On the 7th of january in 1919, the "Semana Trágica" began in Argentina when police attacked striking metalworkers in Buenos Aires, killing five, after workers set the police chief's car on fire. The city was quickly placed under martial law.
The "Semana Trágica" (Tragic Week in English, not to be confused with the Spanish Tragic Week) was the violent supression of a general workers' uprising, beginning with the attack on January 7th. In addition to the actions of the police and military, right-wing vigilantes launched pogroms against the city's Jews, many of whom were not involved, in order to suppress the rebellion.
The conflict began as a strike at the Vasena metal works, an English Argentine-owned plant in the suburbs of Buenos Aires. On January 7th, workers overturned and set fire to the car of the police chief Elpidio González. Militant workers also shot and killed the commander of the Army detachment protecting González. Following this, police attacked, killing five workers and wounding twenty more.
On the same day, maritime workers of the port of Buenos Aires voted in favor of a general strike for better hours and wages. After the police attack at Vasena, a waterfront strike began: all ship movements, and all loading and unloading, came to a halt.
Rioting soon spread throughout Buenos Aires, and workers battled with both state and right-wing paramilitary forces. Police utilized members of the far-right Argentine "Patriotic League", who targeted the city's working class Russian Jewish population, which they associated with the rebellion, beating and murdering many uninvolved civilians.
On the 11th, the city was placed under martial law, and the military restored control over the city over the next several days. Estimates of the death toll range from between 141 to over 700. The United States embassy reported that 1,500 people were killed in total, "mostly Russians and generally Jews"
La Semana Trágica - el historiador
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Keep getting phone calls but my shitty Linux phone's call audio routing or something is fucked so I can't hear anyone on the other end and I don't have the patience to dig around in the technical hellhole that is the "desktop" Linux infrastructure to fix it
Oh well, hope they weren't important or anything
It sucks but people really shouldn't be buying these PINE "phones" that don't actually work right until the company actually makes the software work correctly themselves
I regret buying this thing to replace my old falling-apart Android phone but I have no money for anything better anymore
Death to smartphones tbh
The hardware is okay (relative) but why tf did they pick the fucking Manjaro people to handle the software
We need state-funded and led hardware-software development projects under socialism
A linux device that doesn't have working drivers? How unusual!
In this case it's not even drivers lol
The software that handles calls and call audio routing is so hacked together it barely works lmao
This phone is basically a desktop Linux system running GNOME with somewhat working scaling stuff to make it kinda usable on phone touchscreens (phosh is actually pretty decent to use at least)
Tbh I used to be a big Linux fan but the more I learned about it and used it the more I started to hate it :(
Waiting for the year of the Plan 9 phone lol