I didn't want it to be terribly long... tried to keep it less than 5 minutes but was having a lot of fun with that bridge. Worked on it all night and was tired as fuck by the time I was done.
Ended up being exactly 5 minutes.
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Malcolm X, born on this day (May 18th) in 1925, was a revolutionary civil rights leader who advocated for black liberation by "any means necessary".
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Born Malcolm Little, he spent his youth living in a series of foster homes and engaging in petty crime, eventually serving six years in prison for larceny and breaking and entering.
While in prison, Malcolm joined the Nation of Islam (NOI) and adopted the surname "X" to acknowledge his unknown African ancestral name. Malcolm quickly became a leader with the NOI and was paroled in 1952, beginning a period of radical advocacy for black liberation.
In the 1960s, Malcolm X broke with the Nation of Islam, growing disillusioned with its leader Elijah Muhammed. During his 1964 pilgrimage to Mecca, he witnessed Muslims of "all colors, from blue-eyed blonds to black-skinned Africans" treat each other as equals in worship. Because of this, Malcolm X became convinced that Islam could be used as a means to achieve racial equality.
On February 21st, 1965, Malcolm was assassinated in New York City. Three Nation members were charged with the murder and given indeterminate life sentences. Two of these men, Muhammed Abdul Aziz and Khalil Islam, were exonerated in 2021 after a 22-month investigation by the Manhattan District Attorney found that evidence of their innocence, including FBI documents, was withheld at trial.
The Shabazz family are among those who have accused Louis Farrakhan of involvement in Malcolm X's assassination. In 1994, Betty Shabazz was asked if she thought Farrakhan had anything to do with her late husband's death. She replied "Of course, yes. Nobody kept it a secret. It was a badge of honor. Everybody talked about it, yes."
In the wake of his assassination, capitalist press vilified Malcolm X, while media in Africa, China, and Cuba lauded him as a hero and a martyr. The New York Times wrote that Malcolm X was "an extraordinary and twisted man" who "turn[ed] many true gifts to evil purpose", while Time magazine condemned him "an unashamed demagogue" whose "creed was violence."
In contrast, The Ghanaian Times identified Malcolm X as among "a host of Africans and Americans who were martyred in freedom's cause." In China, the People's Daily described him as a martyr killed by "ruling circles and racists" whose death illustrated that "in dealing with imperialist oppressors, violence must be met with violence."
In 2023, The Guardian reported that the Shabazz family announced their plans to sue the FBI, New York Police, and other agencies over Malcom X's death. Ilyasah Shabazz, the third daughter of Malcolm X and Betty Shabazz, announced that new information indicates federal and state agencies “conspired to and executed their plan to assassinate”. Ilyasah added "For years, our family has fought for the truth to come to light concerning his murder and we’d like our father to receive the justice that he deserves."
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I hope you nerds have a good month of April 
Remember no crackers
Love to see white “leftists” goo off about sissypee mass surveillance after that Fox News dipshit caught a fine for parking in the bike lane. Most of them are also self-professed “urbanists” constantly complaining about car-centric infrastructure but then whining about authoritarianism 1984 when China does something about it. And they didn’t even bother to fact-check Fox News’ obvious bullshit to find out that you actually get a text to move your car within 15 minutes before you actually get fined, but I guess ring interference for sinophobic propagandists is more important. Most Chinese citizens actually support what they call “mass surveillance” but the average cracker is incapable of comprehending the existence of cultural differences.
I’m always happy to explain the reasoning behind why most in China support CCTV but they always call me a sissypee shill before I get to that point. I guess it’s my bad though, not to have realized that John Oliver’s opinion on the Chinese government is far more important than what Chinese citizens think.
I’m always happy to explain the reasoning behind why most in China support CCTV but they always call me a sissypee shill before I get to that point.
I'd love to hear about that reasoning. It sounds very different from how I'd feel, but I'm in an ameriKKKan context where I hate that there's recording all around which the genocidal government of the Fourth Reich can use
See my reply to MarxMadness; happy to take any questions
I’m always happy to explain the reasoning behind why most in China support CCTV
Mind sharing here?
This is just one reason out of many but it is the most representative one. The 80s-90s-early 00s in China was absolutely chaotic. It was not safe to be outside. The most dangerous jobs in the country were taxi driver, long-haul bus driver, and truck driver.
Taxi drivers got robbed and/or killed all the time, and there was even an informal “peak season” for taxi driver killings. I know a cab driver in Beijing, the older model cabs had a barrier that could be activated by foot. The idea was that you would flip the switch if someone was holding a knife to your throat and it would slam up and break their wrist.
For any moderate-length road trip it was almost a coin-flip whether you would be robbed and/or extorted somewhere along the way, possibly multiple times over. There were entire tiny villages that had their economy essentially built on robbing people passing by.
Things reached the worst point in the 90s. There were quite a few bus drivers who refused to work during peak travel season because encountering armed thugs was basically guaranteed. If the long haul bus you were on got boarded and robbed it wouldn’t even make the news. If your entire family got killed on a road trip that wasn’t newsworthy either. If an entire bus full of people got killed it would get mentioned in a summary segment at the end of the evening news. Oh, and calling the cops (or, more realistically, walking overnight to the nearest government office after you get carjacked to report it) was basically a meaningless token gesture.
In the mid-90s the government implemented the “严打” scheme which can be loosely translated as “maximum enforcement”. You can look up pictures from this time; banners were placed all over cities and villages saying that robbers would be shot on sight. Sometimes an ambush would be arranged where they would drive around a fake cargo truck packed with soldiers. However strange it seems to today’s China they would sometimes get into gunfights with robbers.
Around 2002 the government issued a statement that there would be not only be no criminal consequences for killing anyone who tries to intercept or rob a vehicle, but there would also be a financial reward. And unlike FBI rewards they actually paid out. This statement was plastered on every form of public transportation. The official advice was to keep going no matter who or what you hit.
Ancillary to this, traffic in general was a total disaster and basically nobody followed traffic laws.
This is all within very recent memory (anybody born before 1995). Public safety made a complete 180 from ~2005 to ~2015. Nowadays getting robbed on the road is practically unheard of and would be front page news for months on end.
Now, obviously the improvement of material conditions contributed in large part to this, but the proliferation of CCTV technology is credited with this also. Especially in terms of improving clearance rates for solving crimes and basically ending the concept of the police chase in China.
If you go to bilibili and look at the comments of people reacting to the Fox “mass surveillance” segment it’s split between people mocking them for inflating the amount of the fine by 25% (and lying about getting one in the first place) and people talking about what life used to be like.
There is a good bilibili documentary on this. If I have time I’ll sub it and upload it here.
Of course this is not to say what they have in China is what we should aspire to, even in a hypothetical communist utopia. However if this is what Chinese people want for China then I’m not really in any position to say they’re wrong.
Seriously, fuck John Oliver. Any self-proclaimed "leftist" who props him up gets the gulag once the revolution comes.
I'm starting to think that white basketball players getting praised for their defense is just a way of letting me know that they play dirty as shit
no deadass, watching the game yesterday was wild seeing hartenstein play like that and not get fouls called and all the yt people are trying to say ”that’s just good physical defense” but the second a black player gets physical they start trying to call them violent and all that
So I met this couple younger than I am who is expecting a baby. The husband is still using gendered/misogynistic language in the year of our Lord 2026 abeanismo dominoes AD. Okay whatever. White dude says white dude things and otherwise isn't chuddy. The wife, however, is Asian. And I'm thinking: "Oh no. Oh nonononono...buddy...pal...sister...if he hasn't done the work of not disparaging your gender, he sure as shit hasn't done the work of not disparaging your ethnicity."
EMPoC chat you've given me Baader-Meinhof for interracial couples lmao
>log on to hexbear.net
>cracker mod accusing POC user of faking their race
>log out of hexbear.net
Judas Priest, Xijinpingist... And I thought crackerism was dead...
Also at one point they basically said “you’re too literate to be Chinese”
Levels of racism that usually gets someone banned within the hour, but not surprising coming from a self-professed expat.
逆天，难道英语流利就不是中国人了？ 傻逼二百五
Yea that was weird, especially the "your english is too good for you to be chinese"
Yeah the whole “true Chinese only speak in mysterious bureaucratic terms” was wild(ly racist). Calipers moment.
I was half-expecting to see the word “inscrutable” pop up at some point.
At least action was taken quicker relative to the last problematic mod
At least action was taken quicker relative to the last problematic mod
Eh...they'd posted weird race essentialist shit about China before and didn't catch a ban
Unfortunately response time is measured in years so having anything done within half a decade is surprising… And actually, it seems like they just banned from the community and not the site, so I have to take it back, the clock’s still ticking
"For the first time, China's Supreme People's Court has banned discrimination based on sexual orientation, gender identity, and gender expression in judgments, including the written terms in legal protections against discrimination.
The ruling acknowledges that insults and humiliation for these reasons can lead to punishment and compensation, that companies cannot discriminate in hiring, firing, or work environment, and that schools can be punished for bullying LGBTQIA+ students.
The Court stated that it will continue to standardize decisions on the rights of these minorities and will include human dignity and personality rights in the training of judges."
Watch the absolute crickets on western media on this as it was a few years ago on the court that ruled a lesbian couple could both be legally their son's mothers lmao just as the west destroys lgbt+ rights in their own countries.
Link here but it's in portuguese I just translated: https://x.com/npomvtt/status/2056814160399511856
I just know that if Graham Plattner were black these ‘leftist’ personalities would be ripping him to pieces
Imagine if a black guy who went to Africa joined Boko Haram, came back and started bragging about his time and crimes but acting if he has changed. Or an Arab who joined ISIS, or a hispanic person who joined the contras.
When AQ sits down at the pronoun circle
Decided to make it a 9-string one... it sounds so bloomer, I know. Even more bloomer than my usual happy prog metal vibe.
Happy 100th anniversary of Malcolm X and may his legacy continue to inspire us until we achieve our goals!
Unrelated news but currently learning about the Muslim conquest of Iberia in class and ofc the it was full of islamophobia. Next one will be about the Reconquista so won't be better. 5 centuries of humiliation upon europe.
Some people (
) like to act like the islamic conquest were this unique evil invasion of the world instead of being like the very common at the time medieval conquests, their view is always rooted in islamophobia
What pisses me off the most is how they ignore how a lot of the parts were previously held by the Byzantine empire and other empires,
They ignore most of that unless its the Roman Empire, every crackers' favorite wholesome chungus ancient empire.
There was a lot of roman empire dick sucking in those lesson ofc lmao
"Maybe the Europeans deserved it since they were always killing and enslaving each other. They had human sacrifices before Muslims showed up and taught them civilization."
Weird how you never hear this argument unless it's Europeans genociding brown and black people. 🤔
muslims taught them basic hygiene and the euros will never forgive them
not at all unrelated.
"Who taught you to hate the texture of your
hair? Who taught you to hate the color of your skin to such extent that you bleach to get like the white man? Who taught you to hate the shape of
your nose and the shape of your lips? Who taught you to hate yourself from the top of your head to the soles of your feet? Who taught you to hate
your own kind? Who taught you to hate the race that you belong to?" 
Such a based quote
True. Never felt as lonely as being the only non-white person in the room.