James Connolly, born on this day in 1868, was an Irish socialist revolutionary, founder of the Irish Citizen Army (ICA), and leader of the Easter Rising rebellion, for which he was executed by the British government.
Connolly was born in a poor Edinburgh neighborhood and spoke with a Scottish accent. He joined the British Army at age 14 to escape poverty and developed a hatred for the institution from firsthand experience. He deserted when his regiment was set to deploy to India.
He was also member of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) and founder of the Irish Socialist Republican Party. With labor radical James Larkin, he was centrally involved in the Dublin lock-out of 1913, after which the two men formed the Irish Citizen Army (ICA) the same year.
Connolly was opposed to British rule in Ireland and played a leading role in the Easter Rising of 1916, signing the "Proclamation of the Irish Republic" and serving as Commandant of the Dublin Brigade, the regiment that played the most substantial role in the Rising. Connolly was executed by firing squad following the Rising's defeat.
"If you remove the English army tomorrow and hoist the green flag over Dublin Castle, unless you set about the organization of the Socialist Republic your efforts would be in vain. England would still rule you. She would rule you through her capitalists, through her landlords, through her financiers, through the whole array of commercial and individualist institutions she has planted in this country and watered with the tears of our mothers and the blood of our martyrs."
James Connolly
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(CW NSFW discussion pornography/BDSM). Amazing things are happening in China...
...Apparently while pornographic depictions of actual sex are quite strictly policed in China, there isn't really any laws about BDSM, in particular BDSM that is disguised as fictional media content (there's no Hayes Code type thing). So producers are making films with flimsy plots to show beautiful women (and sometimes men) tied up and manhandled by other women and men. Plots like "arrest for being a foreign spy etc". Liberal China watchers are then taking screenshots of these privately made films and trying to suggest they're evidence of the PRC's repression. Which is so funny, the most attractive woman you've ever seen, beautifully dressed in silk and high heels etc, tied up in the strictest rope bondage and being held by actors in obviously fake police uniforms with air soft guns in what is clearly a random abandoned buildings and it's captioned "PROOF OF SHOW TRIALS!!!" etcHonestly had I not been China sympathetic to begin with this would have been one of the more humanizing things for me to find out.
I'd have been like "they just like me FR"
It's also funny because a few years ago some tabloids were reporting...
...that "torture chairs" could be sold online in China to the public. And I was like this is definitely just a fetish thing, you know you can buy them in the west too? Then guess what I see in one of the pictures the exact chair they mentioned.Someone talking about it on twitter, some libs takes and heβs like βI donβt get why people would find this arousing?β (Oh buddy)
https://x.com/dylanleviking/status/1790403131425374217?s=61&t=sYFZOCFxvGYShyYA_r0VHw
Link has examples. Not depicting sexual acts or nudity but definitely NSFW
Horny will find a way. That's hilarious, I lovei it. And keywords I could use to look these up? It sounds like a fascinating way of working around censorship.
I've only been seeing them trickle down second hand on deviant art and twitter. So no specific sources just increasingly prevalent (Algorithm or cultural victory?)