While most histories of the Founding of the United States tell an uplifting story, historian Gerald Horne’s work, The Counter-Revolution of 1776: Slave Resistance and the Origins of the United States of America, finds that the creation of the republic was neither positive nor inevitable, especially for Africans. Rather, Horne demonstrates how the Revolution reinvigorated the slave trade and subsequently bore a counter-revolution of slavery. He argues that African slaves played an important role in igniting the rebellion that would become the American Revolution, a conflict he traces back to crucial turning points like the Glorious Revolution.
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The successful 1776 revolt against British rule in North America has been hailed almost universally as a great step forward for humanity. But the Africans then living in the colonies overwhelmingly sided with the British. In this trailblazing book, Gerald Horne shows that in the prelude to 1776, the abolition of slavery seemed all but inevitable in London, delighting Africans as much as it outraged slaveholders, and sparking the colonial revolt.
Prior to 1776, anti-slavery sentiments were deepening throughout Britain and in the Caribbean, rebellious Africans were in revolt. For European colonists in America, the major threat to their security was a foreign invasion combined with an insurrection of the enslaved. It was a real and threatening possibility that London would impose abolition throughout the colonies—a possibility the founding fathers feared would bring slave rebellions to their shores. To forestall it, they went to war.
The so-called Revolutionary War, Horne writes, was in part a counter-revolution, a conservative movement that the founding fathers fought in order to preserve their right to enslave others. The Counter-Revolution of 1776 brings us to a radical new understanding of the traditional heroic creation myth of the United States.
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Oh damn I remember reading that years ago. Kind of wish I still had it.
America can't even celebrate its nominal freedom day, without people being terrorized and dying.
I'm not just talking about the highland park shooting. Philly had a shooting scare and people just booked it. And in Orlando someone threw some firecracker behind a group of people and caused another scare. Americans are basically on edge and traumatized and afraid to show up to crowds, and somehow this is seen as ok?
I've literally been in a restaurant that got held up at gunpoint so I know the terror of running with a crowd, and a 6-month baby and my wife worried if we are gonna die.
This country is obscene beyond words.
Americans are basically on edge and traumatized and afraid to show up to crowds
I almost posted about that today. I'm just not comfortable going to bigger events anymore. It feels too risky even if I'll probably be fine
And if it's not a shooting its some plague. I went to a Pride festival 2 weeks ago and managed to catch both covid and monkeypox. I guess thats what you get for trying to have fun these days.
Yeh I went to a clinic because I was having some non-covid symptoms, namely the lower half of my body is covered in purple polkadots and my knees were really weak for a few days.
My wife told me the same thing and part of me is like I get it; but that's literally no way to live. What's your alternative? small house parties? never leaving the fucking house? God!
I'm still gonna leave the house to go to stores and see friends, but I'm not willing to take the risk at bigger public events. It's very depressing that things are even at this point
I love having the freedom to die in a mass shooting, if makes me so proud to be an American
Death to America
I went into the wilderness to avoid humans this week and some random dude pulled a gun on my dogs, flagging me in the process.
Nothin quite takes years off my life like driving does. Legit was stuck behind two assholes going 10-20 under the speed limit like it was a race to go slowest, and as a result we got caught in every single red light on the way home
Automotive transport and it's consequences etc.
Friend: "Did you know that in North Korea, restaurants aren't allowed to have names, only numbers?"
Me: "I just googled 'restaurants in Pyongyang' and found the names of a whole bunch of North Korean restaurants."
Friend: "Those are probably the only few allowed to have names."
His source was Otto Warmbier's youtubes or some shit? I guess you can just say whatever about DPRK and people will believe it.
i know its not but also its still a fake name. Otto (stereotypical german name) + Warm Beer (which is an american joke about how Europeans drink beer)
The real joke is inferior brewing techniques that only tastes good when cooled to decadent bourgeoisie temperatures
the christian organization he was affiliated with was connected to the CIA. He might not have been aware of it but you can see how dangerous he could have been.
I wasn't aware of that, but I figured something was up for things to play out the way they did
Apparently two cops got shot in Philly and they are pretending it's a mass shooting?
The officers are both fine. Their only boo-boos are emotional.
No they barely got shot. And I mean barely. Somehow an officer's cap stopped a centerfire FMJ round , and only had a scraped forehead, according to photos from the department, and another officer has a "wounded shoulder". I don't know that an actual attempt was made on these officers' lives.
Lol also a fucking graze to the shoulder. Bullshit these guys were shot. These motherfuckers fired some blanks into the air to play hero. Bullshit bullshit bullshit.
Omfg they didn't even shoot blanks. "The officers didn't hear any shots fired" they collected some fired bullets, scraped themselves up a teeny bit, then ran into a crowd yelling "shots fired"
So it’s been about 2 weeks since the Roe ruling, so I guess we can solidly say it did not in fact lead to the same level of unrest as the George Floyd uprisings did. Can’t say I’m surprised, but I am disappointed.
By population, abortion is still safe in the majority of places and not really at risk, which tamps down a lot of the anger. And where it's becoming illegal, libs are having a bit of a crisis over the realization that "just voting" doesn't actually do anything, so their protests are a bit directionless.
George Floyd triggered action of preexisting orgs and those who gelled from the protests to move towards larger ends.
With abortion they just want you to VOTE
I feel like, with the worsening economic situation in the UK, had Corbyn ran for leadership now rather than 7 years ago or whenever it was, he'd actually do really well. Like, even with a repeat of the 2015 GE, with his party deliberately trying to lose the election etc, people are struggling way more than they were then and would be more receptive to his message.
So what I'm saying is that what the western left needs is a time machine
Also reminder Corbyn wanted to leave NATO and disband it, dismantle the UK's nukes and wanted to lift sanctions on Iran etc. This is all to say he's actually left wing, unlike Sanders and the other imperialist bunch we sometimes like to fawn over
i think we just need to align with killer bees. and get them to murder our enemies.
I like how australia couldn't partake in blm protest for importing american problems but also how we had to protest against vaccines and now we have to challenge our own abortion rights because these are very real issues we're worried about I just think that's neat I wonder if 24hr news was a mistake
please, tell me more about how we should treat our neighbours and children
I think I'm going to quit my job and fall back to teaching for a bit comrades. I hate my boss and my days are filled with anxiety and dysfunction.
I have left jobs like that more than once and have so far never regretted it.
Stardew Valley type game where you join a workplace and you are to make friends, then comrades with each worker and then salt them into a union.
I’ve been thinking about this for a while. Kind of like the fetch quest side quest in Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages (I think) where everyone in the chain needs the item you received from the previous person, but you meet them out of order so you can’t get everyone the thing they need until later in the game.
Except it’s more open ended and is about learning the needs and desires of your coworkers
I would also put a lot of emphasis on tracking needs and wants but also fluctuating "worker solidarity". When they get pulled by the "boss" they are either held hostage and you gotta liberate them as a puzzle/challenge mini-game, but your performance decides if they take a drop in worker solidarity. Also, your boss bringing minion reinforcements (corporate shills) or putting on fox news instead of literally anything else.
I’m trying to figure out how you would do inoculation in-game. The game itself could effectively serve as inoculation by having players learn how management responds to actual actions in the workplace. So maybe a tight play loop like a rogue-like would help facilitate that
The tracking needs thing is great and is a must imo. You’d basically be doing what actual organizers do, just a little more cleanly. Tracking levels of support. Social mapping. Etc
So maybe a tight play loop like a rogue-like would help facilitate that
That'd be so fucking good. Cause your fail state could be: business closes, you get fired, all of your coworkers quit. union vote fails. And you start it up again.
Being okay with and preparing for failure is important. Let’s get those gamers to flex some union muscle :arm-L: :iww: :arm-R:
you start with a basic level of tracking which is a level of disconent and you do 1 - 10. Then as you become more friendly, and have conversations you gotta type (certain words are highlighted) or you can pick from like an auto complete. Then you get miniquest tracker like "Trans comrade wants HRT in contract" "Single mother wants a breast-feeding room" "Older comrade retiring soon, worried about pension benefits". And each conversation yields more info, and you slowly start "universalizing" things...Healthcare, Flexible Leave, Pension Plan, etc.
Maybe skill checks so it’s not pure dialogue tree? It’s common for someone’s surface level issues to not reflect their underlying desires. I’ve had so many conversations that started out at “I feel disrespected by being forced to sit through meetings” and ended with “I’m having trouble with childcare, which makes wasted time at work very frustrating”. You could easily cut the conversation off early and take away the wrong issue
Is the sea captain a seme or an uke? Masculine ukes are more and more common you know
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(I really dislike fujishu's / the fetishisation of gay men in most BL mangas, but by God the good BL mangas are great. In the west there's like, 3 good gay webcomics and that's it.)
I don't even read the news lately but just from seeing the headlines on hexbear dot net it seems like amerikkka is falling apart even faster than usual. Just the last few weeks have been insane with shootings and supreme court rulings. We are all accelerationists now. How are my yank comrades doing? Stay safe out there.
I feel sick rn honestly. Stuff feels like it's coming faster and faster. Then the social media and its poisons multiply the psychic damage since not only are you seeing the event of the day, you're also witnessing deranged up to the minute from everyone from inane dem liberals to bloodthirsty religious fascists. Not only do comrades have to manage their day-to-day within the usual brutal capitalism, knowing and planning for the next 5 or 10 years while this country rots from the inside out is hitting me particularly hard today
Obviously the solution is disconnect, touch grass, organize etc, but damn is hope in short supply
