Willem Arondeus was an openly gay Dutch artist and anti-fascist who, after destroying a Nazi surveillance office, was executed on this day in 1943, stating as his last words "Tell the people that homosexuals can be brave!"
Before the war, Arondeus was a visual artist, illustrating poems and painting murals. He later became an author, publishing two novels with his own illustrations and publishing a biography of the painter Matthijs Maris.
Arondeus was active in the anti-Nazi resistance, helping forge documents to protect persecuted groups. A major obstacle to the success of this forgery was the Municipal Office for Population Registration, an Amsterdam office that contained millions of identifying records for Jews and others wanted by the Gestapo.
Arondeus and other members of the resistance bombed the office on March 27th, 1943, subduing the guards via injection, and succeeding in destroying approximately 800,000 documents. Arondeus was arrested on April 1st.
Although he refused to give up the rest of his team, his notebook was found and a majority of the group were also arrested. On June 18th, Arondeus and fourteen others were tried and sentenced to death. Ardoneus pleaded guilty and took the full blame, which may have contributed to two members receiving clemency.
Before his execution, Arondeus made a point of ensuring the public would be aware that he and two other men in the group were gay, asking an acquaintance to "Tell the people that homosexuals can be brave!" Sometimes, this quote is translated as "The people would know that gays are no cowards!" or "Tell the people that homosexuals are not by definition weak".
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after the revolution i will reinstate club penguin and every child will get membership
Apparently Jordon Peterson just got banned from Twitter for talking shit to Elliot Page.
Can we also get him off Youtube? I'm so fucking tired of seeing him and hearing his voice whenever I browse shorts for more than 4 minutes.
They work pretty well if you like a certain kind of Stand up, except after like 3-4 of them you end up having to listen to either a PUA, Kermit Peterson or Joe Rogan. I don't know what kind of unholy algorithm-gaming they are doing in order to get seen this much. And it's fucking impossible to get rid of them, because there are a billion different "sigma grindset / fuck everyone else" channels that relentlessly promotes them.
Also I started watching shorts because I randomly got recommended some Stavvy-bits and the shorts format works really well with him and his style of jokes. If you listen to him for more than 10-15 minutes at a time, I feel like his material gets a little old.
is there no "don't recommend" button on shorts?
there is a "dont recommend this channel" which i feel like I'm pressing every 2 minutes, because I don't want to listen to Jordan Peterson, or Andrew Tate or Joe Rogan. They literally have nothing interesting to say ever, and the videos are always over edited.
doing that a bunch eventually worked for me on the main page with almost all right-wing videos, all I can say is you might hit a threshold.
Successfully formed a tenants union. Got signatures, and sent our demands.
We're going to have a BBQ together. I wish we got to know our neighbors sooner. We're probably not going to win, but it feels good to make a landlord squirm.
Edit: also shout out to the old landlord. The best landlord ever.
-never raised rent once in five years. -changed the pet policy for us so we could get a dog. Didn't charge us pet rent "Pets are family!" -Always solved issues within 24 hours -quit.
-gave the financials and mortgage amount to us so we could bend over the new landlord over our knee.
The combination of every bad vibe I've felt about this country in the past weeks have coalesced today and I'm feeling like shit
It's like, on their own, I mentally handle (for lack of a better term) Roe being overturned, the recent EPA stuff, more public funding for religious schools, increased power for border patrol agents to terrorize people, trans rights being openly targeted now, knowing gay rights are next... but then today I stepped back and looked at it all and have felt like crying ever since
No real choice but to be okay, so I'll probably feel better later
It's like a concentrate of badness juice. Feels like they did this to us on purpose.
The numbness, shock, and lefty analysis at these things is a blessing and a curse. Makes it so that the pain takes a while to sink in. Every time some sudden shifts like this happen, numbers of people who will die now flash through my brain and I try to absorb it, not get paralyzed by it, but I can't always.
You're not alone in this, we've all got each other.
2023: Supreme court rules that a Democrat cannot be president, citing that this country is a republic :very-smart:
Great mega. I'd never heard of this guy before but his story is really inspiring. Thank you for sharing!
Death to America
Hello comrades,
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Went on a night walk and just saw a cool little :screm-a: walk by
I love it when they turn around with that nervous "can I help you" look