The Communist Party of the United States of America (CPUSA) was established on this day in 1919. CPUSA provided legal aid to the Scottsboro Boys, helped poor Southern farmers form sharecropper unions, and promoted communist ideas within the U.S.
The party was established after a split in the Socialist Party of America following the Russian Revolution, and initially operated underground due to the Palmer Raids, a series of anti-immigrant, anti-labor, and anti-communist raids conducted by Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer.
CPUSA was an early opponent of segregation and racial discrimination, giving legal aid to the Scottsboro Boys and helping poor black farmers in the South organize sharecropper unions. Because of this, the party had a strong presence in Alabama in the 1930s. This history is detailed in "Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists during the Great Depression" by historian Robin D.G. Kelley.
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Gamers, what are your thoughts on Starfield? Most reviewers are saying that the game is a mile wide, but an inch deep. I think that Bethesda designed it like that on purpose.
They understand that the modders are the reason why people are still playing Skyrim over ten years after its release. So they opted to go for quantity instead of quality. Becauuse the modders can easily add content to the game but it's harder for them to add new systems. So Bethesda made a bunch of different systems, knowing that modders will fill them with content. Tbh I think they made the right decision.
The best way to play any Bethesda game is to buy it 2 years after release on a 50% sale and install 160 mods. I'm gonna play it like that and it's probably gonna be a blast.
only if theyve modded in xenomorphs by then, ofc
oh my god a xenomorph hiding on your ship would be fucking cool
It just looks so soulless. Everything is grey and the characters look like they were generated in MakeHuman. Even the UI looks incredibly boring and like it was slapped together in a weekend.
I don't think it provides the cohesive, alive base experience that previous Bethesda RPGs did, which I would argue is what allowed modding to be so successful.
it needs a soviet faction, bethesda never makes the soviet faction
I saw that in the future public transit is free, but they're pods. So the game obviously sucks.
But yeah I watched 45m of gameplay and it doesn't look like my kind of thing at all.
As someone who's only experience with a Bethesda game was the first few hours of fallout 4, (which I didn't really enjoy) I'm really liking it. I know I'm late to the party, but I really like being able to roleplay as whatever I want. I'm also a sucker for space travel sci fi.