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Colonel Stone Johnson, born on the 9th of september in 1918, was a black worker in the civil rights movement who served as a bodyguard for homes, businesses, and people involved in the movement.

A railway worker and union representative by trade, he got involved in the civil rights movement in Birmingham, Alabama in the mid 1950s, working with Fred Shuttlesworth. He started a civil rights organization called the Civil Rights Guards that protected homes and business involved in the movement, usually while armed.

Among Johnson's notable acts was helping carry a Ku Klux Klan bomb away from Bethel Baptist Church in Birmingham, AL and serving as a bodyguard to Martin Luther King Jr. He also provided armed protection to non-violent activists in Anniston, Alabama during the 1961 Freedom Rides, rescuing them from a segregationist mob.

An oft-repeated remark of Johnson, when asked how he managed to protect civil rights leaders, given his commitment to non-violence, Johnson replied, "With my non-violent .38 special."

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago (4 children)

I cooked my lentil and chickpea stew today chefs-kiss

What are yall cooking comrades?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I think I've overcome my limerence. Or starting to.

I realize that it was an escapist fantasy, a reprieve for boredom, loneliness, and unfulfilled emotional needs. Completely obvious, yes, but sometimes what is obvious and simple is not always easy to arrive at.

While people, the internet, and friends can tell you things about limerence, crushes, or advice on hardships, answers really do have to come from within. When others say "That's what we've been telling you ", it is indeed true and false at the same time; insights and wisdom really do seem to be internal instruction of "hard way" life lessons and external observers can point out but can't make you appreciate such.

What helped me was to start a more intense routine of self-care:

  • Clean and organized living space, new clothes and haircut, hygienic and skincare routines.
  • Exercising regularly at a gym. Diet helps too - rice, beans, salad, water, tofu, etc.
  • Researching new careers and education.
  • Finding new hobbies and activities to participate and exercise, and meeting new people.
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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago

I'm watching Taxi driver and the guy made an honest mistake tbf. Whom amongst us doesn't occasionally take people to pornos on the second date?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago

Had a bit of a bloomer thought today

Since we know there is no way nepo babies will ever have their wealth expropriated, maybe the average person will eventually wake up to the stupidity of that concept and we can eventually get to the point where they’re seen as villains (because they are)

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

Workin on my picture still

cw gore

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago (3 children)

dumb gamer questions:

is persona 5 good or no?

also, I kinda have "character regret" in BG3 and i've already kinda dropped it because i'm paralysed by wanting to start a new character or stick with the decisions i've made. I'm still only in act 1 and kinda cheesed my way through the goblin bit.
I'm a tiefling wizard and i'm just not sure if wizarding is as fun as I wanted. Should I roll a new character or push on?

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

we're sending adam friedland & nick mullen to the gulag. and forcing stavros to do standup shows at it

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

fuck landlords
fuck cars

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago (3 children)

yes-honey-left time to load up that difficult game just to maintain skill or else I'll never be able to finish it

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

It's September the 11th somewhere.

brace-dark-cowboy

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

already more than halfway through my 9/11 and i haven't even made a joke yet

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago (4 children)

my door spider might be shelob, wouldnt even touch this already dead fly i offered. it was only like 3 hours dead i swear.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Arachne, like most greek gods, feeds on the scent of the offering rather than the matter. your offering does not go unappreciated.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

Made a smallish stir fry because im trying to lose weight and I can't tell rn if I'm going to be hungry later tonight. Like I'm not hungry now but I could have eaten later tonight. This dieting shit is no fun

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

I don't know if it's body dysmorphia or what, but I'm tired of being handsome. I want to be ugly as sin. I want to be a vaguely humanoid Lovecraftian mass of tentacles, flesh, and goo that people would describe as "shambling". Maybe I'll get over it by tomorrow.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

I love updates that fuck up my phone spongebob-i-fucking-love

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

@[email protected] Plurality, DID and systems are pretty badly understood, so it's a lot of self-ID and guesswork and introspections, I mostly had conversations with a more complex system (let's say for a better term, collective of personhoods) than me and a bunch of stuff clicked, they gave me great advice as well.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

https://morethanone.info/

Here's a little info site I've been linked to before. I'm very much not plural but it's pretty normal to not know anything about plural ppl, so there's no reason to beat yourself up over it :)

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago
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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

My back hurts chomsky-yes-honey

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

My landlord is selling the place so now I gotta figure out where to move by the end of next month. My options are

  • Small move: Stay in a nice, walkable area with good public transit where I've started to make some new friends, but it's a long commute to my (crappy) job
  • Medium move: Get closer to my (crappy) job, but everything else kinda sucks
  • Big move: Move to a place where a lot of my old friends live now (who I miss a lot), but it's a very chuddy area.

Medium move seems like the worst of both worlds waltuh so I guess it's mainly between small and big. I moved out here even though I didn't know anybody for the better politics and transit and stuff like that, and because I felt like I needed a change of pace to get myself out of a rut. But I've kinda fallen into a different rut and I feel like I was doing better with close friends for support, but I also got tired of hanging out with the same people all the time and it's hard to go out and meet people when there's chuds everywhere, but I haven't gone out too much here either bc I don't know people and I'm poor and I have anxiety. Probably either way I'll be looking for a new job since the commute sucks, especially in the winter.

I guess it basically boils down to, live in a cool place where I don't know people or live in a chuddy place where there's a lot of people I care about (who aren't chuds). I moved up two years ago to try it out and it's had ups and downs so idk whether it's what I want or not, meanwhile absence has made the heart grow stronger, and as much as the politics are shitty that's also all the more reason I wanna be there for my friends. Job-wise I'm directionless, there might be more opportunities up here but I'm very lazy or rather I hate the job search process. Uprooting everything at once is hard but I did it before. Idk.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

i will DESTROY dr*vers sicko-biker

for real though i was riding earlier, at a constant speed on a straight, clear road and some dick in an SUV looked in my direction for like 10 seconds and then pulled out directly into my trajectory and i had to swerve around him. bet he's posting on FB about entitled cyclists while i was riding completely lawfully. not the first time this week it's happened either. i'm oncoming traffic, you yield to me.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

i should get a train horn. that'd be pretty funny

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

I've just felt really bad for no reason the past few weeks. Just little things will send me doom spiraling. I've been catching myself laughing at how sad I am, not because it's funny but because of how absurd it is that I can feel this bad for no reason. Is this seasonal depression?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

My dog is best dog

You dog is best dog

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