On this day in 1897, the Lattimer Massacre occurred near Hazelton, Pennsylvania when a Sheriff’s posse fired into a crowd of unarmed, striking miners, killing 19. Miners, mostly Eastern European immigrants, had been protesting for better pay and union recognition.
A week prior, over 3,000 miners had gone on strike, demanding better pay and an end to the forced use of the company store. On the morning of September 10th, approximately 400 miners peacefully marched to a newly opened coal mine in Lattimer to support a new United Mine Workers (UMW) union there.
After refusing an order to disperse by a Luzerne County sheriff’s posse, the posse fired into the crowd. Nineteen miners were killed and several dozen were wounded.
Despite the fact that sheriffs had been overhead joking about how many strikers they would kill that morning, as well as medical evidence that demonstrated miners were mostly shot in the back, the sheriff and seventy-three deputies were acquitted at trial, insisting that they were charged by the crowd.
The massacre was a turning point in the history of the United Mine Workers (UMW), who received more than 10,000 new members in the aftermath of the massacre.
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Please let it be a gigantic celebration for her birthday, and just entirely ignore any mention of…
what was it again? idk
Gonna meet a nonbinary person in a bit, just coincidentally. Was thinking to myself like, oh I wonder what they’re like, never met an enby before
I fucking am one
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Hell yeah, sister! Be sure to cherish the faces of the chuds as they realize he’s not one of them. Makes my day at least
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Yeah a well placed " what the FUCK did you just say?" Is so powerful coming from someone they assumed was on their team. Feels so good
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What the heck where are they dolling out muscular guys with big beards who are also communists? Is there a store I can go to?
I mean I’m white guy with a big beard but I’m also fat. Idk if white people would say the n word around me or not? I dont like, socialize with people or go out anymore lol so.
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Its cause its not anonymous
Kid named lickin’
Looking for a new religion
find esoteric cult
ask practitioner if they are pagan or christian
he doesn’t understand
pull out illustrated diagram of what is pagan and what is christian
he laughs and says “its good esotericism sir”
its christian
Tfw you get conquered in the middle ages
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Looking at the response to Elon tweeting there should be a truce in Ukraine, I do not think the western psyche is going to survive this war
I really hope he gets obsessive about the hate he’s getting over Ukraine and pours some money in counter-narrtives
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I watched The Death of Stalin last night
I didn’t expect it to be accurate but it was very exaggerated and over the top, even when it wasn’t for the sake of humor at all. For example, at one point in the movie, a big crowd is coming to mourn Stalin’s death, waving the Soviet flag, and the Soviet troops open fire because they’re under orders not to let anyone into the city. Someone later cites the number of 1500 dead. Obviously, that never happened, and it doesn’t really serve any comedic purpose.
It struck me as very British and so I tried to read it as less about the actual events and more about the purely fictional image that exists in people’s heads. Pretty much all the humor is just making stuff up and then laughing at how absurd the made up stuff is. Basically it’s like if you made a movie out of the Wikipedia page for Russian Political Jokes.
Wonder if there are any interviews talking about the intention with that stuff?
tfw a libcel says something so idealistic that you got to hit them with that dialectical and historical materialist stare
getting vaccinated sucks tbh
this girl is reaching eepy levels never seen before
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but there’s so much to be done
username checks outn’t
I’m really proud of how good my kid is at their sport. We just got a call from their coach that the club that has the most ambitious talent development programme in the area wants them to play on their youth team. This is a club that pipelines a lot of players to the national team and whose senior team plays in the best national league. And they’re asking our kid to join them because they want them on their team.
I hope you kid has fun
They do. They have been playing since they were three and they are really dedicated to their sport.
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It’s pillaging England actually
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Very sad to hear about your child entering private equity.
what if we nuked the US
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I honestly recommend everyone carry pepper spray when walking alone, especially women.
I don’t carry anything like that (though I should), but I have heard that there is a pepper spray gel which can be a lot safer to use since you don’t have the risk of stepping into the cloud or anything like that.
cw: sexual harassment of minors
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Honestly with the catcalling stories I usually hear from people I’m surprise it was your mom that got catcalled and not you, since catcallers love to harass minors.
I saw a white lady in my rich suburb wearing a “Nothing is more confident than a mediocre white man” t shirt. I agree with the statement but the last person i want to see wearing that is the twitter npr radlib. The people i think would have some justice wearing something like that probably wouldnt.
I get so bummed out about how fucked we are as a planet.
at least it didn’t say “nevertheless, she persisted”