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.”
It happened to me for the first time today and that's what I use.
I literally just clicked the x and played the video so it didn't effect anything though.
I wonder what he will end up doing to be impeached and/or imprisoned. (As is tradition for the South Korean president)
Should we start taking bets?
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?
"How many times do we have to teach you this lesson old man!" ~ The left.
But the old man is a masochist and part of a broader coalition and his role is to distract us with beating him while the rest of his group sacks the town.
Then when they are making their escape he jumps up and says "we could have stopped them if we worked together ! Look what you've done!" And keeps intentionally getting in our way while we try to chase the ransackers.
Then when they have escaped successfully he moves in with them and shares the loot while planning the next mission.
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?
Those darn time travelling Chinese went back in time or something!
The Chinese government has said the death toll was about 200
From their June, 3, 2009 piece.
https://abcnews.go.com/International/story?id=7744479&page=1
Which happens to line up with the lower "historian estimates" they provide in this article...
Historians estimate that the People's Liberation Army (PLA) killed anywhere from 200 to several thousand people that day.
Unironically they probably intentionally changed their story on the governments claims because if the government claims around 200 and many historians claim around 200, then the higher estimates are less likely to be blindly trusted.
Can't spell "Lamborghini" without "L"
Can't spell "Knowledge" without "W"
Checkmate Atheists.
Chinas High speed rail has a 97% coverage for cities with a population of at least 500,000. (160+ Cities). (Including standard rail brings it to 99% of cities with 200K, 180+ cities). As you say, China is absolutely massive and that size makes this reach even more impressive. If Japan has better rail coverage, it's not by much.
Okay? Youre comparing Japanese technology that hasn't been built yet to established Chinese technology. China has successfully tested a 1,000KM/h Maglev...
China has transported 1.46Billion Passengers this year (as of may 2025) on pace to surpass the over 4Billion Passengers last year. I've only seen estimates of around 450M for Japan last year (though finding Data on Japan is more difficult due to their corporate divisions and not speaking the language)
Sources:
http://wap.china-railway.com.cn/english/news/202505/t20250527_145536.html
https://english.www.gov.cn/archive/statistics/202412/06/content_WS675248bac6d0868f4e8edb50.html
By what metric?
China has the world's largest HSR network at 45,000KM, 15x that of Japan's 3,000KM network.
Chinas fastest regular use line is 350KM/h. Japan's is 320KM/h.
(AFAIK) China is the only country with an operational maglev line (in Shanghai). A 30KM line at 430KM/h. While Japan's Maglev is still under construction.
So what are the metrics that Japan's rail system cooks China?
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.