François-Dominique Toussaint Louverture, born on this day in 1743, was a Haitian general and leader of the Haitian Revolution, the first successful slave revolution in the Americas. Haiti was the first country in the region to outlaw slavery.
Louverture's participation in the war was complex, first fighting for the Spanish against the French; then for France against Spain and Great Britain; and finally, he fought on behalf of independence for Saint-Domingue against the French.
Initially, Louverture was only supportive of fighting for better living conditions for the enslaved, but, after committing to the full abolition of slavery in 1791, he issued a proclamation at Camp Turel of St. Domingue: "Brothers and friends, I am Toussaint Louverture; perhaps my name has made itself known to you. I have undertaken vengeance. I want Liberty and Equality to reign in St Domingue. I am working to make that happen. Unite yourselves to us, brothers and fight with us for the same cause."
As a revolutionary leader, Louverture's military and political acumen helped transform the fledgling slave rebellion into a revolutionary movement. He governed Saint-Domingue with varying degrees of power for several years, proclaiming an autonomous constitution for the colony in 1801 that declared himself its governor for life.
Louverture was eventually tricked into being arrested by Brunet, a French General, and deported to France, where he died of unknown causes while imprisoned. Shortly thereafter, the colony finally achieved independence under the leadership of Jean-Jacques Dessalines.
"This gun is liberty; hold for certain that the day when you no more have it, you will be returned to slavery."
- Toussaint Louverture
Toussaint Louverture 2012 (English Subtitles) :louverture-shining:
Revolutions Podcast by Mike Duncan - S4: Haitian Revolution - Episode 1 :france-cool:
The Haitian Revolution - The Slave Society - Extra History - #1 :JB-shining-aggro:
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Me after day one of conspiracy theory lessons: "Guys, I think the jews secretly control Israel"
:live-tucker-reaction: Fact:
Virtually every banker in Israel is a Jew
https://www.theonion.com/slow-witted-conspiracy-theorist-convinced-government-be-1819575953
I AM IN YOUR WALLS
IT IS EXTREMELY UNCOMFORTABLE
PLEASE LET ME OUT
No! You insulted me, insinuated I was lying about being a freemason, and tried to drink MY cask of luxury Amontillado! It's not my fault you followed me so deep into the catacombs
fortunato's absolutely malding over montressor immurement chads :anarchista-chad:
:miyazaki-laugh: :joker-shopping: OH MY FUCKING GOD THERES STILL AN OPIUM WAR SMUGLLER COMPANY IN HONG KONG . THEIR LOGO IS STRAIGHT UP OPIUM
The Opium Wars were an insane crime against humanity that still goes unpunished.
poppy capsules and thistle flowers are both that shape :edgeworth-shrug:
Calling someone a Russian by refering to them as "comrade" is so fucking weird lol. It's an English word! :angery:
fuck yeah!
:lets-fucking-go:
have a good sleep! you've earned it!
It's been like 1000 years since Stellaris had machine races, why the fuck do Determined Exterminators still research society techs for food production?? dumb
Yeah they need to fix planet automation also so that machine races don't build farms.
To better grow organic pops for chemical processing or I guess they can forced labor organics for food too, also you can turn food into energy too with Bio-Reactors.
See that works for non-determined exterminators, but DEs wanna kill all organics, not farm them for purpose
I dunno, it's an obvious oversight and PDX makes too much money selling dlc to fix some of the stiff that's been borked since there's been multiple ftl types.
The only real reason they'd do it is for better Bio-Reactor output and being forced to have farmer jobs for some reason.
Disco Elysium fans on :reddit-logo: are a strange fucking breed.
"Hey, I think Harry may have been like a super cop or something, like look at how much encyclopedia knows, Harry must have known that too before the amnesia!"
I mean, idk maybe whoever this is didn't finish the game but there are uh, several conversations where characters literally just face the screen and tell you that Harry was a super cop. You don't need to extrapolate from the skills or find hints in the dialogue, they just tell you this.
And then you get the opposite where people will be like:
Hmm, well the RCM is suggested several times to literally be built from the ruins of the revolutionary militia, and one of the final things you can hear in the game is the brass of the RCM making a list of names they can trust, while referencing "when the time comes" and how Harry "will side with Revachol."
BUT this is really open ended, I mean come on this might as well just mean that when the revolution comes, the RCM are just gonna be the same kind of cops they've been all game and mildly reduce bloodshed!
00 played a role in me joining the left as cringe as that may be.
haven't seen it yet! watching mostly in release order, though some au series will be watched out of order so 00 could be sooner than others
I think we need to brainstorm forth a new kind of alien.
We have the little green men, the grays, europeans, the ones that are vaguely bug or lizard like, and of course the thinly veiled antisemitic conspiracy theory ones.
But we need like a new kind of guy for this.
https://journalnews.com.ph/antonio-la-rubia-abduction-robots-hallucinations-or-fabrication/
There's lots of weird encounter stores but sadly, and oddly, google and the msm only focus on the greys or little green men.
Oh these guys fucking rule, I love these guys lets get them into the mass consciousness.
Yeah the ones where the ets are like robots are very interesting.
guy at the gas station hitting me with all the classics:
"hello darling" :agony-shivering:
"that'll be $5 sweetheart" :agony-immense:
"have a good day beautiful" :agony-limitless:
i just want to buy my poison treat water (monster) in peace 😑
No unsolicited advice?
“ All that sugar ain’t good for ya, sugar!” Lol
if i stuck around any longer or made eye contact i'm sure that was coming haha
There's so much smoke where I live. I wore a mask to pick up gas. Dude coming out of the door says "heh heh more smoke for me."
Yes, you're very cool for being maskless in this smoke. Definitely not idiotic.
My guiding principle for interacting with women I don't know in public is "how would I want a stranger to interact with my sister or niece or cousins". Hasn't steered me wrong yet.
Pretty much the only people I tolerate that kind of thing from are southern diner waitresses.
https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/19/23729642/disney-plus-hulu-remove-pull-shows-willow-streaming-bob-iger
This article says that last year Disney spent $30 billion for shows on Disney+. Even $1 billion would be an unthinkable amount of money, but $30?
Literally did this with a giraffe attempting to catch up to/run in front of a ground-level train to explain why the new Mozambique-Nairobi Standard Gauge Railway having tall viaducts is so important; how seriously Africa's development has been sabotaged - no new rail for a century.
Also just occurred to me that kind of thing is a great example of how stupid the article about China disturbing bat habits or whatever is from Reuters. Of course I've been telling people how fucking stupid Reuters has been getting but I guess some people are such babies that "Nigerian govt gave forced abortions to Boko Haram victims" scans as legit to them 🥲
Noticed some geese nearby then I realized the other guy who's been waiting at the bus stop for 37 min has an ❗️ over him. He says if I kill geese until I collect 10 feathers I can have gold. Do you think I can do it before the bus arrives? Transit dept was just slashed again. Driver raises won't come. That's not even that many feathers. I can do it.
Floating❗ hat outside a rave seems like a really good shtick. Especially if you're selling drugs
