

Thank you, Europe. God, let this be what Ukraine needs.
Cripple. History Major. Irritable and in constant pain. Vaguely Left-Wing.
Thank you, Europe. God, let this be what Ukraine needs.
Large scale counterterrorism AKA “war on terror” is a geopolitical paradox that only creates more terrorism as the victims of state terrorism, their families, and loved ones are inevitably radicalized by self-righteous war criminals who are impossible to defeat or even hinder through conventional means.
This is an account of military special forces (ineptly) intervening in a hijacking+hostage situation, I don’t think that holds a whole lot of relevance here. Unless your position is that hijacking and hostage situations are impossible for state forces to resolve.
Didn’t Washington stalk and harass his half-sister-in-law (who was a slave who escaped him) till his deathbed…
As far as I know, he didn’t have any ‘half-sister-in-law’ who was a slave. You may be thinking of Oney Judge, whom he did not hold full legal rights to.
Ig tbf coulda just been gender slavery rather than race slavery, but idk I’d say he was against people as property.
I never mean (unless some particular circumstance should compel me to it) to possess another slave by purchase: it being among my first wishes to see some plan adopted by the legislature by which slavery in the Country may be abolished by slow, sure, & imperceptible degrees.
There is not a man living who wishes more sincerely than I do, to see a plan adopted for this abolition of [slavery] but there is only one proper and effectual mode by which it can be accomplished, & that is by Legislative authority.
Were it not then, that I am principled agt. [sic] selling Negroes, as you would Cattle in the market, I would not, in twelve months from this date, be possessed of one as a slave.
He was not the most radical of men on the issue - he was a stodgy old patrician who believed in doing things the ‘right’ way, even if the ‘right’ way was morally abhorrent and tediously slow. Even his participation in the American Revolution was only the result of decades of failure to negotiate on the part of the British government. But ultimately, by the end of the Revolutionary War, he was not a supporter of slavery, and he was a private opponent of slavery.
“5 Terrorists, 50 Hostages, 55 Bodybags; Mission Successful” energy
We, as a species, are resilient. I suspect we’ll be around a while.
As individuals, on the other hand? Well, the odds probably aren’t great.
Damn, here I thought I hid it so well
let me tell you about this austrian painter and what he did in poland and germany before the ussr liberated them
How did he get into Poland, again?
For that matter, who told the German KPD not to cooperate with the SPD against reactionary forces?
Just wait until you start hearing defenses of Ceaușescu and the Securitate.
Saved from those dirty capitalist pigs, who would’ve destroying the living standards of the workers, set them to long and inhumane work quotas, and destroyed their strikes with the force of the bourgeois state!
Utterly repulsive and inhumane. Fuck’s sake…
Explanation: After the US Civil War, a process known as ‘Reconstruction’ began. In this, the rebellious slaver Southern states and any traitors in them were reduced in political power, and newly-freed Black folk were supported politically and economically to put them on more equal footing. During Reconstruction, the first Black congressmen were elected, and the first anti-segregation acts were passed by the Federal government.
Unfortunately, it would not last - infighting in the Republican Party (at the time, the more progressive and egalitarian of the two parties) eventually resulted in Reconstruction losing steam, and the South regaining much of its former power and influence over national politics.
Explanation: The man we know today as Genghis Khan, Temujin, was a minor tribal chieftain who appeared to lack world-conquering ambitions as a young man, when his beloved wife, Borte, was captured by an enemy tribe. It was this event which cast young Temujin out of the survival-oriented lifestyle of a minor tribal chieftain, and into the greater politics of Mongolia, in an attempt to form alliances that would allow him to rescue his beloved. After eight months of such wheeling-and-dealing, Temujin found sufficient allies for a counter-raid, in which he managed to reunite with Borte.
By then, however, he was lodged firmly in the feuding of Mongol tribes, and any prospect of a quiet life - whether he desired to return to it or was thrilled by getting out of it - was over. For that matter, Borte herself was a shrewd political operator, and without her, Temujin may never have united Mongolia and became the Genghis Khan we know today.
Don’t mess with the quiet guy, or his wife. It might be all it takes to send him on the path to becoming world conqueror!
Ol’ Rebel Yeller
You explain to me, how the mine knows, it has reached the bottom.
The mine knows where it is
“The West will only survive if we split up and lick the boots of authoritarians”
Combining posting activity and views per posts yields us with this perspective of total views. Different rates of amplification mean that the already big differences in posting activity are magnified. So this is what happened. We can easily see how we get to TikTok, as an environment, having much more Pro-Palestinian content than Pro-Israel content. We can also see that for much of October 2023, General content was by far the most dominant. But these data alone cannot tell us why there were such meaningful differences in views per post. There is at least one thing we can rule out, however. This effect doesn’t appear to be tied to user engagement.
Explanation: During the American Revolution, and in the lead-up to it, the American colonists’ position wherein American colonists were denied representation in the British government was often compared (by said colonists) to slavery.
The thing is, uh, many of them were literal slavers themselves, running, for that matter, one of the worst systems of slavery in human history at that. No mean feat, considering the already-low bar for slavery as a system.
Of the Founding Fathers as they’re generally recognized, four of the seven became abolitionists, either before or during the American Revolution (John Jay, Ben Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, John Adams). One turned against slavery as an institution, but did not come out publicly in favor of abolition before his death (Washington). One had negative feelings on slavery, but also negative feelings on Black people (Jefferson). One was an unrepentant slaver (Madison).
Gonna try this in my continuing effort to reach ELO 1