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On this day in 1959, Congolese residents of Stanleyville rebelled against Belgian colonizers, demanding independence after a speech by Patrice Lumumba. Police suppressed the riot, killing ~70, imposing martial law, and arresting Lumumba.

The day prior, Lumumba called for a nationwide campaign of civil disobedience in a speech to the MNC congress, also ordering Congolese people to not collaborate with the Belgian colonial government and announcing that the party would not take part in the upcoming December elections.

The rebellion began on October 30th when the police arrived at the suburb of Mangoba to arrest Lumumba. The uprising was suppressed with military force, including two companies of infantry.

In total, approximately 70 people were killed in the fighting, and up to 200 were wounded. Lumumba himself was arrested by police as the government imposed martial law and banned gatherings of more than five people.

Congo would achieve independence from Belgium on June 30th, 1960, with Lumumba serving as its first Prime Minister. He was assassinated by Belgian forces and their collaborators on January 17th, 1961.

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

I've been thinking about Musk turning X into a bank, and the more I think about it the more I think that he has some kind of scheme to get the Federal Reserve to write off his $40B in debt. He's gonna get away with it too.

brrrrrrrrrrrr

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

I just made the most massive pot of (vegan) mashed potatoes that I have ever made, the pot was so full I had a hard time stirring.

This shit is so fucking good though, nooch is the best.

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

Republicans becoming so hard to please that they won't pass the Israel aid package they themselves support is accidental :bloomer:

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

Olive oil is good as hell. Wish I could get some Palestinian olive oil...

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

Movies longer than 90 minutes should have to come with weed or something. And have set intermissions so I don't accidentally ruin someone's night by saying they don't need to pause the movie while I pee

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

I'm shocked I've never met a guy who crusades against drive-thru awnings because he's had his Ford F-350 lifted too high to fit under them

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

it is october 29 and stalin saved the world from fascism

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

"There is an ill note in the howling of the wind. The nights are darker, the shadows longer. In the air the birds are restless, in the forest some unknown creature screams and is suddenly silent. Ill omens all, something is coming...."

Me when a new character I don't recognize shows up on my feeds but it's clear there is going to be an fandom about it.

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

live-tucker-reaction

On September 8, 2021 I shot and killed a young man for asking me if I wanted any vegetables on my Subway sandwich. I'm trying to have a sandwich, not a damn salad!

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

Love to step on the scale and have it read 2 pounds higher than yesterday very cool natural body weight fluctuations thank you

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

I reached out to an old friend to chat a bit and he unironically replied with a TP USA video with Candace Owens.

Is this what's really meant when they say you lose friends as you get older? They're stolen from you by mind melting slop?

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[-] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Someone hand me the lathe please. I am trying to will into existence the use of "pre-education camp" in regime newspapers to describe DPR Korean preschools.

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

Why on earth would I bother logging off when that just means all this shit is gonna take me off guard? I mean, me being on guard doesn't make a difference, but trying to not be on guard doesn't make the fear go away either

[-] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I'm seriously finally almost done with my 3000 year history of Israel and Palestine (lol). I think it's gonna be like 15 pages and I'm hoping to be done tomorrow. I feel like I'm not going to do enough justice for 2008-today but hopefully with everything else I have it will give enough context for people to get the picture. I think I must have put in at least 30 hours scanning the internet. In my search I found a pdf of Rashid Khalidi's "Palestinian Identity" and a paper about Palestinian decolonization with a Deleuzean lens or something and I'm stoked to read them both even though I don't know shit about Deleuze

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

I had no idea the Spanish opening up their ports all over South America to Yankee slave traders helped finance the 1776 settler revolt

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

What's up with so many YouTube videos starting three minutes in? Oh, you wanted to watch the video? Well first I have to do a skit, an overlong intro with too loud music, then I have to explain the history of Runescape, then do my sponsor, and only then will the video actually start. It's to the point where if they've setup chapters I immediately skip the intro.

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

Every Columbo costume I see on twitter is just a guy in a suit putting very little effort into being a weird little gremlin man.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

have people seen this thing about the national march on washington for palestine? are people planning on joining, do we know if there's a way to help out without actually going (because i am immunocompromised and very sick rn)

should this be a pinned post maybe?

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

The common sunflower (Helianthus annuus) is a species of large annual forb of the genus Helianthus.

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

Latin for 'butthole that faces the sun'

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[-] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Been trying for a good while to formulate my thoughts on the white murderers of KOTFM and every paragraph I type out about it I end up deleting because I feel like I trail off into nonsense.

Its just really striking how fucking unnecessary and un-exceptional the whole thing seems for these characters. The penniless freaks they hire to perform most of the murders dont actually make any particular money for it, they seem like they make just as much from any regular crime as from these murders, which is not enough to not live like a fucking dirty shithead.

And the men who actually marry the Osage to steal their land rights, like all the profit is basically made there it seems, they are given legal responsibility over their wives and their wealth, and thats just legal for them to do, all they have to do is be dishonest. And they dont particularly seem to be disgusted or uncomfortable with the arrangement. I guess what horrifies me most is just how much of a modern colonialist/imperialist mindset that Bill Hale and the rest of the ringleaders have in terms of like, the oil deserves to be in better more responsible hands, and even if they on some level apparently like and love the Osage(or are capable of pretending to for decades unbroken), they are still lesser humans in the eyes of the white men, a distraction or special period in their lives that will then be heartlessly discarded.

I feel like I simultaneously grasp the mindset that must be required for it all but also its just a big black miasma that I cant really see through. This evil casts a colossal shadow over the history of the 20th and 21st century, and over the global south.

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

Might make being proseptic my new thing. Clorox-hater type ideology or some such. Idk just feeling it out

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

My car is on borrowed time it looks like.

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

is there like an auto crossposting feature meow-knit why the fuck did my post get crossposted from history to multiple other comms i swear i did not select those

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[-] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

Completely without irony; Dragonball Z is one of the most important works of philosophy of the 21st century and has done more to teach people the virtues of kindness, compassion, and striving for justice than almost any other work.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

Im a wizard. Yet I cant summon tactical mojitos. Such is life.

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