James Connolly, born on this day in 1868, was an Irish socialist revolutionary, founder of the Irish Citizen Army (ICA), and leader of the Easter Rising rebellion, for which he was executed by the British government.
Connolly was born in a poor Edinburgh neighborhood and spoke with a Scottish accent. He joined the British Army at age 14 to escape poverty and developed a hatred for the institution from firsthand experience. He deserted when his regiment was set to deploy to India.
He was also member of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) and founder of the Irish Socialist Republican Party. With labor radical James Larkin, he was centrally involved in the Dublin lock-out of 1913, after which the two men formed the Irish Citizen Army (ICA) the same year.
Connolly was opposed to British rule in Ireland and played a leading role in the Easter Rising of 1916, signing the "Proclamation of the Irish Republic" and serving as Commandant of the Dublin Brigade, the regiment that played the most substantial role in the Rising. Connolly was executed by firing squad following the Rising's defeat.
"If you remove the English army tomorrow and hoist the green flag over Dublin Castle, unless you set about the organization of the Socialist Republic your efforts would be in vain. England would still rule you. She would rule you through her capitalists, through her landlords, through her financiers, through the whole array of commercial and individualist institutions she has planted in this country and watered with the tears of our mothers and the blood of our martyrs."
James Connolly
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I mean, we should have better non-gendered names for that, but there kinda does need to be a shirt cut with breast space and one without breast space.
the Onion article pushing Uyghur slavery pissed me off so bad I triple replied to the post
english is trash for not having a good habibi equivalent fr, all of our casual pet names are too loaded especially on gendered grounds
Do what
theEnglish does best, steal! Just start using habibi to mean what it means. Loanwords rock, be the potential start of a new development of the English language :egghead:I started calling my dog habibi a while ago and can't stop myself at this point. It started as "hey baby" and morphed into habibi almost immediately
What does habibi mean in context? I hear it a lot but i don't know the deep etymology.
i think it's literally "my dear" but is kind of a non-gender-loaded nonpatronizing version of sweetheart? am white and don't speak arabic so don't take my word for it.
but u know when im riding deep w/ the homies i bust out the "sweetboy"
It's borderline embarrassing how long it took humans to discover germ theory, like compared to counterintuitive nonsense like miasma, humors, or spontaneous generation, little bugs you can't see good is not exactly high concept, talk about a collective L for the species
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Me brawling with my uni professor and it's so fucking funny. This man is willfully missing the point just so he can say China "is not as great as I think it is"
"Terrible and probably biased": the liberalism is clinging on for dear life and won't let go.
Not to play Devil's Advocate, but it's fine to admit that China made a mistake about 40 years ago. Is he that bad of a lib that he thinks China would do it again right now so China is comparable to the US in terms of suppressing protests?
Me when I try to explain to my uni professor that he should not compare the pro-palestine protests to Tiny Man square as a way to say that China bad because american police didn't kill any students.
Your prof doesn't have any understanding of.the past situation either.
That’s because american students are more domesticated, and won’t fight the police. Which says something about mentality of the students in free and ‘unfree’ country
I like to have at least 3 layers of dissociation between myself and reality at all times
*designing the best way to encourage collaboration* what if everyone travelled for an hour and took teams calls in a place with worse wifi.
You're getting promoted for thinking like this, hexaflagonbear
Capitalism is the best system in the world. Sure, it can't get a plane in the air on time because the ceos and shareholders cannibalized critical national infrastructure to the point of failure, but capitalism is the best system in the world!
