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“As a black woman, my politics and political affiliation are bound up with and flow from participation in my people’s struggle for liberation, and with the fight of oppressed people all over the world against American imperialism.”
– Angela Davis
Angela Davis, activist, educator, and scholar, was born on January 26, 1944, in the “Dynamite Hill” area of Birmingham, Alabama. The area received that name because so many African American homes in this middle class neighborhood had been bombed over the years by the Ku Klux Klan.
Her father, Frank Davis, was a service station owner and her mother, Sallye Davis, was an elementary school teacher. Davis’s mother was also active in the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), when it was dangerous to be openly associated with the organization because of its civil rights activities.
As a teenager Davis moved to New York City with her mother, who was pursuing a master’s degree at New York University.
In 1961 Davis enrolled in Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts. While at Brandeis, Davis also studied abroad for a year in France and returned to the U.S. to complete her studies, joining Phi Beta Kappa and earning her B.A. (magna cum laude) in 1965. Even before her graduation, Davis, so moved by the deaths of the four girls killed in the bombing of Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in her hometown in 1963, that she decided to join the civil rights movement.
By 1967, however, Davis was influenced by Black Power advocates and joined the SNCC and then the Black Panther Party. She also continued her education, earning an M.A. from the University of California at San Diego in 1968. Davis moved further to the left in the same year when she became a member of the American Communist Party.
In 1969, Angela Davis was hired by the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) as an assistant professor of philosophy, but her involvement in the Communist Party led to her dismissal. During the early 1970s, she also became active in the movement to improve prison conditions for inmates. That work led to her campaign to release the “Soledad (Prison) Brothers.” The Soledad Brothers were two African American prisoners and Black Panther Party members, George Jackson and W. L. Nolen, who were incarcerated in the late 1960s.
On August 7, 1970, Jonathan Jackson, the younger brother of George Jackson, attempted to free prisoners who were on trial in the Marin County Courthouse. During this failed attempt, Superior Court Judge Harold Haley and three others, including Jonathan Jackson, were killed. Although Davis did not participate in the actual break-out attempt, she became a suspect when it was discovered that the guns used by Jackson were registered in her name. Davis fled to avoid arrest and was placed on the FBI’s most wanted list. Law enforcement captured her several months later in New York. During her high profile trial in 1972, Davis was acquitted on all charges.
Angela Davis has been an activist and writer promoting women's rights and racial justice while pursuing her career as a philosopher and teacher at the University of Santa Cruz and San Francisco University. She achieved tenure at the University of California at Santa Cruz despite the fact that former Governor Ronald Reagan swore she would never teach again in the University of California system.
In the political arena, Davis ran unsuccessfully in 1980 and 1984 on the Communist Party ticket for vice president of the United States. Despite her 2018 retirement, Davis continues to be an activist and lecturer as Professor Emeritus of History of Consciousness and Feminist Studies at the University of California at Santa Cruz.
An author of eight books, a persistent theme of her work has been the range of social problems associated with incarceration and the generalized criminalization of those communities that are most affected by poverty and racial discrimination.
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https://xcancel.com/libsoftiktok/status/2014205842384445917#m
Libs of tiktok posts always make me wonder if conservatives can actually read. What libsoftikotk said, and what basically all of the replies are saying, really seems to have absolutely nothing to do with the actual words in the message. They assume it's just the school giving excused absences to everyone, when it clearly says parents should be arranging for their kids to be leaving. They seem to struggle to read any comment that doesn't follow their wild narrative, like one guy that was asking what should be done instead got absolutely nonsensical replies.
Who are Hezbollah?(Is that a grammatically correct sentence?) Are they are a really different group from Hamas? I feel like I hear about them together at times.
Nobody looks good with a bowl cu- 
OMG!
https://xcancel.com/Levantine_pagan
This guy is like a pro-Phalangist pro-Jolani pro-HTS extremely racist neo-Nazi Kurd-hater Druze-hater war crimes fan. He's got videos where it's like a based-Jolani edit with a Hitler speech in German as the primary soundtrack, and from FireFox translate the Arabs all now about it and are big fans. He posts fucking wojaks of Kurds and Druze being brutally murdered, pretty clearly based off of real footage this guys seen. It seems he lives in Europe too.
It seems like all of the big-time Jolani supporters on social media are just actually bad people. All of the innocent wholesome chungus Free Syria supporters have disppeared, now that Jolani is big on massacring minorities. A lot of them didn't actually disappear or stop being "Free Syria" supporters, they just went from wholesome to monsters.
I really can't stress enough how much i hate having glasses on my face
love that my work order says that the BOH computer update should finish in 15 minutes but the computer itself says to come back in three hours
I'm going to lunch
The weather is forecasting “Thundersleet,” which sounds like the greatest German metal band that should have existed.
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I just got a sudden piercing headache and at the same time recalled that Ned’s Newt was a thing. I think I’m dying. 
I watched this show so much
Southerners complimenting you be like.
: “Curse your heart:”
when she became a member of the American Communist Party.
You might want to fix this, OP.
inside me there are two wolves
i just want the whole world to shut the fuck up. im so tired of having to hear things
oh you want to sell me toothpaste or a gambling app or life insurance? shut the fuck up
oh you want me to subsidize the donation you made to a fake charity for tax evasion purposes? shut the fuck up
oh you’re yelling at your dog for barking too much, accomplishing nothing except making it bark more? yeah dude, shut the fuck up
is this what misanthropy is or is everything just too much right now?
so is the clown with the one piece flag at the minneapolis protest a fed or someone who doesn't pay attention?
The number of Americans who have seen the One Piece flags in the color revolutions around the world without realizing that they're color revolutions is much higher than the number who did realize.
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when the dunkaccino no longer invigorates 
prediction: the hellish ice storm knocks out like 70% of power lines in the south and despite the mass casualties exactly 0 of them are buried when things are rebuilt (actually trees will be planted closer to the new lines)
I read that as the bodies not being buried and it sounded believable
Same. It barely registered as notable. The world is so fucked.
it feels like world governments are trying to stall for time and hoping Trump croaks which will of course make everything go back to normal somehow
despite being called a liberal by a 1 day old account yesterday for saying this I do think Trump is serving as a nucleus that is holding a lot of disparate fascist factions together and I think if he died it would absolutely "do something" to affect their ability to organize and do the things they're doing
I don't think President J.D Vance is going to inspire nearly as much blind oinking loyalty in the general mass of hogs and I don't think they really have anyone lined up who COULD. Maybe like, Musk could have done it if he weren't an obviously rizzless loser
You’re purposefully misrepresenting what I said(lieing) to talk shit for internet points you loser fuck. I didn’t call you a liberal for acknowledging that Trump is popular or emotionally revered. That is obvious and not disputed. I called you a liberal because you argued that fascism is meaningfully sustained by an individual and that removing that individual would weaken and destroy the movement. That position is great-man theory and is reactionary.
Your argument is idealist. You locate the source of fascism in personality, charisma, loyalty, and perception rather than in material conditions, class alliances, institutions, and state power. Marxism holds that leaders emerge from contradictions. They do not create or sustain them. Treating consciousness and personality as the driver of history is liberal idealism.
You also reduce politics to personalization. Your analysis centers on who excites people emotionally instead of who controls courts, police, capital, media, and the coercive apparatus of the state. Fascism is not held together by vibes or devotion. It is held together by capitalist crisis and the institutions built to manage that crisis through repression.
Also your support of adventurism is reactionary. It substitutes spectacle for organization and individual acts for mass struggle. Historically, this path has never weakened fascism and has repeatedly strengthened it by justifying repression, consolidating ruling-class unity, and destroying real movements.
Appealing to what you “see with your eyes” does not resolve this. Fascist movements have always centered leaders. Mussolini, Hitler, Franco, and Pinochet were all revered figures. Their removal or death did not dismantle fascism. Those systems survived until their material bases were forcibly broken.
That is why I called your position liberal. Not as an insult, but because it replaces material analysis with personality fixation, substitutes individuals for systems, and treats political violence detached from organization as meaningful action. Marxism does not deny that fascists worship leaders. It explains why that worship is secondary and structurally replaceable.
If you take such issue with being called a lib try moving beyond being a radlib 白左 you pretentious arrogant fucking loser.
I agree, but I also feel like the current level of fascism is "locked in" until further notice, so the best thing Trump's death can accomplish is putting a pause on the escalation.
I go back and forth on this. On the one hand a reverse night of long knives seems probable, on the other conservatives like falling in line so an heir apparent could emerge 1-2 years after his death and we’d be right back to where we started.
Taking Trump or any fascist leader to be the originator/nucleus/sustainer of fascism is greatman theory, that fascism lives or dies with a single leader. That’s liberal idealism.
Fascism arises from material conditions: capitalist crisis, imperial decline, petty-bourgeois collapse, and the absence of a strong proletarian movement. Trump like all the fascist leaders before him and the probably unfortunately many to come didn’t create those conditions, they emerged from them.
Removing a leader doesn’t resolve the contradictions that produced him. But it also doesn’t guarantee an immediate replacement either, because those contradictions express themselves unevenly and through struggle inside the ruling class itself.
Without organized proletarian opposition, those struggles will ultimately be resolved on capital’s terms, whether through a new figure, a restructured coalition, or expanded repression.
Tucker Carlson is my guess for who the realist faction will attempt to wrangle the hogs with
Very much enjoying the bleed-out spot memes. Take the fun offline! Look for places in your real world environment that would be appropriate for you to succumb to the bitter elements, or a battle wound.
Big moment for goths.
i just kinda realized that saying "excuse me" is considered rude, well -- I already knew that, but recently I've come to experience people who like it when you say "excuse me" in an assertive but kind tone. IME some people dont say this and they just muscle past you, or even run into you without saying anything. I've always felt like the odd one out, responding to even a very shy or sheepish "excuse me" with enthusiasm. Now that ive found people who respond to me with the same enthusiasm, it feels good! I come around people who, while we might not know each other, we're still trying to do our best and at least make sure you're not the reason somebody has a bad day, or even wish them a good day. Sometimes I feel like people don't really care about that..
saying "excuse me" is considered rude
by whom? first time ive ever seen someone say this and it feels 100% backwards to me
I think some people are very sensative to the tone of the "excuse me". The phrase "excuse me" has a sarcastic or ironic use (insert Tobias Funke gif here) so some people are more sensitive to that coming from a stranger.
I'm talking outta my ass here, but I have family members who don't use the phrase in the polite "pardon me" type of way but exclusively in a sarcastic mocking way.
I don't really say "excuse me" anymore when trying to get past someone/maneuver in a public place. I've found a lot more success/less weird interaction with saying "pardon me" instead. Hell even a "Please excuse me" or "Excuse me, please" is a safer bet if you dont want to deal with some grumpy asshole misinterpreting your intent.
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when people say D&D doesn't do roleplay well vs other systems, what do they mean by that? i ask just because from my understanding a lot of more RP-focused systems are pretty rules light (leaning more into being improv games) because roleplaying and social encounters don't generally need as intricate rules as something like combat in order to flow coherently. is there a good example of a crunchy/rules heavy RP focused game, e.g. one focused on like the complexities of diplomacy?
D&D not doing anything outside of a fairly narrow subgenre of fantasy particularly well i understand and i do mostly agree with. i am however a sicko masochist so i'm still trying to hack 5e/5.5e into being able to run my weirdo interwar period/cold war fantasy setting that combines New Weird & Dieselpunk elements while also retaining some of the bones of "standard fantasy" sword and sorcery.
some of it is that things are over-statted, people used to talk about "roll play" like rolling the dice instead of acting or performing. but then you get debates about why should i have to be eloquent and persuasive irl to the referee when we don't hold martial skills to the same standard.
there's also extreme cases like the diplomancer or jumplomancer in 3.5 which are builds that should still be googleable and i don't want to spoil since it's fun to read the explanations of just how you can turn being really fucking good at jumping into winning at politics.
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