Nelson Mandela Released From Prison (1990)

On this week (11th of February) in 1990, anti-apartheid leader Nelson Mandela was released from Victor Verster Prison following negotiations with South African President F. W. de Klerk. In 1994, Mandela was elected President, becoming the country's first black head of state.

Mandela, a leading member of the African National Congress (ANC), had been convicted on charges of sabotage at the Rivonia Trial in 1964, and was sentenced to life imprisonment, serving 27 years before his release in 1990.

During his years in prison, Mandela became a major symbol of both the domestic and international anti-apartheid movement. In 1988, hundreds of millions people watched the "Free Nelson Mandela" concert, televised from London's Wembley Stadium.

Following decades of mass internal resistance along with global boycotts and sanctions, newly inaugurated South African State President F.W. de Klerk lifted the state of emergency law, legalized anti-apartheid opposition groups such as the ANC, South African Communist Party, and Pan-Africanist Congress, and released many political prisoners.

Mandela was released on February 11th, 1990 to massive international attention. Driven to Cape Town's City Hall through crowds, Mandela gave a speech where he declared his intention to participate in negotiations, although he noted that the ANC's armed struggle was not yet over before change had taken place.

In 1994, he was elected South Africa's first black president in the country's first ever multiracial election.

"It always seems impossible until it's done."

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  • AlHouthi4President@lemmy.ml
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    Let me get this straight:

    There is a real life global cabal of capitalists, intellectuals, politicians, power brokers, and other high level parasites who traffic children for sexual slavery and sometimes eat the children.

    And people in this cabal routinely talk about their Talmudic racial supremacist worldview which includes hating communism, poor people, non-white people, Islam, and non-Jews ("goyim").

    And the members of this cabal are above any form of institutional accountability.

    And this Cabal is intimately linked to the zionist cancer known as israel (but the entire mainstream media is deflecting and instead saying its Russian.)

    And this information is coming out 30 months into a Jewish-supremacist US-israeli live-streamed genocide war on Gaza.

    But liberals still want you to shed tears over "antisemitism".

    Sarkha intensifies

    • 3rdWorldCommieCat [none/use name]
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      The cannibalism afaik has been speculative or false but everything else has been real and yes libs do want you to focus on the fake antisemitism over human lives being killed worldwide, they're liberals aka the moderate wing of fascism.

      • la_tasalana_intissari_mata [comrade/them]
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        if I remember correctly it was mentioned by "anonymous informant" which could be the FBI trying to throw shit in like they always do, it's not unlikely and it wouldn't surprise me if they actually did it, so it's better to avoid talking about it unless proper evidence comes out. If I remember correctly there was a rich person who used korean baby foreskins for a beauty treatment.

        And until then it's not like we're out of reasons to hate the U.S. elites, they would deserve having their lives end far before reaching the Epstein stuff, they were funding genocides, creating famines, starting wars, sucking the earth dry.

      • AlHouthi4President@lemmy.ml
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        The cannibalism afaik has been speculative or false

        Ah good to know. I dont have the stomach or time to look through the files and have mostly just seen summaries.

        libs do want you to focus on the fake antisemitism over human lives being killed worldwide,

        Yes its really cruel

        • 3rdWorldCommieCat [none/use name]
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          I would not be surprised at all if it ended up being true, the elites are the lowest of humanity with 0 morals but I've already seen reactionary conservatives trying to use this point specifically to "prove" their satanic conspiracy theories and to justify forcing Christianity on everyone to "prevent this" as if they're not the ones who support this shit against those they deem the right targets. This is literally just capitalism aiding the rich who are bored engaging in more and more depraved vices not lack of christiniaty.

    • Angel [any]
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      10000-com

      Liberals including much of this website, too.

    • Rojo27 [he/him]
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      Americans are being bludgeoned over the head with clear evidence that the capitalist class are in it together and that they, the proletariat, are nothing but an expendable resource to be exploited and somehow they still can't yank their heads out of their asses for long enough to see just how fucked up their world views are and that there are no "good guys" to be had in the capitalist class.

    • Lemmygradwontallowme [he/him, comrade/them]
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      And people in this cabal routinely talk about their Talmudic racial supremacist worldview which includes hating communism, poor people, non-white people, Islam, and non-Jews ("goyim").

      I begin to realize, through my admittedly banana brain, how anti-communist horseshoe theory deflects from the fact that fascism and liberalism, especially Zionism which puts its hands into both, are 2 sides of the same coin and thus adaptable to that than I thought.

  • la_tasalana_intissari_mata [comrade/them]
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    it is Paranoia when the soviets were weary of nazis, of spies, of the capitalists wanting to nuke them.

    It is paranoia when a third world leader is weary of colonialism coming back, of imperialists funding terrorist cells and color revolutions.

    But it's not paranoia for Americans to unironically think the DPRK will try to invade them, that Russia is "intervening" in their elections.

    the term is psycho misanalysis of an enemy who is aware.

    • Rojo27 [he/him]
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      This reminded me of a conversation I was having with my mom a couple of years ago where she said something along the lines of being afraid that Cuba, Venezuela, Or Russia may do something to the US. I told her that's ridiculous. But the thing is that the propaganda runs deep.

      Even though she spent most of her life in the Dominican Republic, much of the same anti-Communist/Pro-US sentiment is felt from the pressure the US imposed on it. I'm sure its the same in other places, especially in Latin America due to its proximity to the US empire.

      • filipinokilla [comrade/them]
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        sections of the filipino population, mostly the urbanized north, have similar feelings toward china.

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    • Frogmanfromlake [none/use name]
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      Yeah I don’t like it either. They want to profit off our culture and perceived sexuality while destroying our countries. Bad Bunny seems cool but I really don’t give a shit about his halftime performance.

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        • Rojo27 [he/him]
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          Thats the shit that gets me. Bad Bunny made some very clear choices in how the show was presented as more of a pride in being Latin American and resisting assimilation

          But you got all these lib mfers talking about pride in being USians and whitewashing the entire messaging because all they ever want to do is dunk on Trump/Republicans and act like Democrats are good guys.

  • VILenin [he/him]
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    Really wish I could talk about Mamdani catering to Zionist narratives without getting a screed about how I can’t expect him to be Stalin in response

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        Love logging onto hexbear dot net to see pro-Kamala talking points with find+replace for the names

        Really captures that “speaking with a DNC PR consultant” feel.

        But hey, at least the bus Palestinians are getting thrown under is free to ride!

        • Rojo27 [he/him]
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          He hasn't even been that great locally. Cops got sent to crack the heads of protesters at a hotel ICE agents were staying in, he did the "officer involved shooting" thing, endorsed Hocul (zionist, strike breaker, cop supporter) even though she has resisted funding his programs. Oh and the newest "great" great thing, resuming sweeps of homeless encampments, just giving a slightly longer notice (7 days vs 3 I think under Adams).

  • Frogmanfromlake [none/use name]
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    My mind immediately goes straight to “ignore” when some dumpy looking white guy says, “my wife is from the Philippines.”

    • Angel [any]
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      Me when they use "chocolate" to describe a Black woman's skin tone.

    • Belly_Beanis [he/him]
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      I do not have an appropriate image to convey my thoughts when I encounter the same. I have to really hold my tongue and not blurt out how she can do better or that I hope she's doing it solely to scam him out of his entire net worth.

  • la_tasalana_intissari_mata [comrade/them]
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    Western propaganda wants you to look at people dancing and cheering for bombs spiraling down killing them their families, their neighbours and see them as the normal, as the free ones, and that the others are brainwashed. If brainwashing was real I see it in those minstrel performers at war with their own freedom.

  • la_tasalana_intissari_mata [comrade/them]
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    when a third world country has a low population, westerners call it an empty piece of land, when it has a regular population amount they tell us we're breeding like rabbits

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    • Rojo27 [he/him]
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      His non apology was ass too and the news media doesn't really seem to be holding him accountable for it (not that I'd expect them too). All he said was, paraphrasing, "Sorry, I didnt mean to offend some people". So he clearly means what he's said, he just didn't think people would make a big deal out of it.

      All billionaire sports club/team owners are fucking parasites sapping the fun out of the game, but there are quite a few who make it publicly clear that they don't think much about the POC they employ and if they could they wouldn't even pay them (looking at you, Jerry Jones).

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    • Lemmygradwontallowme [he/him, comrade/them]
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      The way I see it of these 'jokers', to compare immigration to settler-colonialism is like saying production is capitalism.

      They only see the action, but not the ruling class domination and the historical political context of it they've detached it of.

      Either they are ignorant or deliberately misleading people.

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    • Rojo27 [he/him]
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      That's part of the reason I didn't really think much of Carney's speech from a month or two ago. So many people were talking about it being historic, a possible re-alignment moment in world politics. But in the end all of these "middle powers", as Carney called them, aren't about to stand up to the US. They aren't going to unify to become a counter balance to US hegemony. They're just doing just enough to annoy the US in the short term before they go running back to them thankful that the US is still doing everything in its power to try and slow China's increasing influence on the world stage so that they can continue to plunder the resources of the global south. Shit, look at how they resisted the US on Greenland. What the Euros did was ask "have we not done enough for the empire so that you don't turn imperial violence towards us?"

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        • Belly_Beanis [he/him]
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          European liberals are obnoxious. They think they're above the US and its crimes when they're the one benefitting. Oil stolen from Iraq didn't go to American gas stations. It went to Germany and France. The US does all of Europe's dirty work so they don't have to spend a dime on their militaries, then they have the gall to turn around and act like they're enlightened pacifists.

          I've heard and seen Americans say the most heinous, racist shit. Europeans will act all high and mighty that they aren't racist. Yet when Roma and travellers come up, Europeans will start quoting the European novel, Mein Kampf, verbatim. The things they say would make even klansmen uncomfortable.

          They don't get to whine about Trump when he's the end result of their colonial projects and philosophy.

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            • VILenin [he/him]
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              Germans treat the holocaust as a PhD that gives them special privileges to speak

              • Rojo27 [he/him]
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                At this point I feel like the only reason they feel somewhat bad about the Holocaust was because they acted against other white people. You barely ever hear them talk about Namibia. And we see how they feel about the genocide in Gaza. Very much a us-foreign-policy situation.

                • VILenin [he/him]
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                  Yeah the only lesson they learned was that they should genocide the right people next time. Basically considered “antisemitism” in Germany at this point to talk about nonwhite Holocaust victims.

                  And I really wonder how many Germans can even point to Namibia on a map.

                  The rest of Europe also got to wash their hands of millennia of their sins and pretend Germany was a uniquely evil anomaly and not standard European fare. They are all poor innocent babies because Germany invaded them.

        • VILenin [he/him]
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          Euros brains shut down at any mention of China and automatically output a satanically racist screed

  • Angel [any]
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    Black men stop celebrating non-Black women fetishizing them challenge (IMPOSSIBLE)

  • Angel [any]
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    Online discourse is so unproductive and useless in a lot of cases because people are too busy thinking of an archetype to associate with your takes rather than the actual merit of any takes you give.

    For example, if a liberal sees you criticizing Democrats, they just immediately interpret you as being some "MAGA idiot" archetype and use that to automatically feel justified in insulting and/or dismissing you, not actually engage with the contents of what you're saying.

    Conversely, this reminds me of a time I said something critical of Trump in a YouTube comment section, and someone randomly came at me with "But Biden did this!"

    MF, I didn't say jack or shit about Biden. Dafuq you talking about?

  • AlHouthi4President@lemmy.ml
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    Show

    The origin of this website community was a podcast run by racists that was so non-threatening to the status quo of imperial extermination that people on Twitter are sharing stories about how previous listeners are now involved in the US Department of War. Explains a lot.

    Show

    Chapo listener and genocide strategist Michael Dimino the 4th

    • Rojo27 [he/him]
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      2 months ago

      If there is anything I can take from 2016 and in particular the Democrat presidential primary, its that in its wake I've been able to witness the limits of social democracy. In particular Western social democracy. There were so many people that were all on the Bernie train that have since become such great examples of why social democracy is objectively the moderate wing of fascism.

    • Belly_Beanis [he/him]
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      Explains a lot.

      Holy shit lmao yeah it does. I only listened to a few episodes, but the one on white fragility left a bad taste in my mouth because it was an example of white defensiveness.

    • VILenin [he/him]
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      The only crack in Chapo Trap House: anti-cracker-aktion flashbang

      It was magnitudes worse in 2020, which I find hard to believe despite living through it. And the subreddit before that was chock full of unironic chinabad and other assorted radlibs. You couldn’t even criticize the cult indoctrination pledge of allegiance rituals without some cracker bloviating about their fond childhood memories of boy scouts or whatever. I think we’ve gone from 99% chauvinism to about 90%.

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        • VILenin [he/him]
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          I'm not sure it's possible to parody the white liberal obsession with Russia, if you look in any NYT comment section it's like a gathering of nazi newsreel narrators talking about the ontological evil of the Russian being.

        • Angel [any]
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          Russia is the reason why we don't have Half-Life 3

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          • VILenin [he/him]
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            I used to blame myself for shitting my pants in first grade, but now I realize that it was Russia all along. Bowel-stimulating rays beamed from space. Moscow syndrome.

    • SmithrunHills [he/him]
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      Man I fucking wish Russia and China were both actually spending this much effort to fuck Americans over like the libs say, unironically