On this day in 1961, the Bay of Pigs invasion took place wheen a force of 1400 Cuban exiles, funded and led by the U.S., landed on the southwestern coast of Cuba in a failed attempt at overthrowing the communist Cuban government.
Covertly financed and directed by the U.S. state, the operation took place at the height of the Cold War and its failure led to major shifts in international relations between Cuba, the United States, and the Soviet Union.
The coup attempt came in response to Castro expropriating property from American capitalists; U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower allocated $13.1 million to the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in March 1960 for use against Castro. With the aid of Cuban counter-revolutionaries, the CIA proceeded to organize an invasion.
On the night of April 17th, an invasion force of approximately 1400 Cuban exiles (gusanos) and CIA officers landed on the beach at Playa Girón in the Bay of Pigs. After a few days, the insurgents became overwhelmed by the Cuban army when Kennedy refused to provide air support for the operation.
The invasion's defeat solidified Castro's role as a national hero and strengthened Cuba-Soviet relations. Several Cuban exiles and two Americans were executed upon capture. Over 1,000 prisoners were exchanged for humanitarian aid from the U.S. government.
-- Castro led fight against Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961 :fidel-freethrow:
Hola Camaradas :fidel-salute-big: , Our Comrades In Texas are currently passing Through some Hard times :amerikkka: so if you had some Leftover Change or are a bourgeoisie Class Traitor here are some Mutual Aid programs that you could donate to :left-unity-3:
Here is a list of Trans rights organizations you can support :cat-trans:
Here are some resourses on Prison Abolition :brick-police:
Alexander, M - ‘The New Jim Crow’ (2010)
Davis, A - ‘Are Prisons Obsolete’ (2003)
Jackson, G. - ‘Blood in My Eye’ (1972)
Vitale A.S - ‘The End of Policing’ (2017)
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/angela-y-davis-are-prisons-obsolete :angela:
Foundations of Leninism :flag-su:
:lenin-shining: :unity: :kropotkin-shining:
Anarchism and Other Essays :ancom:
Remember, sort by new you :LIB:
Yesterday’s megathread :sad-boi:
Follow the Hexbear twitter account :comrade-birdie:
THEORY; it’s good for what ails you (all kinds of tendencies inside!) :RIchard-D-Wolff:
COMMUNITY CALENDAR - AN EXPERIMENT IN PROMOTING USER ORGANIZING EFFORTS :af:
Join the fresh and beautiful batch of new comms:
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And remember folks, JFK got what he deserved
Also remember today is Movie Night at 20:00 EST :meow-popcorn:
Its the Soviet version of the Lord of the Rings :hammer-sickle: }
edit: the Movie is over
i pissed off another coworker today. they started ranting about unhoused people and I said the only way to fix things is by just giving people homes. they said it wasn't that simple and I told them they hated people who had less than them.
I should probably be nicer but fucking shit it's just awful hearing cruel shit come out of smug democrats.
if you give them houses, they'll just use those houses for booze and drugs
so fucking what bernice, you drink like a fucking fish and im not over here saying you should be out on the streets.
i don't want them to do that because then they'll be cooler than me and cindy won't come to my house after SOCCER PRACTICE
It's hard but you have to teach them, if you are really fed up, act patronizing.
Why do I feel more hopeless about everything now that people are getting vaccinated and shit? Is it just anxiety over having to rejoin society after spending more than a year indoors? Am I getting affected by news about shootings and other violence because they somehow feel novel again? Is that toast I smell?
VANCOUVER, WA—Unable to shake off an overall negative feeling he couldn’t attribute to anything in particular, local man Paul Carpenter confirmed Monday that something about the way society was exposed as a complete illusion over the past year was really getting him down today. “Maybe it’s just quarantine talking, but the reality dawning on me that American life is a fundamentally hollow cesspool of spectacle and misery is really bumming me out lately,” said Carpenter, adding that he had the vague idea that living in a social system based on brutal competition that made all human relationships transactional and perverted the very idea of community might have something to do with it. “I can’t put my finger on it, but maybe I’m just really tired of the coronavirus pandemic, which wasn’t mishandled as some people say but in fact shown to be rationally handled by a group of insulated wealthy individuals who can pursue their greedy desires with the full knowledge that a vast percentage of Americans are economically superfluous and thus willing to fight among themselves for scraps? On the other hand, though, maybe it’s the stress of a news cycle in which people from both political parties are invested in a series of increasingly baroque conspiracy theories guided by the grotesque and increasingly obvious lies we tell ourselves about American exceptionalism that’s making me feel kind of sad. There’s just this nagging feeling I have that it became very clear over the past 12 months that the basic building blocks of society are crumbling and there is absolutely no plan for changing anything at any level to avoid plunging the vast majority of humanity into cycles of ever-worsening suffering and violence. Maybe it’s just that being fundamentally powerless and living among other similarly disenfranchised, surveilled, and downtrodden people have made me feel completely alienated from any kind of community at all, or maybe I just need to get more sleep.” Carpenter added that he did plan to address the way he’d been feeling lately, perhaps by tuning out of the news and letting other people who weren’t ever even afforded the option to believe in the illusions of American society figure out what to do, or by trying to exercise more.
The last year has been a terrible revelation of how ineffective society is at dealing with any real challenge. There hasn't been a clean resolution to that, so the idea that we're just going back to the pre-pandemic norms is palpably scary. You're not alone in feeling this way.
Also, from talking to my friends, a lot of people are feeling the atrophy of their social skills. From my own experience, I put up serious walls over the winter because I didn't want to bring anyone else down while they were struggling and also because I was afraid of showing weakness while I was vulnerable, even though that vulnerability was shared by everyone. That shit is going to take a while to unlearn.
Bike home on cold rainy day
Turn on space heater
Take edible
Remove all clothes
Ensconce self in blankets
:comfy: Starting the weekend off right :meow-melt:
:disgost: Fake V*ush Alert :funny-clown-hammer:
so former alt-right and breadtuber X*nderthal just promoted the book of known Fascist Laura Southern , who is banned from many EU countries for being too racist, but the tankies are the problem on the left
Twitter’s broken, upbear to keep it that way
Edit:Twitter came back :sadness:
Another fight with my mom today. ngl I'm starting to resent her and her alcoholism is getting bad again. This shit is really trying my love for her.
Podcast tips: don't spend more than a minute doing housekeeping at the start of the episode.
I just heard an interview on the radio with a faildaughter who had a job as a "full-time investor" in her daddy's business. It was hilarious.
Her daddy got rich investing her mum's money. The faildaughter was oblivious to how wealthy har family was until she was old enough to go to college and her daddy bought her a apartment. She played around a bit, got a degree in business and a degree in litterature. Then she needed a real job and got one in daddy's company. The interview had some amazing dialogue:
The interview was part of a series of interviews with members of the elite.
Power and elite have such negative connotations. I don't feel comfortable with the label "elite" as it was never one I chose for myself.
On how she picks businesses to invest in:
I'm not that good at reading financial statements yet [she went to business school btw]. I look more at the people and go with my gut feeling.
On how good she thinks she is at being a full-time investor:
I don't know how good I am at it. At least investing the money at all is better than just letting them sit in a bank account.
She's into green, ethical feel-good investment thing and likes to tell herself how she's saving the world. Part of the interview went like this:
Journalist: "There is a lot of bullshit in that field. Do you have any tips on how to spot greenwashing?"
Faildaughter: "Uhh... Umm... Ehh... No... Just use common sense"
On how to get into investing
Faildaughter: "The most importabt thing is just to get started. Just buy your first share!"
Journalist: "Do you have any tips on how to pick up first share?"
Faildaughter: "Umm... There already was an existing portfolio when I started..."
On how she likes to "strike a blow for feminism":
Sometimes I will dress ultra-feminine for a board meeting to shiw that you can be a woman and still be intelligent
The elite is completely full of shit. Anyone could do her job.
After standing and working on weekly schedule stuff at work for 2 hours, I've decided I deserve coffee on the way home.
My Chinese neighbor surprised me with some dinner from the restaurant he works at. And It’s eggplant 🤤🤤🤤🤤
If we need to enter the solar system then where are we now? :bean-think:
cant believe someone would pay $250 for something I built in 3.5 hours of pure frustration.
Feedback looper pedal is complete, sound into sound into sound, loud and ugly
now i play for a littel while and earn my rest
thank you! a little praise was just what i needed.
I dont thin I'll be trying this again any time soon.
