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Miners showing a bomb dropped on them via airplane by company thugs, Battle of Blair Mountain, USA, 1921

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Miners showing a bomb dropped on them via airplane by company thugs, Battle of Blair Mountain, USA, 1921 (xpost from historyporn)

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Yes. People suffered and died to give us things we willingly gave away.
- I suppose we could wire up their corpses to a turbine for free energy, since they'll be spinning in their graves at around 15000 rpm.
  
  That's way too fast, you need a speed of 3600 RPM to generate at 60Hz (3000 RPM for 50Hz).
  
  I haven't been feeling my best last two days, but this actually gave me enough energy to laugh aloud. Thanks!
- We didn't willingly give it away. The conservatives have been committing voter fraud and voting fraud my entire life. They've been illegally removing registers voters from the roles, and gerrymandering to hell and gone, for over 50 years.
  
  I've personally seen my family fight tooth and nail to try to slow down the right wing authoritarian brain rot for over 40 years, and I'm unable to say that we were very successful.
  
  We are fighting the richest, most powerful people on the planet. I'm afraid it may take multiple people successfully assassinating authoritarian billionaire media moguls before the ultra-rich even bother to take notice of the rest of us.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Blair_Mountain
- The Battle of Blair Mountain was the largest labor uprising in United States history
  
  And I had never heard of it. Although I'm not American.
  
  It's crazy, basically the 2nd American civil war. Miners storming Pinkerton machine gun nests is how the US got down to a 40 hour work week.
And don't think for a moment that the companies have changed
- If they thought they could get away with it now, they would. And if they had the opportunity to shift the balance of power so that they could murder strikers like the 'good old days', they wouldn't hesitate a moment. Vigilance and a revival of labor organization in this country is all that will prevent another Gilded Age.

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