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The Poor People's Campaign was a march on Washington D.C. to gain economic justice for poor people in the United States that began on this day in 1968, just one month after the assassination of one of its key organizers, MLK Jr.

The protest was also organized by Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) and carried out under the leadership of Ralph Abernathy in the wake of King's assassination.

After presenting an organized set of demands to Congress and executive agencies, participants set up a 3,000-person protest camp on the Washington Mall, where they stayed for six weeks in the spring of 1968.

Among those demands was a proposal for an "economic bill of rights" that included a commitment to full employment, a guaranteed annual income measure, and more low-income housing for poor Americans of all races.

"I think it is necessary for us to realize that we have moved from the era of civil rights to the era of human rights…

When we see that there must be a radical redistribution of economic and political power, then we see that for the last twelve years we have been in a reform movement…

That after Selma and the Voting Rights Bill, we moved into a new era, which must be an era of revolution…"

-MLK Jr., in a 1967 planning meeting

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[-] LocalOaf@hexbear.net 2 points 15 minutes ago

that Byron Buxton/Carlos Correa collision, ouch

with the Oswaldo Cabrera ankle fracture earlier there have been some gnarly baseball injuries lately

[-] JD_Vyvanse@hexbear.net 2 points 18 minutes ago

i never want to dump on other working class ppl for getting the bag in the most tolerable way possible, but man i envy WFH mfs sometimes. my job actually has to be on site for logistical reasons but there's also a lot of downtime, if only i could use that downtime to go for a walk, read, write, play a game (anything fun &/or enriching rlly) rather than internet drift. one of the big barriers in the way of my internet detox/moderation efforts.

[-] Wmill@hexbear.net 2 points 39 minutes ago

It's amazing what a few beans do for my recovery game, dragon ball got it right with senzu bean I'll say goku-halal

[-] WhyEssEff@hexbear.net 3 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

finished Onikakushi-henthis is paranoid hallucinations on Keiichi's end, right? I think I clocked it at the takoyaki needle. Parallel to razor candy delusions.

My hanging question is why Keiichi's death mirrors Tomitake's. Current theory is mass psychogenic illness? Tomitake prompted Keiichi's paranoia and then died like that, maybe Tomitake did something to Takano as Keiichi did to Rena and Mion? The superstitions around Watanagashi might be a self-reproducing phenomenon, though I don't yet know if there’s fallout after the festival like that.

Going to alternate Umineko and Higurashi now, Umi E5 next ~~so I can stay ahead of Joseph Anderson and keep watching his streams of it without worrying about it influencing my read on the episode~~

[-] Goblinmancer@hexbear.net 2 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Anyone else prefer playing diablo clones up to the end of main campaign and instead of doing endgame content just replaying with another class/build? Rpgs IMO atr mostly fun during the "journey" part, im addicted to the dopamine from leveling up

[-] FuckyWucky@hexbear.net 15 points 5 hours ago

Are they randomly adding "talk about white genocide in south Africa" to the prompts?

[-] Goblinmancer@hexbear.net 5 points 3 hours ago

I love how melon-musk somehow actually truly believes right wing conspiracy theories are actually based on data and facts. Like why he doesnt just code Grok to make up sources and facts about " boer genocide"?

[-] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 6 points 4 hours ago

Apparently it’s only for the version of the bot that replies to comments and the other version of the bot tells you they did something like that if you ask it, lmao.

[-] Blockocheese@hexbear.net 10 points 5 hours ago

Yeah, elon wanted the AI to talk about "white genocide" in South Africa but fucked it up so it just keeps mentioning it

[-] MF_COOM@hexbear.net 6 points 4 hours ago

Had a friend go on an all potato diet, which is like idk neutral I guess potatoes are good. But then the only way she'd prepare them is by baking them and it just seemed like such a waste.

Chat is there a worse way to prepare a potato

[-] comrade_pibb@hexbear.net 2 points 1 hour ago

boiled unsalted

[-] DragonBallZinn@hexbear.net 8 points 5 hours ago

"Lol, we don't really read resumes. Never your's especially! It's just toooo hard!"

Oh my God, can corpos stop pretending their gross and utter incompetence is cute and quirky? Gen Z can't start their lives because we're all forced to wait in line for porky to eventually decide to get off his lazy butt and maybe consider hiring.

posts in the mega about any form of media should require a "media posting" spoiler tag so i can skip over them more easily

media is cringe and harmful, seek to live an unmediated life

[-] homhom9000@hexbear.net 3 points 4 hours ago

I was on such a high in life then hit after hit keeps coming. I had a great day then layoffs, then mangadex took down content. If the universe unfoils whenever I have a good day then I'll stop having good days

[-] Keld@hexbear.net 5 points 5 hours ago

Andor spoilers, relationship violence,

Okay so everyone made a big deal about that scene in Andor where Syril abuses Deedra, but like... she is killing a planet and gaslighting him, and he chokes her. I don't want to minimize relationship violence, but she has a body count larger than Hitler at this point and she has been lying to him for their entire relationship and she orders his arrest and firing upon a crowd she knows he's in. How the hell is the shocking bit his choking. Obviously that's bad, but he just found out she ordered genocide. Maybe I'm not neurotypical enough for this, but I think people are doing that thing where we act like direct acts that violate social norms are in a totally different and worse category than objectively more harmful acts that fit within societal norms and expectations.

[-] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 2 points 2 hours ago

I'm guessing for most people it was just the visuals of it. But yeah I agree

[-] Arahnya@hexbear.net 5 points 5 hours ago

Its kinda cool that the villain in Sinners is spurring these conversations about forced assimilation / colonization to happen.

Sinners spoilers

when a person becomes a vampire they are cut off from their ancestors / descendants, so people are saying its unfair and cruel that Remmick never gets to reconnect. I get to explain how that tragedy reflects the reality of assimilation into whiteness / patriarchy, and via fanonian theory -- replicates that violence upon others.

I think people relate to his emptiness, they see themselves reflected. They want him to be reunited, and I hope that desire fuels them to do it themselves.

[-] Goblinmancer@hexbear.net 2 points 4 hours ago

Syril Karn is your average TOUGH on CRIME youtube commenter.

Wait thats unfair to syril at least he

spoilerDraws the line at genocide

[-] Blockocheese@hexbear.net 5 points 5 hours ago

Im always pleasantly surprised when other people participate in whatever silly shit im doing

[-] doublepepperoni@hexbear.net 11 points 8 hours ago

Going to a space run by leftists and seeing an "anti-tankie aktion" sticker on the wall clark-kent-stare

[-] Wmill@hexbear.net 6 points 7 hours ago

Pulling my thrufted copy of "the subtle art of not giving a fuck" out as I drink my bean juice in public. I mean the left over bean water in my crockpot after I cook my beans btw not coffee like some freak

it's called aquafaba and it's a delicacy in my culture

[-] Wmill@hexbear.net 4 points 4 hours ago

chickpea I'd like to know more about your culture

hah! fooled you! i'm a cracker from the suburbs of yankkkeedom, i have less culture than anyone who's ever lived

[-] Wmill@hexbear.net 3 points 4 hours ago

bamboozled on this site, I'll never live it down sadness-abysmal

[-] Trey@hexbear.net 8 points 7 hours ago

How do people feel about Constantine? Specifically the 2005 film starring Keanu Reeves, that is. My understanding is that critics at the time didn't like it, but I'm a big fan. I will admit I've never read the comics, nor have I ever watched the Constantine TV show or The Sandman. But on its own merits I think it's a very strong performance from Reeves - or at the very least it's a role well-suited to him - and an underrated gem of his career.

[-] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 1 points 2 hours ago

It's very fun

not great enough to merit the epithet but unquestionably more influential than the 12 constantines who came after him

[-] Euergetes@hexbear.net 3 points 6 hours ago

A+ Caesar, instrumental in creating the meritocratic bureaucracy of the Dominate.

[-] KatySosa@hexbear.net 5 points 6 hours ago

I don’t wanna go to work 🥲

[-] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 6 points 7 hours ago

I wish people would stop thinking I'm flirting with them when I'm just being polite

[-] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 9 points 6 hours ago

I'm flattered, but I don't date owls.

[-] spudnik@hexbear.net 5 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

I get the exact opposite! I'm really bad at eye contact with strangers, so a lot of times I think I come off as a creepo. But I just want to tell people their shoes are cool or whatever. Guaranteed I would rather be on this side of this type of interaction though, unwanted advances are so uncomfortable

[-] Cigarette_comedian@hexbear.net 6 points 9 hours ago

Bit idea: Making the removal of PFAS and PFOA forever chemicals woke, and convincing conspiracy brained people to drink airport firefighting foam as a cure-all. The deep state doesn't want you to know that replacing all your fatty tissues with organic flourine is the one true way to become the anti-woke warrior.

Do not actually do this.

[-] UmbraVivi@hexbear.net 9 points 10 hours ago

No, he's never met a nice South African bridget-vibe

And that's not bloody surprising, mun! bridget-vibe

'Cause we're a bunch of talentless murderers, who smell like baboons! bridget-vibe

[-] Keld@hexbear.net 1 points 4 hours ago

John Lloyd may be a lib, but he's a funny lib.

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[-] Comrade_Mushroom@hexbear.net 7 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

many criticisms are made against Friends, and most of them are valid, but in my opinion the greatest sin by far was acting like paleontology isn't interesting as fuck

[-] fox@hexbear.net 2 points 5 hours ago

Ross gets laid by doing an after-hours tour of the museum. If paleontology is presented as boring it's because Ross is boring

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