Kurt Eisner, born on this day in 1867, was a German socialist revolutionary and radical journalist who was assassinated by a far-right nationalist while serving as head of the People’s State of Bavaria.
Kurt Eisner, born to a Jewish family in Berlin, was a revolutionary German socialist, radical journalist, and theater critic. Before leading the People’s State of Bavaria, he worked as a journalist in Marburg, Nuremberg, and Munich. In the early 1890s, Eisner served nine months in prison for writing an article that attacked Kaiser Wilhelm II.
In 1918, Eisner was convicted of treason for his role in inciting a strike of munitions workers. He spent nine months in Cell 70 of Stadelheim Prison, but was released during the General Amnesty in October of that year.
Following his release from prison, Eisner helped organize the revolution that overthrew the Bavarian monarchy, declaring Bavaria to be a free state and republic. Despite Eisner’s socialist politics, he explicitly distanced the movement from the Bolsheviks and promised to uphold property rights.
On February 21st, 1919, while on his way to deliver his resignation to Parliament, Eisner was assassinated in Munich by a far-right German nationalist. Eisner’s murder made him a martyr for left-wing causes, and a period of lawlessness in Bavaria followed his death.
On the night of April 6th-7th, 1919, communists, encouraged by the news of the communist revolution in Hungary, declared a Soviet Republic, with Ernst Toller as chief of state. The Bavarian Soviet Republic was crushed by the right-wing German Freikorps.
Some of the military leaders of the Freikorps, including Rudolf Hess and Franz Ritter von Epp, would go on to become powerful figures in the Nazi Party. Ironically, Adolf Hitler himself marched in the funeral procession for Eisner, a Jew, wearing a red armband as a display of sympathy.
“Truth is the greatest of all national possessions. A state, a people, a system which suppresses the truth or fears to publish it, deserves to collapse.”
- Kurt Eisner
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had a hot tub threesome under the Aurora at a high desert cabin
Aight, that’s basically the high point of life. Now place your hands where i can see them, you’re under arrest
absolutely goated
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I decided to start walking about 3 miles a day in the morning. It took just over an hour. I hope it will do good in the long term. I have heard eating less and some walking can help reduce fat around the abdomen. I guess more than anything, planning and succeeding on this front is good for building self-confidence.
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Not to mention the Spanian, sky news amd azmongold stuff on my front page. Like, I only watch videos about food and travel in China.
I was looking up the 4B feminist movement in Korea and one of the first things it threw up (literally) was the Asmongold subreddit complaining about misandry and speculating on whether
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I really need to, like, throw the Man-O-Sphere in to a volcano.
I’ll grab the legs if you take the shoulders fr
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I’ll never stop
Relatable
Look at all our big beautiful posters. You know we have posters all around the world? We do. and you can post at 2 am and somewhere else its “posting on the boss’s dime” aclock. The middle of the night and we have comrades ready to up vote your posts no matter how shitty they might be.
I just read that vampires are weak to weapons of peasants, while werewolves are weak to weapons of aristocracy. Therefore, hellfire missiles would kill werewolves, but vampires are killed by kalashnikovs. The AR-15, being a weapon of the petit bourgeois, would kill neither.
“Communists defeat supernatural with the power of state atheism and the dialectic” is not a large genre but it is one of my favs. I can’t think of any right now except that love and robots episode where the red army troops track down the horrors and then the murder demons learn that being an demonic hive of scp horrors doesn’t mean shit against the industrial might of the union of soviet socialist republics.
one of those spoilers where stating what it's a spoiler for would be a spoiler
There are elements of it in Unjust Depths
weapon of petit bourgeoisie would be salt though, so prolly demons
Went to a gun range cause I wanted to rent a machine gun. The safety guy had a
patch on his plate carrier and the guy in the lane next to us had a shirt that said infidel on it.Cool. Magdumping the ak was a lot of fun though.
Imagine that you’re studying those target recognition cards from WWII so you know how to tell friendlies from enemies.
“I don’t like tomatoes they make the bread wet” MFs are terrible kissers.
They don’t have the practice that only having sloppy messy makeout sessions with a beanburger that’s actively falling apart can give you.
kissing is bourgeois decadence (i know how to spell bourgeois because i didn’t waste time kissing)
they made a 4chan dating app and all the data has leaked lol
- why would anyone want to meet any else who uses that website?
- there must be 10,000 men per women on that app, slightly worse than the regular dating apps
Okay, but they’re already winnowing down the pool of women to only those who aren’t turned off by the fact that they (the men) are extremely online, and their competition is solely those who are also extremely online.
Pretty smart!
Leaky 4chan dating app data sounds pretty damn nasty. Also - was it 99.9+% male?
Less than 95pct
r/childfree tattoo: no rugrats
we have evolved beyond the need for Tommy Pickles
My neighbor’s garage burned last night. I had a very big day full of great things and then it got punctuated with hearing a pop and minutes later seeing the light of the fire. My friends and I ran out from the yard and just, there it was. A pillar of fire consuming the garage. We were incredibly lucky that it had rained recently and that fire department showed up when they did. Like not even five more minutes and it looked like it would have caught the trees or the next house.
It was so bizarre, but weirdly human and . . . I don’t really want to use positive words, but almost encouraging how the entire block came out. And everyone was just doing these very instinctual behaviors of checking with each other what had happened and what it meant and how they felt. I don’t know. I feel terrible for my neighbors. They’d been friends of ours and I want to figure out something to help. At least bring them some food. They lost a lot it sounds like, even though it thankfully didn’t get to the house.
I dunno. It was just really intense
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fam i fuckin love spain. i just paid 12€ for a three course lunch plus a whole bottle of wine. idk what the food is but it’s tasty as hell. this would have cost like $60 at a restaurant in the US
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I love being called antisemitic by people who voted for the guy who used Shylock to describe people. Very normal and rational people
Sometimes I wonder if the “cringe reddit atheist” label did more harm than good. Like, there are definitely religious people on the Internet who use that label to shut down ALL criticism of religion, even if it’s relevant to the conversation at hand, and if it’s a legitimate criticism.
Furthermore, many times these reddit atheists are actual teenagers, just learning atheism, and sometimes, have a good reason to be angry. Like, religious parents hanging religion over their head constantly.
One simple question to sort the reddit atheist wheat from the chaff: which is more harmful, Christianity or Islam?
The correct answer is obviously kkkristianity.
Trick question. The notion of a secular social or political sphere is inherently modern, and even in the modern day many secular societies are still enmeshed in secular religions that reproduce many of the harms of theistic religions. Once we’ve successfully killed god we’re gonna have to hunt down George Washington and Europa and beat them to death.
Also, all the bad things happened in religious societies, but all the good things happened in religous societies too and trying to separate those things is ashistorical nonesense. It’s also anti-materialist. Religion is oppressive because it is part of societies with oppressive economic systems. Feudalism without Christianity or Islam or Hindu or whatever is still feudalism. The ruling powers would have come up with some other thought system to justify their power and oppression if no one had ever thought up gods. You can’t address the oppressions of religion without addressing class, race, gender, and other oppresions as part of the same political program. This is readily apparent in history if one just looks at all the proto-socialist movements that arose in a religious context, were justified by religious beliefs, and very often promoted radical class, gender, racial, and other equalities before they were crushed by the ruling powers. Religion isn’t oppressive in and of itself, but it is a component of the vast machine of oppression which comprises our capitalist world.
That’s all true. But it’s intended to be a trick question. It quickly sorts out the islamophobic New Atheism types from the ones who you can even have that level of discussion with.
Extremely true.
As a cringe reddit atheist who told the new atheists to fuck off and die once i realized they were all just reactionary islamaphobes (i yelled at dawkins about his ridiculous ignorance regarding Islamic history during one of his amas!) I think that the combination of New Atheism and the mostly justified reaction to New Atheism has been disastrous both to Atheism as a recognition of the state of the world, to the ongoing battle against Christian Fascism specifically and religious oppression generally, and to my on going mission to attack and dethrone god.
In my personal analysis a great deal of American’s relationship to religion is defined by religious trauma stemming from the violence of major Christian sects. Many people become at least partially defined by how they react to that violence - some become generically de-religiousized, some try to find a replacement christianity in various sects or neo-religions, some become reactionary atheist scum who turn to naked racism and bigotry under a tissue thin guise of critique of religion.
There are lots of jobaday atheists and skeptics out there, but “i don’t believe there are any gods or magical phenomena” isn’t very exciting or dramatic so it doesn’t get a lot of press. But after the reaction against New Atheism, as far as I can tell, they have almost no presence in the public eye and partially as a result of that there’s no atheist perspective on the battle against Christian Fascism. We just lost that entirely when New Atheism became the face of atheist thought and then everyone decided that any and all atheists are bigotted new atheist scum.
