Giuseppe "Pino" Pinelli (1928 - 1969) was an Italian railroad worker and anarchist who fell to his death on this day in 1969 while being detained by Italian police. His death became the subject of the play "Accidental Death of an Anarchist" by Dario Fo.
Pinelli was a member of the Milan-based anarchist association named "Ponte della Ghisolfa", and was also the secretary of the Italian branch of the Anarchist Black Cross. He organized young anarchists in the "Gioventu Libertaria" (Libertarian Youth) in 1962 and helped found the "Sacco and Vanzetti anarchist association" in 1965.
A few days before Pinelli's death, Italian fascists from the "Ordine Nuovo" orchestrated a bombing campaign in Milan; one bomb in Piazza Fontana killed 17 people and injured 88. The bombing was blamed on Italian anarchists, and Pinelli was detained along with many other leftists, including Pietro Valpreda, who was falsely convicted and served eighteen years in prison.
Just before midnight on December 15th, 1969, Pinelli fell to his death from a fourth floor window of the Milan police station. Three police officers interrogating Pinelli, including Commissioner Luigi Calabresi, were put under investigation in 1971 for his death, but legal proceedings concluded it was due to accidental causes.
Calabresi was later gunned down at his home in 1972, for which left-wing journalist Adriano Sofri was convicted in 1997.
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Ngl ive come round on rhe thing people had against liberal socialists power dynamics thing, at the time i was all in on their side but having flirted and had a little bit of a situationship with a woman in her 40s i get it now
before being single i thought i would have stricter rules against age differences, but as i've spent abt a year and a half single (unless you count a situationship over the summer), ive realized that finding a good connection + the right timing is hard and rare enough (at least with how my brain & heart are built) even without rigid rules, so im kinda just open to anyone i find attractive and interesting across the age spectrum (within reason ofc
) wherever i might find them.
though wait my memory of chapo chat lore is murky here, what was libsosh's age gap discourse take again?
It was something about like discourse on the destiny subreddit about how Hasan Piker dated Michael Jackson's 19 year old daughter when he was 27 but hidden behind like several layers of obfuscation, and he was saying it was fucked up and bad. And like at the time i agreed, regardless of the destiny hasan shit in the backgrpund, but having actually idk, been in situations now, im of the opinion that like, as long as they're both adults and there's no actual leverage over one of the people its basically fine
ah i see. tbh, late 20s to 19 does feel suspect to me - not that it should be illegal or anything or is automatically predatory, but on average i feel like someone in their late teens or very early 20s is forming/changing a lot more rapidly than someone mid-20s and onward (you of course change and grow across your whole life). there may be a degree of arbitrariness to where the cutoff is for me, though. fwiw im 34 and id go like a decade down and maybe a little over a decade up depending on the individual person, though the outer ranges do give me more "potential for issues" misgiving (but not really for power dynamics reasons at all, there are other considerations outside that).