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“I dissuade Party members from putting down people who do not understand. Even people who are unenlightened and seemingly bourgeois should be answered in a polite way. Things should be explained to them as fully as possible. I was turned off by a person who did not want to talk to me because I was not important enough. Maurice just wanted to preach to the converted, who already agreed with him. I try to be cordial, because that way you win people over. You cannot win them over by drawing the line of demarcation, saying you are on this side and I am on the other; that shows a lack of consciousness. After the Black Panther Party was formed, I nearly fell into this error. I could not understand why people were blind to what I saw so clearly. Then I realized that their understanding had to be developed.”

― Huey P. Newton :huey-wut:

Huey Newton, born on the 17th of february in 1942, was a Marxist-Leninist revolutionary who, along with fellow Merritt College student Bobby Seale, co-founded the Black Panther Party (‪1966 - 1982‬). Together with Seale, Newton created a ten-point program which laid out guidelines for how the African-American community could achieve liberation. In the 1960s, under Newton's leadership, the Black Panther Party founded over 60 community support programs (renamed survival programs in 1971) including food banks, medical clinics, HIV support groups, sickle cell anemia tests, prison busing for families of inmates, legal advice seminars, clothing banks, housing co-ops, and their own ambulance service.

The most famous of these programs was the Free Breakfast for Children program which fed thousands of impoverished children daily during the early 1970s. Newton also co-founded the Black Panther newspaper service which became one of America's most widely distributed African-American newspapers. In 1967, he was involved in a shootout which led to the death of the police officer John Frey. Although arrested for the murder of Frey, the charges were eventually dismissed.

In 1970, after his release from prison, Newton received an invitation to visit the People's Republic of China. Newton made the trip in late September 1971 with fellow Panthers, Elaine Brown and Robert Bay, and stayed for 10 days. At every Chinese airport he landed in, Newton was greeted by thousands of people waving copies of the "Little Red Book" and displaying signs that said "we support the Black Panther Party, down with US imperialism" or "we support the American people but the Nixon imperialist regime must be overthrown."

By mid-decade, Newton faced more criminal charges when he was accused of murdering a 17-year-old sex worker and assaulting a tailor. To avoid prosecution, he fled to Cuba in 1974, but returned to the U.S. three years later. The murder case was eventually dismissed after two trials ended with deadlocked juries, while the tailor refused to testify in court in relation to assault charges.

Despite graduating from high school not knowing how to read, he taught himself literacy by reading Plato's Republic and earned a Ph.D. in social philosophy from the University of California at Santa Cruz's History of Consciousness program in 1980. In 1989, he was murdered in Oakland, California by Tyrone Robinson, a member of the Black Guerrilla Family.

Revolutionary suicide does not mean that I and my comrades have a death wish; it means just the opposite. We have such a strong desire to live with hope and human dignity that existence without them is impossible. When reactionary forces crush us, we must move against these forces, even at the risk of death. We will have to be driven out with a stick.”

― Huey P. Newton, Revolutionary Suicide :huey-wut:

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  • chat my favourite PhD scheme just scheduled me for an interview

    like i could go back into the science that i love, help improve the enviroment, AND quit my dumbshit finance job?? it would be a genuine miracle please please please please

  • I combatted liberalism harder than usual and it balkanized my lib friend group. This is uncomfortable, but it feels like I have moved from the absence of tension to the presence of justice--though there was a lot of tension at the end.

    This may leave me and my partner temporarily without any form of support group, which is unfortunate; but they seem surprisingly unbothered by the outcome and approve of me sticking to my morals rather than capitulating. I got a good one, comrades.

  • "Gen Z is lazy!"

    Reality:

    : "Ok bossman, the friendly face of the republicans is in all government, we've given you subsidy after subsidy, all products are expensive and rent is high so any pay you make will go right back to you, and you've just had the best 5 years of your life.......NOW will you start making jobs?"

    : "ummmmmmmmmm..........No thanks, all set here! <3"

    No one wants to fucking hire anymore. All my 20s are going to be wasted solely because some dipshit suits decided to take away all the jobs because "muh efficiency".

  • "Impeach" is such a funny word. Sure, ➡️🍑 the politician. Physically shrink him and then hide him inside the peach fruit. That'll really show him.

    (Does anyone who is good at language want to tell me the actual etymology of "impeach"?)

  • Three logicians walk into a bar, the bartender asks “does everyone want a beer?”

    The first logician says “maybe”

    The second logician says “maybe”

    The third logician says “are we still doing this dumb bit?”

  • Is anyone else weird about death like I am? Like a lot of people treat it with such reverence which I just don't understand. My granny died recently, and while it was sad to see her go, she was old and suffering very badly from dementia. But I wasnt that upset about it, and all my friends were acting like I was super fragile. One of my friends asked me how the funeral was, I said it was alright, and she was like "ok got it, you don't want to talk about it". Like what the fuck? That's not what I said at all. It was a nice ceremony and I was doing fine, was I supposed to pretend to be sadder than I was? People die, acting like death is a taboo is so strange to me. Also I've never understood people talking about disrespecting the dead and stuff like that. Like if you step on a grave, the corpse won't care, it's a corpse. It can be disrespectful to the living, so I don't do it, but the dead won't be upset. Dead people arent happier when they're dead, they're just dead.

    I don't believe in ghosts or spirituality or an afterlife, but it seems like most people do. Also one of my friends said that people who don't believe in ghosts are stupid which pissed me off because like no that's not stupid to not believe in ghosts. I don't care if you believe in ghosts, why would you care if I don't.

  • Passed a billboard in Spanish for Israel, one that said HARD MOUNTAIN DEW IS HERE, and one for a clinic peddling ozempic and then got held up by a cops funeral procession

    Real Burgerpunk 2025 hours on the commute

  • My spotify ads be like "hey you poor fuck have you thought about gambling" 🤑, please I live my life on the edge everyday I don't need the cheap thrills of scratching a lotto ticket 🙄

  • my wife is taking a week off work next week so we can hang out. gonna be playing undertale on saturday, because somehow she has never played it. how a transgender, autistic, lesbian, in her mid 20s has never played undertale utterly baffles me. HER OTHER PARTNER WAS A HOMESTUCK KINNIE BACK IN THE DAY, LIKE HOW HAVE YOU NOT PLAYED UNDERTALE

  • The Wild Thornberries 2: Eliza and Debbie are grown up and have ended up carrying on their parents' legacy as nature documentarians. Donnie has become a tech guy and runs the camera, and the joke is that even though he speaks English now he's still completely unintelligible when he talks because he uses excessive zoomer internet slang. Darwin is still alive but pretty old by chimpanzee standards and is the most grounded member of the cast. The whole family is vegan.

    The whole show has a doomer vibe, with the pair often feeling like they're just cataloguing the Earth's final days. In half of the episodes they revisit a location from the show's original run and explore the ways in which it has been fucked by climate change and/or overdevelopment. Eliza can still talk to animals but there are fewer to talk to than there used to be. A recurring villain is their producer who is always trying to get them to do vapid influencer shit.

  • I hate how listening to any socialist country's historical music on any platform will inevitably lead to the music from Red Alert. I never played that game but I know it's fucking music by heart because even if I try to filter it out it always gets put into my playlist.

  • I hate

    ”I simply don’t define myself by my work” okay but your work does define where and how you spend about 1/3 of your life. Like you can’t smugly dismiss people being unhappy with it. It’s not their personal moral failing to be bothered that 1/3 or more of their life just sucks.

  • My self image bounces up and down but highest is in the middle of the night waking up to piss and getting a glance of myself in the mirror, It's like damn I'm hot. I later return when fully awake and go "wha happun?"

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