It’s generous that you think these people have read anything from Mein Kampf.

You do understand this is circular logic right? Why should Russia capitulate to every US or NATO threat?

Maybe the US shouldn’t have made such an obvious and stupid choice to escalate the conflict by allowing Ukraine to use their weapons?

Baller if true

Hell yeah!

Congratulations! I’m glad everything went well! I hope your wife has a speedy recovery. This is definitely the most challenging phases, both physically and mentally. Remember, you’re doing great, and you’ll continue to be great. Try not to compare yourselves or your baby to anyone else, be your own measuring stick. Don’t fret using bottles or formula either. It can be a major stressor, but a fed baby is a happy baby, no matter what. Don’t let anyone convince you otherwise.

Enjoy whatever time you have with your growing family! I’m so excited for you!

I tested this out today. It has a real programmers interface but it sure its fast which is real nice.

Hell Yeah!

That’s very cool! I think the closest I’ve had to that kind of experience thus far with our kiddos was when our oldest presented me with a drawing of people she made while at daycare. They were little circles, with eyes, and a mouth, and little stick arms and legs (very very long stick arms and legs). I remember thinking, “last week you had no idea how to do this, I even tried showing you”. Now her people have proper bodies and hair, and she often has something to present me after daycare “This is YOU DADDY!!”. Every little drawing of “me” really makes my day, and every week she gets better at it. Now we regularly doodle together, and it’s so fun.

Reconstruction needed to be bungled to ensure that the emancipated slaves did not become part of the landed class within the American population. With the abolition of slavery after the Civil War, it also was the abolition of the “southern economic system” the south was seeking to maintain. The south, having lost the war, would have to rapidly adapt to a wage labor system, and much of the emancipated population drew up contracts with their former owners and returned to their plantations as wageworkers. Slavery, as an economic system, was unable to compete with the emerging industrialization of the agribusiness in the north. Much of the southern “wealth” was tied up in their property (which included people), this property was leveraged as collateral on loans which funded much of the southern plantation owners’ extravagant lifestyles, as they had no real liquid assets to spend.

If the freed people of the south were given 40 acres and a mule as they were promised by William T. Sherman, you would have seen a rise of a new landed class, and potentially the formation of a new Black lead state. Unlike in the District of Columbia, where northern slavers were given compensation for their loss of “property” after the DC slaves were emancipated, the southern states were given no such compensation. Post-war, the former Confederate States were strapped with war debt that deeply impoverished the former wealthy classes. As the states were reintegrated back into the Union, they also participated in paying for the Union’s efforts in the war. While the latter half of this debt would have been shared by the Black landed class, it wouldn’t have had the same connections to the confederate war debt, much of which was held by individuals and not the state(s). The former Confederate states were effectively bankrupt post-war, and this is what drove the practice of Peonage or “Debt Slavery”, as well as sharecropping, that haunted the freed people in the post-war era. This would have left the new landed class in an advantageous position, free of most of the war debt, suddenly in possession of effectively a turn-key agroindustry.

A detail of this land reform policy that is often omitted from its retelling, is that the land also came with military protection; “until such time as they can protect themselves, or until Congress shall regulate their title”. This land constituted a contiguous 30-mile-long strip of abandoned or confiscated Confederate plantations from Charleston, South Carolina to Jacksonville, Florida. It also included an exclusive right to the freed population to settle the region; “in the settlements hereafter to be established, no white person whatever, unless military officers and soldiers detailed for duty, shall be permitted to reside; and the sole and exclusive management of affairs will be left to the freed people themselves.”

Could this have really been the foundation of a new Black state within the borders of the greater United States? Very likely, based on the actions and developments as a result of this redistribution of land. Skidway Island, representing almost 11,430 acres, was home to dozens of former plantations. With assistance from Ulysses L. Huston (future representative of Georgia, and instrumental in the writing of this land reform), over 1000 freed people had been resettled to Skidway in an attempt to build a self-sufficient Black colony. Fifty freed men and women were issued land titles at Grove Hill on the mainland, south of Savannah. They held elections that formed a board of representatives who advised the Freedmen’s Bureau* agent in their district, formed their own militia, and continued producing rice to sell in Savannah. Not long after this reform was announced, Rufus Saxton, charged with implementing and overseeing the order, reported some 40,000 Black citizens had settled on the land. The political and economic activity within the area show a clear intention of building Black lead communities and organizations independent of white influence.

If this land ownership were to endure, it would have an estimated value of $640 billion, according to 2020 estimates. The implications of this land redistribution posed a serious and imitate threat to white dominance in the south. If this state had been allowed to flourish, one could imagine (hopefully), the emergence of a multipolar political reality in the region. This vision is what lived on both in the struggles of Martin Luther King, and very explicitly in the struggle of Malcolm X and the Black Liberation and Black Nationalist movement. The assassination of Lincoln by John Wilkes Booth, with the support of the Confederate Secret Services, made the dismantling of this policy all the easier. However, well before his assassination, even Lincoln made attempts to backpedal on General Sherman’s vision of land reform. At the onset of this resettlement, Rufus Saxton, speaking to the Second African Baptist Church in Savannah in February 1865, reportedly told those who gathered:

“The soil is the source of all true prosperity and wealth, No people can be great unless they own soil. You know that; General Sherman knows it; our Father in heaven knows it. And now I want to tell you, you may own the soil.”

A few weeks later, President Abraham Lincoln signed into law a bill clarifying that Black families could rent their chosen plots for three years, with the option to buy them. Undercutting the message of both Saxon and Sherman. The Freedmen’s Bureau was also established with this bill, maybe as a kind of spoon full of sugar to help swallow the pill that was Lincoln’s clarification. This didn’t stop the 40,000+ Black Americans from traveling and settling within the borders of this “new state”. Post assassination, Andrew Johnson, slave owner, and outward white supremacist, fully rescinded on even the bruised version of reform left by Lincoln, strangling this fledgling Black State in its crib.

Read more:

• https://www.pbs.org/wnet/african-americans-many-rivers-to-cross/history/the-truth-behind-40-acres-and-a-mule/
• https://baltimorebeat.com/40-acres-and-a-lie/

I was going to post the excerpt of the Police Report describing Marx’s unkempt home, but I think the whole report is worth reading anyway. I’ve taken this from a reddit comment, so beyond this point is the text of that comment:

I think this quote originates in English in Karl Marx: Interviews and Recollections, 1981, edited by David McLellan. Here’s the full excerpt, which was translated by McLellan from G. Mayer’s ‘Neue Beitrage zur Biographie von Karl Marx’, Archiv fur die Geschichte des Sozialismus und der Arbeiter bewegung, 1922. It’s pretty LOL. McLellan introduces it like this: “This extract is the major part of a report from an anonymous German spy. It was probably written, at the bequest of the Prussian authorities in Berlin, in the autumn of 1852. At that time the Prussian Government was organising a show trial of communists- the onus for whose defence lay chiefly with Marx.”

The leader of this party is Karl Marx; his lieutenants are Engels in Manchester, where there are thousands of German workmen; Freiligrath and Wolff(known as Lupus) in London; Heine in Paris; Weydemeyer and Cluss in America; Burgers and Daniels were his lieutenants in Cologne, and Weerth in Hamburg. All the rest are merely Party members. The shaping and moving spirit, the real soul of the Party, is Marx; therefore I will go on to acquaint you with his personality.

Marx is of medium height, thirty-four years old. Although in the prime of life, his hair is already turning grey. He is powerfully built, and his features remind you very distinctly of Szemere, only his complexion is darker, and his hair and beard quite black. The latter he does not shave at all. His large piercing fiery eyes have something demonically sinister about them. The first impression one receives is of a man of genius and energy. His intellectual superiority exercises an irresistible power on his surroundings.

In private life he is an extremely disorderly, cynical human being, and a bad host. He leads the existence of a real bohemian intellectual. Washing, grooming and changing his linen are things he does rarely, and he likes to get drunk. Though he is often idle for days on end, he will work day and night with tireless endurance when he has a great deal of work to do. He has no fixed times for going to sleep and waking up. He often stays up all night, and then lies down fully clothed on the sofa at midday and sleeps till evening, untroubled by the comings and goings of the whole world.

His wife is the sister of the Prussian Minister von Westphalen, a cultured and charming woman, who out of love for her husband has accustomed herself to his bohemian existence, and now feels perfectly at home in this poverty. She has two daughters and one son, and all three children are truly handsome.

As husband and father, Marx, in spite of his wild and restless character, is the gentlest and mildest of men. Marx lives in one of the worst - therefore, one of the cheapest - quarters of London. He occupies two rooms. The one looking out on the street is the living room, and the bedroom is at the back. In the whole apartment there is not one dean and solid piece of furniture. Everything is broken down,tattered and torn,with a half inch of dust over everything and the greatest disorder everywhere. In the middle of the living room there is a large old-fashioned table covered with an oilcloth, and on it there lie his manuscripts, books and newspapers, as well as the children’s toys, and rags and tatters of his wife’s sewing basket, several cups with broken rims, knives, forks, lamps, an inkpot, tumblers, Dutch day pipes, tobacco ash- in a word, everything topsy-turvy, and all on the same table. A seller of secondhand goods would be ashamed to give away such a remarkable collection of odds and ends.

When you enter Marx’s room, smoke from the coal and fumes from the tobacco make your eyes water so much that for a moment you seem to be groping about in a cavern, but gradually, as you grow accustomed to the fog, you can make out certain objects which distinguish themselves from the surrounding haze. Everything is dirty and covered with dust, so that to sit down becomes a thoroughly dangerous business. Here is a chair with only three legs, on another chair the children are playing at cooking- this chair happens to have four legs. This is the one which is offered to the visitor, but the children’s cooking has not been wiped away; and if you sit down, you risk a pair of trousers. But none of these things embarrass Marx or his wife. You are received in the most friendly way and cordially offered pipes and tobacco and whatever else there may happen to be; and eventually a spirited and agreeable conversation arises to make amends for the domestic deficiencies, thus making the discomfort tolerable. Finally you grow accustomed to the company, and find it interesting and original. This is a true picture of the family life of the communist chief Marx. Now I wish to discuss him as a politician and leader of a conspiracy.

As head and leader of a plot Marx is undoubtedly the most capable and well-suited man next to Mazzini, but when it comes to intrigues he is a worthy equal to the Small Roman. Marx is exceptionally cunning, crafty and reserved; he is difficult of access; on the other hand, he will support in every way and defend to the death anyone in whom he has once placed his trust. He will not admit that he could be mistaken in a man whom he had investigated. Marx is jealous of his authority as head of the Party; against his political rivals and opponents he is vengeful and implacable: he does not rest until he has destroyed them. His main quality is boundless ambition and lust for power. In spite of his programme of communist equality, he is the absolute ruler of his party. It is true that he does everything himself, but then only he commands and here he will brook no opposition. All this only concerns the secret workings and the secret sections; in open Party meetings, by contrast, he is the most liberal and popular of all.

I’ve read that people with ADHD have awful handwriting, but I don’t know if that’s factual. I like to think mine isn’t so bad, but then again, I’m biased.

I wonder what dbzer0’s implementation is like. I know slrpnk uses dokuwiki with a db connector for using you’re Lemmy account for authentication (you have you be a slrpnk user).

I think if these servers are already implementing their own wikis then the burden on server admins already exists for those that want it. I haven’t checked in on the Ibis project in a while, but maybe one day that would be the “official” wiki for Lemmy, in that it’ll have first class support for integration with Lemmy.

Ive been thinking about this a lot and its a real shame Lemmy doesn’t have a built in wiki…

I have the opposite problem… I have zero sense of urgency.

Why do I love this channel so much…

And by elected they mean six people wrote them in and won because no one was running.

Yup I came here to say basically this. The middle class is a scapegoat that reinforces the idea that you’re a moral and abject failure for not rising to this gilded position within American society. Solving the issues of the underclass undermines the entire middle-class mythos and would cause a self reinforcing reaction from those who think they are in that class. By giving the underclass more you create the perception that you’re not helping the middle class. Forget rising tides lifting all boats.

This is jogging my memory now. I remember when The_Donald was banned and people talking about CTH getting banned too. Gotta cut each end of the horseshoe right?

Oh this is ringing bells! I remember this being talked about at the time.