus that was so infected that the infection spread across her entire body over the past few days. She had to have an emergency hysterectomy and was placed in the ICU. She was suffering from both sepsis and gangrene. Her husband spent as much time as he could by her side, comforting her. He was grieving from the loss of his child and terrified of losing his beloved wife too. He couldn’t sleep because he was so worried about Carolina.

Despite the best attempts of the doctors who ran the ICU, Carolina’s fingers and toes turned black from gangrene. She had to have her limbs amputated in an attempt to control the lethal infection.

Carolina’s 21st birthday came and went while she was dying a slow and excruciating death in the ICU. Doctors were unable to save her and she finally died from her “safe and legal” abortion on February 5, 1996. She was survived by her heartbroken husband and her surviving children.

Carolina’s husband José with his surviving children. (Alba and Darwin)

"I have lost the love of my life," Jose said in a press conference. "I'm heartbroken. They have taken my happiness away."

Carolina’s death was easily preventable. The Miami Herald confirmed that abortion facility regulations were in effect in 1980— but those critical regulations were later thrown out as being “too restrictive” and a much more lax code was passed in 1988. According to the Miami Herald, at the time of Carolina’s death “Annual inspections for Florida’s 65 licensed clinics [consisted] of six questions — all answered from paperwork, not examination of medical equipment or operating practices or staff training.” In other words, nobody had even inspected the facility that sent an internally injured client home to die of sepsis and gangrene.

Pro-abortion groups are the ones that loudly oppose any regulations (even basic standards of care) and are instrumental in their defeat and repeal. They want more abortion, no matter the cost to women’s lives and health.

After Carolina’s excruciatingly lethal abortion, the facility was finally inspected. While investigating the facility, officials discovered that although Carolina could not read English, her only consent form was in English — and the line for her signature was blank.

A local pro-life group called Dade County Right to Life raised the money to cover Carolina’s funeral expenses and helped Jose to care for Alva and Darwin. Had Carolina been aware of the resources offered by pro-life groups such as this one, it is unlikely that she would be dead.

Carolina at her funeral

#tw abortion #tw ab*rtion #tw murder #pro life #pro choice #abortion #abortion debate #unsafe yet legal #unsafe but legal #death from legal abortion #reproductive rights #abortion kills women

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ikaikaaaron · 1 year

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Tonight's Selection

Room 101 Doomsayer Passive

Toro 6 x 55

A medium-bodied cigar with a complexity of citrus, sweetness, cinnamon, citrus, and leather notes. Its red-hued Ecuadorian Habano wrapper covers an Indonesian binder and long-filler leaves from Honduras, Nicaragua, and USA Pennsylvania. The Room 101 Doomsayer Passive is handmade by Tabacalera William Ventura in the Dominican Republic.

#cigar love #cigars #cigar lover #cigar aficionado #cigar enthusiast #epic smoke #cigar life #cigar lifestyle #cigar passion #cigar snob #cigarsmoker #room 101 cigars

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zvaigzdelasas · 2 years

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TeleSur - "Nicaragua... “Still, It Moves...”"

The popular economy provides 70 percent of the country's employment and has made it possible for the country to produce 90 percent of its own food.

Galileo may or may not truly have said “Still, it moves...” on escaping condemnation by the Holy Inquisition for asserting that the Earth moves around the Sun. But the saying certainly applies in the case of Nicaragua's persecution by the sadistic neoliberal Inquisition of Western countries whose oligarchs, corporate and alternative media and NGO hangers-on still believe they are the center of the universe.

Last July 28th, Nicaragua threw that delusion in the face of the US political leadership when Foreign Minister Denis Moncada Colindres formally refused the routine agrément for Hugo Rodriguez, the proposed new US ambassador to Nicaragua.

At his senate confirmation hearing, Rodriguez openly declared his intention to attack Nicaragua's economy and institutions. Among other things he declared that he would work to exclude the country from the Central American Free Trade Agreement.

He also promised to seek to isolate Nicaragua internationally so as to obtain the release of criminals the US government paid via its non profit network to overthrow Nicaragua's government in 2018 and to try disrupting the country's national elections in 2021. He even declared that as ambassador he would contest the development of Nicaragua's sovereign relations with China and Russia.

The demented United States ruling classes took for granted that they could impose on Nicaragua an ambassador publicly committed to hurting that country's economy, institutions and vital interests.

Why would they not? Over the last twenty years or so, they have destroyed Haiti and Honduras, persistently attacked Bolivia, Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela and fomented government ousters in Paraguay and Brazil.

They drove the lawfare persecution against Jorge Glas and Rafael Correa in Ecuador, against Lula da Silva in Brazil, and too against Cristina Kirchner in Argentina while ardently nurturing the corrupt government of Mauricio Macri. For decades they supported the fascist narco-terror regime in Colombia, now a key partner in the region of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

All these have been among the key elements of what the US leadership, diplomats and media call "promoting democracy" in Latin America and the Caribbean. In Europe, NATO's formula was: "Keep Russia, out, the Americans in and Germany down".

Current US policy in Latin America and the Caribbean is similar: "Keep China out, USA in and regional powers down". Nothing could be clearer as to what democracy means for the US government and its corporate owners.

This policy formula derives from the Western Inquisition's dogma that the world revolves around the North American, European and allied oligarchies with no possible alternative. In Latin America now, finally, other regional leaders like Mexico's Andres Manuel López Obrador are following the lead of Fidel and Raul Castro and revolutionary successors Miguel Díaz Canel and his comrades, of Evo Morales and his comrades in Bolivia, of Chávez, Nicolás Maduro and Venezuela's Bolivarian leadership, of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo in sandinista Nicaragua and Caribbean island nation leaders like Ralph Gonsalves. They all declare openly what Galileo could only mutter under his breath. In this case, the world does not turn around the West.

As Ralph Gonsalves put it recently in Managua, "I come from a small Country in our Hemisphere, but this small Country believes and subscribes to large Principles: The Defense of Sovereignty and Independence, non-interference and non-Intervention in our own affairs; so as to able to lead ourselves and our Civilizations onward, and to be able to walk together with all the Peoples around the World, in friendship but not in subordination. [...]

People in Nicaragua have every reason to have faith in Ralph Gonsalves' vision of a Better World. In 2022, Nicaragua's economy has performed successfully despite severe losses resulting from the 2018 failed coup attempt and the drastic global economic contraction through 2020, compounded by significant losses from two hurricanes in November that same year.

Nicaragua's GDP grew by almost 10% in 2021 and is on track to grow again by well over 5% this year resuming the trend established in the years before 2018. Daniel Ortega, Rosario Murillo and their government team enjoy over 70% approval for their policies.

By a very long way Nicaragua has the lowest percentage of people disposed to emigrate compared to its neighbors, including Costa Rica where poverty is now running at well over 30% of its population.

Nicaragua has the best public health system in Central America, one which is completely free. The country has a free national education system from preschool up to university including a massive comprehensive national vocational technical training program.

University education includes outreach programs to rural areas across the country. That democratization of health care and education extends deep into the grass roots of the economy, ensuring credit, technical support and marketing accompaniment for small farmers and small and micro-businesses that private banks would never finance.

Nicaragua's popular economy provides 70% of the country's employment and has made it possible for the country to produce 90% of its own food. Nicaragua ranks first in Latin America and the Caribbean for gender equality. It is the safest country in Central America, with the lowest murder rate and the lowest rate of car theft.

In terms of infrastructure Nicaragua has the best highway system in Central America. Around 99% of the country has electricity, 93% of the population have access to clean drinking water. Every day of classes, 1.2 million schoolchildren receive a free school meal.

In terms of restitution of property rights, over 530,000 families have received free legal title to their property since 2007. In 2021, the government completed extending legal title to 25 Properties of Original Peoples, which cover 315 communities with 41,000 families, over an area of 38,000 square kilometres which is 30% of the national territory of around 130,000 km2.

Nicaragua's laws guaranteeing regional autonomy to the country's indigenous and afrodescendant peoples are the most innovative and far-reaching in the hemisphere. Thus Nicaragua's achievements put to shame much wealthier countries, like Argentina, Colombia or Chile or the US itself, whose people are told they cannot have free health care.

The United States and its European and other allied countries are sinking ever more deeply into political illegitimacy and economic crisis. Their foreign policy is a catastrophic failure, leaving them isolated internationally, while majority world countries increasingly recognize the leadership of China and Russia.[...]

given the country's relatively small population, Nicaragua can expect its recently renewed relations with China to compensate the bulk of any hostile US measures, both in terms of trade and finance for development cooperation.

As US options to coopt, undermine or overthrow Nicaragua's government steadily vanish, President Ortega, Vice President Rosario Murillo and the country's Sandinista government enjoy effectively unassailable legitimacy.

The country's economy remains robust and resilient. While the monstrous cynicism of the US ruling oligarchs means no eventuality can be ruled out, at least for now the Western Inquisition can make only a media and NGO bonfire of Nicaragua.

If they want to avoid freezing this winter, they might well consider burning the mountains of false reports they have produced on the country. Nicaragua itself will continue moving, as Sandino said, "siempre más allá"... always further on.

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Captive Comrade D. Chatzivasileiadis: 31/7/16 Attack on the Mexican Embassy – 1/8/23 Lorenzo Cruz Ríos, the Fight for Land and Freedom Continues

On the 31st of July 2016, the Organization Revolutionary Self-Defence used weapons to attack the Mexican embassy in Athens, shooting rounds at the embassy building. This second political intervention of Org. Revolutionary Self-Defence revealed that the first intervention two years ago, against the law for type C prisons and the war against the proletariat and migration was not an occasional act, even though it was an emergency response to the need to resist an antirevolutionary measure, but a practical statement of commitment to a strategy of revolutionary fight. Revolutionary internationalism remains a need from the future world that we have to take care of through acts. Seven years after the immediate response of Org. Revolutionary Self-Defence against the Μexican state, my thoughts are with Lorenzo Froylán de la Cruz Ríos, member of the native Communal Guard self-defense team of Santa María Ostula in Michoacán, who disappeared on the 1st of August and was found murdered ten days later, my thoughts are with the social struggles in the mexican territory, the zapatistas resistance against the “Maya” train and the para-state murders of fighters, the movement against the inter-oceanic corridor[1], the movement against the Nicaragua canal, the indigenous people rebellion in Puno[2] and the fighting Indigenous Association for Development and Conservation of Bajo Puinahua (Aidecobap)[3], the fighting communities of Sucre Colombia[4], the fights for Land and freedom everywhere jointly.

The spark of the revolution does not quiet down, for Froylán de la Cruz Ríos[5], for Manuel ‘Tortuguita’ Esteban Paez Terán (Atlanta forest, USA, Stop Cop City, January 2023), for Paolo Todd – Kawa Ahmed[6] (from the indigenous fight at Standing Rock of N. Dakota to Raqqa Syria, January 2017), for Santiago Maldonado (Argentina, 2017), for Remi Fraisse (forest de Sivens, Testet wetlands, France, October 2014), for mapuche brothers and Matías Catrileo[7] (January 2008), for the martyred people’s armies of Kurdistan, for Vassilis Magos (Volos, 2020), for Maria Koulouri (Lefkimmi Corfu, 2008). For all of us until the end of capitalism.

[1] https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/post/2023/07/31/civilian-observation-mission-records-human-rights-violations-in-the-context-of-the-isthmus-interoceanic-corridor-megaproject/

[2] https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/post/2023/03/08/six-peruvian-soldiers-drown-while-fleeing-from-protesters/

[3] https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/post/2023/06/23/two-oil-tankers-stormed-by-indigenous-militants-in-loreto-peru/

[4] https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/post/2023/03/10/rural-people-in-colombia-push-back-against-energy-companies/

[5] https://twitter.com/VIM_Media/status/1689891820723965954

[6]https://anfenglish.com/features/martyr-paolo-todd-a-struggle-story-from-standing-rock-to-raqqa-68745

[7] https://athens.indymedia.org/post/1623077/

#Mexico #anarchy #anarchism #praxis #Organization for Revolutionary Self-Defense #Greece

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I love love love your Timothy the Gay Deaf Vampire video, it brings me joy, so I just started following your Tumblr! I hope it's okay if I ask, what's your nationality? The not-being-able-to-drive joke confused me for a minute (it took me a second to get the echolocation joke but when I did it was hysterical); do you live somewhere other than the US where D/deaf people aren't allowed to drive, or...?

Thank you, if it wasn't so hot, I'd be making a third installment with wee Timothy right now, but as it is, I'm wilting like the pile of rice noodles I resemble on a sweltering day.

In answer to your question, I am 100% Northern Irish and around 85% Scottish. Forgive me, but as I see you seem to be from the USA, I thought I would head off any difficult maths questions you had about my identity.

I live in Scotland and, contrary to what you seem to believe, I do not think there is a country in the world which forbids D/deaf people from driving.

Except I looked it up and it turns out there are at least 31 countries where D/deaf people may not hold a driving license. These include: Republic of Armenia, Ukraine, Bolivia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Haiti, Nicaragua, Laos, Egypt, Mauritania, Morocco, United Arab Emirates, Yemen, Benin, Cape Verde, Chad, Gabon, Niger, Senegal, Togo, Burundi, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, Sudan, and Zambia, but as you may have noticed, I do not live in one of them.

In fact, D/deaf people are often statistically safer drivers than their hearing equivalents as driving is primarily a visual activity and D/deaf people have been found to tend towards having a measurable range of superior peripheral vision. Therefore, any laws denying us the right to drive purely on the basis of our D/deafness are nonsense.

Now to explain the joke.

Timothy is a vampire. He has been alive - or undead - for longer than the invention of the motor car. He simply does not understand the concept or, at least, cannot prove he understands to the extent required to pass a modern driving exam. Additionally, I do not know if there are vampire driving instructors who can conduct tests at midnight to prevent unwanted sunlight-related deaths. Therefore, Timothy cannot drive since he does not have the ability to learn nor can he hold a legally binding driving license. He takes the bus or flies into lampposts as a bat.

His Deafness is incidental.

Now, I myself do hold a legal driving license and have done so since I passed on my second attempt at 18. However, I am also very autistic and have severe ADHD and dyscalculia so I too am confined to buses by my own initiative. I could handle the car quite admirably, but I do not understand people and therefore have washed my hands of the whole sorry business.

I hope this answers your question.

Have an excellent day.

#Deaf #vampire #wwdits #driving #driving while Deaf

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I read Peter L. Berger's Introduction to Sociology a few years ago and picked it up this week bc I was concerned by how little I remember from it and also, from the 2-3 years I spent "studying" sociology. the first few pages were unobjectionable (except for a hint of contempt for psychology--he disparages social workers for "descending into the mythological depths of the 'subconscious' to explain matters that are typically quite conscious, much more simple, and indeed, social in nature") but I paused to look him up and get a feel for how his work evolved / is perceived now...and jesus christ! this is from a fascinating review of his 2011 memoir

Berger noted, rightly, that all economic development is a trade-off between traditional forces of meaning (community, religion, tribal family bonds) and that of increased material standards of living. His general view (where, he claimed, the raw data led him) was to see that while both the capitalist and socialist models of development more or less equally undermine and destroy traditional forces of meaning, the capitalist model at least delivers the promised material goods, a rising standard of living for the vast population; meanwhile the socialist model succeeds here barely at all or is even counter-productive, leaving people both without traditional sources of meaning and further impoverished materially to boot.

To put it mildly, Berger found no trouble lining up sources for continued funding of this work, which simply restated this basic formula repeatedly. It is highly doubtful, however, that any of this work will be of lasting value to the profession. In the first place, that we would even think of ‘socialism’ as a model for development is a relic of the Cold War competition between the USA and the USSR. It has little or no organic roots in the way people actually cooperate to create wealth. Secondly, the particular model, whether socialist or capitalist, is vastly overridden in the results it produces by such factors as whether or not there is an established and functionally autonomous and independent judicial system in the countries undergoing development (certainly one would think that for a Weberian, such as Berger, this factor of social analysis would be front and center.) Berger and his contributors perhaps have argued that an independent judicial system is more compatible with the capitalist model. However, I hardly think this could be empirically demonstrated. If anything, our current experience in the USA suggests that the highly skewed distribution of wealth inherent in the capitalist model tends to undermine judicial independence and autonomy.

The vast majority of that work is also unlikely to have any lasting value to the profession because so much of it was simply intellectual window dressing, academic fig leaf, for political leaders intending to do what they wanted to do anyway, regardless of what the ‘studies’ indicated, up to and including the use of economic coercion backed by military force. At one point, Berger seems aware of the role he willingly played during those years. He relates being invited by very well-funded sources to attend a planning meeting at a private location in Texas, supposedly focused on economic development in the Caribbean. It was all a bit confusing to him, because while the generous money was there for just about any study he wanted to pursue, no one really seemed to care what he chose to study, nor was anyone particular interested in the results.

In retrospect, even Berger himself cannot escape the sneaking realization that his real function there was to provide a known public name as fig leaf for a meeting, the actual purpose of which was to plan out strategy (clearly illegal) for getting funds and probably weapons to the Contra movement in Nicaragua. I am not impugning Berger’s motives, nor suggesting that he himself took part in illegal activities in relation to Contra support. I am saying it is unlikely that the comfortably funded report he produced as part of this venture will have any lasting value. I also must say that I would at least hope that such an experience would have led the author of The Social Construction of Reality to engage in some very deep introspection about current power relationships in our society and his own place within that structure. We might imagine him pondering the question, “If that is what they had in mind, why did they feel so confident inviting me of all people to be the beard?” There is little evidence here that Berger was led to engage in such introspection.

#peter l. berger #sociology #daniel liechty

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