The Selma to Montgomery march was part of a series of civil rights protests that occurred in 1965 in Alabama, a Southern state with deeply entrenched racist policies. In March of that year, in an effort to register Black voters in the South, protesters marching the 54-mile route from Selma to the state capital of Montgomery were confronted with deadly violence from local authorities and white vigilante groups. As the world watched, the protesters—under the protection of federalized National Guard troops—finally achieved their goal, walking around the clock for three days to reach Montgomery, Alabama. The historic march, and Martin Luther King, Jr.’s participation in it, raised awareness of the difficulties faced by Black voters, and the need for a national Voting Rights Act. :amerikkka:
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sorry for the copy/paste this was kinda rushed
Hola Camaradas :fidel-salute-big: , Our Comrades In Texas are currently passing Through some Hard times :amerikkka: so if you had some Leftover Change or are a bourgeoisie Class Traitor here are some Mutual Aid programs that you could donate to :left-unity-3:
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The Conquest of Bread :ancom:
Remember, sort by new you :LIB:
Yesterday’s megathread:sad-boi:
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THEORY; it’s good for what ails you (all kinds of tendencies inside!) :RIchard-D-Wolff:
COMMUNITY CALENDAR - AN EXPERIMENT IN PROMOTING USER ORGANIZING EFFORTS :af:
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Oh man, I decided to try and give some stitcher shows a try. One of them was "how did this get made", which seemed like just professional comedians (including Jason Mantzoukas, who I've liked in random sitcoms) riffing on bad movies. Which sounded like something I'd like, and maybe I just picked a bad episode. But it wasn't a rifftrax (i.e. wasn't meant to sync to anything) and also they never took the time to give you any context for why the movie was bad. They'd literally just shout a bunch of disconnected jokes that are presumably related to the movie. The jokes being pretty generic as well. Reminded me of how I got into the chapo podcast, Jesus Christ any even remotely mainstream/professional comedy is just bafflingly bland and incoherent.
Oh, I like HDTGM. It’s usually better when I’ve seen the movie, but I’ll listen to episodes for movies I’ll never watch. Sometimes they have good insights into movie-making or storytelling, particularly into why the logic of bad movies is so bad. Nothing revolutionary, but entertaining enough to put on while I do other things. It’s another podcast where you either like the personalities of the hosts and how they interact or you don’t.
If you like the improv comedy aspects of Stitcher, you've got to check out The Andy Daly Podcast Pilot Project. The first episode is an all-timer and you could just start there; Jason M also features on the first Don Dimello episode if you want to jump straight to that one
Each beat is scripted, but the actual talk isn't. It's the rare improv performance that doesn't devolve into meta-gaming or joke hunting, and builds a full narrative over an hour