Taken from today's Working Class History Instagram Post

On this day, 12 August 2017, 32-year-old anti-racist Heather Heyer was killed and dozens injured in a white supremacist terrorist attack in Charlottesville, Virginia. Heather was one of thousands of people protesting against a Unite the Right rally of neo-Nazis, Ku Klux Klan activists and other white nationalists and antisemites, when she was hit by a car driven at speed deliberately into the crowd by a 20-year-old Nazi, who was pictured previously on the Unite the Right protest holding a shield emblazoned with the logo of Vanguard America, a far right group. Elsewhere in the city, another group of fascists attacked and viciously beat DeAndre Harris, a young Black education worker, leaving him with spinal and other injuries. President Donald Trump said some of the neo-Nazis were "very fine people".

I'm sure for many of us, it felt like the death of Comrade Heyer was a pivotal moment in our understanding of the fight against fascism. We knew who'd be on the streets to fight, who would be out there against us, and most importantly, who would not be there at all. There's still that danger for standing opposed to fascism, but we fight, because we have to, because the violence will be there regardless, because not everyone can, or not everyone will. It's the only check against the coming tide of fascism.

And thanks to @marxisthayaca for suggesting this, I'll include their whole post here.

Could you link to her funeral service: https://youtu.be/CAoqhV48Avg. The stories memorializing our comrade, need to live on.

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Previous answer

Yes: (3,5), (4,7), (6,10), (8,13) (9, 15), (11,18), (12,20)… [This series of numbers pairs is closely related to Fibonacci numbers and the golden ratio. The first pair differ by 1, the second pair by 2, and the nth by n. Every positive integer appears once and only once in the series of pairs.

A quick addition

These six-digit numbers:

328,645

491,221

816,304

117,586

671,355

508,779

183,696

882,414

can be grouped mentally and added in 8 seconds. How?

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  • Gay_Wrath [fae/faer]
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    3 years ago

    me, a white collar prole communist:

    constantly gives away excess money and possensions to mutual aid, bail funds, stranger's gofundmes, carries cash for the homeless (& buys them lunch), buys loved ones gifts out of their own price range, gives away any excess possessions or sometimes even stuff i'm using if i know i can replace it easier than they can get it, expects & asks for nothing in return, gives anonymously when possible

    my shitty ex-friend after i give a family member a present i can easily afford while they're going through a terrible time:

    is this... financial manipulation? love bombing?

      • Gay_Wrath [fae/faer]
        ·
        3 years ago

        Some people are just shitty, but it doesn't help that capitalism has truly poisoned people so much that they see genuine open gifting as a trap. It's fucking sick :( And shitty people take advantage of that by actually being actually being financially manipulative or making it seem like harmless generosity is manipulative.

        Damn looks like another reason to abolish capitalism

    • JamesConeZone [they/them]
      ·
      3 years ago

      my partner learned to question every single gift giving to them but also loved little gifts. dating was really hard. we found out years later that their sibling has narcissistic personality disorder and their close family had several people with various undiagnosed pathologies. all this to say... they learned that gifts came with strings attached. also their family is upper-middle classish? maybe that also has something to do with it?

      meanwhile 14 yr old me, growing up in a trailer, visiting a friend with cars on his lawn: yo can i have a car you have like twenty

      • furryanarchy [comrade/them,they/them]
        ·
        3 years ago

        People who grew up poor are awesome with gifts. If they have some junk laying around they never use but they know someone who would really appreciate it, they don't hesitate to give it to them. It's great.

        • Gay_Wrath [fae/faer]
          ·
          3 years ago

          this is exactly why i'm so generous, i had to rely on the generosity of others to keep from being homeless at times. $200 to me as a tech drone is easily budgetable but to someone in poverty that's the difference between eating for a week or not.