Redcuban1959 [any]

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Cake day: December 19th, 2020

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  • Literally the only place I have seen international men’s or women’s day mentioned.

    Really? Usually I hear a lot about Women’s day, and it’s not uncommon for women to get candy and a nice letter from people. It’s less common for men to receive it, but I know some people who received it.

    Every year they complain about international women’s day and there will he a front page post that boils down to “happy international women’s day now go make me a sandwhich” And then today when those exact same people have multiple posts on the front page talking about how it’s fucked up nobody celebrates international men’s day.

    These people love to complain, but do nothing to help other men.


  • Hastings Banda

    was the leader of Malawi from 1964 to 1994. He consolidated power and later declared Malawi a one-party state under the Malawi Congress Party (MCP). In 1970, the MCP made him the party’s President for Life. In 1971, he became president for Life of Malawi itself. A renowned anti-communist leader in Africa, he received support from the Western Bloc during the Cold War.

    However, he presided over one of the most repressive regimes in Africa, an era that saw political opponents regularly tortured and murdered. Human rights groups estimate that at least 6,000 people were killed, tortured and jailed without trial. As many as 18,000 people were killed during his rule, according to one estimate. His rule has been characterised as a “highly repressive autocracy.” He also received criticism for maintaining full diplomatic relations with the apartheid government in South Africa.

    Banda was one of the few African leaders to support the United States in the Vietnam War, a position he adopted in part due to his hatred of communism. During Banda’s presidency, Malawi initially refused to establish diplomatic relations with any of the communist governments of Eastern Europe or Asia.

    Following independence in Malawi, Banda strengthened his relationship with the Portuguese colonial government by appointing Jorge Jardim as Malawi’s Honorary Consul in Mozambique in September 1964. He also worked against Liberation Front of Mozambique (FRELIMO) forces in Malawi in continued support of the Portuguese colonial forces. By the 1980s, Banda supported both the government and the guerrilla movement during the Mozambique civil war. He successfully gave the Malawi Army and Malawi Young Pioneers opposing missions in Mozambique from 1987 to 1992.

    By 1993, amid increasing domestic and international pressure, he agreed to hold a referendum which ended the one-party system. Soon afterwards, a special assembly ended his life-term presidency and stripped him of most of his powers. Banda ran for president in the democratic elections that followed and was defeated. He died in South Africa in 1997.

    In 1995, Banda was arrested and charged with the murder, ten years previously, of former cabinet colleagues. He was acquitted due to lack of evidence. Banda remained quite unrepentant in his opinion of Malawians, calling them “children in politics” and saying they would miss his iron-fisted rule.



  • I think they “like” North Korea because they think it’s a communist ethno-state where only Koreans live. Imperium is a neo-Nazi book that denies the Holocaust. And its author, Francis Parker Yockey, was such a fan of the Nazis that he joined the US army in an attempt to switch sides and join Nazi Germany.

    Pretty sure, he worked as a spy for Nazi Germany and later allegedly worked with the Soviets because he thought the Soviet Union was less “evil” and “Jewish” than the US (which angered American neo-Nazis, who were generally pro-US, but seemed a popular idea to some far-right people in Europe who hated the US). And he used to write speeches for fucking Joseph McCarthy (Who himself was a huge Nazi fan, so much, that he attempted to defend literal nazis during the Malmedy massacre trial).

    No idea what Oswald Mosley did, I don’t know much about him, I guess he was British, used to be a member of the Labour party until they kicked him out, and then he created his own Fascist party. I guess he also advocated for a unified European State and was racist?