Today is John Brown's birthday. An important abolitionist, and a man willing to both kill and die for the things he believed in. A man who k1dnapped George Washington's slave holding great-nephew, as well as collaborated with Harriet Tubman and saw slavery as one of the greatest sins a man could commit. He was also a man who viciously beat his children, and killed without reservation those who d...
2020-05-09 23:34:49 +0000 UTC
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People who try to paint the Provisional IRA as a right-wing extremist group willfully choose to ignore the Irish Nationalism traditions that gave birth to the Provisionals. Prior to the beginning of the troubles, the IRA pursued a Civil Rights campaign that was explicitly anti-capitalist in nature and attempted to liberate both the Catholic and Protestant working class from the chains of British ...
2020-04-24 23:30:08 +0000 UTC
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Did you know some of the seeds of the Russian Revolution were planted all the way back in 1698 when Peter the Great instituted a Beard Tax in an attempt to more fully westernize Russian citizens? He even formed a police force tasked with forcibly shaving men in the street who could not pay the fine for having a beard. These fines were, unsurprisingly, mostly enforced against the peasants and the ...
2020-04-24 23:18:42 +0000 UTC
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Oh hi there, I didnt see you walk in. But anyway, since you're here already can i tell you about Abdullah Ocalan and the PKK? 😘
2020-03-29 05:55:11 +0000 UTC
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POV: I'm your stoner boyfriend and you just got home from work and I'm high as shit laying on the couch but you're not upset because I already cleaned the kitchen and made mac and cheese (from scratch using a bechamél) "hi babe wanna watch that documentary later? You look very pretty today"
2020-03-26 18:21:02 +0000 UTC
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