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Benjamin J. Davis, born on this day in 1903, was American lawyer and communist who was elected in 1943 to the New York City Council, representing Harlem. Davis was persecuted by the state via the anti-communist Smith and McCarran Acts.

Davis became radicalized through his role as defense attorney in the 1933 trial of Angelo Herndon, a 19-year-old black communist who had been charged "attempting to incite insurrection" because he tried to organize a farm workers' union.

In 1949, Davis was among a number of communist leaders prosecuted for violating the Smith Act. He was convicted and sentenced to five years in prison. In 1962 Davis was charged with violating the Internal Security Act (also known as the McCarran Act), but died before the case could come to trial.

"Whether one agrees with the Communist Party or not, one must at least know the truth about it. One must not permit his ideas to be shaped by the hysteria which now passes as a 'crusade against Communism'... For example, the canard that every Communist has his pockets lined with 'Moscow gold.' If that were true, one could be sure that there would scarcely be any room in our party for workers. The capitalists, to whom gold is god of the universe, would crowd them out."

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[-] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago

Holy FUCK libs are insufferable. 4 years of ever worsening material conditions, the loss of abortion protections, shutting down the train unions, continuing border camps, continuing imperialist agenda, and a bajillion other broken promises, but it’s getting close to an election so we all got pretend there’s this big material difference between the parties.

I don’t even like bgj but seeing tons of libs nail her to a cross for being ambivalent about who’s “better or worse” in the electoralist circus show is just obnoxious

[-] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago

Dming this to every woman on onlyfans

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[-] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago

The amount of plastic components I've reverse-engineered and printed replacements for on these new Mitsubishi EDMs is too damn high. Shit just falls apart while doing routine maintenance. I just shattered a float sensor with a fucking Q-tip.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Here's another recent example:

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[-] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago

google maps has carbrain honestly

I looked up directions by bike earlier, and it comes up with 2 routes, one that goes through the forest, just a nice place to be in in general, it's really nice to cycle through, it's in the shade rn and all, and on top of that it's just the faster route

but google maps thinks the "best route" is entirely along busy car roads, major intersections and all, mostly unshaded, just breathing in car exhaust the entire way

literally the only way I can think of it arrives at that conclusion is that like, cars like going along main roads, so surely cyclists must too right??

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[-] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago

Whenever I see a youtube video recommended that's an AI video of Breaking Bad redone in some stupid style, like an 80s sitcom or an anime or something, that's an instant "do not recommend channel" from me. No half measures.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago
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[-] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Does anybody else have the problem where doing stuff outside isn't relaxing but you need to relax because of the stress from work? So you end up not doing stuff because doing stuff, while fun, is not relaxing?

I was excited to go out clubbing tonight but today's work was so much more stressful than expected I just wanna get high and watch anime now

Also same reason why I almost never travel anywhere despite wanting to go to so many places

You're telling me in all my precious vacation time I have to go somewhere far, not sleep in my own bed, and be walking around the entire day? Not to mention all the planning too ugh

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[-] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago

I just gotta say i feel much less like the pussy like my coworkers and chef friend kinda made me out to be for not just "gluing my wound together" or "slapping 5 bandaids on it" or taking one day off (after working 1 day with stitches, where it kept bleeding) to heal, when even after 7 ffucking days WITH STITCHES (got them removed yesterday...) it's still fragile enough to open up and bleed profusely just from breaking up fucking pasta noodles

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[-] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago

I'll see a tall guy and be like wow how'd you get so big

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[-] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago

"What, you need to observe the consequences of a thing before you can recognize the mistakes leading up to it or something??"

kitty-birthday-sad

[-] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago

Why do some people choose to date people that do nothing but mistreat them? This trans women I know has been dating this guy who calls her a removed and makes jokes about her being a man all the time. She constantly defends him and says that she really is a man too. It's very sad and pathetic to see.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago

abuse tends to be insidious in lots of ways

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[-] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago

Did we lose Tastysnack? All posts and comments deleted.

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[-] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago

unsure what kind of bird that is? go up to it and ask. stop leering, you creep.

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[-] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago

Those Lantern Flies that are such a problem, absolutely terrible fliers

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in 20 years it will be revealed that the state department kept Gaddafi alive to become Q of QAnon

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[-] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago

nsfwFolks, I just learned that the lockpicking lawyer once unlocked a cock cage with a condom wrapper, but, importantly, it was just lying on a table empty and unmoving.

Folks, this is an utter disgrace to the lockpicking community and I demand it be corrected. I refuse to accept this so called "lockpicking lawyer's" title and authority on the topic of picking cock cage locks until he does a proper test. One with the cage attached to the cock of a beautiful, oiled up twink who's squirming and squirting, making it actually difficult to pick said lock. Only then can we truly know if a cock lock is easy to pick in real world situation.

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[-] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago

I wish I lived in a world that would allow me to just sign up for the estro after an appointment, without making me pay a fuckton of cash

[-] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago

I'm listening to a group of mp3 files from a 1990 source. This made me laugh.

"This is the end of side one. Please fast-forward and turn over your cassette."

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[-] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago

Chapo boys saying that the sugar lobby doesn't like meatball ron because he hates sugar but maybe it's the other way around. I'd quit soda too if I kept getting bullied by sugar lobbyists.

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[-] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Ill be chilling and planting taro all day, loving life and nature, and then on the way back I hear shit like "the biggest threat to hawaii is the chinese" and I become fucking Hoxha

[-] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago

out with doing bad, in with actively spiraling

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[-] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago

All of the internet algorithms deployed on websites are just waiting for you to click on or interact with one piece of normie shit. It's like the recommendation algorithm (doesn't matter what site) breathes a sigh of relief that it can finally start shovelling alll of the Spider-Man shit or whatever because you saw the latest Spider-Verse movie despite only watching stuff like anime OVAs for the past 4 years.

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[-] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago

The police chief in my town said he wants to ban panhandling. Bro just a couple years ago the corrupt courts admitted that's unconstitutional. Even the worst judges won't agree with the bullshit you are trying to pull.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago

Fuckin baldurs gate 3 doesn't autosave ever. Fun losing an hour and half of progress.

Modern game design spoiled me. Need to get in the habit of quick saving every 5 minutes like the old days.

Piss

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[-] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago

I'm really tired of all of these posts and opinions and Twitter screenshots. I'm done. Just post a JPEG that says "angry" so I know what feeling I'm supposed to have while scrolling and leave it at that.

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