Benjamin J. Davis, born on this day in 1903, was American lawyer and communist who was elected in 1943 to the New York City Council, representing Harlem. Davis was persecuted by the state via the anti-communist Smith and McCarran Acts.
Davis became radicalized through his role as defense attorney in the 1933 trial of Angelo Herndon, a 19-year-old black communist who had been charged “attempting to incite insurrection” because he tried to organize a farm workers’ union.
In 1949, Davis was among a number of communist leaders prosecuted for violating the Smith Act. He was convicted and sentenced to five years in prison. In 1962 Davis was charged with violating the Internal Security Act (also known as the McCarran Act), but died before the case could come to trial.
“Whether one agrees with the Communist Party or not, one must at least know the truth about it. One must not permit his ideas to be shaped by the hysteria which now passes as a ‘crusade against Communism’… For example, the canard that every Communist has his pockets lined with ‘Moscow gold.’ If that were true, one could be sure that there would scarcely be any room in our party for workers. The capitalists, to whom gold is god of the universe, would crowd them out.”
- Benjamin J. Davis
I hope you nerds have a good month of September 
Remember no crackers
that fucking brutal breakdown is somewhere around 12 minutes in
it’s so interesting watching rabid rainbow-Imperialists become make less sense every year, the mirage they run after drying out as they jump in, same democrats they supported last year throwing them under the bus the same way they threw away a third of this planet. I think there’s poetry in seeing a transgender U.S. soldier being kicked out.
I remember them being adamant about supporting Dems in 2024 even when those same Dems were already turning on them
Finally finished writing that long-ass epic. Very proud of how everything came out. Ended up totaling to about 17 minutes and 40 seconds. Gonna share when I’m done mixing things together (which might take a little bit)
I witnessed my first struggle session in a while about pitbulls. I know the issue is a sticky one in the US but those things are despised in Central America. So many go loose and raise hell becuse their dumb shit owners are too lazy to train them or think they’re badass for being able to kill.
Then I see people comparing them to poc and I just don’t bother. I swear you bring up any issue and poc issues are brought up just to compare them to whatever issue you’re trying to argue in favor of.
My cousin who just moved into the US from India is in high school currently and his social studies teacher showed the class a video about totalitarianism claiming that people who don’t follow Taoism in China are second class citizens and China beats up muslim people for existing. I got the latter but the former is entirely new to me. Make sure to follow the state mandated communist taoist church.
They really start the propaganda train young. This is juxtaposed with the teachers worksheet trying to instill to these kids the value of “critical thinking” and how you need to cite sources.
Also there was an article that put Kim Jong In and Adolf Hitler in the same section as “authoritarian leaders”
I’m in a uni in europe rn, its all about critical thinking and teaching students to teach however only the correct way (liberal democracy bs and bigotry). A farce is what it is. And ofc random zionist propaganda. And I’m in one of the most progressive ones where one of the teachers is a catholic crypto-white supremacist author.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfCzD4slR8o eternal mood
When I first opened this link, it had the AI autodubbing on and that shit made me laugh so hard because of how goofy it sounded.
AI autodub USian Comandante Chaves
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
I just had to share this drum solo leading into the breakdown for the song.
Shit gets me moving!
I got one more new movement of this whole thing to work on, and after that, it’ll probably end with some sort of reprise of the first movement.
mods when a kraut is aggro 24/7:
mods when a poc is anything but 100% polite and deferential:
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Alright since this has gotten so much visibility I feel out of my depth and am opting for transparency in part because it’d be good to maybe have some perspective. I don’t know if this is settled or if we as a site are going to have to hammer out some more differences later. But, SEG made a new account and DM’d me an apology. I’m going to withhold her new username and the text of the apology, partially out out of respect for the privacy of a DM, partially because I have very high standards for apologies and feel she did actually clear them and meant what she said enough to deserve that grace.
However, I’ll post my response publicly because it expresses that this problem is bigger than us and I’m at my limit and don’t know what more to do. Constructive advice/input welcome.
Wow. I appreciate the apology. This has been stressful but I’m glad you’re getting the beginnings of some growth out of it, as my goal is never “winning the argument” so much as “solving the problem”. I’m not going to block you right now. I’m heartened that this has given you pause and made you reflect a bit, and I hope that proves fruitful. With this message of yours, I’m willing to optimistically consider my beef with you settled, and I’d rather not block unless I feel I actually have to.
As far as further discussion… honestly, I’m half interested and I also half want to just not deal with this anymore. Just with what flack I have gotten I’m tired. And these problems are bigger than you and me. I feel like we maybe need to have a site-wide struggle session about the ways that white femininity has been and continues to be wielded as a weapon against racialized and colonized people of all genders including men and the ways that impacts our spaces, but I don’t know if we actually have enough remaining active POC users with the bandwidth to field that. I suspect if we did we’d lose a large portion in the process. And then on top of that these are merely reflections of broader cultural trends and it quickly feels like too much. I have been getting supportive DMs agreeing with what I said and expounding upon those ideas further from poc who are too drained to say it publicly and expose themselves to the inevitable backlash, and while I could take point on conveying and synthesizing those arguments, that also exposes me a lot and in a way hamstrings my ability to argue because I can’t understand my comrades’ perspectives as well as they do. I don’t think I am qualified or in a good position to take point on that.
So I’m not sure what to do right now. Maybe I’ll ask around, and maybe more to follow.
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Really, what do we do? Is it worth making more out of this and trying for a culture shift, or should I and we just drop it and resort to heavy use of blocks so we don’t have to see this sort of thing as much? I don’t think the former can be done without multiple people getting involved, but it would be cool if it happened. I know a lot of us are tired and rather doomer about the state of white leftism but I’m not personally ready to give up on them yet.
but I don’t know if we actually have enough remaining active POC users with the bandwidth to field that. I suspect if we did we’d lose a large portion in the process.
I genuinely dont want to discourage you because there’s like a 1% chance for actual improvement (which a large part of being a leftist is digging into that 1% and trying to force it to grow) but more than site culture, the issue is the mods who are not interested in improving or doing self crit.
In the last thread, that mod claimed they totally won’t hold your interaction against you but as we’ve seen with the leaked messaged from the early zionism struggle sessions, they’re fucking lying.
If a million zionist struggle sessions during an ongoing genocide isnt enough to get the users and mods to act right, I dont think anything will. And more than that, I think most of them are happy when poc leave the site so they can have their white echo chamber
If a million zionist struggle sessions during an ongoing genocide isnt enough to get the users and mods to act right, I dont think anything will
Yeah, I don’t want to sound hopeless and you’re right that perhaps there is a small chance for improvement. But we’ve also had a couple of meta megathreads trying to discuss/address POC issues sitewide and well… We can see just how far that’s gotten things.
Let’s not forget most white users here defended a white guy who called a group of black men the n slur with a hard r cause of his tourettes. Mind you the guy himself apologized. They still defended him and said he shouldn’t have had to apologize and called all poc who were even slightly uncomfortable ableist. Zionism might be the most obvious issue but its all race issues that they suck at and cant be trusted.
And those whites dont care about ableism and constantly do covid liberalism which is supposed against the core of conduct but reporting their posts to the plague rat mods does nothing
“If a million zionist struggle sessions during an ongoing genocide isnt enough to get the users and mods to act right, I dont think anything will. And more than that, I think most of them are happy when poc leave the site so they can have their white echo chamber”
And there it is. Even if a few would be swayed the majority would just go harder on their racism and white fragility. They are happy that this site gets whiter so they can be their mayo selves openly.
Hekkksbear core values: cracker, mayo and white
Hey
We’re queer, vegan crackers, mayos, and whites here, thank you very much
The mods are so full of shit it’s unreal
Did something happen? I miss almost all the struggle sessions
You know, this would’ve been a complete nonissue had she inserted a “white” before the “men.” But alas, she is white herself and she does not understand (and perhaps refuses to understand given the subsequent crashout) that (half) joking about killing POC men as a white chick is a terrible look to put it incredibly lightly.
Another cracker to block.
I’ve been pleasantly surprised by the popular support though. General site exceeding my expectations.
Years ago I was surprised and perplexed about how KKKontrapointϟϟ, a trans woman, could have so little solidarity with the oppressed peoples of the world as to uncritically support HHillary KKKlinton.
I am coming to understand more and more how that supposed contradiction is no contradiction. To many white women, be they cis or trans, “liberation” just means they get to be at the top.
This is not a new revelation. I’m not the first to figure it out. Plenty of people were saying it long before even my parents were born. It’s still frustrating that it’s still going on
I feel like her videos werent all that groundbreaking besides her elaborate set design and costuming. She also did have some bad takes esp around neurodivergent people in her video about cringe culture.
She also just stopped producing work and released like 1 video a year that was the equivalent of “this could be sent in an email” while still having a massive online patron following.
Shes the result of letting the Internet do its magic and siloing you into a echo chamber of your own design.
the missing piece is class. she hates other white transfems too
The queen gets to be as powerful as a king, the maid, slaves and regular still live the same.
I watched the original Jumanji and I forgot about the scene where monkeys break into an electronics store and walk out with TV’s. It was released three years after the LA riots.
Welp! I was able to get that solo acoustic section done and the next part started.
By the next time I share an update, this whole thing will probably be completed
Just finished reading Witch on the Holy Night. It was alright, I’m satisfied. Can’t wait to see the movie adaptation
So texas schools, who famously call African slaves “immigrants”, are removing all Muslim contributions to algebra and maths and describing Muslims as violent savages while forcing schools to teach kids about israel being founded “in the ancestral land of the jews” and reading Anne Frank’s diary, while they censor and remove slavery and civil rights, which was already extremely whitewashed. Please tell me again who are the actual oppressed groups.
Crackers will still insist that if you stop pretending for even one second that Jews are oppressed in the year of our lord 2026, the ghost of Adolf Hitler will immediately ascend from the depths of hell, dismantle holocaust education and turn everyone into neo-nazi holocaust deniers as if we’re not well on the way to that being basically the only thing that’s ever taught in a US history classroom.
How many holocaust museums are there in the US? How many American genocide museums are there?
dismantle holocaust education and turn everyone into neo-nazi holocaust deniers
Which is funny because that already happened. I was taught literal Holocaust denial and clean SS myths (Wernher von Braun, Erwin Rommel) as we were learning about how bad WWII and the Holocaust were. Most students in the English-speaking world were exposed to lies perpetuated by David Irving if they graduated high school before 2010ish. The last of his books weren’t pulled from university libraries until 2017. Do the Zionists focus any of their attention on this? No. The focus everything on Palestinians and middle easterners in general, despite efforts by Arabs to protect Jews during the Holocaust when Europeans were gladly collaborating with the Nazis to turn people in.
It’s like NATO taught entire generations about the Holocaust so they could learn how to deny it while downplaying their own crimes. We’ve seen how it gets wielded against the Soviets, China, and now Palestine. Pure crocodile tears to justify their actions.
There’s fucking holocaust memorials even in places that had 0 to do with it, propaganda runs deep.
Genocides in the Americas: dgaf
Genocides in Africa: dgaf
Genocides in Asia: what’s a Manchuria?
Genocide against other Europeans: never again (limited to sufficiently white victims only, terms and conditions apply)
removing all Muslim contributions to algebra and maths and describing Muslims as violent savages while forcing schools to teach kids about israel being founded “in the ancestral land of the jews”
Not gonna lie, this feels like Southern Strategy 2.0, anti-Muslim Zio edition
Infohazard: pro-Platner news Drop Site News excerpt
Marg bar White and Jewish supremacy, the sarkha rings out truer every day
Not gonna lie, this feels like Southern Strategy 2.0, anti-Muslim Zio edition
I can’t wait for us to get Daughters of the
ConfederacyOnly Democracy in the Middle East™ where they go full Lost Cause over Israel. We’ll get CleanWehrmachtIOF andTojoboosBenjanetboos for good measure, I’m sure.And yet the useless and pathetic white western left will do jack shit but cry about a non-existent antisemetic crisis and coddle jewish tears as if they’re the real victims. Hope this goes as well as the D.A.R.E bs.
Dinner I had tonight: Cantonese-style BBQ soya chunks with rice
Yumm!
Hell yeah
Do non-white trans people have chasers, or is that mainly a white thing?
East Asian trans women + cis men are the targets of misogynistic violence by the racist thinking that Asian males are racially more feminine than other races of males.
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removed in Thailand, lots of cis white tourists go there for that.
Racial fetishization in general is pretty damn common and socially accepted, unfortunately. There were times where I’ve had my Blackness and androgyny fetishized simultaneously, usually by mayonnaise-colored queers. I despise it. Immensely.
Yeah I know racial fetishization is rampant and racist in the Anglosphere. I would have imagined nonwhite trans people would be “off the menu” because others would find them disgusting
I thought being a nonwhite trans person would fall into three categories:
- being ignored (safest)
- being fetishized (which I assumed was uncommon)
- being physically targeted (dangerous)
But it seems I was wrong about that. That’s awful
