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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have all of you a good day/night
Great heavy rain, the basement is probably going to flood out.
Play the Song of Storms to flood your whole house.
Basement’s enough thanks
then play the song of time to go back 3 days
Yo I was just checking my town’s facebook page, major flooding, haven’t seen anything this bad in years.
fuck that sucks
Car got trapped underwater, coming off the mountain, hope nobody was inside and got hurt.
Good point.
Going to Tokyo so i can see all the subway stations from persona 5
@[email protected] I thought you should know that in episode 6 of One Piece live action someone says “No more half measures”
Admins i spil my jizz
Onan over here
Volcel police
The VOLCEL POLICE are on the scene! PLEASE KEEP YOUR VITAL ESSENCES TO YOURSELVES AT ALL TIMES.
نحن شرطة VolCel.بناءا على تعليمات الهيئة لترويج لألعاب الفيديو و النهي عن الجنس نرجوا الإبتعاد عن أي أفكار جنسية و الحفاظ على حيواناتكم المنويَّة حتى يوم الحساب. اتقوا الله، إنك لا تراه لكنه يراك.
The male desire to wear a cute maid uniform
I’m Barack Obama and I approve this message
More like:
Barrack HUSSEIN Obummer!
You’re nuffin’ but a Kenyan communist!
Okay.
Yako.
Good morning Comrades,
Friend just started a no-pre-req political class in a generally left-field and it’s already devolved to libs frothing about Putin while also lamenting the treatment of BLM. It’s an online class and I suggested to them to get ahead and control the early (graded) discussion boards with crypto-communist theory regarding ideology (which y’all kindly helped me helped them with a ton) but ended up toning it way down to avoid getting clocked, or our personal fear of potentially secretly blacklisted from the profession.
Right now they’re publicly in a leftist position, lamenting sectarian infighting on the left compared to unity on the right. Let out some feelers to left-sounding people but those people later posted anti-communist stuff from the course materials.
Online class, most things said are going to be on record with full name attached, don’t want to accidentally get my friend in trouble but it also seemed like prime territory for making some friends and networking new leftists.
These online class formats seem a good fit for left posters but very dangerous for us specifically since there is a fucking cop attending the class and posts are all on record. Anybody have any experience with this?
I want to ask about potential dogwhistles but we’re now thinking of pulling back completely. It’s a shame because I want to help agitate (class forum is full of weak libs) and my friend wants to make leftist/queer friends.
I love my trans comrades.
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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?
waiting for the pokemon scarlet dlc to drop in a few days time
cant wait to use paradox raikou with its electric sucker punch, also toxic returned as a tm so thats going to be fun in competitive
As a casual I just want more story and character stuff. And all the returning mons.
Also I was doing a tera raid while typing out that comment lol, would’ve lost that one without gholdengo’s ability
I am so desperately hoping they make Geeta a more interesting champion in the DLC. She’s easily the most boring out of any of the games I’ve played
And also I’m hoping Penny and Arven and Nemona return as a squad. Exploring Area Zero with your three best friends who hate each other was so much fun and they have such a silly group dynamic.
She’s easily the most boring out of any of the games I’ve played
Idk, I think diantha is slightly worse
Scald is also returning so be ready for iron bundle to go nuts
The wheels on the bus is about public transport. Imperial propaganda tells us that it’s about a school bus to limit our imaginations
this is true because why would babies and their mothers be on a school bus
I love my girlfriends but I am so unfathomably touch starved its been so long since Ive made physical contact with a person let alone romantic and/or sexual contact with a person (my girlfriends are long distance to be clear). I want to teleport to one of them real bad I need to cuddle.
Having multiple girlfriends and being touch starved is a new circle of hell, I gotta say. That’s just a new one. I hope someone gives you a hug soon, I’d do it myself but if that were possible your problem would be fixed.
Yeah idk I met a couple girls I liked and started dating on discord but they dont live anywhere near me lol. And since I’m bad at it because I cant describe things we dont even e-fuck, (plus I wouldnt find that all that satisfying anyway, I need touch.)
I appreciate the offer of hugs lol.
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Critical support to the guy rolling coal on a bunch of anti abortion protestors
Chaotic good
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We love our southern comrades, our trans comrades, and our southern trans comrades!
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.
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
went for a swim and it fucking rules
i can already feel my fitness increasing and can go for longer sets. swam a 600m without stopping and about 1.2km total in a 45 min sesh. I only got back in the pool because 4 weeks ago i literally couldn’t walk with a back injury.
while bullying people into swimming will be harder than bullying people into using a rowing machine, go fucking swimming. it’s peaceful. it increases your lung capacity for bonghits. it works your whole body. it leaves you LESS SORE than before you start. GOAT workout fr