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Blas Roca Calederio, born on July 22 in 1908, was a Cuban communist revolutionary and radical journalist. Roca helped lead the 1933 general strike that ousted Gerardo Machado, and served in Fidel Castro's revolutionary government.

Born into a poor family, Roca began working at age eleven, shining shoes. According to Castro, Roca was already a prominent communist organizer in the province of Oriente at 21 years old.

At age 25, Roca helped lead a two week general strike that ousted dictator Gerardo Machado. By 1936, he was head of the Cuban Communist Party and began serving as a politican, helping author the 1940 Cuban Constitution.

Under Roca's leadership, Cuban communists were instrumental in providing an organizational and ideological structure for Castro's revolution, as well as playing a pivotal role using the party's long-standing ties with the Soviet Union to promote increasingly closer ties during the early days of the revolution.

In 1961, Blas Roca, leading a party delegation, presented a Cuban flag to Nikita Khrushchev during a meeting of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Roca served on the first central committee and politburo of the new Communist Party of Cuba, founded in 1965.

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[–] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 8 points 11 months ago (2 children)

"Would you rather be a pirate, samurai, or cowboy" would be a terrible ice breaker to use on me. Do you really want me to talk about movies for the next 3 hours??

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[–] Breath_Of_The_Snake@hexbear.net 8 points 11 months ago (4 children)

Frieren is so fucking good. 9 episodes in and there’s only been, like, 2 or 3 “anime moments”. Two of which are just the magic obsessed elf discovering perv magic because she’s gotta catch all the spells. Madhouse does it again.

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[–] gramxi@hexbear.net 8 points 11 months ago

Make hawk tuah great again

[–] Huldra@hexbear.net 8 points 11 months ago

https://x.com/freecitysounds/status/1815452606086500611

This shit really takes the cake, first actual genuine jazz elitism Ive stumbled upon in the wild.

Like what the fuck do you mean that people who don't like jazz are sitting down to listen to Herbie Hancock, Charles Mingus and fucking Pharoah Sanders?

Complete fucking nonsense, the jazz for people who don't like jazz is video game soundtracks and japanese fusion, there's no fucking chance that you are finding some demographic of people who only listen to Headhunters and thinks that's the pinnacle of jazz without listening to anything else.

[–] Blockocheese@hexbear.net 8 points 11 months ago

Anyone have a list of all the people Kamala has called racist?

Trying to see who she'll run with this time

[–] Zrc@hexbear.net 8 points 11 months ago

mosquitoes thinking they're slick as if I don't hear them buzzing around, land near me and see what happens

[–] stigsbandit34z@hexbear.net 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Gf said it perfectly. Trump is almost better because we know exactly what we’re in for whereas Kamala is a borderline sociopath who says all the correct words while on camera and locks people up in the background and rams through neoliberal bullshit that brought us Trump in the first place.

We are back to the lesser of two evils but who is really the lesser of two evils? At least Trump will wake people up again whereas Kamala will send people back to brunch as the US continues to implode

Idk it’s a lose lose.

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[–] plinky@hexbear.net 7 points 11 months ago

So there is bokeh effect, what would be wokeh effect? (Don’t say gator-bi lighting)

[–] FumpyAer@hexbear.net 7 points 11 months ago

Just a reminder that used/vintage furniture is so much better than ikea shit for 20% of the price.

$65 solid wood w/ mahogany stain side table vs $280, assemble it yourself, nearly black colored made of PARTICLE BOARD.

[–] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 7 points 11 months ago

Look im shitting during meetings regardless it's up to you if it's in my bathroom or your boardroom

[–] GeorgeZBush@hexbear.net 7 points 11 months ago

A friend of mine today described Newsmax as "brainrot for old people"

[–] GVAGUY3@hexbear.net 7 points 11 months ago

Considering moving to the Apartment Complex across the street from me. This location is too good, but my current complex won't repair this leak.

[–] Stoatmilk@hexbear.net 7 points 11 months ago

If you are making a movie about a wicked smart guy, I get why you would feel the need to visualize their thinking process, but if you do I will choose to interpret them as psychic powers. Don't want me to think of Oppenheimer (2023) as an alt-history movie where a guy with ESP invents the atom bomb? I guess the audiences will have to do without the eye candy.

[–] mkultrawide@hexbear.net 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I hate feeling sweaty/dirty. I take like 2-3 showers depending on the day and how I'm feeling. I think I put too much product in my hair today, and now my head feels sweaty/greasy, and I just want to hop in the shower again.

[–] Coca_Cola_but_Commie@hexbear.net 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

So a couple months ago I decided I wanted to branch out from my usual reading habits and pick up some contemporary litfic. I did some searching, and the book Ducks, Newburyport by Lucy Ellmann caught my attention. Mostly I liked the cover, honestly. Read a very positive review of the book, decided to buy it, but because all the bookstores near me closed* I had to order the book online. So I added it to my cart and forgot about it until last week when I finally clicked on buy.

I received the book today and what I didn't realize, having never seen a copy for myself, is that it is over a thousand pages long. Not that that's unique or something, I just didn't expect it. When I think litfic I think of slim books with difficult prose, not a doorstopper that would be long even by the standards of the genre books I normally read. As part of my decision to expand my reading habits I also bought Dubliners by James Joyce and The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon (there's pretty good odds I'll never read these books. Most of the books I own I haven't read. Yet. I haven't read them yet. I definitely will) and they're both the very picture of what I expected. Dubliners is about 300 pages, 49 isn't quite 200.

*except the used bookstore where I could have my fill of forgettable '80s-'90s thrillers, ancient pulpy westerns, reams of christian nonsense, and probably multiple copies of every book Stephen King has ever written

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