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Walter Rodney, born in Guyana on 22nd of march in 1942, Pan-African, Marxist intellectual who was assassinated by the Guyanese government in 1980 at 38 years old.

Rodney attended the University College of the West Indies in 1960 and was awarded a first class honors degree in History in 1963. He later earned a PhD in African History in 1966 at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London, England, at the age of 24.

Rodney traveled extensively and became well-known as an activist, scholar, and formidable orator. He taught at the University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania from 1966-67 and 1969-1974, and in 1968 at his alma mater University of the West Indies.

On October 15th, 1968, the government of Jamaica declared Rodney a "persona non grata" and banned him from the country. Following his dismissal by the University of the West Indies, students and poor people in West Kingston protested, leading to the "Rodney Riots", which caused six deaths and millions of dollars in damages.

In 1972, Rodney published "How Europe Underdeveloped Africa". Historian Melissa Turner describes the work this way: "A brutal critique of long-standing and persistent exploitation of Africa by Western powers, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa remains a powerful, popular, and controversial work in which Rodney argued that the early period of African contact with Europe, including the slave trade, sowed the seeds for continued African economic underdevelopment and had dramatically negative social and political consequences as well. He argued that, while the roots of Africa’s ailments rested with intentional underdevelopment and exploitation under European capitalist and colonial systems, the only way for true liberation to take place was for Africans to become cognizant of their own complicity in this exploitation and to take back the power they gave up to the exploiters."

On June 13th, 1980, Rodney was killed in Georgetown, Guyana via a bomb given to him by Gregory Smith, a sergeant in the Guyana Defence Force, one month after returning Zimbabwe. In 2015, a "Commission of Inquiry" in Guyana that the country's then president, Linden Forbes Burnham, was complicit in his murder.

"If there is to be any proving of our humanity it must be through revolutionary means."

Walter Rodney

How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

Decolonial Marxism Essays From The Pan African Revolution

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[-] Grownbravy@hexbear.net 5 points 2 weeks ago

I just went over an artist i followed for a while, and it's clear we've long entered the "this is my fetish" style of art, and it's unnerving.

like, what was it that i liked about their art in the first place, cause this is really really terrible.

visible-disgust

[-] BanSwitch2Buyers@hexbear.net 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Watching/rewatching Time Rogers/Action Button videos I either didn't watch or stopped watching and realizing that it's like 80% him talking about himself and how many times he's played the game and how much other related media he's consumed, 10% game summary, and 10% actual analysis/insights.

Edit: it's 85% talking about himself, 5% summary/describing the game, 10% analysis/insights.

[-] BanSwitch2Buyers@hexbear.net 4 points 2 weeks ago

Borderline slop. Which I guess is fine as like time-waster videos go, but I'm so burnt out on stuff that exists on the internet merely to take up time and accrue money.

And I don't really like the established art-critics of games like Bulletpoints or whatever that much. There's some good stuff there too, but it's not like a good marxist analysis you might see on here or some blog that gets shared because it's moving and insightful. You get people who I believe and seem to play games totally different from me talking about them like they're either productivity software or you get the opposite where the game or game experience is treated as the personal diaries of the (video) reviewer that's so hyper-specific to their own lives that I'm basically just watching a video about a person describe their own life. Which again, isn't bad but it's not the gaming content I'm looking for.

You also get sorta documentary/research journalism stuff that talks about the production and the people who made the games semi-frequently and that can be really good too. Fine settling for that most of the time, but that's sorta' dancing around actually talking about the game too.

Online forums are just people talking about talking about art. So they'll ask why there are so few RPGs on N64, if 30FPS is acceptable, top horror games, etc. But they're still not actually talking about the thing in itself: gaming. It's honestly weird how resistant people are to talking about art in general, but especially video games.

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[-] HarryLime@hexbear.net 5 points 2 weeks ago

I DESERVE TO LIVE IN THE HOLE

THE BIG HOLE

[-] MF_COOM@hexbear.net 5 points 2 weeks ago

Socrates would have been addicted to Twitter

[-] Wmill@hexbear.net 5 points 2 weeks ago

My field of vision glazes over whenever I see someone complaining about tankies, it's the perfect indicator for me that someone is both terminally online and so fucking confident in whatever bull they gonna spill all over the place. felix-trash bit about the stupids is so real, I'm starting to despise people who are dumb and prideful of their arrogance. I can separate myself from them because lacking the latter and think they should be smacked with a heavy book over the head until they relent.

[-] Carl@hexbear.net 5 points 2 weeks ago

Watching The Sixth Sense. This movie's really good, I can see why they let this guy make twenty flops in a row.

[-] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 4 points 2 weeks ago

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[-] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 4 points 2 weeks ago

i love going away for the weekend so i can scroll in a new location

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[-] AernaLingus@hexbear.net 4 points 2 weeks ago

VTuber postingI'm rarely that interested in VTuber concerts, but I'm really looking forward to watching Nerissa's 3D concert later today. Hope she goes full theater kid

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[-] WizardOfLoneliness@hexbear.net 4 points 2 weeks ago

fuckkkk I'm enjoying Teogonia, it's my perfect anime isekai slop, I wish it would come out faster 😩😩😩

[-] SpiderFarmer@hexbear.net 3 points 2 weeks ago

Hmm, maybe I'll also run Girafarig in my Silver playthrough. I like it well enough, but I think Stantler and Noctowl always filled that sort of not-quite-psychic slot. Maybe I'll swap it in after I get Togetic.

Also a fan of fighting type trainers in the anime, since training Pokemon involves them acting as sparring partners and workout buddies.

[-] JD_Vyvanse@hexbear.net 3 points 2 weeks ago

curhsposting efforpost/accountability-posti have a rlly big crush on my new gf and i want to put as much effort into this relationship as possible to make it the best it can be and i want to be as accountable to her as possible and i hope/think the feeling is mutual. but i also recognize that focusing too much on the long-term horizon can take you out of what you have in your hands in the moment and it's important to practice gratitude in the present otherwise you're gonna be fucking miserable and all the inherent joys of life are going to pass you by without you realizing it and before you know it you're going to be closer to oblivion than not and will feel like you haven't had enough love or fullness in your life because you could never stop to slow down and breathe and really (i mean really) see what was in front of you.

[-] Rojo27@hexbear.net 4 points 2 weeks ago

but i also recognize that focusing too much on the long-term horizon can take you out of what you have in your hands in the moment and it's important to practice gratitude in the present otherwise you're gonna be fucking miserable

Feel you on this. I've often had to catch myself and kind of reset myself over the course of a week or two because its so easy to fall into that trap and once your in it freaking sucks.

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