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On this day in 1848, more than 40,000 French workers initiated the June Days Uprising after the state closed National Workshops that provided work to the unemployed, causing 10,000 casualties and 4,000 workers to be deported to Algeria.

The National Workshops had only been formed a few months earlier, when, on February 25th, a group of armed workers interrupted a session of the provisional government to demand "the organization of labor" and "the right to work".

In late June, the Second Republic began planning to close the workshops, leading to a national uprising. In sections of the city, hundreds of barricades were thrown up. The National Guard was sent in to quell the rebellion, and workers seized weapons from local armories to fight back.

The violence, which lasted just three days, resulted in more than 10,000 casualties and 4,000 participants to be deported to Algeria. Among the dead was Denis Auguste Affre, Archbishop of Paris, killed while trying to negotiate peace with an angry crowd.

The rebellion was successfully crushed, and the episode put a hold on revolutionary ambitions of radical Republicans at the time. In its aftermath, the French Constitution of 1848 was adopted, mandating that executive power be wielded by a democratically elected president.

The first president under this framework was Napoleon Bonaparte, who dissolved the constitution during his first term in office.

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

I was struggling to get Clair Obscur running at a decent framerate/fidelity on my PC so I thought I'd try out a day pass of a game streaming service (Geforce Now). The network test reported 24 ms latency and people on reddit-logo were claiming that at 12 ms latency, "any time I missed a counter trigger it was my fault and not the latency."

I don't know what they were smoking because wow does that game NOT work well on the service on either 1440p or 1080p despite my pretty good internet speed. I had to preempt the apparent parry timing window by a LOT and any time the enemies had dramatic battle animations (which is like 90% of attacks) the bitrate fell apart at the exact worst moments. Good thing I didn't get a month or half year...

It's enough to make me think that those Redditors were NVIDIA bots. Or else they just never tried it locally and subconsciously adjusted their timing.

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[–] Cowbee@hexbear.net 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

For anyone in PSL, what's the onboarding process like? I'm terrified of organizing from the social aspect, but I don't want that to be an excuse to not commit to making the world a better place. I have a few questions:

  1. What's the onboarding process generally like? I know it depends on local chapters, but is it super in-person, more online, etc?

  2. What works are generally in the training list? Are there tests, etc?

  3. What's the weekly expected commitment in terms of hours? I'm at a very busy time in my life, I may just end up as a volunteer rather than a cadre, but I'd love to be a committed member of a good org if I can.

Any thoughts? I know I can't expect answers for everything, but just a general idea would be nice.

[–] DoomBloomDialectic@hexbear.net 5 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I can tell you my experience! I'm in one of the larger west coast branches so YMMV in a small branch, or in the handful of branches even bigger than ours. I applied online August of last year, then what followed was:

nuts and bolts of onboarding, kinda long

  • Intro phone call getting to know you a bit - your political journey, interest in the party, etc. Then in my case, I was directed to the easiest way to plug into volunteer opportunities.
  • Was an active volunteer for a few months. This period varies wildly in length depending on a bunch of factors (recruitment needs, other competing priorities, etc). The party does tend to prioritize non-white, non-cis-male-presenting comrades in onboarding to avoid the chauvinistic tendencies of a lot of Western left groups, and to recruit from the segments of the working class with the most revolutionary potential. But the entirety of the applicant is considered, and I know people who volunteered for the better part of a year before joining, and some who were onboarded quite rapidly. Not something to take personally! And also, nothing wrong with staying a volunteer.
  • Two more meetings where you learn about the party's positions and what's expected of members, and after the second one you're a candidate member. Sometimes a meeting or two between these if they have further questions about you (again, not personal, just doing their job vetting). Unless you're interested in formal leadership, candidacy is much closer to full membership than not (def closer to it than being a volunteer). 
  • You take roughly 9-12 months of classes on the party's organizing strategy & the 101 of socialist history and theory, and then you're a full member assuming all goes well. This candidacy period is to ensure ideological alignment, to educate comrades who are new to socialism, and to train cadres on how PSL organizes. If you're already a theory head, a lot will be repeated and maybe even oversimplified info, but there is learning to be had regardless in collective study with comrades across all knowledge and experience levels! (For context, I'm currently still a candidate).

I followed the Alienated Too Online Communist to Touch Grass pipeline, but a lot of people are recruited through pre-existing organizing and the path might look ever-so-slightly different there (I think they probably skip the phone call screening?) Also in smaller branches/before streamlining some back end stuff, online applications were falling through the cracks a bit more often - if that happens to you, check out your local's Instagram and hit up an irl volunteer meeting to express interest there!

As far as workload expectation, while you can't be an "on-paper" member, there is a lot of flexibility in terms of what regularly showing up looks like for you. They understand that as a working class party, we have busy lives outside organizing just in terms of the daily hustle to survive. As long as you communicate about availability you should be good - I almost didn't join because I was scared of the commitment level, but A) a few comrades assuring me there's no quota and that there's flexibility and B) just realizing I was showing up as regularly as a volunteer as plenty of full members, made me decide membership was right for me (I still have intermittent self doubts though, that is extremely normal!!) 

And as far as social anxiety, that is an incredibly common social hurdle many of us face and a muscle that is built through practice and the collective support of your comrades. Social anxiety and other types of neurodivergence are insanely common in my local, I can't speak for everyone but I've always felt the Party is good at providing the structure and support systems to help build this skillset. And if you were to be around for the long haul, while I believe you'd definitely build a baseline aptitude with this, you may also find a more behind-the-scenes niche that plays to your more organic strengths.

Hope that was all helpful! Feel free to hmu with any questions and I'll try to answer to the best of my abilities and social capacity.

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[–] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
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[–] Dimmer06@hexbear.net 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I've been off the grid for the last four days. What did I miss?

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[–] Carl@hexbear.net 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

another day (night) in paradise (central California), let's get (ask nicely for) this bread (money less the surplus value being stolen by my employer)

[–] SexUnderSocialism@hexbear.net 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)
[–] rubber_chicken@hexbear.net 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I played so much Puyo Puyo II back in 1999. For the uninitiated, it's in the Dr. Mario, Tetris and, sigh, Bejeweled genre. The game, or maybe a character within it, would yell out things in Japanese while you racked up combos. I finally got a listing of those things today and can die happy. アイスストーム!

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[–] AntiOutsideAktion@hexbear.net 6 points 2 weeks ago

"Your body demands sleep NOW' 45 minutes after I get home and 20 minutes after I finish eating peterson-pain

[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 6 points 1 week ago

My secret riff steal band is Anathema. Their early shit rules so hard

[–] Vostok_@hexbear.net 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

What if there was a fakenews comm, but the fake news posted was literally just current news headlines but reversed?

"American bombers drop bunker busters on Iran"

could become:

"Iranian bombers bomb the United States" (reversal of actors)

"American bombers don't bomb Iran" (simple negation)

"America signs non-aggression pact with Iran to not drop bombs on Iran" (completely opposed to reality while adding an element of irony)

I say it would be quite hilarious, imagine seeing a headline on a post like: "The USS Nimitz is still afloat and operational in the Persian Gulf" Then looking in horror to see on what comm it was posted. Bonus points if the comm icon is a black and white picture of an American politician looking at a newspaper and the comm name is something like "newsn't".

[–] KuroXppi@hexbear.net 5 points 2 weeks ago

Posting in the new mega. Nothing to report

[–] DragonBallZinn@hexbear.net 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

And on Twitter the free speech mask is slipping.

Every gullible hog in the suburbs is crashing out over Mamdani’s wins and calling for it to be illegal to be to the left of hitler, and of course, be a scaaaaaary Muslim! And of course the whole internet agrees.

Imagine the outrage if these were liberals saying nazism should be illegal and that all white Christians should be jailed for being “the religion of the nazis.”

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[–] thelastaxolotl@hexbear.net 5 points 1 week ago

found a version from leftypol @Alaskaball@hexbear.net

[–] thelastaxolotl@hexbear.net 5 points 2 weeks ago

I been playing pokemon tower defence 1 this week, still a little grindy like i remember but its still pretty fun to me, i got venusaur and im playing a mod that adds the regional forms, current team is venusaur, arcanine and primeape with a rotating last 3 mons, im currently in the sabrina level which i think i can beat now with a little strategy

[–] jjsandwich8@hexbear.net 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
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[–] blipblip@hexbear.net 5 points 1 week ago

Did almost nothing at work yesterday, went home, did basically nothing be wash and feed myself and then slept poorly.

Woke up today in probably the best mood I've been in weeks, maybe months?

lol oooooooh purple man, good old purple man, always looking at things that aren’t meant for you

classic wonder-who-thats-for

[–] Dort_Owl@hexbear.net 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Spoilers for Deltarune Chapter 4

spoilerJackenstein is good emote material

[–] Tomorrow_Farewell@hexbear.net 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Hexbear is taking too long introducing the emotes.

[–] Dort_Owl@hexbear.net 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I think it's so people don't get TOO TOO spoiled

[–] Carl@hexbear.net 5 points 1 week ago

spoilerreplayed that fight earlier today, had the same thought. You've got the big Jack, scaredy Jack, polite Jack, mini Jack, too too Jack, mama mia Jack...

[–] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 5 points 1 week ago

Update on the construction happening near my house. The jackhammers were only used yesterday and stopped in the afternoon. It turns out it's not road construction - thank god. A neighbor is doing something on his lawn and driveway. Road construction in my state goes on and on and on. I just took out the garbage and I heard angry yelling coming from the workers.

"I told you not to [unintelligible]! But you(?) [unintelligible]!"

"I did what you [unintelligible]! [unintelligible and angrier].

It was simply too noisy where I was to make anything out. I wanted to eavesdrop but the only way I could would be to pretend I had to walk down the street and I figured they'd just stop yelling.

[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 5 points 1 week ago

Drums: I was playing along to Adunder i i think doom in general is my calling askiw drum is gonna be my thing. Love co.i g up with 4 measures of drums for each chord.

[–] Rojo27@hexbear.net 5 points 1 week ago

Finally decided to take my own bike out for my commute for the past couple days and of course I decide to do it in the middle of a heat wave. Honestly though not too bad. Did get a bit winded on my way to work, but I made it just in time. Close to 11 miles in total each of the past two days.

[–] Frogmanfromlake@hexbear.net 5 points 1 week ago

The most annoying things about incels is when a woman says they don’t really care about huge dicks or height as much as they think and they get angry and double down on what they want to believe.

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