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Frantz Fanon, born on this day in 1925, was a West Indian Pan-Africanist philosopher and Algerian revolutionary most known for his text The Wretched of the Earth.

Fanon was born to an affluent family on the Caribbean island of Martinique, then a French colony which is still under French control today. As a teenager, he was taught by communist anti-colonial thinker Aimé Césaire (1913 - 2008).

Fanon was exposed to much European racism during World War II. After France fell to the Nazis in 1940, a Nazi government was set up in Martinique by French collaborators, whom he describedas taking off their masks and behaving like "authentic racists".

Fighting for the Allied forces, Fanon also observed European women liberated by black soldiers preferring to dance with fascist Italian prisoners rather than fraternize with their liberators.

While completing a residency in psychiatry in France completing, Fanon wrote and published his first book, "Black Skin, White Masks" (1952), an analysis of the negative psychological effects of colonial subjugation upon black people.

Following the outbreak of the Algerian revolution in November 1954, Fanon joined the Front de Libération Nationale, a nationalist Algerian party. Working at a French hospital in Algeria, Fanon became responsible for treating the psychological distress of the French troops who carried out torture to suppress anti-colonial resistance, as well as their Algerian victims.

While organizing for Algerian independence in Ghana, Fanon was diagnosed with leukemia that would ultimately kill him. He spent the last year of his life writing his most famous work, "The Wretched of the Earth" (French: Les Damnés de la Terre). The text provides a psychiatric analysis of the dehumanizing effects of colonization and examines the possibilities of anti-colonial liberation

Following a trip to the Soviet Union to treat his leukemia, Fanon came to the U.S. in 1961 for further treatment in a visit arranged by the CIA. Fanon died in Bethesda, Maryland on December 6th, 1961 under the name of "Ibrahim Fanon", a Libyan nom de guerre he had assumed in order to enter a hospital after being wounded during a mission for the Algerian National Liberation Front.

"In the World through which I travel, I am endlessly creating myself."

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[-] HarryLime@hexbear.net 13 points 2 days ago
[-] KnilAdlez@hexbear.net 15 points 2 days ago

Does anyone else feel communism has sort of saved your sanity? (If you are a liberal lurker screenshotting this to dunk, you're friends don't like you and your mother wishes you would call more) But with everyone's brains being broken by media, Chatgpt, and huffing pure ideology, having a material orientation of looking at the world feels like it kept me from going down a darker path.

[-] Cimbazarov@hexbear.net 9 points 2 days ago

Somewhat. But I also wonder if I'd be happier if I knew none of it and just bought the capitalist ideology wholesale

[-] Assian_Candor@hexbear.net 7 points 2 days ago

100% it has made it worse

Neighbors running around like i-love-not-thinking

It would be one thing if things were getting better but quite the opposite everything seems to be getting so, so much worse

[-] Red_Eclipse@hexbear.net 5 points 2 days ago

Absolutely. The contradictions, before I knew what they were, felt unbearable, because the system clearly doesn't work but I was brainwashed with the "humanity has always been selfish and awful and it was inevitable that things would be like this, and this is the only possibility because nothing else has worked." If something did not debunk that belief, it was going to kill me. Liberalism is a VERY dark place to be unless you're a blissfully ignorant treatler.

[-] MF_COOM@hexbear.net 7 points 2 days ago

OK chapos I've got two good dogs here. They will receive pats upon request. Balls in your court shrug-outta-hecks

[-] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 6 points 2 days ago
[-] MF_COOM@hexbear.net 4 points 2 days ago

The brown one is pretty powered down for the night so I gave her some gentle strokes along the top of her head and neck. When I stopped she rose her head from a resting position to ask for more. So I gave her some good ear scritches and then some scritches on the top of her nose.

The white one was asleep but I gently said his name and he woke up and straightened his legs with his paws together to make his body into a triangle. I gave him ear scritches and he put his paw on his knee. I then told him he's a good boy, which is true.

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[-] Buptendo@hexbear.net 12 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Honestly we get most of the lame ass rich crackers if we just imported the REI membership list into the Death Note.

This is a safe place for these feelings but what the Russians did to tsar and his family was a million percent justified and i hope one day the rich in the US get theirs too.

[-] EllenKelly@hexbear.net 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Thousands chanted 'send us to Palestine to fight the Zionists' while the Algerian president was at the Algerian cup final

July 9

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DL35mfjxnO1/

Sorry for the instagram link, here's an alternate though

https://english.almayadeen.net/news/sports/algerian-fans-erupt-in-pro-palestine-chants-during-cup-final

I'd post in the news thread but its already so old, I hope comrades saw this already

[-] CrispyFern@hexbear.net 10 points 2 days ago

Never apologize for being into hairy men.

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[-] 1P1P1D@hexbear.net 6 points 2 days ago

I wish Rick Flair wasn't such a piece of shit, because every time I tell a mfk "We stand for active ideological struggle because it is the weapon for ensuring unity within the Party and the revolutionary organizations in the interest of our fight." inside I also feel like spitting water and WOOOOing.

[-] NeelixBiederman@hexbear.net 13 points 2 days ago

Sitting in the emergency vet parking lot cuz my little buddy stopped eating food and started shitting blood

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[-] HarryLime@hexbear.net 8 points 2 days ago

I've partially changed my mind about AI: it is possible to make AI art, but you have to deliberately play into the hallucinatory unreality of AI art in order to do it. AI art can't be what the AI companies want it to be in order for it to be art.

[-] lelkins@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 2 days ago

i liked using it for shitposts because of the macabre and weird dreamy way it looked. now it's plastic and weird, i miss when it looked really fucking weird and not decent until you look at it harder. it had this feeling of putting a subconscious over a visualizer

it was a novelty to make communist reformed kanye west fight the entirety of anime or communist luigi shooting adolf hitler in world war 2 because he didn't stop at berlin and for me to make up a story through those dogshit images, now that it looks fine i can't do that

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[-] AntiOutsideAktion@hexbear.net 15 points 2 days ago

Fuck work. Fuck what it does to your psychology. I'm fucking tired. I got home after 11pm last night after delivering ~400 packages. I went to bed within the hour and woke up within an hour of having to leave again. They're offering 'voluntary time off' but it's still fresh in my memory a couple weeks ago when I had to take time off for injury AND they cut me a bunch such that I was in the red for a month. I 2/3 want to take that time off and just whine internally.

spiritual edit before posting: I took the day off. Literally the first time in almost 2 years I took a day off 'just because.'

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[-] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 6 points 2 days ago

Jerking off a guy with no prostate and a guy with no balls and whisking to make cum from scratch

[-] makotech222@hexbear.net 8 points 2 days ago

Good god, was playing Vic3 today and my computer suddenly died. Wouldn't boot, wouldn't POST, getting crpytic 00 error on mobo. Spent my entire sunday ruling out what was causing the issue. Turns out my Asrock mobo and 9800x3d cpu have a known issue, solved by a bios update. I did the update a long time ago, but apparently it did permanent damage while it was unfixed. Anyways, the CPU died and luckily BestBuy near me had one I could pick up. Got it replaced quickly and stuff is working again thank god.

Tomorrow gotta figure out how to RMA this CPU since its still under warranty. What a waste of a weekend.

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[-] LocalOaf@hexbear.net 9 points 2 days ago

Aww c'mon Bam, I ain't tryin ta immanenatize the eschaton, I gotta work tomorro

[-] Buptendo@hexbear.net 7 points 2 days ago

This one time I was playing a fps and a guy in our squad was just throwing out misogyny constantly, bragging about he was from where Bam Margera was from and how he met him once. He also kept talking about he got fired from his job.

Eventually he revealed that he got fired for calling the receptionist "a fat bitch."

I had the whole squad rolling with "This is Bam Margera and this is getting fired from my job because I called the receptionist a fat bitch."

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[-] MF_COOM@hexbear.net 7 points 2 days ago

Underrated bean type: white navy

[-] HarryLime@hexbear.net 4 points 2 days ago
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[-] glimmer_twin@hexbear.net 4 points 2 days ago
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[-] 1P1P1D@hexbear.net 5 points 2 days ago

Got neighbors who are risking the whole tenant union project because they hate pitties. And yes they are, also the owners of the pitties, uh huh. SOo I'm not gonna sweat it, I side with the colonized sankara-shining. PS yall really need to get an Emoji of Omali Yeshitela on this webbed site.

[-] DornerStan@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 2 days ago

Takes grey-market stimulants for ADHD so I can get work done and read theory

Spends 8 hours commenting on reddit about politics and movies

deng stare

I don't know how I'm ever going to get anywhere in life lmao. Just gonna spend years struggling to do basic things i guess

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[-] NeelixBiederman@hexbear.net 6 points 2 days ago

Does Dr Dre's Smoke Weed Every Day count as a prescription?

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[-] Assian_Candor@hexbear.net 7 points 2 days ago

Canned Heineken is as good as bottled Heineken is bad

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[-] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 5 points 2 days ago

Gamers have Big Iron, real heads with grandfather's who loved country music know its really all about Ringo

[-] oscardejarjayes@hexbear.net 7 points 2 days ago

Doing drugs is just like being a serial killer (I just started watching Dexter)

[-] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 11 points 2 days ago

Not the worst part of the current administration and American culture, but a bunch of dumb hogs are going to make it so I can’t even go to a pub and mindlessly order fries without worrying it isn’t vegan aren’t they kiryu-pain

[-] AntiOutsideAktion@hexbear.net 9 points 2 days ago

I'm going to hijack this just because it's been bugging me: can anyone tell me wtf is going on with chuds and canola oil?

[-] agentblaxploitation@hexbear.net 11 points 2 days ago

I'm pretty sure it's a thing around "seed oils" and potential negative health effects. I have no idea how credible that is or isn't, I've seen arguments in favor and against but I haven't cared enough to evaluate them (and i still use canola & peanut oil for high heat cooking)

[-] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 8 points 2 days ago

It’s one of those claims that’s like “oh convenient that the expensive oils are healthy and the inexpensive oils are literally poison”. Like idk why sunflower seed isn’t a seed oil, but I assume the profit margin on it is a part of the reason lol.

[-] NeelixBiederman@hexbear.net 9 points 2 days ago

Weak fem soy oils vs manly Chad beef suet

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[-] Moss@hexbear.net 13 points 2 days ago

I remember a struggle session of times long past. I can't remember what started it, but it ended with people calling for mod elections, and then one of the mods called this idea a "colour revolution manifesto". It was so funny. People used to take this site way too seriously

[-] Acute_Engles@hexbear.net 8 points 2 days ago

I do enjoy the dynamic that crops up once in a while of "hexbear is for shitposting in a safe place" vs "hexbear is the vanguard of global revolution, act like it!"

I think it's time for another

[-] Euergetes@hexbear.net 9 points 2 days ago

god it would be annoying to have to vote on this site

[-] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 9 points 2 days ago
[-] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 8 points 2 days ago

I am pretty sure Zelwnsky wishes he'd stuck to comedy at this point

[-] Keld@hexbear.net 8 points 2 days ago

This is of course ridiculous, but it's not like it 's any dumber than any of the current frontrunners on the Democratic stage.

[-] Taster_Of_Treats@hexbear.net 6 points 2 days ago

Looking good on camera is like qualification number 1 for being POTUS

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[-] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 11 points 2 days ago

Baby, I don't need dollar bills to have fun tonight

(I love cheap thrills)

Baby, I don't need dollar bills to have fun tonight

(I love cheap thrills)

But I don't need no money

As long as I can feel the beat

I don't need no money

As long as I keep dancing

Cheap thrills is about third places.

Oh my fucking god it's fucking raining again, jesus christ I ffucking hate this. I thought we'd have two consecutive days of sun for once so I could go out and mow this fucking yard tomorrow without it being all wet BUT NOPE IT'S FUCKING STORMING AGAIN

like what the fucking hell it's been raining once a day for over two fuckinv months now

[-] Carl@hexbear.net 4 points 2 days ago

swear to god it's like uber and lyft know that I need money and are conspiring not to give me any rides

[-] dumpster_dove@hexbear.net 9 points 2 days ago

"Wow I woke up early and its the weekend, I can do so much today!"

... ...

It's time for dinner. Somehow hasn't done anything

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[-] lelkins@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 2 days ago

ay mates lelkins here

where the fuck am i? anyhow i just drank a coffee and i still do not feel very good. bits aside, i feel very very uneasy for some reason and mentally if i say how i am mentally i might break like 50 rules here all i can say is that jobhunting is the most soul sucking thing earth has to offer and that i feel hollow and tired

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[-] ClathrateG@hexbear.net 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

2000 AD was a bad boy you see

That's what they said back in early '83

It wasn't my fault, my father was a boozer

He used to beat me up and said I was a loser

But times they have changed

My style's less insane

Cos I sees the light in the Goldie Lookin Chain

Safe as fuck

You fuckin' knows it

https://hexbear.net/comment/6341278

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[-] wombat@hexbear.net 4 points 2 days ago

it is july 20 and stalin saved the world from fascism

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