Rosa Parks, born on the 4th of February in 1913, was an American activist in the civil rights movement best known for her pivotal role in the Montgomery Bus Boycott. U.S. Congress has called her "the first lady of civil rights" and "the mother of the freedom movement".
Parks was not the first person to resist bus segregation in Montgomery, but the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) believed that she was the best candidate for seeing through a court challenge after her 1955 arrest for refusing to give up her bus seat for a white person.
According to historian Dr. Casey Nichols, following this arrest, Parks immediately contacted local NAACP president E.D. Nixon and informed him of her arrest. Within hours, the Women’s Political Council (WPC), formed in 1946 to address the grievances of black bus patrons in Montgomery, sprang into action, printing flyers, phoning potential supporters, and organizing carpools.
The boycott succeeded in 1957 after the Supreme Court declared bus segregation unconstitutional. Parks' act of defiance and the Montgomery bus boycott became important symbols of the movement, and she became an international icon of resistance to racial segregation.
After the boycott's conclusion, Parks moved to Detroit, Michigan and began working as an assistant to Detroit Congressman John Conyers. She has received numerous honors, including over 40 honorary degrees, the Medal of Freedom, the Congressional Gold Medal of Honor, and two NAACP image awards. In 2002, Parks produced a biographical film titled “The Rosa Parks Story.”
"The only tired I was was tired of giving in."
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The Engineer is a soft-spoken, amiable Texan from Bee Cave, Texas, USA with an interest in all mechanical things. He specializes in constructing and maintaining Buildings that provide support to his team, rather than fighting at the front lines, making him the most suitable for defense. The Engineer's various gadgets include the Sentry Gun, an automated turret that fires at any enemy in range, the Dispenser, a device that restores the health and ammunition of nearby teammates, and Teleporters that quickly transport players from point A to point B.
Because the Engineer's ingenious devices are under constant threat from explosives and devious enemy Spies, a good Engineer must keep his gear under a watchful eye and under repair with his Wrench at all times. When the Engineer needs to get his hands dirty, his trio of generic yet capable weapons, along with the assistance of his helpful hardware, make him more than capable of holding his own in a fight. If need be, the Engineer can even pick up and haul constructed buildings to redeploy them in more favorable locations. While usually viewed as a defensive class, the Engineer has a selection of high-tech weapons that allow him to destroy projectiles or to build faster-deploying, less damaging Sentry Guns, which give him great utility at the front lines too. His Teleporters are also a key point to both the offensive and defensive team's success, allowing slower, heavier classes to reach the front-lines quicker.
say that again and i'm destroying the fucking teleporter
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Back in the planetside 2 days i was mostly in a leadership slot leading squads or platoons, i played almost entirely engineer or medic, my kd was appalling, and i spent so much time in the back of an apc staring at a map and listening to my scouts tell me where the funniest place to put aa so we could piss off the actual, literal proto alt-right fascists on the TR factions. Good times.
The fash, ina. Very fashy way, had a massive number of players they could bring to contest a base or fight over a point. Hundreds on any given weekend night. But they were all their because they thought their racist fascist leader was a cool based dude who was owning the libs, and he was charismatic, but useless at delegating or strategy.
Our faction, on the other hand, was very very good at breaking our hundreds of people in to small units and sending them all over the place to achieve different tactical and strategic goals.
So what happened over and over again for months was the TR under fashy mcfash would win every battle they crashed their giant mass of assholes in to, and then at the end of the night they'd control a tiny part of the map bc we were flowing around them, misleading with fake attacks, taking back territory the second their blob moved on.
My group specifically loved getting a bunch of mobile aa, picking a spot between the enemy main base and wherever the main battle was, then camping on top of a hard to reach hill and vaporizing enemy aircraft as they flew overhead. With a full squad you could kill enemy dropships faster than they could do anything about it. Then we'd scoot to a different firing position and keep taking down troop trasnprts while the enemy was trying to find us at the last hill. Eventually our 8-12 guys would be chased by several full squads in outright looney-tunes silliness, and if they ever actuall caught us we'd re-spawn and do it again. We weren't cod 360 fps no scope gods, and we were so so in firefights, but the whole faction enjoyed being sneaky pains in the ass so the enemy always had to send disproportionately large forces to deal with our bullshit, and they struggled bc our faction was very coordinated from the leadership of the massive super-guilds down to individual squad leads and their fire teams. The half a dozen guys in high command usually had a good up to the minute picture of where the fighting was while the other side was a clusterfuck with no real cohesion. The devs actually changed the whole structure of the game at one point, cutting out most of the strategic layer and forcing everyone to fight at one point at. Atime, because if one faction actually "wins" the video game the other people aren't going to have fun and won"t play. "Teamwork op nerf teamwork" as a popular satirical battlecry from our team (also "trees op nerf trees. We lost as least as many aircraft to trees as we did to enemy fire).