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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.”

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[–] material_delinquent@hexbear.net 12 points 9 months ago

At the end of the day I drop my facade and i am still as insecure as before

[–] Umechan@hexbear.net 12 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Just the other day I was wondering if/when conservative pundits will turn on Rosa Parks the way they did on MLK this year.

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[–] Ho_Chi_Chungus@hexbear.net 12 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

i-love-not-thinking no way we got the :liberaIism: emoji

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[–] SoylentSnake@hexbear.net 12 points 9 months ago (1 children)

from now on when im tempted to solo drink im gonna try to work out instead to prove exercisecels wrong about this terrible feeling shit being good for you smuglord

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[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 12 points 9 months ago (6 children)

What if people got struck by lightning a lot more often but it also wasn't thst dangerous. Just annoying.

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[–] DayOfDoom@hexbear.net 12 points 9 months ago

Anyone else remember that thread like 2-3 years ago where someone posted against using the phrase "from the river to the sea" because their "organizer friend" (or something like that) said it was borderline antisemitic and a good chunk of the site was agreeing with it? I wish I could remember who it was, I think it was someone who kept posting idpol shitlib threads like that about several similar topics.

[–] GeorgeZBush@hexbear.net 12 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Really disappointed to find out that my vaguely anti-Trump, apolitical friends actually really like what's happening At the Border, think it's cool that Midwestern states apparently call animal control on "furries"(??), gripe about Bud Lite STILL, whine about pronouns, etc. Though I can't be shocked since they're like South Park stoner guys.

I guess that's why I gravitate towards this place, everyone around me is either a reactionary who whines about Wokeness, or the smuggest lib you've ever met. I get along well enough with people in general, I don't expect nor want to be in an echo chamber, but holy fuck the Discourse is inescapable and insufferable.

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[–] wombat@hexbear.net 12 points 9 months ago

it is february 3 and stalin saved the world from fascism

[–] buh@hexbear.net 12 points 9 months ago (8 children)

I've lost all ambition for worldly acclaim 😞

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[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 12 points 9 months ago (1 children)

"Eat my tits" is a good insult even if you don't have any.

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[–] Dolores@hexbear.net 12 points 9 months ago

bit idea, optimizing for louder snoring instead of quieter

[–] wombat@hexbear.net 12 points 9 months ago (1 children)

it is february 4 and stalin saved the world from fascism

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[–] aen@hexbear.net 12 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

im way too eurovision obsessed... there were 7 different national selection shows happening yesterday and i spent hours simultaneously watching them and going on twitter to see what people were saying

my favoute song of the season won in norway though (it's a really good rock folk song based on a 1000 year old folk song)

a very camp song won in spain that i kinda don't get. it's a grandma singing about being a bitch and dancing with two half-naked men. ...actually that does explain why it won

also a song about eating bananas almost won in malta. and in ukraine, hundreds of thousands of people tried to vote on the miia app and they had to postpone the results until today because the app crashed. the hosts actually tried keeping the show going to see if the app would start working again and the english commentators sounded like they had given up 💀

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[–] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 12 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Did we skip kink at pride discourse last year? Or was I just touching grass during king at pride discourse season.

[–] GinAndJuche@hexbear.net 12 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Pride is an anti monarchist event.

Does the discourse ever change though? The only new thing last year was the scat guy iirc

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[–] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 12 points 9 months ago

Biden winning south carolina primaey with higher margins than Assad

Who must go? DaBiden

[–] CrispyFern@hexbear.net 11 points 9 months ago

The Medic is a Teutonic man of medicine from Stuttgart, Germany. While he may have a tenuous adherence to medical ethics, he is nonetheless the primary healing class of the team. Although the Medic's Syringe Gun and Bonesaw aren't the most excellent weapons for direct combat, he can typically still be found near the front lines, healing wounded teammates while trying to stay out of enemy fire.

When the Medic focuses his Medi Gun on a teammate, they gradually regain health points. Teammates who are already at full health have their health buffed beyond the standard limit, going up to 150% of their base health capacity (with the exception of weapons that have overheal penalties, such as the Fists of Steel and the Quick-Fix). Teammates who have not taken damage recently are healed more rapidly, encouraging other players withdrawals when injured.

When healing, the Medic gradually fills a unique ÜberCharge bar, which can fill faster if healing injured or not-fully-overhealed teammates. When the ÜberCharge bar is fully charged, the Medic's Medi Gun begins to crackle, accompanied by small electric team-colored particles at its tip, indicating that he can now deploy a unique charge to benefit his healing target (and himself) for eight seconds. A charge from the Medi Gun offers temporary invulnerability; a charge from the Kritzkrieg grants guaranteed critical hits to your heal target; the Quick-Fix grants rapid healing, along with immunity to knockback and compression blasts from Pyros; and the Vaccinator grants enhanced damage resistance to a specific damage type (bullets, explosives, and fire).

Although the Medic cannot heal himself with his Medi Gun (unless using an ÜberCharge-deployed Quick-Fix or the Kritzkrieg's Oktoberfest taunt), he is capable of slowly regenerating health over time, and is the only class capable of doing this naturally. The longer a Medic stays out of combat and avoids taking damage, the greater the increments of health he passively heals. An injured Medic begins regenerating health at a rate of 3 health points per second, scaling up over the following ten seconds to a maximum of 6 health per second (this base rate can be positively affected by the Amputator, and negatively affected by the Blutsauger). Healing injured teammates will double the current rate of health regeneration.

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[–] JamesJonathanSandwichTheFourth@hexbear.net 11 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Jesus Christ I’m about to start arguing with gamers on a YouTube video lmao

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[–] Mindfury@hexbear.net 11 points 9 months ago (5 children)
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[–] WhyEssEff@hexbear.net 11 points 9 months ago (3 children)

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[–] Melina@hexbear.net 11 points 9 months ago
[–] mar_k@hexbear.net 11 points 9 months ago (9 children)

I have to write a 5 page paper on a significant turning point in the last 500 years of world history, any suggestions? preferably something not too hard

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[–] TraumaDumpling@hexbear.net 11 points 9 months ago

i will forever hate fortnite for ruining the third person shooter genre, ever since fortnite they all have that over-the-shoulder fixed aiming camera with no camera side switch now. i was kinda excited for helldivers 2 before i saw footage with that godsforsaken fortnite camera, happens with almost every third person game these days. i miss centered cameras (like Lost Planet or the first 2 Max Payne games) and aiming camera side switching for third person games.

[–] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 11 points 9 months ago

Lol saw a video of someone "working" on the subway using the apple dork snowboarding goggles and pretending to type at a normal keyboard. I refuse to believe anyone can type efficiently on a digital keyboard. Like even a phone keyboard is annoying as hell, can't imagine doing any actual writing without homerow bumps. Like i fucking hate having to look over at my hands constantly why tf would anyone want that.

[–] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 11 points 9 months ago (1 children)

How are the LOTR movies under copyright, basically every frame is a meme now

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[–] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 11 points 9 months ago

* putting on apple vision * wow it feels like I'm actually doomscrolling all day

[–] grazing7264@hexbear.net 11 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (4 children)

Professor asking for an answer, one paragraph, 400 words

What the fuck, that spans like 2 pages with no line breaks, literally unreadable

I already wrote the assignment as multiple (3) paragraphs

Pls help 🥺 would you:

  • Submit it as multiple paragraphs
  • Remove the line breaks between paragraphs to make it look like one paragraph
  • Rewrite everything to be one gigantic mega-paragraph that spans multiple pages

blob-help

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[–] CliffordBigRedDog@hexbear.net 11 points 9 months ago

according to this TV fortuneteller

Ox, Rabbits, Dragons, Sheep and Dogs should avoid going out today between 4 and 5pm because its bad luck

[–] PaX@hexbear.net 11 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Realized my used Apple Powerbook's keyboard smells permanently like......... Fritos??? Wtf

walter-breakdown

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[–] allthetimesivedied@hexbear.net 11 points 9 months ago

Someone just sent me $300 holybsjit.

[–] Dolores@hexbear.net 11 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

i hiked 2 miles through a blizzard and 2 feet of snow to get fucking food because the dumbshit landlord couldnt be assed to plow the fucking parking lot until 10pm last night

i want to costanza-maoist this motherfucker

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