Fumiko Kaneko sits on her knees wearing a striped kimono with her hands clasped in front of her, staring intently ahead. c. 1925, author unknown [Wikipedia]
Fumiko Kaneko, born on this day in 1903, was a Japanese anarchist, nihilist, and opponent to Japanese imperialism in Korea. Fumiko is perhaps best remembered for her “The Prison Memoirs Of A Japanese Woman”, written while imprisoned after being convicted of high treason against the Japanese government.
Together, Fumiko and her Korean partner Pak Yol published two magazines which highlighted the problems Koreans faced under Japanese imperialism and showed influences of their radical politics. Sometime between 1922 and 1923, they also established a group called “F"utei-sha (Society of Malcontents)”, which Fumiko identified as a group for direct action against the government.
These activities soon brought Pak and Fumiko under government scrutiny. In September 1923, the Japanese government therefore made a number of arrests, mostly Koreans, on limited evidence, and among those arrested were Pak and Fumiko.
After lengthy judicial proceedings, Fumiko and Pak were convicted of high treason for attempting to obtain bombs with the intention of killing the emperor or his son. They were both sentenced to life in prison, however Fumiko allegedly committed suicide in her cell in 1926.
Here is a short excerpt from one of Fumiko’s interrogations while imprisoned (text by Max Res from theanarchistlibrary.org):
Q: Your class?
A: A divine commoner.
Q: How are you employed?
A: My job is tearing down everything that currently exists.
The Prison Memoirs Of A Japanese Woman
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Saw a girl saying we need more cow girls and apparently I’m too Texan for this discussion bc I thought she meant “cow girls 🤠” but she meant it in the puppy girl sense
Hard agree. Holstein print is
Doja Cat’s Bitch I’m a Cow woke me up to this.
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True, glad to be in a place that is mostly decent about the DPRK
And now with the DPRK diplomant ama its an even better site
Be me, a kid.
in social studies class
start learning about the late 19th century and stuff like upton sinclair and the rise of unionization
think to self
I like treats, workers make treats, better deal for workers should translate to better treats
little did I know I debunked commodity fetishism in my head without even knowing who Karl Marx is.
MFW me being a treathog started me on the path to leftism. I’m not a treatler, I’m a Treatlin.
Reading theory’s cool and important but it’s honestly surprising just how intuitive leftist theory is.
Reading theory’s cool and important but it’s honestly surprising just how intuitive leftist theory is.
Reality has a leftism bias
9·11 days agoReality is a communist plot to make Marx right
I’m not a treatler, I’m a Treatlin.
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Ugh, okay. I was just at a bar by myself drinking a Mai Tai, after I had a nice Daiquiri, and this dude bro leans over to me to ask about my drinks.
I thought he was just curious at first so I was peasantly chatting but then I later realized he was just trying to flex that he and his buddy were drinking Old Fashioneds, and only drink Old Fashioneds. Boring. They were also already smashed off one Old Fashioned which is really funny to me. So I started getting pissed and I had to explain to him that this Mai Tai, despite having lime and a mint garnish, was actually in effect a stronger drink than his because mine had 3 types of rum while an Old Fashioned typically only has bourbon, bitters, and simple syrup. I nicely told him he should try it sometime but he refused because it was “too girly”. I then proceeded to loudly laugh at him about how his dick won’t fall off if he tried a drink and that no one was going to castrate him if he had a tropical drink. Then I explained the bastard (problematic) history of Tiki and the Caribbean origin of the rum drinks. He, for whatever dumbass reason, mentioned Fidel Castro at this point and I gave a hell yeah and physically saluted his memory and drank to his life. He was shocked and told me about how Castro was bad because he was a communist and I retorted that he did a lot for his island and people despite US aggression. He said something about how the US was a good country. I asked where he was from and he said he was Laotian and I went in about how the US, thanks to demons like Kissinger, dropped a combined bomb payload greater than all of the bombs dropped in WW2 and he said he was sure “it wasn’t intentional.” I told him I figured he would understand the violence the US creates all over the world when people begin to liberate themselves given his Laotian background, he responded that he didn’t experience it but his mom had to leave Laos because of the war. I told him I was sorry for what his mom went through and hoped he would honor her life better. His friend, who was sitting quietly and clearly steaming, was apparently Vietnamese and Cambodian and the first guy tried to get me on Khmer Rouge and I was like “Yeah, fuck Khmer Rouge, they were terrible and supported by the CIA.” He didn’t know how to respond, thinking that I’d probably just defend them. Then the bartender came around, a woman who presented queer, and I asked her how she would compare the Mai Tai and the Old Fashioned and she, sensing the tension she a little nervously and appeasingly, said that it was “about the same” and I loudly again said, “There you go, the same! Your masculinity has been maintained! It’s so fragile.” The bartender looked like oh shit what’s going on here. And I told him “Now you can try a Mai Tai without being afraid.” And he said he still wouldn’t because it had too much ice. I frustratingly explained that more ice means the ice melts less which means it’s watered less, unlike his drink which was watered down. Then I finished my drink and told him I hoped to see him again and drinking a Mai Tai next time, he muttered some dumb shit as I walked away.
What a fucking douche bag. And he began by asking my why I was drinking alone (and happily browsing Hexbear, unbeknownst to him). This is exactly why. These fascists will put us to death anyway, I’ll be damned if these race traitor assholes will sit next to me and talk shit about Castro and Uncle Ho while I’m still breathing. If it was some douche White guy I would have written that off but, God damn it, I have no patience for these treasonous motherfuckers.
hell yeah I love mai tais. I wish I had been there so we could have had a positive conversation instead of what happened
Hell yeah, that would’ve been much funner.
That place makes good Mai Tai’s, man. He’s missing out. Haha
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Wurst
What type though?
Gobblindez
Hmm. Never heard of it. That’s your favorite?
with a good handful of nuts of course
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About 5-10% of all skulls discovered from the neolithic era have holes in them caused by trepanning
nobody today knows why they did that, only the evidence of the act remains
you know, this would be an incredible setup for a horror novel or something. All skulls from about 10,000 years ago have holes dug into them and literally no archeologist can tell you why
something about an alien parasite that can be killed by exposing the brain, the parasite is eliminated or dies off when the ice age ends
Or a parasite that can only infect hosts through a hole drilled in the brian and requires humans to help carry that out
Isn’t it theorised they were doing rudimentary surgery?
probably, yeah, but what if it was like ancient horrors or something spooky?
drilling a hole in my head and looking back at the audience for approval like a contestant on the price is right
Philip Pullman referenced it a bit in His Dark Materials
I’ve had headaches that have been really bad and feel like swelling. Pressure relief seems like an obvious choice
Apply to job
Hear nothing back
One week later, Send in reminder email to remind them to view my application
Sorry, we went with someone else
Job still on their website
???
Did these idiots really think they’re too good for me when they can’t even remember to remove a job opening for a role that’s already been filled?
i just found out that one of the artists i like is a gramsci-quoting karl marx-reading red to the bone communist, which is really nice to see
but they exclusively draw erotica (they are really good at it) so i can’t really share a link to their profile with anyone
I just had a wank using the cholesterol oozing from my hands as lubrication
Aaaaaan that’s enough internet for me today. See you all monday.
the liberals have woken up and are now Resistance posting on every form of social media, especially Tiktok. Where was this energy the last four years? Your misplaced faith in the Dems won’t help, voting is not a meaningful source of change. I hope more of them radicalize over the next 4+ years. What I hate the most is that if Kamala had won, they would be happy to forget about politics for another four years. Everything was KINDA SHIT BUT BEARABLE under Biden the way they tell it.
Fuck it, time for another beer
I know we throw around the sentiment a lot but I can’t adequately put into words how much I fucking detest this vile, demonic, shithole country. (I had to interact with the healthcare industry today)
Lets fucking go
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Footage of the hyperloop. Probably the biggest waste of time and money for the most inefficient bs I could imagine lol. Once you get past the futuristic entrance tunnel it’s just a fuckin underground road with stop lights and everything 😭
Build. Trains!!
lmfao, half of the video is waiting at a traffic light and the rest is immense claustrophobia.
You may not like it, but this is peak transport infrastructure
lol but honestly, imagine someone gets a flat tire or something
~40% of the 5 minute trip is waiting at stoplights. With a 1-to-1 driver to passenger ratio. And we removed the rails so that accidents are way more likely.
spending billions of dollars on my new invention: colored lights in an unsafely narrow tunnel
Technical point. This it the Loop, hyperloop is something different. Still stupid, but more train like than this.
They’re doing TWO inefficient systems?? Lol
Hyperloop is more impractical than inefficient. Just do trains lol.
Las Vegas is really building out a “public transit” system using The Loop. Gonna be fun to see how much they can spin what a gigantic failure this is going to be.
What is the advantage over a normal car tunnel even supposed to be?! One with multiple lanes (so that you can actually go both directions!), emergency exits at the sides, and where the lights don’t change colour all the time (it’s so distracting even in the video). This doesn’t make sense even if you’re car-brained, there surely are more efficient roads for cars…
That money would have much better been spent on
God we’re never going to have anything nice in this country
Have we considered that vegas people might be sewer guys/gals/non-binary pals? Might change calculus of revolution
Gaming Tunnel 
(serious) Learned that my great grandfather got beat up by teamsters for crossing a picket line once. He ended up joining them not long after 😂
