Sprontisdabest - Estelle

Since I’m not seeing many posts about what’s happening in Venezuela, I will make one myself. Please do not turn a blind eye to their ongoing crisis.

First I will put you into context, please note that all this information is taken from posts, threads and statements made by Venezuelans so I will hyperlink each one of my sources.

From 2002 to 2013, Hugo Chávez was the president of Venezuela. Not only did he ruin the country’s economy, imprison people and remove liberty of speech in the country, but he also changed the constitution, allowing unlimited reelection. His regime became a dictatorship disguised as a democracy. Here’s an entire page about this period. (And you can read more searching “chavismo”)

After his death in 2013, Nicolás Maduro took the presidency. Venezuelans started protesting and, as a response, they were repressed and killed, universities were burned down and Venezuela became massively poor, people lacked basic needs (supermarkets were empty, increasing famine and malnutrition), hospitals lacked resources and, consequently, illnesses spread and infant mortality rates increased severely.

This Sunday, July 28th, 2024, elections were held and Venezuelans voted for Edmundo González to be the next president of the country. Exit polls expected him to win the elections.

Later, the revealed results were that Maduro had won with the 51,2% votes, while Edmundo González had only 44,2%. But, as of right now, already 75% of the electoral records confirm that Edmundo González was, in fact, the chosen candidate, meaning that Maduro once again cheated on the elections. This is electoral fraud. This is not a democracy, this is a dictatorship.

Now, Venezuelans are protesting and the government are once again repressing them. Civilians are being persecuted, attacked and killed. Innocent people are being arrested. The government is cutting their communication and are planning on cutting the electricity next.

I urge you to check this thread on Twitter by @/postmortemria. Her account is full of information about Venezuela and their crisis, please check her posts and share them to spread the voice. Try to raise Venezuelans’ voices and donate to them if you can.

At the moment, there aren’t many ways to help other than speaking up, but under this tweet you can find many talented artists and commissions are their way to make some money to pay for basic human needs. If you can, think about commissioning a piece or donating to them.

In addition, here’s another tweet with information to donate to the people affected in the protests. They’re in desperate need of assistance so anything can help.

Throwback to the time I commented ‘I’m aro/ace’ under a YT video and all the comments on my comment were ‘those pronouns are fake. You damn liberals’ or something like that.

Reblog if your pronouns are also aroace

Edit: To all the people saying ‘I’m not sure if I can reblog this’ feel free to reblog if you support aroace people. You don’t have to be one!

Bestie you are not helping the case

this girl is one of my best friends for 4 years. how do i stop her from this.

Peace be upon you, my dears. I hope you will consider me. My Tumblr page was blocked a day ago and I don't know why. Now I have opened a new page because I need help for my family in Gaza and my sister wafaa who has a head 😢💔injury and needs to leave the Gaza Strip and receive treatment.

There is a video of Al Jazeera meeting with my sister Wafaa. Here it is when the bakery was bombed and she was buying bread for her children...😪🍉💔

Also this is our house it was completely destroyed...😢💔 located in the Amoudi area but we wish safety for my family who are now in Deir al-Balah after being displaced 8 times in one of the streets in a tent they need the basic daily necessities such as food and clean water I hope you stand by and donate even a little to save my family and the children and thank you my dear friends thank you for your generosity and support and your prayers for us....🥰

These are my brother's children before the war who are now homeless and need someone to help them survive. Gaza is a dangerous place in terms of living standards. They need the simplest things now, such as milk, diapers, food and medicine. I hope you can help me, even a little. Thank you for your support and generosity towards us....😍🇵🇸🍉

this would be great in a children's hospital!

One of the greatest Tweets and it hasn't even existed for 24 hours

this girl is one of my best friends for 4 years. how do i stop her from this.

Would you fall in love with me again?? 😔✨

obsessed with this picture. bagi and tina finally get to meet irl. matt's actively mourning the loss of his girlfriend to tinakitten. meanwhile foolish is just

Whenever I see someone who is not Brazilian using this gif I wonder if they know that it is from a Brazilian soapopera from the 2000s called senhora do destino (mistress of destiny) that has a chokehold on pop culture to this day

This character is the villain of the story, who steals a baby from another woman and raises the kid as her own. She kills a bunch of people usually by pushing them down the stairs or with scissors and this scene from the meme is her slowly going mad when she realizes she’s getting her comeuppance and going to prison. It is a tragic story but she is a meme because she is stereotypically evil and has lines that are comical and are memes 20 years later such as seeing a gay couple and going “dykes… I can smell the leather from afar”

This one just says “Maria de Nazaré Tedesco, that big hot blonde”

This one is just “first you get born again then you brush your teeth, do some gurgling and then you get a grip on yourself”

she’s evil and iconic, a villain like no other