Xiang Jingyu, born on this day in 1895, was one of the earliest female members of the Communist Party of China (CPC) and a pioneer of the women's movement of China. She was executed by Guomindang police on May 1st, 1928.
Xiang Jingyu was politically radicalized when she attended the Montargis Women's University in France. While studying there, Jingyu read many of Marx's works and became a communist.
In 1923, Xiang became editor of a weekly supplement to The Republican Daily, a Guomindang newspaper. The same year Xiang Jingyu was also elected as a Central Committee member and became the first secretary of the "Women's Movement Committee".
In 1924, Xiang led a strike involving about ten thousand female workers from silk factories. Then, she founded the "Committee of Women's Liberation" and trained many female cadres, who then became a force against feudalism and imperialism.
Xiang Jingyu was arrested in the French Concession Sandeli in Wuhan on March 20th, 1928. French officials turned her over to the Guomindang in April. On May 1st, 1928 she was executed.
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i love how starfield tricks you into thinking you can be space kenshiro with the boxing and martial arts and neurostrike perks but then it turns out just like all other bethesda games unarmed combat is entirely unviable compared to even the most worthless gun build because THERE ARE NO UNARMED WEAPONS
no brass knuckles, nothing
you can't even switch from a weapon to your fists without going into your actual inventory to unequip it!
how would they miss this? how could the powerful pronoun Teletubbie man not deliver on punching good?
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This is doubly funny because in Fallout and Fallout II unarmed was perfectly viable, and in Fallout II it was arguably one of the most powerful builds where you could easily punch and kick entire groups of armored fighters, even super mutants or robots, in to chunky salsa. there was a serious problem where when you punched someone and knocked them down they would be physics pushed based on damage, but there was no cap on how far they could be pushed so sometimes they'd just slide off your screen and presumably keep going until they hit the pacific, soft-locking your game.
Even FOIII and New Vegas had a bunch of punch weapons.
Starfield just sounds so bad. How do you make a space RPG and not have a single power-fist or something when your studio has been making games full of power-fists and shotgun-fists and buzz-saw fists for decades?
Melee should be unviable in any setting with guns
In any setting where long arms are not in use melee is viable. Having a pistol doesn't guarantee you are winning a knife fight. If we are going scifi, it is relatively easy to assume a person could have armor to get them through a few low caliber rounds just fine.
copaganda
It's not possible to shoot through a IIIa kevlar vest with the amount of 9mm rounds a person can reasonably carry ready on their person. You can go absolutely ape-shit unloading an SMG in to someone's torso at point blank, and eventually you'll break all their ribs and pulp their organs, but if they're wearing kevlar in good condition zero of those bullets will penetrate. Layer some flexible plastics behind it and you can pretty much just laugh at someone while they unload in to your center of mass. Same with shotguns. Doesn't matter what load you have, buck or slug, none of that lead is penning the vest.
Meanwhile, a good sharp knife in to the armpit will end you.
Also, shooting people is hard. Pistols are not easy to use in combat. It's entirely possible to miss repeatedly even at very close ranges. Reloading under stress is hard. Tracking multiple targets is hard. Pistol rounds won't down someone instantly unless they hit heart, lungs, spine, brain, or one of the big arteries.
Fuck cops, but firearms aren't magic. You need just as much training with them to be effective as you do with any other weapon. If someone's wearing a sci-fi armored space-suit and you're not shooting sci-fi magic armor piercing bullets it's entirely plausible to say that they can just walk up to you ignoring pistol fire and punch you to death. Even today modern body armor can reliably defeat almost all small-arms loads. properly rated basic ballistic plates will stop multiple rounds from most assault rifles. The high-end plates can stop an astonishing amount of lead before failing.
To finish out, knives are terrible weapons and shouldn't be used in a fight unless that's all you've got. Killing someone instantly with a knife is very difficult, and an opponent can easily injure or kill you while you're waiting for them to bleed out.
See, I was picturing just wearing a suit rated for space use. That is a suit designed to handle micro meteorites strike. That would shrug off small arms fire so that it's wearer could just tackle someone and take their gun away. Getting rugby tackled into a bulkhead will still provide enough concussive force to a brain to knock someone out in most cases. Which is more than enough of a win condition for any use of force situation a person would likely encounter
The 21 foot rule is copaganda. However consider the chud with thousands of dollars worth of tool open on his belt wearing a "come and take it shirt." Just lead poisoned stare telling you about how the people in the grocery store are too slow to bag his groceries for him
Even with long arms. If you have a powered exoskeleton to carry the weigh you could layer on modern rifle plates with enough durability to ignore most modern assault rifles. In a sci-fi setting where you've presumably got fantasy materials science and power armor and stuff it's pretty reasonable to have at least some soldiers who can ignore any kind of gunpowder-driven ballistic rifle rounds and can only be taken down with high caliber specialist armor-piercing ammunition or explosives. In zero-G you could get a big, thick ass armored shield, slap an RCS system on it to make it more maneuverable, and laugh as people try to shoot through it with rifles.