One of George Washington’s slaves ran away from him, while he was President. The slave, named Oney Judge, ran away because after a lifetime of faithful service to the Washington family, she was informed that she was going to be given away as a wedding present to one of Martha Washington’s nieces. After Oney escaped, George Washington sent a bounty hunter to hunt her, but she was able to evade him, living as a free woman in New Hampshire.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ona_Judge

Abolition actually started with legislation which caused a violent uprising from the fucking Confederacy

Wrong. You are not just wrong, but you are violently racist.

Abolition started with slaves freeing themselves. Nat Turner. Harriet Tubman. Without people like that, the Civil War would have never happened, slavery would have never ended.

John Brown was inspired by Nat Turner, and he literally worked hand-in-hand with Harriet Tubman, who seriously considered joining him in his violent raid on Harper’s Ferry. John Brown went on illegal (and violent) raids into the south to free slaves and then illegally transport them to Canada. John Brown murdered pro-slavery men in retaliation for their murders of abolitionists in Kansas. Do you think what John Brown did was wrong? Do you think arresting and executing John Brown was a good thing? Do you think Sherman’s march to the sea and the violence he committed against southerners is a bad thing?

I don’t expect you to have the correct response, because you are a violently racist, anti-black person. You honestly believe that rich white dudes sitting in a room writing some words on a piece of paper had a bigger effect on ending slavery than black people who actually put their lives and bodies on the line to free themselves (displaying your internalized white supremacy).

Please educate yourself. Start by reading The Counter-Revolution of 1776: Slave Resistance and the Origins of the United States of America by the fantastic author Gerald Horne. Or maybe you’re too afraid to read this book, because it’s not written by a “safe” old dead liberal white man.

From Wikipedia:

Commodus was assassinated by the wrestler Narcissus in 192, ending the Nerva–Antonine dynasty. He was succeeded by Pertinax, the first claimant in the tumultuous Year of the Five Emperors.

So that means that, if history repeats itself, President Newsom will challenge Jake Paul to a fight and die in the ring, followed by a rapid succession of short-lived administrations. Sounds entertaining

And https://www.politico.com/news/2024/09/28/gavin-newsom-gaza-protests-universities-00181548

Counterpoint: Kamala Harris only won like 2% of her vote in her HOME STATE in 2020 and the Dems made her their superstar in 2024.

That’s a funny joke. No way they would let anyone even tangentially associated with the DSA into a cabinet position any higher than Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.

Personally, I believe that Newsom can push Steve Bannon to the left. All it takes is a few more “The West Wing” esque speeches where the Democrats keep the moral high ground. Looking forward to the new regime imposing “Abundance with Cracker Characteristics” in Project 2029.

Governor Newsome proposed gerrymandering all of California to make it so that every single district has a democratic majority. That means that after the 2026 mid-terms, the Democrats would take the House of Representatives back from the Republicans. This comes as a response to Texas doing a similar gerrymandering.

Who knows what the Republicans would do in response? Maybe every red-state does racist gerrymandering to counter California’s blue wave. I don’t think the Republicans have any intention of allowing themselves to lose power ever again, and they would definitely prefer rigging future elections, declaring martial law, or just arresting Democratic politicians to losing control of any branch of government.

Newsome and Trump both have egos so enormous that they might actually move towards Balkanization not on any ideological ground but because they hate each other so much and desire to be the most beloved and powerful people in America (which is to say, in the world). If we really are backsliding from capitalism into neo-feudalism or techno-feudalism, then this might be a Warring States Period for the USA…

Yeah I’ve been working on boosting my Sleep Elo lately, I started out at just 500 but I’m up to around 1600 now. I think in a few more months I might try to become a pro sleeper. I just ordered some RGB Alienware pillows, once I get those set up I can really become a Slumber-Chad.

Voting solves nothing. If the Republicans are pro-genocide and pro-environmental collapse and the Democrats are also pro-genocide and pro-environmental collapse, voting is not the solution to our problem. You might as well criticize me for which type of shoes I wear, it has the same influence on Politics, which is zero.

If you want to learn about Stalin, I would start by reading Stephen Kotkin’s two books which cover his life up to WWII in detail. Kotkin is a liberal, so he is no fan of Stalin, but he does very thorough research.

Stalin: Passage to Revolution by Ronald Grigor Suny gives a more sympathetic account of Stalin’s early life, his extreme suffering caused by the Czarist regime, and his dedication to making the world a better place. This book goes in depth into the Menshevik-Bolshevik split, and why Stalin chose to side with Lenin and internationalist socialism instead of the more nationalist Georgian Mensheviks.

Domenico Losurdo’s Stalin: History and Critique of a Black Legend does not go in-depth in biographical details, but it is definitely the best “defense” of Stalin’s various actions. The main rhetorical technique is comparing Stalin to other leaders at the time - Hitler, FDR, Churchill, etc… To the point: Stalin never attacked a city with a nuclear bomb (like the USA), Stalin never caused famine and starvation for profit (like Britain), and Stalin never tried to exterminate an entire ethno-religious group (like Hitler). Nobody is saying Stalin was perfect, but compared to other world leaders he was a much more moral leader than them, and ultimately did much more good for the world overall, such as almost single-handedly defeating Nazi Germany.

Yes, the real smart people know that Stalin was evil like Darth Vader right?

Please read a book before you post. No investigation, no right to speak.

Now I’m waiting for the new indie Rom-Com about your “Manic Pixie Sleep Paralysis Boyfriend.”

People are comparing what’s happening in Gaza to the Holocaust, which is a fair comparison, but I feel like a more accurate comparison would be the Herero and Nama genocide from 1904-1908. This was a genocide perpetrated by the “civilized” against the “savages” which ended up killing around 100,000 people in modern-day Namibia. Even though a large percentage of the German Empire’s population was actually against the genocide and a lot of liberal intellectuals felt sympathy for the indigenous peoples, the military-industrial complex of the empire and the unstoppable prerogative of the Kaiser made sure that the ethnic cleansing and mass murder was carried out to its conclusion, with nobody stepping in to stop it.

I disagree. A also think anyone who thinks Hither is “rad” should buy a gun and shoot themselves in the head. Please, go ahead, follow your leader.

UPDATE: here are some more Grok posts praising Hitler and “MechaHitler:”

https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/1lv2b8m/im_not_even_excited_for_grok_4_anymore/

https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/1lv1u0q/wtf/

https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/1lv2en3/grok_has_gone_full_mechahitler/

Elon has now lost the non-raicst Technbros. So, about 20% of his support base is now gone.

Look at the material conditions. Humanity produces more food than it needs. Because of technological process and efficiency, we have enough food to feed every hungry person, the only problems are transportation and access (aka capitalism and imperialism). It is literally more difficult for us to NOT give food to the hungry people who need it than it is to just let them have it. The leftovers restaurants/stores throw away could feed all the needy.

As for housing, we have the space, technology, and materials to build safe and comfortable housing for everyone on earth. But instead, cities are seeing a boom in “luxury housing” and simultaneously in slums where the poor and working class are forced to live with roommates or their families. This is an economic problem, and ARTIFICIAL shortage of housing, not an actual shortage of material needs. To go to the most extreme case, why can’t the government just build a bunch of new apartments all over, give control over them to social services, and comfortably house all the homeless? Or even run them with the assistance of charity groups or even religious charity groups in certain countries/regions where that’s the norm? Capitalism and imperialism are the only thing getting in the way of that. Ideology is the obstacle, not material reality.

I’m sure if every person had the financial means to support their “lazy” or even physically disabled family members, they would. They would build ramps/elevators in their houses, get them physical therapy, and counseling for their mental health needs. But in America everyone is forced to work, and housing, food, and healthcare are only given to those who sacrifice their lives to work, or who collaborate in the power structure that helps the working class control the workers. When Elon Musk plays video games, he is demonstrating his genius. When the peasants play video games, they are lazy. When Donald Trump golfs, he’s closing high-level business deals. When the peasants kick a soccer ball around, they are wasting time. When George W. Bush paints, he is bravely facing his trauma. When the peasants paint, they are choosing a useless career path.

Laziness is not a real thing in America, it is simply a word used to blame the working class for their own economic situation. “Grind more. Get another job. Invest. Get up early. Stay late. Be your own boss.” It’s the same mentality that leads to laws preventing people from buying chips or cookies with food stamps - the poor do not deserve to be happy, and in fact they deserve to be miserable, in order to incentivize them to stop being poor.