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Cake day: February 27th, 2025

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  • No this is from a CBS interview with Mike Wallace. But he understood this concept and spoke on it a few other times from what I see.

    After a quick search of the text, this is a similar quote from his “Letter From Birmingham Jail”, so maybe this is the specific one you were thinking of.

    “The Negro has many pent up resentments and latent frustrations, and he must release them. So let him march; let him make prayer pilgrimages to the city hall; let him go on freedom rides -and try to understand why he must do so. If his repressed emotions are not released in nonviolent ways, they will seek expression through violence; this is not a threat but a fact of history. So I have not said to my people: “Get rid of your discontent.” Rather, I have tried to say that this normal and healthy discontent can be channeled into the creative outlet of nonviolent direct action. And now this approach is being termed extremist.”

    As for the rest, I’m not much of an MLK-head, so this is basically where my ability to be helpful ends.


  • As far as I know he ever advocated for it, but he understood it as an inevitable reaction.

    Off the tip of my head the only specific quote I can think of is his

    "I think that we’ve got to see that a riot is the language of the unheard. And, what is it that America has failed to hear? It has failed to hear that the economic plight of the Negro poor has worsened over the last few years.”



  • Controversial amongst whom and for what reasons?

    Without providing that context your critique is “…unhelpful at best”

    Edit: to be clear, Hexbear is a large and active instance, so if you value their content (as I do) other instances being de-federated can be just as much, if not more, a mark against those instances. Hence why it matters who deems them controversial and why.

    I don’t personally know who they are federated with, but as someone who’s only used Lemmy.ML, I can interact with their instance and I can interact with many (if not most, idk) other instances (.World, .Zip, Lemmygrad, DBzer0, etc). So if they are de-federated with those instances and you want to see both Hexbear and them, maybe come to Lemmy.ml.

    Side note: is there a way to track de-federations aside from just searching for communities hosted there from within your instance?


  • People are recommending all sorts of instances without telling them how many instances have de-federated from them and if they’re federated with hexbear etc.

    You only focus that criticism on this suggestion because you are obviously one of the people who don’t like hexbear and want to frame your critique of the suggestion as more reasonable/less biased.

    What exactly is the “reputation” hexbear has anyway? Being based?


  • Because the month is bigger and provides more context on it’s own. You figure out the month first then place yourself within that scale.

    Example:

    “It’s May (immediately tells us the context of 31days, spring, etc.) It is the 30th, so there’s one day left in May”

    Vs

    “It’s the 30th (provides no context except that it’s not February). it’s may, so there’s one day left in May”

    So both lead to the same conclusion, the first way just gives the limiting parameter/most context first.

    Similar reasoning why the month is the primary separation on calendars.

    Another example that follow this same principle, you tell time HH/mm to provide the larger context first, not mm/HH.










  • Rationality and empathy are equally important. Blind empathy is just as capable of causing harm as a lack of empathy.

    The real issue is the relation one has/lacks with capital, not just individuals wealth.

    Balkanization typically leads to more violence and worse outcomes. For example, the current situation in eastern Europe is a result of the balkanization of the USSR. WW1 (and 2) were a result of the Balkanization of the Ottoman empire. The balkanization of India.