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Eugene Victor Debs (November 5, 1855 – October 20, 1926) was an American socialist, political activist, trade unionist, one of the founding members of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), and five-time candidate of the Socialist Party of America for President of the United States. Through his presidential candidacies as well as his work with labor movements, Debs eventually became one of the best-known socialists living in the United States.

Early in his political career, Debs was a member of the Democratic Party. He was elected as a Democrat to the Indiana General Assembly in 1884. After working with several smaller unions, including the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen, Debs led his union in a major ten-month strike against the CB&Q Railroad in 1888. Debs was instrumental in the founding of the American Railway Union (ARU), one of the nation's first industrial unions. After workers at the Pullman Palace Car Company organized a wildcat strike over pay cuts in the summer of 1894, Debs signed many into the ARU. He led a boycott by the ARU against handling trains with Pullman cars in what became the nationwide Pullman Strike, affecting most lines west of Detroit and more than 250,000 workers in 27 states. Purportedly to keep the mail running, President Grover Cleveland used the United States Army to break the strike. As a leader of the ARU, Debs was convicted of federal charges for defying a court injunction against the strike and served six months in prison.

In prison, Debs read various works of socialist theory and emerged six months later as a committed adherent of the international socialist movement. Debs was a founding member of the Social Democracy of America (1897), the Social Democratic Party of America (1898) and the Socialist Party of America (1901). Debs ran as a Socialist candidate for President of the United States five times: 1900 (earning 0.6 percent of the popular vote), 1904 (3.0 percent), 1908 (2.8 percent), 1912 (6.0 percent), and 1920 (3.4 percent), the last time from a prison cell. He was also a candidate for United States Congress from his native state Indiana in 1916.

Debs was noted for his oratorical skills, and his speech denouncing American participation in World War I led to his second arrest in 1918. He was convicted under the Sedition Act of 1918 and sentenced to a 10-year term. President Warren G. Harding commuted his sentence in December 1921. Debs died in 1926, not long after being admitted to a sanatorium due to cardiovascular problems that developed during his time in prison.

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[–] thelastaxolotl@hexbear.net 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Nerds, some zionist from lemmee got mad at the "shoot the boer" post

[–] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 28 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

One interesting thing no one talks about is how the image we are sold of jobs in the capitalist West are completely different from what they really are. The idea of a Farmer working in nice green field with a small herd of happy cows. The Baker that bakes the bread he sells that day, these aren't jobs normal people have anymore.

You see it a lot in advertising. The ads for Cadbury's chocolate that show a chocolatier stirring a big vat of chocolate and making the batch himself, for example.

Most products aren't made with any passion. They're made on an assembly line by desperate, sad people that wish they could be doing anything else. Yet, we're constantly bombarded with this outdated image of the happy artisan. How can this be anything else than propaganda?

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[–] EstraDoll@hexbear.net 27 points 1 week ago (2 children)

reading all of kapital to figure out where the fuck it says that the chef wearing black latex gloves means my cheeseburger costs an extra $8

[–] semioticbreakdown@hexbear.net 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)

gotta read baudrillard for that one i think

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[–] ratboy@hexbear.net 24 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Lenin got shot at, thrown in jail, then shot at AGAIN all in the same day, no wonder mf was authoritarian

Actually almost finished with my book and I'm stoked to finally read a bunch of Lenin's theory and to be able to connect it to its historical context. My brain is enlarging at an incredible rate!

[–] AntiOutsideAktion@hexbear.net 23 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

I've decided the worst part of my job as an amazon worker ant is that every morning I find out if I'm clocking in at 11 or 10:40 or hey amazon cut your route stay home. I find out that morning. And if it's 10:40 then I have to leave at 9:40. And every day they send out the mass text message somewhere between 9 and 10. This is relatively new as of the last few months. One time a couple weeks ago they had me come in at 10:40 and told me at 9:56. I hit traffic and got there exactly on time if it were 11. I yelled at my boss about it the second he said something to me about being late.

These evil motherfuckers found a way to take away another half hour of my day. Even if I have to leave at 10 I have to wake up as if I'm leaving at 9:40. They have me on call for 20 minutes they're not paying me for.

Anyway, been kinda lame over here.

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[–] WhatDoYouMeanPodcast@hexbear.net 20 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Bit idea: being really productive on Memorial Day to not recognize the troops

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[–] Comrade_Mushroom@hexbear.net 19 points 1 week ago (10 children)

goddamn, google has gotten so unusable it's actually giving me a headache

I searched "are fleas beetles" and every fucking result is talking specifically about flea beetles

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[–] EstraDoll@hexbear.net 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)

vegan-tofu soypoint-2 found a block of tofu in my fridge that i completely forgot about. still good. this was my actual reaction

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[–] CrispyFern@hexbear.net 18 points 1 week ago (3 children)

i-think-that I think more people should be weird and unattractive

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[–] keepcarrot@hexbear.net 17 points 1 week ago

What have you done to me? I almost blurted out "Klanada" when someone said "Canada"

[–] Grownbravy@hexbear.net 17 points 1 week ago (2 children)

"All you kids calling it sitting 'criss-cross apple sauce"

"what do you call it?"

"I-something else."

[–] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] Moss@hexbear.net 16 points 1 week ago

Looking for a job is complete and utter hell, especially in a creative field

[–] sisatici@hexbear.net 16 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I fucking hate my job. They made it even more bullshit "ohhhh please make this document that not a single soul will read". Everything I do is so fucking worthless. I hate how cheap labour is nowadays. Gonna quit it and search for better jobs. I don't care. everything I learn in this job is utterly useless

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[–] RION@hexbear.net 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Started the Sopranos. His kids are such nerds, I would've been so excited about those ducks!!

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[–] boiledfrog@hexbear.net 16 points 1 week ago

I fucking hate commuting so fucking much, every fucking day again and again and again

[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 15 points 1 week ago

I am so glad I got into Star Trek around age 18 and Gundam just last year ish at 32. If I had found either too early I would have been a totally different person who isn't as cool

[–] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 15 points 1 week ago

The Roman Empire ended in 2022 when the Russian invasion of Ukraine and subsequent sanctions forced Roman Abramovich to sell Chelsea.

[–] Moss@hexbear.net 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Can someone else do the revolution I don't really want yo

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[–] thelastaxolotl@hexbear.net 15 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

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[–] Grownbravy@hexbear.net 15 points 1 week ago

Some many boomers out there with their loser-cruisers, headed to the VFW to talk about that war they lost against Communism.

[–] MLRL_Commie@hexbear.net 15 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Just had a cat run up to me in the street. Thought for a second it would attack me, but then it dove onto its back right under my feet meowing. I pet it, like any good person, and it just kept rolling and twisting. Then I thought maybe it was hurt so I stood. But it just got up and meowed again.

I started to walk away after petting it a bit more and it dove under my feet to stop me.

I'm not super familiar with cats, having only had fairly stand-offish cats. Is this just like a normal cat or was this a weirdo?

[–] Wakmrow@hexbear.net 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This is the cat distribution network at work. Congratulations on your cat

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[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 12 points 1 week ago (2 children)

It's a friendly cat! Some kitties are like that. I have a few cat pals in the neighborhood who if I don't see them while out and about and they see me will chase me down for scritches. Some kitties like to meet people and have had a good experience doing so. I'm pals with some otherwise standoffish cats and feel special but some are hilariously social. There's this one dude named Sam down the road from me closer to a nearby elementary school and he walks little kids through his territory as well as anyone who gains his favor. He's got his domain and any who pass through shall be safely guided through by The King

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[–] Comrade_Mushroom@hexbear.net 14 points 1 week ago (3 children)

holy fuck elephants are so cool

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[–] CthulhusIntern@hexbear.net 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If Blazing Saddles were made today, the online right would first be really excited, because finally comedy is legal again, simply for the use of the N word. But then, when it actually comes out, they'd be mad and actually hate it, because it turns out it's actually woke, because all the white people are stupid.

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[–] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 14 points 1 week ago

In a meeting this morning one of the managers came up with an idea for a problem that didn’t exist. They didn’t want something to be a fraction/percentage, and was like what if we count people X times and count Y times for whenever they have some trait. Which is inventing fractions from first principles…

[–] rhubarb@hexbear.net 14 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I hate it when sci-fi doesn't do anything interesting with aliens' names, it's always one alien civilization with a simplified version of the Arab naming system and the rest are all Borb Jorhnsons. Names could tell us so much about the current and past hierarchies in these societies, but no, they all had the exact same ideas about families as Europeans.

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[–] Enjoyer_of_Games@hexbear.net 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Eugene Victor Debs sounds like a coded radio signal

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[–] BanSwitch2Buyers@hexbear.net 14 points 1 week ago (4 children)

By searching "Nintendo" "Switch" and "first-party IP" I have isolated which c/chapotraphouse mod removed my anti-Switch 2 post.

I know who you are. I'm gunna' be on your ass like glue. Watch yourself.

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[–] Frogmanfromlake@hexbear.net 14 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Kurt Cobain is one of the most interesting rabbit holes I’ve gone down.

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[–] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Eww a mega thread? STINKY!

[–] someone@hexbear.net 13 points 1 week ago

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade should win an award for "most based movie with most problematic name".

[–] WhyEssEff@hexbear.net 13 points 1 week ago

my blorbo hath arrived

[–] KuroXppi@hexbear.net 13 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Doing that thing that foreigners do in China where they leave their wallet in a rideshare bicycle basket and come back to to it untouched half an hour later, but with a half-eaten felafel and can of monster with a ciggie butted out in it left on top a pt ticket machine, ro prove how trustworthy and safe my home city is

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[–] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 13 points 1 week ago

This becomes less common in your thirties, but it’s kind of funny how open men are about their penis size if they think they’re above average. Especially considering how private men tend to be. Like I have friends who treat their romantic partners identity like top secret information but tell me about what size condoms they wear. It’s a little weird, though I do respect my hung friend who walks around the hostel showers dong out o7

[–] CrispyFern@hexbear.net 13 points 1 week ago

Double standards are perfectly fine when they benefit me

[–] Carl@hexbear.net 12 points 1 week ago (3 children)

This road near my house fucking hates me. Third time in like six months it's popped one of my tires, I'm so fucking sick and tired of waiting for fucking tow trucks out here.

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[–] UmbraVivi@hexbear.net 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Gabor Mate has the patience and compassion of a saint. The clip where he talks to this batshit insane and intensely obnoxious zionist is impressive. I don't think you should be that patient with lunatics like this, but the fact that he's capable of it is impressive.

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[–] HarryLime@hexbear.net 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Pretty much all crime or bodycam youtube channels are copaganda by default, but the smarter ones go out of their way to include videos of corrupt or criminal cops going down alongside the regular crime stuff.

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[–] Keld@hexbear.net 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (8 children)

My food processor broke. It's like my one expensive "luxury" item and now it's broken and it's the plastic bits on the inside that detect if it's closed properly so it can't be fixed.
No more hummus, no more easy doughs, no more smoothies, no more easy ice cream and making potato pancakes is gonna suck so hard now 😒

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[–] forcefemjdwon@hexbear.net 12 points 1 week ago

After 500 years, economists have finally discovered that great powers use their economic strength to achieve strategic goals across the globe.

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