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Karl Paul August Friedrich Liebknecht, born on this day in 1871, was a German socialist politician and theorist. Originally associated with the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), Liebknecht later became a co-founder with Rosa Luxemburg of both the Spartacus League and the Communist Party of Germany (KPD). Liebknecht is also known for his outspoken opposition to World War I.

The son of Wilhelm Liebknecht, one of the founders of the SPD, Karl Liebknecht trained to be a lawyer and defended many Social Democrats in political trials. He was also a leading figure in the socialist youth movement and thus became a leading figure in the struggle against militarism.

As a deputy in the Reichstag he was one of the first SPD representatives to break party discipline and vote against war credits in December 1914. He became a figurehead for the struggle against the war. His opposition was so successful that his parliamentary immunity was removed and he was improsoned.

Freed by the November revolution he immediately threw himself into the struggle and became with Rosa Luxemburg one of the founders of the new Communist Party (KPD)

In January 1919, the Spartacus League played a leading role in the Spartacist Uprising, a general strike and armed rebellion in Berlin. The uprising was crushed by the SPD government and the Freikorps (paramilitary units composed of World War I veterans). For their role in the uprising, Liebknecht and Luxemburg were both kidnapped, tortured, and murdered on January 15th, 1919.

Their contributions to European socialism are commemorated annually in Germany during the second weekend of January, an event known as the Liebknecht-Luxemburg Demonstration, or "LL-Demo" for short.

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[-] [email protected] 28 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Im not a virgin anymore crush I know there are a lot of horror stories about the first time...It was really good for me though and they said it was great for them as well. At the very least im always gonna have fond memories of my first time. Even if later times are gonna be better.

[-] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago

Congrats! Awesome to hear both of you enjoyed it.

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They wonder why young dudes dont want to get into trades, like my supervisor is blasting conservative hip hop in the truck and Im digging up shit pipes in 100 degree weather for 15hr

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[-] [email protected] 21 points 10 months ago

I have trouble believing she had friends to begin with tbh

[-] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago

Boohoo I support a genocide and that's hurting my social life did-someone

[-] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago

Nice to see some people realize what a monstrous piece of shit she is.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago

Dang, wonder what that might meansaul-anime

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[-] [email protected] 21 points 10 months ago

I came out of the supermarket the other day and there was a lifted pickup truck blasting the South Park song, "Mr. Hankey the Christmas Poo". I can't see anyone sitting in the driver's seat of the truck, so I assumed it was someone IRL trolling or something.

I get around the other side and a 50ish man is helping a woman climb into the stupid monster truck. I guess this couple earnestly likes listening to South Park music?

[-] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago

South Park's main demographic in 2024 is 50-year-old men who think that being a public asshole is the peak of hilarity. He would have been in his early 20s when South Park first aired.

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I set my feed to brigading and then I set it back to Local really fast. What startles me is how many posts fron other instances have 0 replies. Where are their users?..

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[-] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago

I'm literally laying in bed with my wife, snugglin my wife, looking at my wife and thinking "oh man........... im gay......" crush

And then posting about it on bear website. Most Annoying Wifedyke, causing problems being gay.

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[-] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago

let's go see what's happening on Lemmy!

CW: giga racism

jesus-christ

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[-] [email protected] 17 points 10 months ago

I want to slap my boss in his stupid face I want his head to explode I hate him so much

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[-] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago

how strange it is to be anything at all

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[-] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago

The bear attack animations in RDR2 are like... surprisingly detailed. Makes me think there's like a graveyard of mocap actors somewhere lol

[-] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago

Acab includes tow companies

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[-] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago

i got all my books for the semester pirated xi-lib-tears i'm thriving and optimistic for the classes

[-] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago

Hey it’s my namesake’s mega gaddafi-happy

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[-] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago

forever working towards and hoping I can move to another country

[-] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago

anyone recall if there's a good post that explores why liberals must pretend that leftists are right wing

infuriating to have these morons gaslight and slander you as a right-winger for being upset about genocide

[-] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago

Found it: https://hexbear.net/comment/3736815

Posted by [email protected] Aug 15 2023

I think a big part of it is liberals believe they are intelligent, free thinkers who can sift the truth from the lies. Trouble is, they are not given the tools to do so, and liberalism is ingrained in people from the moment we first learn to talk, so it comes as such a natural thing to them that questioning the liberal outlook would be like questioning the existence of the sun to them. It's just a thing that is there, a permanent fixture of life.

So they believe they are determining the "facts" correctly, but they don't even consider that the framework they use to examine the facts is flawed and doesn't always give correct results. It just "is." and by extension, everyone uses the same framework, because it is the only framework that exists. So when they see someone who arrives at radically different conclusions to themselves on an issue, they have two options in their mind:

1: I was using the framework wrong.

2: They were using the framework wrong.

So when they look at people like QAnon, this is an easy answer, as they also use the liberal framework, but clearly have "gotten things wrong." so to your standard lib, they can point that out no problem, as QAnon is easy to debunk. And in the event of a situation where they are wrong, but within the framework of liberalism, they can have no problem admitting that (some do, but plenty of "skeptics" and that tend to be willing to change their minds on things within this framework.)

But when they encounter someone outside the framework, like a communist, they just don't understand. We don't fit into either of their two boxes, because we aren't using the same liberal framework to analyse the world. So they awkwardly try to fit us into the "Using the framework wrong." box, but we obviously don't fit into it neatly enough. Worse still, things that liberalism says are "impossible to predict" or "impossible to prevent." are both predictable and preventable within a socialist framework. Things like recessions happen like clockwork under capitalism, but the liberal response to this is to shrug and say "no one knows how they happen." So when we predict a recession, or a socialist country doesn't suffer from one, it causes the liberal a lot of discomfort. We're supposed to be using the framework wrong, yet here we are, understanding an event better than they do.

So their only option is to insist we are "lying" or "fake news" somehow. When liberalism brushes up against reality, they have to choose liberalism or reality. Most will just plug their ears and force themselves to watch Marvel movies, Clockwork Orange style until they forget all about it, but some realise the system they've taken as a gospel truth their whole lives isn't actually a good framework for understanding the world, and they might like to look for better ones. (Unfortunately, a lot of them fall for fascism at this point, because it offers the same easy answers as liberalism, but pretends to not be liberalism. So it is familiar and comforting to them.)

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[-] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago

regular average cursed postingAnyone: 'hey can u recommend me cool stuff'

Me: 'so there are these hypersexual anthropomorphic dog girls, it's not porn though swear'

I am not normal and cannot be trusted, lmao

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[-] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago

In the future we will tell tales of the 1 day mega that lasted for 3

[-] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago

Bullying chuds is good, actually.

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[-] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago

power-in-misery Fatalist simulation loser: We are just data, fully isolated from the reality program, unable to ever change it or move beyond it's predetermined outcome.

chad Determined astrology chad: We will slingshot meteorites into Mercury and permanently keep it out of retrograde.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago

Guy who follows through with "If you like Palestinians so much, go and live there!" but gets stuck at the border crossing because Isr*el won't let anyone in, not even aid workers

[-] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago

I was on public transit, and I happened to hear a gay couple talking about twitter discourse.

"The latest in the discourse is how black twitter is feuding with Palestine twitter over a tiktok...."

jesse-wtf

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[-] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago

The funniest Imane Khelif transvestigation was someone being like "according to mooslamic tradition men cannot touch women" and a picture of her on her coach's shoulders.

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[-] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago

I gotta leave my girlfriend in two days, this sucks I hope I can live with her soon

[-] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago

Someone said "Could you make a sandwhich so big god couldn't eat it?" and Mexican tortas shops took that as a challenge.

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[-] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Wish I had the words to describe how fucking useless “AI” (in everything now) is

I use the internet to look for sources that will help me solve a problem

instead of directing me to a helpful site, Google tries to give me an answer (using generative AI) while ignoring the crucial detail of my question which is causing the problem

“Certain older tv model # is not turning on”

“First try powering off the TV”

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA PEOPLE ARE SO FUCKING DUMB TO BE ALRIGHT WITH THIS GARBAGE

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[-] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Something something politics and sexual pathology.

NSFW

what-the-hell They really want others to know about their fetishes, don't they?

[-] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago

If I was trying to make fake AI pictures of a politician to try to hurt their popularity, I would probably show them snorting a line or associating with a horrible person, them in sexy clothes would be so far down the list. This person definitely made these for private use and had the idea to post them after the fact.

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[-] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago

Just realized my Lemmy app updated and now hexbear emotes aren't absolutely massive, neat

[-] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago

Any of you LA commies feel that earthquake? Hit pretty fucking hard, luckily was short. Scared the shit out of my doggie

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[-] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago

agony-shivering

Overdrawn again. I had $2 sitting in my account, and toll fees from work were hanging for a couple of day. I thought i was safe

[-] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago

caved to watching The Boys with my mom, yeah yeah, I’ve generally seen the mixed S4 reception but we just finished S1 and it’s at least really good thus far IMO

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