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The Counter-Revolution of 1776:Slave Resistance and the Origins of the United States of America.
As the United States of America, celebrate its independence anniversary declared on 4th July, 1776, we take a look at the history of America, the events that led to declaration of independence, and most importantly why declaration of independence was not a cause for celebration among all Americans, particularly for the native Americans and the enslaved African Americans. “For Native Americans, it may be a bitter reminder of colonialism, which brought fatal diseases, cultural hegemony and genocide. Neither did the new republic’s promise of “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness” extend to African Americans. The colonists who declared their freedom from England did not share their newly founded liberation with the millions of Africans they had captured and forced into slavery.”
The so-called Revolution was according to Professor Gerald Horne, was a ‘Counter-Revolution’ a conservative effort by American colonists to protect their system of slavery. Contrary to anonymous role often assign to African Americans in the American Revolution (which Prof. Gerald Horne refer to as Counter-Revolution) the prof. lucidly outline their roles and their major impact. The book is a great shift in paradgim.
Professor Gerald Horne, is the author of the book “The Counter-Revolution of 1776: Slave Resistance and the Origin of the United States of America.”
https://kritisansar.noblogs.org/files/2017/12/The-Counter-Revolution-of-1776.pdf
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The new anti-China propaganda push is about the Ethnic Unity Law, it's been non-stop propaganda for the past week in my country.
Looking for jobs to apply to and for some reason so many of them say "No experience required!!!" and when I look at the qualifications it says 1 year minimum of experience. What the fuck do these assholes want lmao
It's too late, i've already depicted you as the soy faced source demander and myself as the chadly block button presser
The density of population in China is four times as great as in the U.S.A., yet the U.S.A. stands higher than China in the scale of social development; for in China a semi-feudal system still prevails, whereas the U.S.A. has long ago reached the highest stage of development of capitalism.
In 1938 
damn.......
Please share any interesting content from yesterday's events, ex fireworks
Rewatching but I’m a cheerleader, lol such a perfect movie. Need some queer camp recommendations, think I want to binge some for a week or two.
Have you ever watched any movies directed by Gregg Araki?
ChatGPT telling me that just 34 well placed missiles would destroy the entire United States 
Yapping
I am strong enough to read & comprehend "Dialectical and Historical Materialism"! No one's ever done it like me!!! RRRAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH
Further, if the world is knowable and our knowledge of the laws of development of nature is authentic knowledge, having the validity of objective truth, it follows that social life, the development of society, is also knowable,
I know "social life" here refers to the development of society and its structures, but still
Whatever is the being of a society, whatever are the conditions of material life of a society, such are the ideas, theories political views and political institutions of that society.
Me when I'm a product of my material conditions.........
The fall of the utopians, including the Narodniks, anarchists and Socialist-Revolutionaries, was due, among other things to the fact that they did not recognize the primary role which the conditions of the material life of society play in the development of society, and, sinking to idealism, did not base their practical activities on the needs of the development of the material life of society, but, independently of and in spite of these needs, on "ideal plans" and "all-embracing projects", divorced from the real life of society.
I see...
There are different kinds of social ideas and theories. There are old ideas and theories which have outlived their day and which serve the interests of the moribund forces of society. Their significance lies in the fact that they hamper the development, the progress of society.
Neoliberalism!
Then there are new and advanced ideas and theories which serve the interests of the advanced forces of society. Their significance lies in the fact that they facilitate the development, the progress of society; and their significance is the greater the more accurately they reflect the needs of development of the material life of society.
Can current capitalist societies (i.e. USA, Canada) still be said to have advanced ideas and theories, this far past their best-by date? Are they advancing on their own terms, or have all of their thinkers gone and left them to wallow in old ideas?
Thus social ideas, theories and political institutions, having arisen on the basis of the urgent tasks of the development of the material life of society, the development of social being, themselves then react upon social being, upon the material life of society, creating the conditions necessary for completely carrying out the urgent tasks of the material life of society, and for rendering its further development possible.
"Old world is dying, new world struggles to be born"...
Correct answer:
Hence, in order to be able to influence the conditions of material life of society and to accelerate their development and their improvement, the party of the proletariat must rely upon such a social theory, such a social idea as correctly reflects the needs of development of the material life of society, and which is therefore capable of setting into motion broad masses of the people and of mobilizing them and organizing them into a great army of the proletarian party, prepared to smash the reactionary forces and to clear the way for the advanced forces of society.
The fall of the "Economists" and the Mensheviks was due, among other things, to the fact that they did not recognize the mobilizing, organizing and transforming role of advanced theory, of advanced ideas and, sinking to vulgar materialism, reduced the role of these factors almost to nothing, thus condemning the Party to passivity and inanition.
Reddit libs are the most Hitlerite people imaginable, someone posted the Boy Boy Cuba Aid Documentary on r/Documentaries (didn't even know I was subscribed to that) and the amount of 
in the comments is truly astounding. All the libs can focus is in how Aleksa is somehow a "paid Russian propagandist" and how much they like to gobble Ukrainian Nazi propaganda. Global northerners are bloodthirsty imperialists, who would have guessed?
Friend is really mad at me because they were asking about my ancestry/"lineage" (very mixed European) and when my family immigrated to the US (it's all over the place and depends on which ancestors you look at) in order to optimize my diet.
And I made fun of the whole idea, "as we know each European race has evolved distinct dietary habits" they took it very personallly.
Eastern European? Cabbage & potatoes (yes I know potatoes are a new world food)
Western European? Potatoes & cabbage
French? Cheeses
Where do beans fit in?
Lamb?
Etc. yes they said things like this
Yeah, it sounds very silly. Did they just randomly offer to cook for you? Because tbh, if a friend offered me food, I'd be so thankful I'd excuse a lot of silliness.
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Bald came I into this Earth
And upon my head grew hair of great length and worth
By the curse of man I grow hair no longer, never to return
And when death overtakes me, oh,
In baldness I will rest forever, never to return
Oh cool, one of my favorite mangas got an anime adaptation! I better watch it. I wonder when it gets to that one arc i didnt li—
And Episode 4 they introduce Poem’s father who used to be an underground rapper, it’s played for laughs as everything is in this series, but the dub is now in meter and it’s worse than hearing Vtubers rap and if I say anything more someone will get mad at me.
Looking up game guides to beat enemy bosses to immerse myself into the scholary witcher/monster hunter mindset
The neighbors play loud music (hired a dj for a party) and it made me wish i had a second Marshall 4x12 so i could hook a a mixer out to my guitar amps and have two 50 watt amps acting in stereo just because it’s overkill, funny, and a bit obnoxious.
Awful dj tho, messed up a bunch of the transitions, but i guess living in Bushwick ruined me
I'm so tired of rich white people. The rest of my life is over, no matter how hard I try, there will always be a rich white kid who can just outmanuever me.
And they're not even trying hard, they're not sacrificing anything. Everything I do is in the shadow of some spoiled rat baby.
I dont want to live anymore, I don't see a happy future for me. Just forever grinding, miserable. I am a broken person and I can't fix it in this world.
youtube really wants me to watch forgottenweapons but that dude has bad vibes. Doesn't help that the video it keeps pushing has 'the US army wanted a rapid fire grenade launcher after Fallujah' in the thumbnail
Just not the same after the breakup with InRangeTV
I was going to go to an open studio session since I didnt have my pottery class this week but my friend who was gonna go with me cant make it and since I've been throwing larger amounts of clay, the soreness I get after class hasn't been going away for a few days but normally class is on Saturday so I have a day to rest before work.
Debating just not going and hoping my work from last week stays wet enough for me to trim it next week. I'll be out 11 dollars but not starting a busy week off in pain sounds nice 
The nightclub i just started working at is so extremely Chinese that security is allowed to smoke at our posts if we want to
I hate America so fucking much, it has single handedly created everything single fucking thing that's the bane of my existence and might drive me to suicide one day. Crypto? Fucking america. Chatgpt and similar blackboxes of data? Fucking america. Surveillance? Fucking america. Ozempic? Fucking america. Like this fucking settler society deserves to burn to ground and its ashes spread on a barren rock in space where radiation will strip it to atoms, there's no society more disgusting than America except its own settler state lapdog called Israel.
Buzzfeed... welcone to the resistance!
Tofuheads please help - airfryer question
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I tried the method of cubing firm tofu, then boiling, then coating, then air frying. It ended up looking okay, but the texture was chewy and leathery on the outside and like, hollow, on the inside.
Technique this time waz:
- cube and add to pot of salted boiling water, remove when float to surface
- leave to cool a little before placing in tupperware with 1tbspn of potato(? corn?) starch and 1tspn of dukkah (just cos) and shake to coat evenly
- shake into air fryer and coat with oil (I used olive cos it was on hand)
- fry until golden on one side (rougly 10mins), flip and then fry on the other side (roughly five mins?)
These are approximate timings, it could have been like 20 mins in the fryer idrk I was more looking at the colour
(I didn't eat it like this I made some chilli, garlic sauce with coriander leaf thingy to go iver the top)
I stand by my "just marinate it in diluted soy sauce and maybe a little vegan chicken stock, drain, fry, and season/sauce, then maybe bake to dry out the texture if it's too moist" method. I tried boiling it in salt water and that did literally nothing but waste time. There was no difference in taste or texture whatsoever. I think people have a lot of superstitions about cooking tofu and I've found none of them useful.
I skip the corn starch too because I'm usually frying 10Ib of it and there's no quick and easy way to prevent clumping and I really do not find the texture more appealing than the way I do it.
Ultimately I'm going to say yours 1) needed a marinade and 2) were just cooked too long. Yours don't look burnt but the color and the texture you've described are 100% what my coworker WHO IGNORES EVERYTHING I SAY ABOUT THIS gets when he just dumps unmarinated tofu in the fryer and walks away until they're cooked to death
So if you like everything else about what you're doing and don't like my method or find it a waste of soy sauce or whatever I would say BOIL IT LESS OR NOT AT ALL and when it comes to frying GET IT COMPLETELY DRY AND GET THE FRYER AS HOT AS IT GOES.
Because, especially if you've boiled it (but either way, tofu is safe to eat raw), you're mostly trying to affect the exterior, crisp it up, caramelize sugars on the outside (which it will have, a lot of, if marinated in dilute soy sauce), etc. So, IMO, cooking it less, but then intensifying the heat at the end, will give you the exterior you're looking for without the chewy, hollow leather texture
When I fry tofu the way I describe, it's in a 350F deep fryer for no more than 3-4 minutes before it develops the caramelization I'm looking for, and longer than that gives me the Coworker's Special Tofu
Did you pat it dry after boiling? Just like techpeakesin said, that helps the coating become gelatinous and some of the heat going towards making it crispy gets diverted towards evaporation instead therefore sacrificing texture.
I did not pat dry, and in all honesty didn't let it cool that much out of the pot, because I was trying to move onto making the sauce. I'll try again and make sure to give it a bit longer. I think the starch I used is also probably too fine, so it really did form quite a uniform coating. I'll go back to wheat flour next time. Ty for suggestion
Moisture means the local temperature where that moisture is is going to be restrained to around boiling until that moisture cooks off. If you're frying anything for any purpose I am absolutely positive that you will want it to be as dry as possible on the outside to promote browning and caramelization
I was going to say in my other comment but yeah if I'm breading tofu i prefer doing wheat flour anyway. I just don't like the result corn starch gives outside of gget specific purposes
P.s. I don't use air fryers though but I'm pretty sure they're just like tiny convection ovens. In which case I don't think you'll ever really get "this is a good fried food" effects from it. They're ultimately still just roasting, being surrounded by oil is just a fundamentally different cooking environment than air can provide
Well, no, there's a slight distinction from roasting. The convection comes from a fan blowing the hot air around and that active movement removes moisture faster than simply heating it up like what happens during a roast. You really do get crisping.
It's not the same as deep frying though, it's just more efficient roasting. It's going to be a more even result than without the convection but that's really it
It's definitely not the same as deep frying, but it's also definitely not the same as roasting. imo it's its own thing.
The leathery texture might be caused by adding the starch to the tofu while the tofu was still too hot, causing the starch to gelatinate. IDK though, I've never had that issue. I don't know quite what you mean by hollow texture, but I will say I've never liked how tofu comes out with the boiling method. For me, tofu comes out best by just cooking it longer at a lower temperature to evaporate the excess water without burning it. I don't press it or do any other prep first (except marinading sometimes).
I think that could be it, I didn't really let it cool much, just enough while I was doing some other prep. I guess the 'hollowness' is a direct flipside of the skin being leathery, i.e. I was focussing so much on the tough exterior that the soft internal texture wasn't noticeable, so probably doubling up on the same complaint.
Next time I think I'll let it cool for longer and maybe give a lil pat dry even. I'll have to manage my impatience in pursuit of a better outcome. Thank you for the guidance
I think it's really just a matter of over cooking. Especially with the salt boil, that's going to draw extra moisture out of the interior too
I have a new favorite front of house co-worker. Cause as a masc presenting they them/them who he/hims at work cause it's not a big deal, she started calling me 'girl' in that when we're complaining she'll say 'go off girl!" To me. Being misgendered as a woman by a woman who thinks you're a cis dude as a term of endearment means a lot.
Another newish hire asked is she could ring in a kid's mac and cheese for herself and get the adult sized one. I let her know if management is off just ak us for food and made a way better mac n cheese than is in the menu. Back of house can take home whatever the fuck we want and foh is expected to pay. Im not tryong to be popular, I just ethically wont tolerate that shit and will make front of house whatever they want and will often offer to mske it better thsn the menu version. I like my co workers and hate my boss and nieve everyone should eat and have access to food my boss paid for. If popularity is a consequence of basic decency then it truly makes me sick how far we done fell
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