Kurt Eisner, born on this day in 1867, was a German socialist revolutionary and radical journalist who was assassinated by a far-right nationalist while serving as head of the People's State of Bavaria.
Kurt Eisner, born to a Jewish family in Berlin, was a revolutionary German socialist, radical journalist, and theater critic. Before leading the People's State of Bavaria, he worked as a journalist in Marburg, Nuremberg, and Munich. In the early 1890s, Eisner served nine months in prison for writing an article that attacked Kaiser Wilhelm II.
In 1918, Eisner was convicted of treason for his role in inciting a strike of munitions workers. He spent nine months in Cell 70 of Stadelheim Prison, but was released during the General Amnesty in October of that year.
Following his release from prison, Eisner helped organize the revolution that overthrew the Bavarian monarchy, declaring Bavaria to be a free state and republic. Despite Eisner's socialist politics, he explicitly distanced the movement from the Bolsheviks and promised to uphold property rights.
On February 21st, 1919, while on his way to deliver his resignation to Parliament, Eisner was assassinated in Munich by a far-right German nationalist. Eisner's murder made him a martyr for left-wing causes, and a period of lawlessness in Bavaria followed his death.
On the night of April 6th-7th, 1919, communists, encouraged by the news of the communist revolution in Hungary, declared a Soviet Republic, with Ernst Toller as chief of state. The Bavarian Soviet Republic was crushed by the right-wing German Freikorps.
Some of the military leaders of the Freikorps, including Rudolf Hess and Franz Ritter von Epp, would go on to become powerful figures in the Nazi Party. Ironically, Adolf Hitler himself marched in the funeral procession for Eisner, a Jew, wearing a red armband as a display of sympathy.
"Truth is the greatest of all national possessions. A state, a people, a system which suppresses the truth or fears to publish it, deserves to collapse."
- Kurt Eisner
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HOLY FUCK I GOT ACCEPTED TO THAT APARTMENT I WAS LOOKING FOR, I DON'T NEED TO LIVE IN MY PARENTS BASEMENT ANYMORE
Aight, that's basically the high point of life. Now place your hands where i can see them, you're under arrest
I decided to start walking about 3 miles a day in the morning. It took just over an hour. I hope it will do good in the long term. I have heard eating less and some walking can help reduce fat around the abdomen. I guess more than anything, planning and succeeding on this front is good for building self-confidence.
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ShowNot to mention the Spanian, sky news amd azmongold stuff on my front page. Like, I only watch videos about food and travel in China.
I was looking up the 4B feminist movement in Korea and one of the first things it threw up (literally) was the Asmongold subreddit complaining about misandry and speculating on whether
the jewsglobal elites were behind feminism. : pI really need to, like, throw the Man-O-Sphere in to a volcano.
I just read that vampires are weak to weapons of peasants, while werewolves are weak to weapons of aristocracy. Therefore, hellfire missiles would kill werewolves, but vampires are killed by kalashnikovs. The AR-15, being a weapon of the petit bourgeois, would kill neither.
"Communists defeat supernatural with the power of state atheism and the dialectic" is not a large genre but it is one of my favs. I can't think of any right now except that love and robots episode where the red army troops track down the horrors and then the murder demons learn that being an demonic hive of scp horrors doesn't mean shit against the industrial might of the union of soviet socialist republics.
one of those spoilers where stating what it's a spoiler for would be a spoiler
There are elements of it in Unjust Depths
fam i fuckin love spain. i just paid 12€ for a three course lunch plus a whole bottle of wine. idk what the food is but it's tasty as hell. this would have cost like $60 at a restaurant in the US
Death to America
My neighbor's garage burned last night. I had a very big day full of great things and then it got punctuated with hearing a pop and minutes later seeing the light of the fire. My friends and I ran out from the yard and just, there it was. A pillar of fire consuming the garage. We were incredibly lucky that it had rained recently and that fire department showed up when they did. Like not even five more minutes and it looked like it would have caught the trees or the next house.
It was so bizarre, but weirdly human and . . . I don't really want to use positive words, but almost encouraging how the entire block came out. And everyone was just doing these very instinctual behaviors of checking with each other what had happened and what it meant and how they felt. I don't know. I feel terrible for my neighbors. They'd been friends of ours and I want to figure out something to help. At least bring them some food. They lost a lot it sounds like, even though it thankfully didn't get to the house.
I dunno. It was just really intense
they made a 4chan dating app and all the data has leaked lol
- why would anyone want to meet any else who uses that website?
- there must be 10,000 men per women on that app, slightly worse than the regular dating apps
Okay, but they're already winnowing down the pool of women to only those who aren't turned off by the fact that they (the men) are extremely online, and their competition is solely those who are also extremely online.
Pretty smart!
Leaky 4chan dating app data sounds pretty damn nasty. Also - was it 99.9+% male?
"I don't like tomatoes they make the bread wet" MFs are terrible kissers.
They don't have the practice that only having sloppy messy makeout sessions with a beanburger that's actively falling apart can give you.
kissing is bourgeois decadence (i know how to spell bourgeois because i didn't waste time kissing)
Went to a gun range cause I wanted to rent a machine gun. The safety guy had a
patch on his plate carrier and the guy in the lane next to us had a shirt that said infidel on it.
Cool. Magdumping the ak was a lot of fun though.
Imagine that you're studying those target recognition cards from WWII so you know how to tell friendlies from enemies.
the one downside of doing solo piracy and not having netflix and the others anymore is its harder to passively find slop to watch when my brain is droopy, have to be more intentional about hunting stuff down for my library
If you're on any private trackers look at the top files in movies/TV over the past month or so every now and then. It's how I discover most media outside of discussing things with friends.
every now and then i just go to the most grabbed or trending section on NZBGeek and go to popular on Rotten Tomatoes at the same time and just put whatever popped up the most into Sonarr
still haven't watched Shogun btw, but it's there i guess
over time I've passively accrued slop. you'll never know when it'll come in handy
oh yeah i def have a pretty big "not yet watched" backlog in my plex library and i should make more of an active effort to get through it, but still since i selected all of those at some point in time there's less room for a new to me piece of media to surprise me