Romário 🇧🇴 🇮🇷 @romariorios@masto.donte.com.br

[Image 1: chalk being drawn on the horns of a goat sacrifice.]
[Image 2: a reading being done for an individual.]
[Image 3: Colorful wall art of traditional drumming and costume with a traditional red mask.]
[Image 4: profile of an initiate with a red blindfold on.]

Palo, Regla de Congo. Cuba. #Indigenous #Afroindigenous #Cuba

Source: https://www.jansochor.com/photo-essay/palo-african-ritual-in-cuba

[Image 1: An individual drawing Patipembas/firmas]
[Image 2: an individual at their altar]
[Image 3: an individual selling items]
[Image 4: a fire burning and a dog peeking through]

Obatala Festival, 2017. Shango.
Trinidad And Tobago. #Indigenous #Afroindigenous #Trinidad #Tobago #TrinidadandTobago
Source: https://www.nairaland.com/3571959/obatala-festival-2017-trinidad-tobago
[Various images portraying Shango practitioners in white, with drums and maracas and head coverings, celebrating in the street.]

I put "best friend" in quotes because La Boétie and Montaigne were, in my opinion, gay as hell. Look up Montaigne's Of Friendship essay if you don't believe me.

As I understand it, the accuracy of Montaigne's description is dubious at best. I know very little about this topic, but I'm aware that serious historians such as William Arens believe that cannibalism was in fact never practiced by native Americans.

Now, I'd like to very gently suggest that if a man in Montaigne's position, who was predisposed in every imaginable way to be prejudiced against native Americans, was able to see that he was in no position to criticise them when the society in which he lived was built up on more barbarism than the human mind can comprehend, then maybe you can too.

The word "essay", and the literary-philosophical form it describes, were invented in the 16th century by Michel de Montaigne.

Montaigne was, in his time, an extremely successful and wealthy statesman. In his older age, and following the devastating loss of his "best friend" Étienne de La Boétie, Montaigne decided to retire and dedicate his time to writing. He came to call the discursive, entertaining, argumentative texts he wrote "essays".

One of these essays is titled "Of Cannibals".

Do Brasil 247, só se salva o Pepe Escobar (sou mais as suas participações no Duplo Expresso).

Pepe Escobar: Resumo de toda Geopolítica desde o começo do século 20

https://youtu.be/EvXadlThgVo

#ghibligif #ghibli #studioghibli #bot

#memes #women #linux

Lá vai outra sequência crítica porque eu não aguento mais ver a galera se machucar de graça por pura tolice e chorar as pitangas nas redes sociais, sim, sinto dizer, mas é mais tolice do que equívoco.

Falarei sobre as estratégias adotadas principalmente pelo Movimento Passe Livre, a manifestação ocorreu em São Paulo no dia 16/01.

#Brasil #Política #MPL #SaoPaulo #SP

Atordoa-me o fato de que o pessoal é capaz de organizar uma manifestação, "debater trajeto" com policial armado e ter alcance nas redes sociais pra relatar tudo...

Mas não consegue ligar os pontos - que estão quase se esfregando na cara deles - pra concluir que a estratégia de manifestação demanda muito recurso, é desgastante e não funciona num governo cujo regime está explicitamente transitando pra fascismo, carajos.

#Brasil #Política #MPL #SaoPaulo #SP

We joke about reply guys but reply whites need to reflect about the shitty context of their suggestions on here. This place is not the marketplace of ideas, or the definitive place to hammer out the refinement of online leftist culture. It’s a bunch of people with real world problems and real backgrounds/cultures which many of us put on display in the hopes they will be respected. Look at the fucking context. If you missed it, apologize or shut up and move on to reflect some more.

Eu sacrifico meu diploma pra estudar - mesmo que limitadamente - literatura de esquerda revolucionária, visando competência pra abordar o assunto publicamente e formular estratégias pra nossa realidade material...

Pra galera vir repetir afirmações sem o mínimo de embasamento de mestres / doutores que se escondem atrás de vários diplomas da USP como se isso validasse tudo e garantisse competência superior e universal nos assuntos alheios.

do no evil

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All this is cheaper than accepting homelessness.

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