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“I dissuade Party members from putting down people who do not understand. Even people who are unenlightened and seemingly bourgeois should be answered in a polite way. Things should be explained to them as fully as possible. I was turned off by a person who did not want to talk to me because I was not important enough. Maurice just wanted to preach to the converted, who already agreed with him. I try to be cordial, because that way you win people over. You cannot win them over by drawing the line of demarcation, saying you are on this side and I am on the other; that shows a lack of consciousness. After the Black Panther Party was formed, I nearly fell into this error. I could not understand why people were blind to what I saw so clearly. Then I realized that their understanding had to be developed.”

― Huey P. Newton :huey-wut:

Huey Newton, born on the 17th of february in 1942, was a Marxist-Leninist revolutionary who, along with fellow Merritt College student Bobby Seale, co-founded the Black Panther Party (‪1966 - 1982‬). Together with Seale, Newton created a ten-point program which laid out guidelines for how the African-American community could achieve liberation. In the 1960s, under Newton's leadership, the Black Panther Party founded over 60 community support programs (renamed survival programs in 1971) including food banks, medical clinics, HIV support groups, sickle cell anemia tests, prison busing for families of inmates, legal advice seminars, clothing banks, housing co-ops, and their own ambulance service.

The most famous of these programs was the Free Breakfast for Children program which fed thousands of impoverished children daily during the early 1970s. Newton also co-founded the Black Panther newspaper service which became one of America's most widely distributed African-American newspapers. In 1967, he was involved in a shootout which led to the death of the police officer John Frey. Although arrested for the murder of Frey, the charges were eventually dismissed.

In 1970, after his release from prison, Newton received an invitation to visit the People's Republic of China. Newton made the trip in late September 1971 with fellow Panthers, Elaine Brown and Robert Bay, and stayed for 10 days. At every Chinese airport he landed in, Newton was greeted by thousands of people waving copies of the "Little Red Book" and displaying signs that said "we support the Black Panther Party, down with US imperialism" or "we support the American people but the Nixon imperialist regime must be overthrown."

By mid-decade, Newton faced more criminal charges when he was accused of murdering a 17-year-old sex worker and assaulting a tailor. To avoid prosecution, he fled to Cuba in 1974, but returned to the U.S. three years later. The murder case was eventually dismissed after two trials ended with deadlocked juries, while the tailor refused to testify in court in relation to assault charges.

Despite graduating from high school not knowing how to read, he taught himself literacy by reading Plato's Republic and earned a Ph.D. in social philosophy from the University of California at Santa Cruz's History of Consciousness program in 1980. In 1989, he was murdered in Oakland, California by Tyrone Robinson, a member of the Black Guerrilla Family.

Revolutionary suicide does not mean that I and my comrades have a death wish; it means just the opposite. We have such a strong desire to live with hope and human dignity that existence without them is impossible. When reactionary forces crush us, we must move against these forces, even at the risk of death. We will have to be driven out with a stick.”

― Huey P. Newton, Revolutionary Suicide :huey-wut:

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 8 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 17 points 8 months ago

Gonna start using this.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 8 months ago

One more thing, on February 14th, I decided to finally say enough to my abuser. I will be 40 in a month, and I've suffered narcissistic abuse from my mother and then my soon to be ex wife.

No more.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 8 months ago (4 children)
[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Compare the total carbon emissions, shitheads.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I remember reading the bible as a 10 year old and seeing the whole "You have one father who is in heaven so call no earthly man your father" and then refusing to call my dad father for like 4 weeks until he got the preacher to say it was okay.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago

Homer'd his ass lmao

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 8 months ago

Israeli settler: I'm literally a fascist

NYT reporter: she's not exactly woke. A little bit edgy.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 8 months ago (7 children)

Near-dead torrent update, day 6:

HUGE day. The Spanish IP returned from what I assume is either a hyperbolic time chamber or a deal with Satan and brought me all the way from 17,1% to 68,5%. After that, the floodgates closed back down to a trickle and everything went back to the usual 30 KB/s from the same Brazilian IP I've been seeing most of the week, ending the day at 70,2%.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (8 children)

For those who saw my comment a little while back about my furry friend being diagnosed with cancer: After several trips with multiple rounds of expensive imaging, it turns out he doesn't have cancer. He just has a bony protrusion that looks like cancer. I have whiplash but I'm elated. Sorry for the false alarm.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Fucking hate being treated as a "drug addict" by doctors

I keep making the mistake of being honest with them and telling them I have used drugs for fun in the past which means my soul is permanently tainted to them

[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (6 children)

drug use

In general, most doctors just don't understand why people become addicted to or even use drugs like this in the first place

Usually, the cause is a personal failing to them, maybe with a side of an extremely reductive and mechanistic understanding of neurobiology obtained by animal torturers who inject methamphetamine directly into the brains of monkeys raised by wire mothers or something and think this serves as an accurate model of the drug use of people

The cause is primarily systemic and so is the solution

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 8 months ago (2 children)

It's very frustrating because a lot of people's understanding of drug use is like....60 years out of date. If your unfamiliar with the "rat park" experiments it basically confirms drug use arises from situations / stressors/environment/social structure. And that's in a rodent model. But somehow that awareness hasn't trickled down even to most medical professionals. Which is.....disheartening.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Oh my god this askreddit thread is amazing. If someone else wants to post it to the dunk tank, be my guest, I just found it easier to put in a comment here.

How is Russia still functioning considering they lost millions of lives during covid, people are dying daily in the war, demographics and birth rates are record low, but somehow they function…just how?

This one guy posts a fkn essay about how they live in Moscow and everything is falling apart because they only have Chinese cars and China bad

And then, not to put my conspiracy hat on but I found this reply to that comment funny:

I know this is off topic, but dude your English is flawless

Lmao, it sure is. Most of the other comments are about "Russia has a history of throwing away millions of lives" and other nonsense. A few comments actually call out that Russia did not, in fact, lose "millions of lives during covid", so good on those redditors.

Once you scroll all the way down, you finally get to this:

Nothing changed for 90% of people in Russia.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 8 months ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 17 points 8 months ago

Not getting an austin powers joke is impressive levels of media illiteracy.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Update: my dad really did just want to hang out, as it happens

Which is still nice! It was fun to hang out with him and my brother

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

Had a surreal moment today upon learning that at some nursing homes, some members of the nursing staff cannot retire and end up being older than the patients they take care of. It's such a profound inditement against the present economic system when you have people in their 80s who still have to sell their labor to survive. And yet, everyone has been conditioned to accept it as normal.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 8 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 18 points 8 months ago

A lot of people asking me about vaush this, cornel west that, here's my take on it after looking into everything further:

" The boyfriend" looks nice and the girls seem to have eaten their spaghetti and meat balls!

[–] [email protected] 17 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Chuds freaking out over Greece legalizing Gay Marriage: NOOOO! Your ancestors would be ashamed! NOOOO

[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Ancestor having gay sex in non-corporeal plane: :sheds happy tear:

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Get an anthropology degree they said. Learn about exotic cultures, they said! build your own atlatl they said!

CW: Making the strange familiar, making the familiar strange

spoilerI am currently arguing with a bunch of commies that first cousin marriage is a normal practice around the world and has been for most of history, that it only started becoming taboo in the west in the mid/late 19th century and only really became taboo in the early 1900s (Not coincidentally around the rise of Eugenics), and that the taboo is specific to western culture and does not represent a widespread belief across cultures or through history.

Anthropology is such a glamorous profession.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago (5 children)

New Megathread Nerds!!!

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No current struggle session discussion here on the new general megathread, i will ban you from the comm and remove your comment, have a good day/night :meow-coffee:

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago

I'm playing redditor bingo and I'm trying to get this dude to drop "whataboutisin" but so far no luck. Can you help me score a bingo?
https://hexbear.net/comment/4597222

[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

Just heard the awful news; the world has lost a true martyr to freedom, democracy and the international rules based order and will seem just that little bit colder from now on...

RIP William Post, inventor of the Pop Tart sadness

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Bit of r/cth lore, but i recall upon seeing a Struggle Session podcast episode recommendation, when Leslie Lee III (The Struggle Session podcast host) asked a moderator of r/cth if he can have one of his podcast episodes stickied upon the chapo subreddit. The moderator, u/geraltofrivia, said no. Leslie Lee III went on to twitter to complain to Will Menaker and then they both collectively shat on the subreddit.

Fair, and funny. Still annoyed I have this memory of someone running and whining to daddy "your subreddit didn't give me free publicity".

Sorry for sharing. Just a thought blurb. c;

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I kind of soft left my org nearly a year ago and officially am on a "mental health break". It's not that I dislike the org, but I feel such impostor syndrome when I'm there. I feel like everyone else actually knows what they're doing and why, and what the direction of the org is. To me it seems like there's so much I'm not seeing in what they do - like I don't know what the long term strategy is, or if they even have one, or if I just don't know because I didn't go to enough meetings. Also I don't read enough theory and I've had so much trouble telling people that I'm a communist because my anxiety is so bad and what the hell is wrong with me AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (8 children)

If I see any of you end a comment or post with "Hope this helps" I will report you for liberalism

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago

I remember when nature docd weren't just a eulogy for the planet. This isn't a criticism of the nature docs

[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

In Xi’s view, too much credit moved into property speculation, adding risks to the financial system, widening the gap between the haves and the have-nots, and diverting resources from what Xi considers to be the “real economy”—sectors such as manufacturing and high-end technology that he sees as crucial for China in its competition with the U.S.

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https://archive.is/9VJXH

[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago

Got a raise party-cat

[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I wasn't going to post anything about it because anyone that knows me knows I don't like to start drama. But I had some of the mod's private DMs leaked to me and apparently I've been blocked by a number of prominent users on this site for being a "dumb, obnoxious homo" who is "probably a furry". 😿

[–] [email protected] 17 points 8 months ago

damn i wish i had that sort of reputation

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I want to see a skit where some content creators try to do some "dumb people on the street" style interviews, Fallon-style, but each time, the people on the street get the answer right, making the guys increasingly frustrated, and so they make the question harder and harder, but the people on the street keep getting the answer right.

It starts with "name this country", and then it goes to "name every state on the map, stopping at states established after 1850", and then finally it's "name every element in the Periodic Table here", and the person replies "Well, before I start, it looks like this version of the Periodic Table was published before the 7th period was complete, it seems around 2007 or so. When I get to the last few elements, do I name them by their recognized names, or by their placeholder names they used at the time?"

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago (3 children)
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[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago (3 children)

On my gay little phone looking up how to be happy

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago (3 children)

i've been sitting on the ultimate struggle session topic for years now and i've never done anything with it

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (5 children)

Lefties are all about "oh we support kink", "kink should be at pride", "kink is a huge part of LGBT culture and being anti-kink is anti-LGBT". But the moment I post a drawing I did of Donald Duck dressed in leather daddy gear I'm getting the wtf Jesse emoji posted in the comments before my post is removed by the mods and I'm screamed at in my DMs for not drawing him in vinyl dominant-but-non-parental-figure gear instead.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (14 children)

The success of Palworld is a testament to gamers being the dumbest simpletons alive and impressed by jingling car keys. A fucking cynical asset flip with about as much depth as Vaush's AI generated loli porn. The "Nintendo hire this man" people were right, you can literally just AI generate some 3D models, slap them between some store-bought Unity assets and gamers will cream themselves.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago

trying to renew a medication, which happens to be a controlled substance, for my ailing elderly pet is turning me into the joker fuckin-deserve cure-for-fascism

[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Today I got to see the plastic surgery station of the local hospital. It's got glass doors, fake wood floors and clean mirrors, the works. I was there for some real gnarly wound, so I felt totally out of place, lol. Anyway, always glad to see where the money's going.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago (3 children)

So burned out on my job search. Recently graduated with a degree in computer science, looking for a job as a dev. Finally got my first interview after having sent out 30~50 applications a week since the start of last June. I get in there and it turns out they pulled a bait and switch, they weren't actually interviewing me for the job I applied for but a completely different one, not a SWE job, not in the same location, and not even full time. I'm starting to think I basically have no chance of getting hired because all I'm hearing is that I need to wait until the market is better, which won't be until I have a gap of years in my resume with no relevant experience which I can't explain away. Since I didn't graduate with a 3.5 GPA and an internship, my degree is apparently not worth wiping my ass with.

Burns doubly bad because this wasn't the fucking easy path, I busted my ass for this degree. I had to give up on college in my third semester because I lost my scholarship. Lost my scholarship because, who knew, going unmedicated and untreated for suicidal depression and ADD bad enough that I stared at walls for hours wasn't exactly great for my grades. I clawed my fucking way back in and graduated at 26 and the market's fundamentally different from when I started so instead of getting a comfortable and well-paying job like everybody and their fucking mother swore up and down I'd get, I instead just owe $20k in loans and spent an extra 6 years living with my parents. Turns out, if you had to work hard to get your degree, that means it's worthless. You have to be able to pass with a huge margin and have professional experience.

I'm just so lost, man. I'm all out of faith I'll ever live a life of anything but repeated humiliation and rejection. I'm bitter and I'm angry. I haven't wanted to just disappear this badly in a long time.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago (1 children)

If I wasn't so God damned handsome I'd be pissed.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago (5 children)

It’s gonna be my birthday in about 26 minutes.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Printed out a ~500 page campaign book at my work printer last year without getting caught. Now, need to find time to print out the Halls of Arden Vul (1100+ pages). Probably going to need to break it up over a few months.b

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago

In the 1960s, under Newton's leadership, the Black Panther Party founded over 60 community support programs (renamed survival programs in 1971) including ... HIV support groups

HIV wasnt discovered until the late 1980s and GRID/AIDS only became known in the early 1980s. It may have been informally understood here and there as junkie dropsey a bit earlier than that. But i seriously doubt theres anything that could be described as an HIV support group in the 1960s.

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