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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Discord is astonishing.
"What if we sort of mashed Teamspeak and website forums together in to something shittier than both with an awful UI, then it somehow took over all non-commercial internet comms?"
Website forums had serious issues that needed resolving. Discord solved none of those issues but made most of them worse and added new ones. The format is awful for reading, searching old information is physically painful, nothing is organized. Discord just isn't intended to be a knowledge repository or store information semi-permanently the way forums are.
And the only thing the voice side of it has going is that it's more or less idiot proof. Which seems to be the only goal most software has these days - Sand off every bump and corner until the end user cannot possibly use it wrong even without training, and there is absolutely nothing the end user can do that would "break" something and inconvenience a theoretical sysadmin.
Good post. Are there alternatives that you use? I feel stuck to Discord for a lot of Lefty groups I'm in.
Not really. Everyone's on discord so everyone's on discord so everyone's on discord. It's gobbled up that entire space. The only people i know who use anything else are Arma players, since Teamspeak allows you to coordinate anywhere from a handful to hundreds of people using channels and channel privileges. Everyone can be slotted in to their own squad, the squad leaders can be given a platoon channel where htey can talk to their platoon lead, their's a company level channel, and on and on as far as it needs to go. and there are plugins which integrate all of this with ARMA, to the point of simulating radios having limited range and being interupted by terrain. Hell, you can set up a different radio channel in each ear of your headset if you need to so your squad chat is coming in through your left ear while your platoon leader is talking on your right ear. Teamspeak is what it says it is - A system for communicating with your team in video games, or anything related.
Setting up a different squad chat in each ear for maximum hearing damage.
Lol. You're not wrong. Having your team leaders screaming that they're under fire in one ear while you're trying to call artillery on the command channel can be miserable. Or, you know, screaming in to the command channel to call off the air strike bc the danger close is way too danger close.
There was an incident where a cluster bomb hit the wrong grid square and so many players were dead we scrapped the mission and had a court martial for the pilot instead. (He was found innocent bc an incorrect value in the configs greatly increased the effect radius of the bomb and he had no way of knowing before he wiped out several hundred square meters of an urban area).
(ARMA is what really convinced me of the horrors of war, bc there's no plot armor or hero bullshit. And when you start dropping artillery in a town or village buildings collapse, unlike most games where buildings cannot be destroyed. If you're paying attention it deconstructs the notion of "precision munitions".)
I used to be an absolute menace in those games, especially when it came to defending towns during sieges. Used to set up sniper nests in tower blocks and absolutely mine the hell out of chokepoints and entrances. They'd have to use bombing runs and artillery, because tanks and infantry would get slaughtered. I always wondered where i learnt how to do this, until i remembered that the news was always on when i was younger, and that time period had iraq, afghanistan, and the balkan wars. Really weird feeling knowing i was learning urban warfare tactics from the news.
Very relatable. It's fucking weird how militarized some parts of our society are.
And how casually it is brought up. Beyond the classic WW2 grandpas and Combat Footage Dads, i have regular conversations with people my age and younger that might as well be straight out of war game forums. The MIC is in basically every corner of media, and forces people to normalize these thoughts.