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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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[–] AmericaDelendaEst@hexbear.net 13 points 5 months ago (1 children)

this realtor was all "does he always go to the back yard first??" to my partner and it's like idk where the fuck else am I gonna go idk shit about houses and I wanna know how fucked the place will be if it floods, don't judge meeeee

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[–] viva_la_juche@hexbear.net 13 points 5 months ago (5 children)
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[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 13 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Carly Simon if she were a Star Wars nerd:

You're Darth Bane

You'll probably keep the Sith down to about two

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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

[–] homhom9000@hexbear.net 12 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Ranking of Kings Mangaka sued someone for defamation because they called them a right winger pedophile. Now right wing pedophile weebs are circlejerking over it in supper of the mangaka

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[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 12 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Saw someone with an official customer listened plate that read Blahaj today. This shark is really hitting a cultural nerve

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[–] rhubarb@hexbear.net 12 points 5 months 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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[–] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 12 points 5 months ago

Dir. Jean-Luc Godard

[–] WhyEssEff@hexbear.net 12 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

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[–] Cowbee@hexbear.net 12 points 5 months ago (1 children)
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[–] ClimateChangeAnxiety@hexbear.net 12 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months 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

[–] Blockocheese@hexbear.net 12 points 5 months ago (2 children)

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

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I FUCKING HATE COPS

[–] Wmill@hexbear.net 12 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I don't like how whenever I'm holding nuts I get a powerful urge to swallow then. I know I can't digest metal and my body will fight me on getting them down but I wanna try still

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[–] blight@hexbear.net 12 points 5 months ago

I don’t know if it’s intended, but the name β€œxitter” would be pronounced β€œshitter” in Portuguese. That’s funny I think.

[–] Assian_Candor@hexbear.net 12 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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

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[–] Grownbravy@hexbear.net 12 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I just thought of a phrase that instantly puts you on the top of a watchlist

[–] viva_la_juche@hexbear.net 11 points 5 months ago (1 children)
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[–] infuziSporg@hexbear.net 12 points 5 months ago

Banning πŸ”» as a symbol is Nazi-coded. Just like the downward-pointing pink triangle, it is people inverting the image of being a political prisoner.

[–] viva_la_juche@hexbear.net 12 points 5 months ago

At my family’s, they’re all reactionary and it’s funny hearing them talk about how much hotter shit is these days than when they were young but also that climate change is fake

[–] ashinadash@hexbear.net 12 points 5 months ago

Looking into tech security shit (as an idiot who does not know numbers) is unironically like staring into a yawning void that stares back, and the void says shit like "proprietary firmware blobs" and "feds run the exit nodes". It's nice to get a little perspective on how bad it really is that way.

[–] LocalOaf@hexbear.net 12 points 5 months ago (7 children)

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[–] Wmill@hexbear.net 11 points 5 months 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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[–] Edie@hexbear.net 11 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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

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[–] Hohsia@hexbear.net 11 points 5 months 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

[–] TheChemist@hexbear.net 11 points 5 months ago

I watched Coraline on Tubi. I also recently got home for Fall Break.

[–] MF_COOM@hexbear.net 11 points 5 months ago

Watching the JJ Abrams Star Trek being like did these mfs even watch an episode of TOS before making this

[–] HarryLime@hexbear.net 11 points 5 months ago

And you think commenting in a Hexbear megathread entitles you to plow through the riches of my Emersonian mind?

[–] Grownbravy@hexbear.net 11 points 5 months ago

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

[–] take_five_seconds@hexbear.net 11 points 5 months ago

kill the cracker in your head

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