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The Communist Party of the United States of America (CPUSA) was established on this day in 1919. CPUSA provided legal aid to the Scottsboro Boys, helped poor Southern farmers form sharecropper unions, and promoted communist ideas within the U.S.

The party was established after a split in the Socialist Party of America following the Russian Revolution, and initially operated underground due to the Palmer Raids, a series of anti-immigrant, anti-labor, and anti-communist raids conducted by Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer.

CPUSA was an early opponent of segregation and racial discrimination, giving legal aid to the Scottsboro Boys and helping poor black farmers in the South organize sharecropper unions. Because of this, the party had a strong presence in Alabama in the 1930s. This history is detailed in "Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists during the Great Depression" by historian Robin D.G. Kelley.

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"He like feet, suck on this camel toe" is so fucking funny

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oh fuck that's right, i was gonna make/source some Taiko no Tatsujin emojis

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lord help me I am about to queue up The Dripping Tap by King Gizz in the cytube

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Getting our first week of a heatwave starting this weekend. Summer has been cold and rainy otherwise.

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I wore my tang ping t-shirt to the bakery this morning. The clerk said he liked it and then said Xi Xi Ping. I laughed. What should I wear next time?

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A blaffair to rememblack

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Can you recommend a method for get better at writing or learning how to go about writing in a way that helps to improve my skill? I am fairly decent at understanding what I like about a book theme-wise and depiction of character wise, i pick up the obvious signs of a skillful use of language etc, when it's a generally well-written book, like Handmaid's Tale bores me to tears (besides disagreeing on interpretation, somewhat out of contrarian spite for libs peddling it) but I still get why people see it as skillfully written.

But translating these observations into practice is still hard. tbf I don't aim for high-minded works. Do I just have to do it and write and get better by looking at the shit I produce?

I looked at the supposed hobby site, reddit-logo but it was just native english speakers that didn't really understand how present participles/gerund works while handing out angry-codescending grammer advice. I also don't love the general misery that seems to seep from writers' comunities

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isekai but the screen is split showing the protagonist frolicing around the real world halucinating the 'other world' from a gas leak

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Nobody cares about my novel until it's time to have a sex scene. Then it's like "well, what was her motivation?" I had motivations for all my characters crafted day 1

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Have you ever thought about how Jude, Yehuda and Judas are really all the same name, just written in different languages, and yet only one of these is completely proscribed in Christian culture? Seems really arbitrary to me.

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