The "Hand of Timba", erected to commemorate those killed during the Pidjiguiti Massacre

On this day in 1959, the Pidjiguiti Massacre occurred when Portuguese police (PIDE) fired on striking dock workers in Bissau, Portuguese Guinea, killing 50 people. The incident led anti-colonial activists (PAIGC) to abandon non-violence.

When dock workers went on strike to seek higher pay, their manager called the Portuguese state police (PIDE) to the scene, who fired into the crowd, killing at least 50 people.

The government blamed the anti-colonial group "Partido Africano para a Independência da Guiné e Cabo Verde" (PAIGC) for the labor unrest, arresting several of its members. The incident caused PAIGC to abandon their campaign of non-violent resistance, leading to the Guinea-Bissau War of Independence in 1963, which culminated in independence for Cape Verde and all of Portuguese Africa.

Today, near the Pidjiguiti docks, there is a large black fist known as the "Hand of Timba", which commemorates those killed that day.

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  • blight [any]
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    1 year ago

    How does everyone miss the part that hexbear is intending to build bots that mass vote and troll other instances and their communities by exploiting the way federation works?

    What the duck is wrong with people. They explicitly said they were building a bot network that couldn’t be blocked except through defederation… I feel like I’m taking crazy pills

    Don’t make bots to break other instances and destroy their communities. Problem solved. You won’t get banned or defederated.

      • blight [any]
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        1 year ago

        How does everyone miss the part that hexbear is intending to build bots that mass vote and troll other instances and their communities by exploiting the way federation works?

        What the duck is wrong with people. They explicitly said they were building a bot network that couldn’t be blocked except through defederation… I feel like I’m taking crazy pills

        Don’t make bots to break other instances and destroy their communities. Problem solved. You won’t get banned or defederated.

    • ImOnADiet
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      1 year ago

      God that comment was so funny, they somehow confused that lemmygrad post for a hexbear post, and even then it was a post from a year and half ago from a user who barely used lemmygrad and hasnt used it in well over a year

      Edit: and it was talking about a bot network to manipulate reddit haha

      • ImOnADiet
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        1 year ago

        https://lemmy.world/post/2563269

        Look at top comment. Hey if anyone has a .world account could you let them know how big of a moron they are? This is the post they’re referencing: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/158656

        Make sure to point out that this is 1) about reddit 2) a post from well over a year ago by a user who used the instance for 1 month and hasnt used it since