Xiang Jingyu, born on this day in 1895, was one of the earliest female members of the Communist Party of China (CPC) and a pioneer of the women's movement of China. She was executed by Guomindang police on May 1st, 1928.
Xiang Jingyu was politically radicalized when she attended the Montargis Women's University in France. While studying there, Jingyu read many of Marx's works and became a communist.
In 1923, Xiang became editor of a weekly supplement to The Republican Daily, a Guomindang newspaper. The same year Xiang Jingyu was also elected as a Central Committee member and became the first secretary of the "Women's Movement Committee".
In 1924, Xiang led a strike involving about ten thousand female workers from silk factories. Then, she founded the "Committee of Women's Liberation" and trained many female cadres, who then became a force against feudalism and imperialism.
Xiang Jingyu was arrested in the French Concession Sandeli in Wuhan on March 20th, 1928. French officials turned her over to the Guomindang in April. On May 1st, 1928 she was executed.
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One of my more curmudgeonly traits is I hate "who would win in a fight" discussions about fictional people. So I like fantasy books and I've found if you spend pretty much any time in any fantasy-devoted subreddit or forum people will eventually ask the who would win question. And it makes sense, since the plots of so many traditional heroic fantasy books are ultimately about fighting some bad buy. But I still hate the discussion because it really just comes down to who the author wants to win, what point the author is trying to make.
These aren't real people engaged in real combat (and even that is a fraught discussion). Like, if you want to argue about who would win, Muhammad Ali or Jean II Le Maingre, that's a discussion that can be had. They were both real people, real fighters, and in a hypothetical match between them there is no author to intervene. I still think that's a borderline pointless discussion because there's so much that goes into it, but there is at least something to talk about.
But "who would win in a fight? Melkor, he who is Master of the Fates of Arda, King of the World, and God of Darkness or Petunia Dursley from Harry Potter?" Pointless question. It could go either way, depending on the author. George RR Martin, of Game of Thrones fame, wrote this whole blog post fanfiction where his character Jaime Lannister, who is a normal man with a sword, defeats Rand al'Thor, a magical demigod from Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time.
Also, I'm willing to bet most Fantasy authors don't have any martial arts or combat training at all, let alone knowledge of actual pre-modern fighting techniques. If Drizzt Do'Urden and Geralt of Rivia fought each other they'd just pirouette like ballerinas and flourish their blades at each other until eventually some contrived plot event caused them to separate at a draw.
Call me a curmudgeon, but you are 100% correct. It's a fun thing to do when you're a kid reading comic books with your friends, but if you're an adult, please get a fucking grip
You should be arguing about which obscure leftist movement from the 1800's that was instantly crushed by the state had the most correct ideology
it can be fun to be immature sometimes
though it is immature
Yeah its nerd shite but its pretty harmless nerd shite. To be fair I do enjoy these discussions sometimes (as silly as they are)
Babeuf and the Conspiracy of the Equals
What's there to even argue about? The correct answer is obviously the Bellamyites.
Mao Zedong vs Ronald Reagan 🫦
I would love to see Mao rip Reagan's spine from his body like a Mortal Kombat character.
i can tell you something bud i would get so tornt up watching Mao murder Ronald Reagan
I would read the shit out of that.
The Culture fixes XYZ setting is one of my favorite kinds of web fiction slop
Samsies. I hate all that "Well in a real fight" stuff because they're fictional characters who have narrative roles in their stories. No one can beat One Punch Man because winning every fight easily is his shtick. It's what the story is about. Only Obi-wan and Luke have a chance against Vader in a sword fight because Vader is the bad guy. He's not there to get beat up by some clever ruse, he's the bad-ass wizard lord of evil and he can only be defeated at a decisive point in the narrative. Who would win, a star destroyer or the enterprise? They both rely entirely on bullshit space-fantasy to work, so who knows? Could a space marine fight master chief? Depends on who is writing the story. It's all fiction.
Geralt and Drizzt dancing around, though, would be pretty believable. Actual longsword fighting can be really pretty when you have really good fighters engaging.
Nah, I wanna see Ali fight Gerralt. We are only a few years away from AI being able to give us hype fight scenes of that and it will be rad as hell. Is it stupid yes? Is everything about thr Witcher kinda stupid anyway? Yes. So we should enjoy it.