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The Communist Party of the United States of America (CPUSA) was established on this day in 1919. CPUSA provided legal aid to the Scottsboro Boys, helped poor Southern farmers form sharecropper unions, and promoted communist ideas within the U.S.

The party was established after a split in the Socialist Party of America following the Russian Revolution, and initially operated underground due to the Palmer Raids, a series of anti-immigrant, anti-labor, and anti-communist raids conducted by Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer.

CPUSA was an early opponent of segregation and racial discrimination, giving legal aid to the Scottsboro Boys and helping poor black farmers in the South organize sharecropper unions. Because of this, the party had a strong presence in Alabama in the 1930s. This history is detailed in "Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists during the Great Depression" by historian Robin D.G. Kelley.

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[–] Catradora_Stalinism@hexbear.net 13 points 2 years ago (2 children)

As an autistic weirdo, it really depends on some random extrovert to adopt you to get any friends

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[–] Catradora_Stalinism@hexbear.net 13 points 2 years ago

the sheer amount of transphobes from other instances has me really considering whether to federate with anything besides lemmygrad and lemmy

[–] WhyEssEff@hexbear.net 13 points 2 years ago (4 children)

olimar-point pikmin-carry-lbrigadingpikmin-carry-r pikmin-onion
FWIIII ^Huh!^ ^Hooh!^ ^Huh!^ ^Hooh!^ ^Huh!^ ^Hooh!^

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[–] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 13 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

"Chinese cartographic aggression". Learning that Indian political junkies are even bigger babies than American ones. It's a map get a grip.

[–] Dolores@hexbear.net 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

have i been pranked i just saw my "ass feudalism" bit on the tagline hyperflush

[–] blight@hexbear.net 12 points 2 years ago

current person of ridicule: Dolores

[–] Dolores@hexbear.net 13 points 2 years ago (2 children)

this is fucking bizzaro cinema, the protagonists are all trepadatious and having doubts when the "bad guys" do violence on the worst fucking people imaginable

cara delverigne's character has doubts about the revolution when the revolutionaries molotov a bar that has a) nazis inside b) the skulls of minorities hanging on the walls

i want to know who can watch this and agree with the authorial intent, shit is completely unhinged

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[–] PaulSmackage@hexbear.net 13 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Just got hit by a memory where i was browsing through a used record store and found this

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[–] Goblin@hexbear.net 12 points 2 years ago (2 children)

here in Zhongguo (中国) ((China, if you're a westerner LOL)) we have great job security and prosperity. and actual health care

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[–] RION@hexbear.net 12 points 2 years ago (8 children)

BREAKING: I still think alcohol sucks ass

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[–] BadTakesHaver@hexbear.net 12 points 2 years ago

every time someone mentions the Kremlin I think of donkey kong

[–] GorbinOutOverHere@hexbear.net 12 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Watching some isekai slop called something like "making 80000 gold in another world for my retirement" and it's aight so far. Her dumb isekai ability is she can teleport, and swap between worlds as well.

She's like "yeah im gonna sell stuff from earth here to make gold so i don't gotta work in either world" and it's one of those settings where people react to the shit she brings over like they should. Like a swiss army knife just representing an impossible level of craftsmanship for the technology level of the place she's in. Or like she wears a cultured pearl necklace to meet a count and his family and the countess freaks out about it, the size and uniformity of the pearls, how it's not just something that would be considered expensive but just having so many perfect matching pearls would make it a priceless work of art.

I'm just at the part where she sets up her store and gets her first customers and basically everything is like magic to them. She feeds them fish and everybody is like 🤮🤮🤮 until they eat it, and they explain it's because they're like 10 days from the coast, and it'd only barely be possible to bring fish with like, 3 days off straight riding swapping out pre prepared stagecoaches and horses and riding them to exhaustion. And even then, only in the winter with the use of ice and snow to keep it fresh. So where the fuck is she getting this fresh fish?

They think she's a witch, lol

I love me my isekai slop

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[–] Dolores@hexbear.net 12 points 2 years ago (3 children)

HOW??? how could carnival row possibly make the antiracist definitely-not-bolsheviks supporting the fairy jewish-allegory that not-london put into a literal ghetto in the last season---the bad guys?

like they're doing the typical "bad revolutionaries murder" thing but provide overwhelming evidence in the text of the show that the violence is absolutely necessary and justified. you're really going to expect viewers to somehow sympathize with the people the show has doing apartheid, lynchings, & murdering people for miscegenation?

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[–] vomit_sounds@hexbear.net 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Liberals that go something like "you can't use american racism theory for Europe, it's a whole other context!!" are going to be my favourite genre of takes from now on.

OF COURSE I CAN, YOU BANANA STEALING EUROAPE, THEORY IS MEANT TO BE APPLIED TO DIFFERENT CONTEXTS

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[–] AlpineSteakHouse@hexbear.net 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Excuse me, I need to step outside for my menthol break.

goes outside and sniffs Vicks Vapor Rub

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[–] forcequit@hexbear.net 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

'finished transitioning' lol lmao

[–] forcequit@hexbear.net 12 points 2 years ago (2 children)
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[–] Sandinband@hexbear.net 12 points 2 years ago (8 children)

I waited too long to do stuff but now I have the energy but if I do it now ill annoy people shatter

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[–] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 12 points 2 years ago

Woke CIA doing a land acknowledgement after finishing a coup.

[–] Rojo27@hexbear.net 11 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Cop Mayor Adams wants to lock kids inside of schools. Now visitors have to ring a bell and be let in by some guard or cop. Not only that he increasing the presence of NYPD cops on school premises. The school to prison pipeline is alive and walldoomer

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[–] Moss@hexbear.net 11 points 2 years ago

I will be eternally grateful to Tatsuki Fujimoto for putting me onto Maximum The Hormone. When the karaoke scene gets animated in 10 years it will be absolute peak

[–] HarryLime@hexbear.net 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] HarryLime@hexbear.net 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

data-outdoor-cat - "Thank you for bringing Spot back to me, Olimar."

olimar-point - "You're welcome, Data."

[–] HarryLime@hexbear.net 12 points 2 years ago

data-outdoor-cat - "And thanks to you as well, Pikmin."

Pikmin noises - pikmin-carry-r pikmin-carry-r pikmin-carry-r pikmin-carry-r

[–] CliffordBigRedDog@hexbear.net 11 points 2 years ago

I acquired Starfield using "extralegal" means

God this game runs like dogshit my gpu is kinda a little below recommended spec but i literally cannot get 60 fps on 1080p Even on the lowest settings with render scale all the way down

Gpu usage is up 100% while cpu is hovering around 20

Something is very very wrong

Cyberpunk ran better for me at launch even before my cpu upgrade

[–] Mindfury@hexbear.net 11 points 2 years ago (2 children)

you have entered the
A U S T R A L I A N
P O S T I N G
Z O N E

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[–] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Referring to the ottomans as "the eastern byzantine empire"

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[–] forcequit@hexbear.net 11 points 2 years ago

I've almost definitely posted about this one before. I don't know when or how it started, but every so often I'll start singing roxette's 'dangerous' to myself only I swap 'dangerous' for 'ableist'.

I'm doing this rn

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