The Haitian Revolution was a successful insurrection by self-liberated slaves against French colonial rule in Saint-Domingue, now the sovereign state of Haiti, initiated by a slave revolt on this day in 1791.

Although the rebellion began in 1791, Haiti didn't achieve formally achieve independence from France until 1804. The Haitian Revolution was the only slave uprising that led to the founding of a state which was both free from slavery and ruled by its non-white former captives.

The revolt began when thousands of slaves began to kill their masters and plunged the colony into civil war after a well-attended vodou ceremony. Within the next ten days, slaves had taken control of the entire Northern Province in a slave revolt of unprecedented scale.

The slaves sought revenge on their masters through "pillage, rape, torture, mutilation, and death". Over 200,000 black people died from the initial uprising until independence thirteen years later.

Toussaint Louverture was a notable military leader of the revolution, but died shortly before independence was won. His former lieutenant, Jean-Jacques Dessalines, became the first leader of the newly independent nation in 1804.

"Of men who had cowered trembling before the frown of any white ruffian, [Toussaint Louverture] had made in ten years an army which could hold its own with the finest soldiers Europe has yet seen."

  • C.L.R. James, in "The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution"

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  • Lydia [she/her]
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    2 years ago

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  • glimmer_twin [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Toussaint Louverture is my homie upbear if Toussaint Louverture is your homie

  • Donut
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    1 year ago

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    • Mindfury [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      excellent choice.
      keep well comrade, we'll await your return in even better health :meow-hug:

  • Sen_Jen [they/them]
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    2 years ago

    I was expecting there to be literally any backlash at all against Roe V Wade being overturned but from the sounds of it absolutely nothing is happening. AOC got arrested at a protest I guess, and Biden keeps saying "man what do you want from me". I was hoping for some kind of mass reaction like the BLM riots, but nah, the left seems to be completely defanged

    • Tormato [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      Feel same. Something’s off.

      Or it’s just kindling now for an explosion soon enough.

      But it is unsettling and disappointing. Between the racist gun massacres, police cowards exposing just how truly useless and dangerous they really are, the continuing price-gouging, etc.

      They can quickly pass a law forbidding protesting at SCOTUS’s homes though.

      I think people are dazed, and as the reality sinks in deeper and deeper that fundamentally their government is beyond dysfunction and racing toward illegitimate is a mind fuck for many.

      • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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        2 years ago

        Nazi Germany makes more and more sense every day. The SCOTUS just took away one of the most important and foundational rights and no one even tried to stop it.

  • GVAGUY3 [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Man people will go to hell and back to defend comedians, and comedians now get super offended if you don't laugh at a joke

    • OldMole [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      how dare you, do you not know about medieval jesters who were the only ones who could speak the truth, this is totally real and not at all a myth don't look it up

      • CheGueBeara [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        Technically, they were the most powerful class under feudalism.

        :curious-marx:

    • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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      2 years ago

      My favorite stand up Comedian is Eddie Izard. I can't recall Eddie ever saying anything nasty or cruel, but she always manages to be charming and funny.

      • forcequit [she/her]
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        2 years ago

        No idea of the source but I recall "they're not women's clothes. Theyre my clothes. I bought them." being attributed to Izzard

        • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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          2 years ago

          I vaguely remember Eddie talking about how (pronoun's)conception of gender has changed somewhat from watching the younger generations. I wonder if i can find that.

          • forcequit [she/her]
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            2 years ago

            Ive no doubt considering how chill (or stalwart, take your pick) the above phrase/idea is

            Cry harder you absolute mullet lol CW transphobia
            https://www.spectator.com.au/2020/12/eddie-izzard-and-the-denigration-of-women/

            • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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              2 years ago

              I cannot imagine being mean to Eddie Izard. What an absolute trash human.

          • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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            2 years ago

            Based on this she's using "she/her" rn.

            And I had no idea she did 31 marathons then did a show after each one. Damn.

            https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9YVi_qca7c

  • ShittyWallpaper [they/them]
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    2 years ago

    Reading about British foreign policy after WWII has made me truly understand the term “social fascist” holy shit

    Labour was in power and full of trade unionists. The amount of damage Clement Attlee’s administration alone did to global labour is astounding

    • layla
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      2 years ago

      They mentioned this on a recent Guerilla History episode, but yeah, we don't talk enough about how even organised labour in the imperial core historically has been extremely reactionary and caused so much damage to the periphery

    • CheGueBeara [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Nationalism and imperialism is ubiquitous in every big Anglo union. It's revolting.

      Leadership knows that they gain at others' losses, that jingoistic protectionism and outward-directed violence creates and protects domestic jobs, often union jobs, and they cock their heads at you funny when you suggest that it's actually bad that your union includes companies and workers whose primary purpose is to blow up brown children in a more technologically advanced way.

      Edit: I should mention that there are lefty attempts to reverse this, but they're very difficult because they're fighting against the immediate interests of their members via an uncommon political argument.

      • WittyProfileName2 [she/her]
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        2 years ago

        NHS, state welfare, nationalised the railways, probably some other things that escape me right now

        Edit: you probably mean abroad don't you. Off the top of my head, he was responsible for the partition of India and helped in the formation of Israel. Probably pulled some shit in Africa as well but Operation Legacy means we'll never know.

  • Catherine_Steward [she/her]
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    2 years ago

    What up nerds, I'm currently in work limbo. Basically a manager told me I would not be getting the hours I was promised tonight and if I didn't like it I could leave, so I left. I'm probably fired. Do I care? Probably not. :party-sicko:

    • Sleve_McDichael [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      If you don’t come in today, don’t bother coming in on Monday!

      Homer voice: Woohoo, four day weekend!

      • Catherine_Steward [she/her]
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        2 years ago

        I'm pretty privileged tbh, I'm poor but I'm still with family so I don't have to worry about rent. The ~$4k I have saved up is so much that I basically don't know what to do with it at this stage in my life lol

        but its still not worth the gas money, wear and tear on the car, and effort of getting dressed, and energy of working if they're only giving me 3 hours lol

        • CheGueBeara [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          You did great, comrade. Lots of us buy into massivelyabusive relationships with eemployers and rationalize it as normal or like we deserve it. You bucked that trend and that's pretty fuckin neat.

    • Goadstool
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      2 months ago

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  • Kanna [she/her]
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    2 years ago

    I DROVE PAST SOMEONE WITH A REDDIT LOGO STICKER ON THEIR CAR :che-laugh:

    IT WAS THE ONLY STICKER :che-laugh::che-laugh:

    • Mindfury [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      why can I feel electric zaps coursing through my brain?

      looks at clock that reads 4:45pm
      looks at box of Pristiq that is exactly where I left it yesterday at 8am

      :thonk:

      • forcequit [she/her]
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        2 years ago

        I slept in and forgot all about it :ooooooooooooooh:

  • DragonNest_Aidit [they/them,use name]
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    2 years ago

    Just heard about the 16 years old Alzheimer study that have become the bedrock to its field is revealed to be fraudulent, and then I learned about replication crisis and how majority of scientific studies across all fields are garbage. Apparently it's because of profit-driven science forcing researchers to just keep publishing papers to make money?

    This seems huge, in particular because even the sacred cow that is STEM is not immune to this. I mean trust in science have been going in the shitters for year and if this thing becomes mainstream knowledge it would be absolutely disastrous. Can more informed comrades elaborate this?

    • CheGueBeara [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      This has been a thing in any country where science funding is handed out competitively and where your ability to stay employed as a researcher depends on you bringing in more and more grants. There's an incentive to publish as many and as high-"impact" (read: to prestigious journals) papers as possible and very little in the way of basic ethical controls within academia, so the most sociopathic fucks rise to the top and even the principled folks that do well will make compromises.

      The last thing you're gonna get rewarded for, generally speaking, is spending the extra time to publish fewer papers that are highly reproducible, or, God forbid, actually do the replication of others' work.

      Luckily, peer review doesn't end with publication. When people try to use fraudulent work and it isn't true, their own work will fail and eventually they'll figure out that that it was bullshit all along. And publishing that result is 50:50 on being incentivized/disincentivized, so eventually the word gets out. Fun fact: it's 50:50 because the fucks reviewing papers will often reject your shit when it disagrees with "consensus", they simply don't believe your results.

      But in the meantime, entire fields will be spinning their wheels, wasting billions of dollars, losing opportunities for nerds to do actually good research.

    • emizeko [they/them]
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      2 years ago

      hadn't heard about the fraudulent study so I looked it up, here's an article for others

      https://www.science.org/content/article/potential-fabrication-research-images-threatens-key-theory-alzheimers-disease

  • Sen_Jen [they/them]
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    2 years ago

    Oh my god working for my boss is infuriating. He does nothing to help, ever, he just gives me and my coworkers three jobs at once, tells us to deal with every customer while he chats with the regulars and holds everything up. He's worse than useless, he's actively detrimental to our job. He constantly gets in the way and never knows where anything is, asks inane questions that confuse everyone and makes a complete mess everywhere. He's been in business for 50 years or so and every second he runs the shop it takes a miracle for the entire thing to not just collapse

    • Abraxiel
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      2 years ago

      the party resolves that catgirls are heretofore be considered as workers.

      • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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        2 years ago

        The Revolutionary Occupational Health and Safety Administration is reviewing maid's uniforms for suitability as safe work attire for a variety of industries.

  • ekjp [any]
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    2 years ago

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