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On this day in 1898, the Battle of Virden began when armed members of the United Mine Workers of America (UMW) surrounded a train full of strikebreakers and exchanged fire with company guards. 13 people were killed, dozens more wounded.

After a local chapter of the UMW began striking at a mine in Virden, Illinois, the Chicago-Virden Coal Company hired black strikebreakers from Birmingham, Alabama and shipped them to Virden by train.

The company hired armed detectives or security guards to accompany the strikebreakers, and an armed conflict broke out when armed miners surrounded the train as it arrived in town. A total of four detectives and seven striking mine workers were killed, with five guards, thirty miners, and an unrecorded number of strikebreakers wounded.

After this incident, Illinois Governor John Tanner ordered the National Guard to prevent any more strikebreakers from coming into the state by force. The next month, the Chicago-Virden Coal Company relented and allowed the unionization of its workers.

"When the last call comes for me to take my final rest, will the miners see that I get a resting place in the same clay that shelters the miners who gave up their lives on the hills of Virden, Illinois...They are responsible for Illinois being the best organized labor state in America."

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago (4 children)

Test testing how fast can i type having to correct every word?

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 days ago

Been a little bit since I was factory-gameposting here but @WhatDoYouMeanPodcast you should check out Dyson Sphere Program. It doesn't have the same sense of personal scale and locality that Satisfactory does, it's third person and just doesn't really capture that vibe of building something larger than yourself, but it does capture the sense of scaling up and seeing your creation come alive. You start small, then make your way to harnessing the power of entire solar systems, easily taking all the resources a planet has to offer by deploying legions of drones and transport vessels. Then you'll have entire planets covered in rocket factories, then launchpads.

The best part is the one where it is the most like Satisfactory: slowly coming to see your custom Dyson Sphere designs take shape. It might take you several days, which makes the truly massive spheres slowly fading into existence and having each part of their form become visible so much more impressive and awesome. It's the feeling from delivering a phase in Satisfactory, except it continuously happens over a longer period of time and is a much more massive process than piping items into an elevator. You can make some really, really neat sphere designs too.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (4 children)

Can we bring back door-to-door vacuum salespeople under communism? I want to bring comrades the gift of a nice, clean carpet. If not, can I be the sole vacuum salesperson responsible for the entire Sozialistische Weltrepublik?

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 days ago

Girls be like β€œI know a place” and then she takes you to a place.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 days ago

Wild to me how a hurricane will fucking tear miles and miles of a golf course to shreds and instead of being a wake up call into how much of a waste of land that is, the powers that be are shipping in people from all over to assist in the restoration efforts

Death to America

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 days ago (4 children)

Go to for adding veggies in meals is roasted cabbage and roasted cauliflower, total for both little under 5 dollars but I can add them to any meal afterwards to round out my nutrition. I sometimes go with broccoli too but depends if I can find it, broccoli goes by fast at my nearest store.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 days ago

One of my favourite lecturers, a seasoned older lady who was very active politically in the 70s just quoted Fanon and is talking a lot about solidarity in the uni lecture I am attending right now.

Love to see it! heart-sickle

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Would this be a good time to tell you all that this hexbear account is the real successor of ZA/UM and all my posts are spiritual successors to Disco Elysium?

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I did it Cowbee, I'm done lea-resigned Finally!

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 days ago

Lmao meant to take my ADHD med and took a sleeping pill instead this will be fun

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

yellow as an orange

What the fuck Dumas

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 days ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Voting for Kamala when the Dems are actively perpetrating a genocide because β€œTrump would be worse” is voting for Adolf Hitler because Joseph Goebbels would be worse

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Libs don't know history and definitely don't know who Goebbels is

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Sad posting. Long

I'm the type of person who likes to share life moments and nice things. I also love if others do this, I'm the person who never minded people posting their morning coffee vibes on FB.

So we have this family chat. I don't have friends other than work buddies who I don't really socialize with outside work. I am audhd and don't mind the solitude. But, I often share stuff I think might be nice to the fam in our chat. And they most often can't be arsed to even react in any way. They do react to the posts of my younger siblings or the posts my dad makes, but my posting is such a given that it is just there. This aligns with our family dynamic anyway.

My youngest sibling especially who I am sort of a surrogate mom for typically never even looks at what I post, I see him pop online for a split second after I say something and know he didn't even bother to look at it or read it. Often resulting in not answering my questions as well, which is super frustrating for planning anything with him. Question like "so what time you will be here" anf he just doesn't bother, often leaving me hanging for days. It aligns with the way he treats me outside of the chat too. I am always there for him, always have been. (Tbf he is now coming to terms with his undiagnosed adhd, but paradoxically his unmasking is making him even more toxic. Not much masking was ever demanded of him in the first place, but he definitely doesn't see that or how different it has been for us older siblings, both afab.)

Then they all say how nice it is that we are this close and have this active family chat when we do see each other, even though they rarely keep it active.

So it makes me feel sad when it happens. I have tried to stop sharing stuff with them, but turns out I can't. I don't really have any social media accounts to share stuff in anymore and those made me feel even more sad and alienated. I find it to be a bit soulcrushing that my 40 second long tea brewing video that I tried to make very cozy for them is too long and too much to even bother to look at. Me sharing that out of joy of just having nice tea is something I think their middle class brains can't see because in our fam I'm the one who has been piss poor for decades and they haven't. When I can finally enjoy a treat that is probably a given to them, nobody cares. Not that I am saying they should, but why is it so hard to just be kind and nice. You can react to a thing just because its kind, probably feels nice when others do it for you so why not extend that even if you don't care one bit about tea or the autumn leaf colours outside your sisters house that day.

But clearly there is no time to push a button once, because they are too busy watching tiktoks by people they don't even know, doing the grind or gaming. Yet I am expected to look, comment and react to all the posts they make.

Not looking for advice, just venting a bit.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 days ago

Wish all of my oomfies a great weekend!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago

Tomb Raider 4 (Last Revelation), 5 (Chronicles) and 6 (Angel of Darkness) are getting remastered. Does that mean they will actually finish Angel of Darkness and it will be actually playable?

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