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On this day in 1976, Palestinians initiated a campaign of resistance, including a general strike, occupations, and violent confrontation with police, in opposition to Israeli settlement plans. The uprising is commemorated annually as Land Day.

Land Day was not a spontaneous uprising, but the result of months of planning. On May 21st, 1975, activists and Arab intellectuals held a meeting in Haifa to discuss a strategic response to Israel stepping up its campaign to appropriate Palestinian-owned land. This began a series of meetings over which the campaign was conceptualized, including a general congress that was the largest public gathering of Palestinians in Israel since 1948.

On February 14th, 1976, more than 5,000 residents rallied in the village of Sakhnin, calling for a general strike in response to Israeli repression. To prepare for the strike, local land defense committees and branches of the Communist Party distributed leaflets, organized demonstrations, and held meetings in several Arab towns and villages.

The first confrontations began on the eve of Land Day, March 29th as demonstrators in Arraba demanded the release of a local activist, closing the streets and setting fire to tires. Israeli soldiers fired on demonstrators with live ammunition, injuring many of them.

The following day, the general strike was initiated in Arab towns and villages, including the West Bank, Gaza Strip, and refugee camps in Lebanon. Israeli troops and border guards in military trucks and tanks raided Arab communities to arrest activist politicians and disperse demonstrators.

In total, six people were killed, approximately fifty were injured, and three hundred were arrested. When some of the injured applied for compensation, the Israeli Ministry of Defense categorized the Land Day confrontations as "combat activity".

The Interactive Encyclopedia of the Palestine Question describes Land Day's legacy this way: "Land Day was a turning point in the orientations and tools adopted for Palestinian struggle inside Israel. After Land Day the Palestinians in Israel gradually structured their presence as a national group inside Israel in a way that went beyond their local struggles."

During Land Day protests in 2018, seventeen Palestinians were killed, including five Hamas members, and more than 1,400 were injured in shootings by the Israeli Army during a march calling for the Palestinian right of return at the borders with Gaza.

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[–] peppersky@hexbear.net 22 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Could we actually get a side-wide ban of AI-generated content on this website? Let's have one tiny place of refuge from the fully sloppified world out there

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[–] BigBoyKarlLiebknecht@hexbear.net 13 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Just pausing to reflect that George Michael was a member of the Young Communist League at the age of 15, wrote Careless Whisper at the age of 17, and at the age of 18, released "Wham Rap!", a song promoting the benefits of living on state benefits maduro-salute

[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 9 points 3 days ago

A lot of 80s flashes in the pan are shockingly cool and the rest are shockingly awful. There's no middle ground

[–] Yeat@hexbear.net 14 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

Some great quotes from my history professor today

  • “America isn’t fully capitalist and has socialism, it’s just paid for by tax payer money. You don’t have to shop around for a fire fighter! Since America has some socialism it’s Cold War foreign policy was hypocritical.”

  • “The USSR and China never moved past what Marx called ‘state socialism’”

  • “This is because Marx was utopian and didn’t account for human nature, humans will always act in their own self interest.”

The whole liberal “it sounds good on paper but not in practice” expression is so funny because they don’t even know what’s on the paper.

[–] Keld@hexbear.net 9 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

I'm going to say that based on that second bullet point, Chinese and Soviet embrace of Lasalles theory of state socialism, Marxism-Leninism would technically count as an offshoot of German social democracy.

Marxism-Leninism is objectively the moderate wing of social democracy sans-troll

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[–] Cowbee@hexbear.net 6 points 3 days ago

You nailed it, they've formed this entirely distinct and nonsensical version of Marx and think it's real!

[–] Cowbee@hexbear.net 10 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Too much time arguing on Lemmy.ml catgirl-flop

Prob gonna take a break for a bit

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[–] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 11 points 3 days ago

Interview grindset: using the same greatest weakness for years on end because despite what I say in interviews I’ve made zero progress in addressing it.

[–] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 9 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Several yeas ago I was on a group project and was looking over my friend's code for our React app. He was very unfamiliar with web dev so he was using some old school, vanilla JS stuff like Document.getElementByID() instead of the equivalent in React. I found it very endearing since js was my first real language and I had gone through that process, laughed at it, then felt like a huge scumbag when he felt offended. I was definitely being super condescending, what he was doing wasn't even wrong it was just far from idiomatic.

Anyway, I just bricked my Linux partition by mindlessly purging Python when trying to sort out a compatibility conflict. The long arc of history bends toward justice.

[–] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 6 points 3 days ago

I’ve always felt that if you’re going to make system critical stuff run on python, it should be an install that’s essentially completely hidden from the user. Like idk why it can’t be a venv lol.

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[–] Des@hexbear.net 13 points 3 days ago (1 children)

i come in here after a hard day at work and the entire fediverse has vomited on my feed.

was enjoying the peace and quiet

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[–] Kolibri@hexbear.net 12 points 3 days ago (4 children)

are energy drinks suppose to do something? because I feel like it did nothing and that I still tired since I only got four hours of sleep

[–] Wmill@hexbear.net 11 points 3 days ago

You might have ADHD if they don't normally help

[–] TerminalEncounter@hexbear.net 7 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

You need proper quality sleep to feel rested.

Yes, they're supposed to do something. Do not drink more than one please, you can seriously fuck your shit up if you drink multiple - it can take quite a bit to do damage but stick to just one a day. People have died from consuming too much caffeine quickly.

For most people it makes them feel more focused or energized. Some people it doesn't do anything, some of those people also have ADHD.

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[–] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 17 points 3 days ago (1 children)
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[–] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 12 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I'm very much Not An Anime Fan, but we're watching Bebop for the first time and it slaps hard

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[–] thelastaxolotl@hexbear.net 20 points 3 days ago (6 children)

Hexbear is the leftist version of stormfront. These people want a second holocaust in Israel. They created a closed off community that has essentially become a transgender Marxist cult. They justity everything evil that might tangentially benefit the left because it's funny to them to push the envelope. Russian invasion of Ukraine, cute. The Hamas terrorist attack on October 7th, justified. They love Muslims until you bring up China putting them in internment camps then their 2010 Reddit Atheism surpasses their love for Islam which is hypocritical when they are all fucking gay. Hexbear has no morals, I don't know if they are actually trying to be evil. You literally cannot say death to America and have that mean anything peaceful. This site is trouble for the wider Lemmy community and does not speak for the entire left.

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[–] Le_Wokisme@hexbear.net 15 points 3 days ago

if the political entity called "america" ceased all international operations that would make the world way more peaceful

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[–] homhom9000@hexbear.net 16 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Touched some grass and caught up with some friends. They all had stories about how trump was impacting their workplace. One person said ice was hanging around neighborhoods near their school to pick up parents, another said doge cut muti million dollars projects at their business causing layoffs and no funding. And then we just went on with our lives. I don't get how they don't get more angry or radical

[–] puckylinky@hexbear.net 14 points 3 days ago (4 children)

it's crazy to me people are just like "oh man gestapo going around knabbing people. anyways i gotta get back to work"

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[–] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 10 points 3 days ago

Only Nixon could go to China, and only Trump could create a China-Japan-South Korea alliance.

[–] Moss@hexbear.net 22 points 3 days ago (4 children)

Every other post on Reddit is like "men don't get compliments :( poor babies. I'm a woman and I think men need to be complimented more. Let's all be nicer to men" ∆1.47 billion upvotes

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[–] Keld@hexbear.net 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)

A fun side effect of the relentless exploitation of the poor of America is people discussing how they'll acquire blood products if the US embargoes Europe.

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[–] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 7 points 3 days ago
[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 6 points 3 days ago

I sucks I can never just not do anything. I have been feeling like a big cozy cinnamon bun all day and it's a day off but fucking noooo, gotta go and get groceries and do some laundry and other random crap cause I'm busy during the other 5 days getting my lord the grain. I just wanted to eat good and be under a blanket and watch stuff with my cat but 2 day weekend requires I feel bad if I take a full day on that or even sleep in too much cause then I feel like I'm wasting my off time

[–] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 8 points 3 days ago

I’ve genuinely forgotten what Tim Apple’s real last name is.

[–] Rojo27@hexbear.net 7 points 3 days ago

Feels like I'm playing Whackamole with all of the things that are on my mind. Fixed my mindset on the relationship I'm building with my crush, only for work and my dad's health to become issues all over again. And the next time I resolve something else I'm sure other things are just going to pop up to ruin my mood.

[–] Carl@hexbear.net 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Got banned from playing blackjack at the last place near my house. For over a year I've been playing here going from $25-250 and it hasn't been a problem, but i switched it up today and started going $25-500 and I guess that woke up the surveillance team.

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[–] thelastaxolotl@hexbear.net 11 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Well, mainly because I'm European. And to be honest, I'd rather be a German or Brit and be profiting from Palestinian families being vaporized than be one of those vaporized families. Do think it would be much much better if no family was vaporized.

Every european is a hitlerite

[–] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Actually jaw dropping take, I wish the genocidal libs I talk with IRL were so honest.

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[–] SevenSkalls@hexbear.net 11 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

Decided to take a peek in Lemmy.world because it's been awhile and the first thing I see is this article:

Germany Warns Russia My be Preparing An Attack on NATO.

Really? People actually believe this shit? They're probably building up their military but only because they are in a war and Europe and Germany keep saying they need to build up their military, too.

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[–] Keld@hexbear.net 9 points 3 days ago (2 children)

An overlooked part of the "First they came for" poem is that the author voted for Hitler thrice and wrote a book about how good it would be for Hitler to take power and overthrow the institutions of the weimar republic. In other words, what Republican freak show are we going to be quoting about the camps in 20 years?

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[–] inTheShadowOf@hexbear.net 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Bro I love the bathroom. There's no better place to scroll at work. What's that? I'm not at my desk? Come in and get me then. niko-yawn

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[–] MF_COOM@hexbear.net 5 points 3 days ago

Been going through an Ennio Morricone phase so many bangers. John Williams-level singlehandedly elevating films to greatness. Dude worked way too hard just totally killing it on little throwaway flicks.

[–] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 7 points 3 days ago

Not that I ever believed it, but I’m starting to doubt the rationality of a market that still hasn’t priced in Trump’s tariffs.

[–] HarryLime@hexbear.net 5 points 3 days ago
[–] Goblinmancer@hexbear.net 9 points 3 days ago

Imagine a being necromancer and this is like the first ghost you have to talk with

[–] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 10 points 3 days ago

Irl trolley problems are like you can pull the lever at any time but it isn’t connected to anything also you’re fired we need someone who would not pull the placebo lever.

[–] MF_COOM@hexbear.net 7 points 3 days ago

So Microsoft just pushed Copilot onto every Microsoft365 subscription so now my work computer is sending everything I do to some dumb shit in the US it's so cool dude this is the future

[–] XiaCobolt@hexbear.net 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

The post in which I precede to review the proposed laws of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom (1851–1864) because of the big thread about China where it got mentioned

The subject of study for the examinations for officials changed from the Confucian classics to the previous ones to Confucius, based on Shenism.

Okay, I don't know enough here.

Private property ownership was abolished and all land was held and distributed by the state.[26]

Okay now we're cooking, that's pretty rad.

A solar calendar replaced the lunar calendar.

No opinion.

Foot binding was banned.

Fantastic no notes.

Society was declared classless and the sexes were declared equal. At one point, for the first time in Chinese history civil service exams were held for women. Several women served as military officers and commanders under Taiping: Hong Xuanjiao (sister of Taiping leader), Su Sanniang and Qiu Ersao are examples of women who acted actively as leaders during the Taiping Rebellion.

Okay pretty cool

The sexes were rigorously separated.[26] There were separate army units consisting of women only; until 1855, not even married couples were allowed to live together or have sexual relations.[28]

Ah getting a bit weird with it now

The Qing-dictated queue hairstyle was abandoned in favour of wearing the hair long.

Boys with long hair, now I'm back

Other new laws were promulgated including the prohibition of opium, gambling, tobacco, alcohol, polygamy and concubinage, slavery, and prostitution. These all carried death penalties.[citation needed]

Woah real mixed bag. I approve of their slavery and concubinage death penalty. I understand their polygamy and opium prohibition from history context. I'm not so sure about the alcohol, tobacco, gambling and prostitution death penalty. Not that I necessarily approve these things, just death penalty is a lot.

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[–] Comrade_Mushroom@hexbear.net 6 points 3 days ago

After spending all weekend rooming with a guy who never stops talking and also has to present that he knows everything - even if it means giving an obviously wrong answer about something - I am now going to disappear into isolation for the next 3-4 months, minimum.

[–] Moonworm@hexbear.net 5 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Booker going for a spot on the filibuster leaderboard.

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[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

MGS but Snake is voiced by Patrick Warburton but not in a Brock Sampson way where he puts some grit on his voice. David Putty/Kronk voice. Loud and clear as a bell

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[–] Rojo27@hexbear.net 9 points 3 days ago (7 children)

Man fuck work. Had a great morning workout and now I'm back on this bs. One more week before I take a few days off, but I'm really tempted to take a two week vacation because fuck all of this.

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[–] HarryLime@hexbear.net 5 points 3 days ago

Damn, Red Sox are starting out rough. Thank God for the Celtics.

[–] makotech222@hexbear.net 6 points 3 days ago

Riding off a high of fixing a long standing bug at work today that made some sql queries take 2+ seconds instead of 0.5ms like it normally should. Silly custom odata code that used bitwise and/or instead of logical

[–] thelastaxolotl@hexbear.net 22 points 4 days ago (4 children)

hexbear-specter specter

Two spectres haunt the lemmyverse

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