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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sometimes i wonder if i should have just tried to work things out with my partner. i look at the relationships around me and its really clear no one is a perfect 1:1 fit for you and there's no such thing as a relationship that's friction-free. and they were a special person in a lot of ways and we did share a real emotional and intellectual bond. but we also had pretty much all the same problems from the very start of the relationship which i didn't really feel much progress on and they didn't really seem like they could hear my needs to the extent they claimed, would often shut them down and get dismissive. and we'd gotten to a point where feeling anxious and tense around her had become the default, which is really not what you want in a relationship. idk. communing with the other is hard folxxx. sometimes comparably hard to the bottomless well of loneliness that is the alternative.
srry about that was listening to the last track on A Moon Shaped Pool and it all just kinda flowed out
It's okay <3
I think you said in the past you were with your partner for a really long time? Maybe if in all that time you still couldn't work things out there's nothing more you could have done... <---- (me being clueless about communing with the other)
ya almost 9 years, so most of my adult life. and my rational mind thinks this is probably true. like sure, theres more we could have done (i.e. couples therapy) and i kinda wish i'd explored those avenues earlier, but that ship has sailed and there's no point agonizing over the past, except insofar as it informs behavior in whatever my next relationship ends up being.
Looking back at any situation we can usually find something that we could have done differently. But whether it was a genuine mistake/oversight or just not possible at the time for whatever reason it's just not possible to change the past, like you said. I think about the past in these terms a lot myself but it just hurts :(
I think you have the right attitude. Just have to try to apply what we learned in the future. Idk why I'm saying "we"... I guess I have some regrets too...
I hope 2024 is better for you.
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thank u buddy
It's tough, homie. It gets easier though
Sounds rough comrade. Hindsight is often rose tinted. Maybe it wasn't quite as bad as being single feels but when you do end up with someone who is a good fit you will be glad you went through the rough patch of loneliness.