Yep… that diamond belongs to rich capitalists in the Global North and most definitely not to people born in South Africa - and that hasn’t changed all that much, really.
“I like smoking, but I’m concerned that perhaps smoking a single cigarette at a time won’t make me stink enough. There must be some way that I can be even smellier. Why, as it is, I can even occasionally taste food.”
Most things that rich people do are for this exact reason only.
It’s how we got grass lawns and ponds and swimming pools and the reason our “fancy” clothes exist.
Some rich fuck decided to start doing something over the top because he’s gotta flex on the poors and then poor people are like “oh we gotta look nice like them!” And it ends up causing societal changes to the point I can get fined for not mowing my fucking lawn enough.
This comment brought to you by years of repressed rage against rich people
Fernandez would be one of many who fought against the Japanese occupation in the Philippines. Barefoot and wearing mostly a frock, she began recruiting native men that numbered 110.[3] Her group initially only had three American rifles, relying mostly on homemade grenades, explosives, bolo knives, and single-shot pipe shotguns that fired nails.[1] Later on, they acquired Japanese weapons and more American guns.[3] South of Tacloban became the place where Fernandez and her guerrillas conducted their war.
She earned the name “Captain Fernandez” and “The Silent Killer” due to her exploits.[1] She trained her men vigorously in manufacturing weapons and conducting ambushes. She herself was knowledgeable in the use of the bolo during stealth, even demonstrating it to the Americans who had met her.[3] Her actions cost the Japanese, killing 200 of their men, and forcing them to place a bounty of P10,000 for her head.[2] She was wounded three times, bearing a scar on her forehead.
The Philippines was finally liberated from Japanese occupation in 1945. It is unknown what happened to Nieves Fernandez in the years afterwards, although it's said that she lived to her nineties in Tacloban with her sons and grandchildren.[9]
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