• @Sam_Bass
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    504 days ago

    The lesson there is that it will take workers armed to the teeth to take back their rights. Learn or burn kids

    • @slampisko
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      114 days ago

      Well when you put it like that, I’d rather learn. I’m not particularly keen on burning kids

    • @finitebanjo
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      23 days ago

      Technically, the rights they fought for were given by congress in the later half of the 1930s following widespread peaceful protests.

    • @UnderpantsWeevil
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      34 days ago

      Feels like the lesson is if you kill enough labor activists, eventually you’ll domesticate the population at large.

      West Virginia didn’t just become conservative. It fell to an intense siege played out over generations.