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On this day in 1905, troops at the Russian Winter Palace fired upon a huge procession of working class demonstrators, killing hundreds. The massacre, known as "Bloody Sunday", led to widespread uprisings and sweeping reforms in what is known as the Russian Revolution of 1905.
The revolt took place amidst widespread discontent with conditions under the Tsarist absolute monarchy, and a growing proliferation of political radicalism. Although mass strikes broke out weeks earlier in St. Petersburg, the beginning of the revolution is typically marked by the "Bloody Sunday" massacre on January 22nd, when unarmed protestors marching towards the Winter Palace to present a petition to Tsar Nicholas were fired upon by soldiers, killing hundreds.
In response to the massacre, mass worker resistance exploded across the Russian empire. Half of European Russia's industrial workers went on strike in 1905, 93.2% in Poland. The Tsar's uncle was assassinated on February 17th.
On March 2nd, the Tsar agreed to the establishment of a legislature, the State Duma. However, with the body's powers remaining limited (initially only given consultative powers), the rebels were emboldened to push harder.
Summer saw peasant rebellion and mutinies (Russia being at war with Japan at the time), most famously the mutiny on the battleship Potemkin, triggered when sailors refused to eat borscht made from maggot-infested meat.
As strikes continued, the government announced a Manifesto on October 17th, enacting emergency civil reform to placate the masses, and succesfully crushed remaining resistance in the following months, such as the Moscow Uprising in December.
The uprising is considered the predecessor to the Russian Revolution of 1917 which led to the establishment of the Soviet Union; Vladimir Lenin called it "The Great Dress Rehearsal", without which the "victory of the October Revolution in 1917 would have been impossible".
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Also today was the Birthday of Antonio Francesco Gramsci :gramsci-heh: :anti-italian-action:
born on this day in 1891, was an Italian Marxist philosopher and communist politician. His works touch on a variety of topics, including political theory, sociology, history, and linguistics.
He was a founding member and leader of the Communist Party of Italy and was imprisoned by Benito Mussolini's fascist regime. Gramsci wrote more than 30 notebooks and 3,000 pages of history and analysis during his imprisonment. His "Prison Notebooks" are considered a highly original contribution to 20th-century political theory.
Today, Gramsci is perhaps best known for his concept of cultural hegemony, which describes how the state and ruling capitalist class use cultural institutions to maintain power in capitalist societies without resorting to force. Hegemonic culture promotes capitalist values and norms such that they become the "common sense" values of all and reinforce the status quo.
"The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born."
- Antonio Gramsci
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First they piss, then they shit. Soon, they'll be c*mming. :volcel-judge:
Tucker Carlson claiming on his show that he found the old M&M designs to be "appealing", "sexy" and that "he wanted to have a drink with them", while the chyron at the bottom reveals the message "MISERABLE, NON-BINARY CANDY IS ALL WE DESERVE" has me in fucking stitches. I am fucking crying, I don't think anyone can come up with something this funny on purpose.
Climate change is such a bummer, late capitalism would be so fucking funny if we weren't doomed at the same time.
That used to be some comfort, I think I grew out of that. Nihilism wears out when the future keeps happening and you start to actually want to have one. Especially when the reality that your body does just decline as you get older and living hand to mouth doing back breaking labor as the world goes down the toilet loses any romanticism that it can hold and just falls into the bitter reality that you were coping with.
I mean, also despite that I have an inescapable sense of humor about literally everything so I can have as good a time as possible with it
It is funny, but it also makes my non-binary self kind of dysphoric :deeper-sadness:
Lmao my brother's reporting the dating site to, in his words, "a government organization", for, again in his words, fraud
Hexbear site lore.
Broke: Enver.
Woke: the same wrecker who makes dozens of accounts to post slurs and get banned in 5 minutes.
Bespoke: @WhoaSlowDownMaurice 's brother's online dating scam saga.
tfw you spend $550 instead of hitting me up to say nice things to you :sadness:
i'll do it for only $500
I'm glad to have contributed to site lore :comfy-cool:
Truly a worthy entry into the Hexbear hall of fame.
The timeline from him getting mad at you and all self-righteous about how he's in the right to immediately and completely owning himself. Just... :chefs-kiss:
I really do hope he didn't need that money too badly for anything else, though.
"The government bureaucracy has put your operation on a low priority waitlist "
"NOOOOOOOOO I hate the death panel"
"The market has decided you CANNOT afford your operation 😈 ever"
"Yes thank you mister Invisible Hand sir"
omg my brother literally called the FTC this is priceless
I accidentally ordered take-out instead of delivery and had to short notice bike ~3miles to get food and back in 9F weather....and the cough I had when I got back several hours ago is finally gone. Though breathing still does feel a little weird.
AKA, I need to exercise more and practice better layering in the cold.
You know you can just call and change it to delivery right? That's totally fine
Some places are difficult about it, and I figured it would be fine. I was wrong.
That's fucking dumb. Unless delivery was finished for the night there is literally no difference on their end.
Restaurants often charge a delivery fee. This place probably would have done it, but I figured a quick bike ride would be fine, forgetting just how far it was.
If there's a fee you can probably hand it to the driver and they'll settle it after but hey, bike rides are cool.
Wait, there is a difference between take out and delivery? Ive always thought they are interchangeable and both mean essentially getting the food delivered...
At least where I live take out means you order in advance and just walk in to pay and pick up the food(or pay in advance and just pick it up) while delivery is delivery.
Never really thought about this till now but yeah it does seem pretty common for people here to refer to food from a restaurant as "takeout" (in the sense of "eating takeout") even if they ordered it delivered.
Mid thirties anti-vax guy who gets irrationally angry when you point out that Walter White would've been pro vaccine.
I ate a pound of spicy peanuts for breakfast yesterday (me sowing :sicko-yes: ) so I had terrible stomach issues in the middle of the night (me reaping :sicko-no:)
Elizabeth Warren fans in r/antiwork are convinced that Bernie should've dropped out to support Warren as if she wasn't this massively weak and cringe candidate who got humiliated on a daily basis and only appealed to nerds who thought that you could impress voters by coming up with better and better plans for policy and that voting isn't mostly a show of strength and being able to manuever around the opposition's shit flinging (something she sucked hard at).
Even more hilarious is when they insist that she had a better chance than Bernie to win the primary......when she finished in like 5th or 4th overall and got 3rd in her own damn state.
