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fun fact, they had a lot of teenagers joining who were insistent on being given access to a gun. the older cadres would refuse to hand them a gun until they were up to date on their reading material and had proven themselves by doing exemplary fieldwork over a sustained period of time.

buying a gun by itself won't do anything but act as a trophy. the reason their public carry campaign had profound impacts was because they organized their communities to act as a united front first.

also the most radical chapters knew how to respect their own autonomy over the national leadership's sometimes nonsensical dictats. horizontal organizing and direct action gets the job done.

i see this as similar to teaching your family not to click on malware pop-ups. you first make it easier for them by installing adblock. then you teach them how to pirate so they can source their own media. then maybe they'll pick up some OS skills by learning about file extensions. drip-feeding information that makes them feel smart and autonomous over a long period of time is the way to go in my opinion.

by marketing genAI as spamware and encouraging community book clubs, hopefully people will realize that genAI use is a maladaptive coping mechanism. i think shunning is also a very powerful tool, framing genAI use as crossing the picket line and being a scab is a metaphor I enjoy.

looting back your own hardware is based

When you massacre non-combatants, women, and children as factually did happen its genocide

this is word for word what the French did to Haitians. that was the only genocide that ever happened during the Haitian Revolution. implying that racism against white colonizers is possible or if you're a white supremacist claiming that resisting a Holocaust is akin to committing genocide is a genocide denier's talking point.

so you have jack-shit to show for it, got it. really makes your position extremely credible lmao

there was no distinction between "civilians" and soldiers because the people he targeted fought in the colonial National Guard. you would've known this if you had read the sources I linked though. from WP:

In a 2005 article titled “Caribbean genocide,” historian Philippe Girard argued that during the first four months of 1804, “on Dessalines’s orders, soldiers rounded up white planters, their families, French soldiers and the urban poor known as petits blancs, and killed them. Neither women nor children were spared.” Drawing heavily on Girard’s claims, podcaster Mike Duncan, in Season 4 of “Revolutions,” offers a sensationalized account of what he calls the “genocidal massacres” of 1804. He alleges that Haitian soldiers raped all the White women and concludes that Dessalines committed a “heinous crime.”

Did Dessalines execute French soldiers and colonists? Yes. But this fact has been exaggerated and taken out of historical context.

When the French evacuated in late 1803, they did not concede defeat. Instead, a small contingent of troops relocated to the city of Santo Domingo and began threatening to reinvade and “annihilate” the Black population. Dessalines soon learned of these plans. He also learned about support among White colonists for the recent French expedition. In this context, he ordered the execution of people who had “taken an active part in the different massacres and assassinations” by the French army. But, rather than targeted executions for the defense of the country, terrified colonists claimed to have witnessed the “massacre” of all the White people.

Historical documents reveal, however, that many White people remained in Haiti after this alleged genocide. For example, a partial census from October 1804 lists more than 600 White people in the district of Gros Morne alone. That same month — after all the White people were allegedly killed — a British captain claimed that 200 White women were in imminent danger of being “massacred” in Cap Haitien.

Claiming that Dessalines targeted civilians is also misleading. Many of those he executed fought in the colonial National Guard — militia units of male planters and merchants — which supported the French military expedition. Such claims also downplay the violence of colonialism. Settlers were enslavers, and as historian Vincent Brown has shown, slavery was war. Anti-colonialism is not genocide.

this rhetoric sounds like the Israeli hasbara painting settlers as innocent civilians when most of them either served in the IDF or are currently reservists.

show us the sources where he ordered French women and children purged

the developer is obviously a bad person but Dessalines simply carried out something resembling a Nuremberg trial rather than a "genocide".

there is no historical evidence of a genocide happening in 1804. the people claiming a "white genocide" happened are white French who would obviously be biased and would want to defend their "human rights" image on the global stage.

this is akin to the binary propaganda that paints October 7 as a "genocide" and Israel's actual genocide of Palestinians as a humanitarian mission to eradicate terrorism.

Kamala doesn't trust women so that's a garbage argument. judging by the way she treats incarcerated trans women

thanks for clarifying. there's still the risk of your IBAN getting leaked in a hack, no?

you mean gift cards bought at convenience stores? or do they buy them using a credit card and then the credits show up in your account?

regardless, Visa and MasterCard have hegemonic monopolies on the market. anybody not using them will see huge losses in sales.

excluding SEPA, it's impossible to buy most things using them in my EU country.

SEPA also doesn't have disposable credentials using randomized credit cards. i don't want the stores I buy from to have my bank account info and potentially be charged by them randomly.