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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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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

warmest winter on record so-far

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

The Balkans are cool, everyone is at most a 4th cousin of eachother but will kill you if you confuse two overly specific microethnicities they made up.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

This is what SOCIETY turned me to

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The worst possible thing has happened:

funny-clown-hammer has been mentioned in my IRL organizing.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

it's so ogre

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

Finally saw it last night and you know what? Barbie is a secret trans narrative.

spoilerObviously not really, but her going through the process of becoming fully herself and learning what it means to be a woman then optimistically saying "I'm here to see my gynecologist" hits hard as fuck if you're a trans woman who's had bottom surgery. I was shook.

sicko-power RELATABLE QUEER CONTENT

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

wondering why I feel the need to upvote the mega

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I love trans communists its like:

ohh my sharky I love them they so cute and fluffy blahaj I will love them and call them blahaj

:3 transshork-happy

but also:

The maoist uprising against the landlords was the largest and most comprehensive proletarian revolution in history, and led to almost totally-equal redistribution of land among the peasantry ranmao mao-clap

The only cure to fascism is a bullet to the brain antifa-supersoldier cure-for-fascism barbara-pit

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

Just saw a commercial for a “smart bed,” day ruined

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

the sheer amount of transphobes from other instances has me really considering whether to federate with anything besides lemmygrad and lemmy

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

There is an account from another instance with an old username of mine saying heated-gamer-moment shit and I feel personally attacked

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

this is fucking bizzaro cinema, the protagonists are all trepadatious and having doubts when the "bad guys" do violence on the worst fucking people imaginable

cara delverigne's character has doubts about the revolution when the revolutionaries molotov a bar that has a) nazis inside b) the skulls of minorities hanging on the walls

i want to know who can watch this and agree with the authorial intent, shit is completely unhinged

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (4 children)

olimar-point pikmin-carry-lbrigadingpikmin-carry-r pikmin-onion
FWIIII ^Huh!^ ^Hooh!^ ^Huh!^ ^Hooh!^ ^Huh!^ ^Hooh!^

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

olimar-point international-community-1international-community-2pikmin-carry-r pikmin-onion
FWIIIIII             ^Huh!^ ^Hooh!^

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Just got hit by a memory where i was browsing through a used record store and found this

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

As an autistic weirdo, it really depends on some random extrovert to adopt you to get any friends

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

I was that weirdo and then the extrovert moved away.

Then I became the extrovert to a whole new group of weirdos. In the land of the weirdos, the slightly more outgoing weirdo is chad.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Slowly pulling myself out my depression hole

Combed my hair getting all the knots out and washed it, then did the dishes and changed my sheets

It's not much, but it's something

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (8 children)

BREAKING: I still think alcohol sucks ass

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (8 children)

I waited too long to do stuff but now I have the energy but if I do it now ill annoy people shatter

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Excuse me, I need to step outside for my menthol break.

goes outside and sniffs Vicks Vapor Rub

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

every time someone mentions the Kremlin I think of donkey kong

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

HOW??? how could carnival row possibly make the antiracist definitely-not-bolsheviks supporting the fairy jewish-allegory that not-london put into a literal ghetto in the last season---the bad guys?

like they're doing the typical "bad revolutionaries murder" thing but provide overwhelming evidence in the text of the show that the violence is absolutely necessary and justified. you're really going to expect viewers to somehow sympathize with the people the show has doing apartheid, lynchings, & murdering people for miscegenation?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

maybe thats the point? i feel like im being too hopeful

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

'finished transitioning' lol lmao

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Referring to the ottomans as "the eastern byzantine empire"

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yoo are these liquid cooled mattresses a good alternative to air conditioning during night? air conditioning is expensive on power bills.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

I would simply piss myself

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Liberals that go something like "you can't use american racism theory for Europe, it's a whole other context!!" are going to be my favourite genre of takes from now on.

OF COURSE I CAN, YOU BANANA STEALING EUROAPE, THEORY IS MEANT TO BE APPLIED TO DIFFERENT CONTEXTS

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Bidets are anti-working class. A bidet turns a 10-15 minute shit into a 1-2 minute one. That's almost 10 minutes of time you're giving back to your boss instead of spending it looking at your phone.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Cop Mayor Adams wants to lock kids inside of schools. Now visitors have to ring a bell and be let in by some guard or cop. Not only that he increasing the presence of NYPD cops on school premises. The school to prison pipeline is alive and walldoomer

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

I bet you voted for Hillary, Buddy here no one here votes. This isn't a being smart enough to understand how to vote kinda small town.

🤠

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

I haven't watched Bojack horseman in like 5 years but I was laying down and randomly got the "always a Clydesdale never a Clyde" joke lmfao

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Late night props to /r/trueanon

The only subreddit that makes reddit-logo worth visiting

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

tiktok has been trying to organize a general one day strike that starts and ends today but possibly goes on indefinitely. they're mad that everyone is telling them that a general strike can't work without

  • mutual aid
  • unions
  • any form of organizing at all

big psyop vibes tbh, so i'm using it as an opportunity for 300 people to totally ignore everything i have to say about.. you know talking to each other. i would like to hang out with grown up leftists please.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

here in Zhongguo (中国) ((China, if you're a westerner LOL)) we have great job security and prosperity. and actual health care

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I am going to become the joker jokerfication

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

whoever runs that discoelysium account has me dying. That shit makes me crack up whenever I see a post from them

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Starfield ending is the most game twisting ending ever since Nier Automata

spoilerAt the end of the game, you can choose NG+. After choosing ng+, you will hear "hey you're finally awake" and find yourself in a cart otw be executed in Helgen among with stormcloaks including the infamous Jarl Ulfric Stormcloak who killed the High King with a shout. You will then thrust into the open world after the dragon attacks helgen.

Todd Howard is a fucking genius.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

i'm so fucking good at dandori lea-smug oatchi-pog

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

these polo wearing golf shits are having some tiki barbeque

and theyve set up some massive speakers & are playing irish music with fucking steel drums stalin-stressed

what the fuck is wrong with rich people

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

When I'm premier, If your baking recipe doesn't also include volume measurements the penalty is gulag

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

There's a snake in my garage, and I'm sitting here barefoot.

Meh, it's probably fine.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Scratch a liberal

Liberal roll over

Good liberal!!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

play dead Lib

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Hope everyone has a good weekend heart-sickle

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