George Jackson, born on this day in 1941, was the revolutionary author of "Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson" and co-founder of the Marxist-Leninist Black Guerilla Family.
In 1970, Jackson was charged, along with two other Soledad Brothers, with the murder of prison guard John Vincent Mills in the aftermath of a prison fight. The same year, he published "Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson", a combination of autobiography and manifesto addressed to a black American audience. The book became a bestseller and earned Jackson personal fame.
Jackson was killed during an attempted prison escape on August 21st, 1971. Quoting communist revolutionary Ho Chi Minh, Jackson freed twenty-six prisoners and took hostages at gunpoint. Jackson and five other men were killed.
Fay Stender, George Jackson's former lawyer, was shot and paralyzed for her alleged betrayal of Jackson by Black Guerilla Family member Edward Glenn Brooks. Brooks entered her home, tied up her family, and forced Stender to say "I, Fay Stender, admit I betrayed George Jackson and the prison movement when they needed me most" before shooting her several times. Left paralyzed and in chronic pain, Stender testified against Brooks and committed suicide a year later.
"Settle your quarrels, come together, understand the reality of our situation, understand that fascism is already here, that people are already dying who could be saved, that generations more will live poor butchered half-lives if you fail to act. Do what must be done, discover your humanity and your love in revolution."
- George Jackson
Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson :gold-communist:
blood in my eye george jackson :red-fist:
It's been 30 years since George Jackson died in a pool of blood at San Quentin. His death still reverberates in America SFGATE :hammer-sickle:
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he got shit on for calling a Cuban on his stream a gusano like last year didn’t he
I didn’t really follow it tho
It's the same guy (Destiny, an ethnic Cuban) relitigating the drama, because a shithead gambling streamer (xQc) brought it up in the middle of a screaming match he was having with Hasan a couple days ago over gambling drama and a bunch of related accusations flying out of the woodwork (which Hasan had literally nothing to do with, his crime was reading a vague post about SA that didn't even name the perpetrator in clear terms, and then having the gall to initially be confused about what the hell the tweet even meant, which xQc and Trainwrecks have been using to insinuate Hasan was "dismissing" sexual assault accusations, which is insane), and people in Hasan's discord are having a field day with it. His chat also tends to enjoy spamming it whenever Destiny comes up on stream.
For reference, Destiny's community, and a lot of the LivestreamFail community, have collectively decided that Gusano is a racial slur against Cubans and refuse to listen otherwise. I've seen people justify this by comparing it to people in the ME that use "cockroach" as an insult, which is a psychotic comparison to make, but since they're both pejoratives based on calling people bugs, they must be the same thing, right?
These are mostly the same people that shit their britches a few months back over Hasan using "cracker" as a pejorative for white people, which led to the first time in my life seeing white reactionaries actually get mad at being called crackers, after years of "cracker" being used as an example of why people should stop being offended over slurs, because "cracker" doesn't actually offend white people. Apparently, now it does.
This recent gambling drama leading to a dramawave of SA accusations and coverups is too big to ignore, but this is why I generally avoid streams in the OTK/Austin, Texas circle with few exceptions. These streamers are all eating each others' tails and anyone looking from the outside-in could tell that these giant streamer networks were powderkegs waiting to blow.
I'm trying to remember what the equivalent of this kind of BS was in the 00s and all I can really come up with is very niche communities like BSDM communities or local Anime and Sci-Fi conventions blowing up because someone did crimes and then people defended them and it exploded in to an all purpose shit show. But those were usually groups of at most a couple of hundred people who all knew each other.
The other equivalent I can think of is celebrity gossip tabloids, where people with unhealthy parasocial relationships with random celebrities would get super invested in the made up drama of their lives.
jay z did that with capitalist
not as bad as your example but pretty similar
Someone was posting Tupac videos in response to that and it was pretty funny. Apparently Tupac knew theory.
This only works because most people exist in a morass devoid of historical context and have never questioned the propaganda and indoctrination they received as chidlren.
Oh, and acting in complete bad faith, too. That's important.
I was present for the kerry posters and I still do not know what it was about, either what their goals are, or why kerry posting is prohibited
we need a hexbear drama wiki
but why and why are they all banned like it's some real esoteric wrecking that is beyond my comprehension
It feels weird being a 30-something millennial. You're old enough to remember things that boomers do like rolling up windows by hand in cars or rotary telephones and yet you can't really bond with said boomers. On the other hand, you know the memes young people are into and are tech-savvy and yet you really can't relate to young people sometimes either. It's like being in this strange limbo that's wholly unique. I just hope when I'm older I don't end up bitter like my father.
I get what you mean. I remember what it was like before cell phones, I remember using DOS, I remember hanging out with friends primarily at a certain food court near the school and everyone biking/scootering to the designated hang out house. There was no meetup app so you were stuck going to bars or clubs even if you really didn't like them, and if you wanted a job you would get an application in person and call back a week later to show the manager that you cared or whatever.
I feel like millennials, since we straddle the moment the Internet proliferated, have a unique insight into which parts of it made the world better and which parts made it worse - but we're completely disempowered so there's nothing we can do about it. A whole generation of Cassandras.
A whole generation of Cassandras
I feel this. Like seeing some things stop, some things continue, and we can yell about how terrible this or that is but we’re overshadowed somehow. Or how small the transitional window was that some things that were important to us just lasted less than 4 years or something. So for zoomers looking back, it almost looks like there was nothing there from the start
A whole generation of Cassandras.
That's a great way to put it. The social media age has really been a double-edged sword in a lot of ways. I'd almost say it's more detrimental and alienating than anything else honestly. It was all supposed to connect the world and make people bond more than ever but the end result has been intense polarization and an age where people simply do not know how to communicate with one another. I have fond memories of web 1.0, the internet really felt like a community back then, with people bonding over technology or hobbies while the internet of today is just so disposable. There's parts I wish I could bring back, like you said, hanging out in person with people and just being there. While also having the world wide web to be able to communicate with people around the globe and share ideas. I dunno, there's still a utopian part of me that sees some untapped potential in the internet, when in reality it's done a lot more harm than good, as evidenced by the rise of fascism globally.
Social media combined with the determined destruction of every single public space and venue. Even drinking at a dive bar is really, really expensive now. And I can't think of anywhere you're allowed to just exist in public without buying things. Like parks if you're the right color and dress right. And libraries. But what else is there?
I remember hanging out with friends primarily at a certain food court near the school and everyone biking/scootering to the designated hang out house.
Can zoomers even do this? I get the impression that malls are pretty much all dead and there's been a lot of crackdown on existing in public spaces without buying things.
There's been so many times I've related to boomers and almost got through to them only to have them say or do something bad that totally soured the experience. I guess my point is to talk to people. The gulf between ages isn't that severe and there's common ground to be had. It really is a lonely age filled with intense alienation for everyone.
It's just a matter of time talking to any boomer until they say something extremely fucked and refuse to listen to any pushback on it.
And it's so rarely something that isn't important. It's always like "blah blah blah and also I don't consider this entire class of people to be human beings".
It's so hard to not just always reply "shut the fuck up loser" to every dipshit on :reddit-logo:
Man the weirdos that can end up in leftist orgs can really try your patience.
i was at an indigenous-led rally for abolishing the monarchy and bringing justice for the ongoing crimes of settler-colonialism and the carceral system against indigenous people yesterday. it is generally understood that you leave the spotlight to indigenous people at these rallies and dont bring all your own other shit to them. like waving the flag of your org etc is discouraged as kinda poor form since its not really about you, stuff like that
one guy decided it would be a good idea to bring a sign with just a big picture of an anime girl in a bikini holding a soviet flag
yeah if it was one of those regular rallies full of libs with signs about how politician x is a slytherin etc then like sure knock yourself out. might not be the best sign for getting people to think "actually communists are highly normal people" but whatever
at a rally mostly about indigenous grief and anger over land theft, genocide, and deaths in custody, you really gotta read the fucking room
During the 2020 protests there was a relatively small BLM protest in my town as I don't live in the US, but when I went there was a big ol' white bearded dude in an army jacket waving a Soviet flag. Like dude yeah I'm with you but this is not that protest.
You have to be pretty fucking weird to even question the status quo in the Imperial core. It attracts some odd types, certainly.
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:meow-popcorn: gn folks I'm set
Saw a 5 y/o post on reddit just now, on a Moslim sub. OP was 18 and got MS and depression, really not doing well, and was seeking guidance from others online. Looked on their profile and their latest comment was just 9 days ago, talking about a great döner they had in Berlin.
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i regret to inform you the new star wars show seems pretty good
the first thing he does is kill 2 cops in a cool cyberpunk city. i'm not made of stone
and now he's got a dweeby javert type after him who knows the deaths were covered up because the cops were doing shady shit at the time? :chefs-kiss:
also this show is breaking new ground in star wars accents. obviously diego luna had his accent in rogue one, but i think these are the first scots we've seen
lmfao never had anybody get all transphobic about bathrooms before
and they chose to give me grief the time i went in with my friend to do drugs :lenin-sure:
take your weird bathroom hangups outside the drug-room please
the "men's" room is for blowing each other and the "women's" room is for doing blow, this isn't hard to figure out people
I miss clubbing. : p I never did much of it. I resent so much being sick my whole life. I missed out on so many chances to do stupid shit.
Lmfao, so I’ve been foolishly trying for a promotion at work as I need the money. I’ve been doing work at the level I would be promoted to for the last 8 months, I received glowing feedback from peers and my manager…and was told that in order to be promoted that level, that “leadership believes” there needs to be a “clear business case for the need of that level of promotion”
I can try again in January apparently :yea:
I know of other people who were doing the same thing, who were doing really fucking good work and more than deserve recognition. Pretty sure none of us will be here by January, how about that for a business case assholes :michael-laugh: it never fails to amaze me how much companies love to shoot themselves in the dick
Negative reviews on chinese manhua: This sucks! But I guess I should have expected that, given that it's Chinese.
Positive reviews on chinese manhua: Wow, this is great! I'm shocked the Chinese of all people could make something good like this!
Curious. :thinking-about-it:
A co-worker of mine died. We weren't really close but in the way of things I see him more than any of my friends right? So it hurts. He had a condition that is often fatal, but does respond well to treatment. He was waiting for the work insurance to cover treatment. So that is galling. He might have died anyway, but that it is an option work killed him hurts. We work in a hospital so he knew he shouldn't have been waiting. The injustice of it on top of everything else just hurts.
