On this day in 1912, the Paint Creek Mine War began when West Virginia miners struck, demanding formal union recognition and fairer labor practices. The incident quickly escalated into one of the worst labor conflicts in U.S. history.
The event, also known as the Paint Creek-Cabin Creek Strike, centered on the area enclosed by two streams, Paint Creek and Cabin Creek. It is considered part of the "Coal Wars", a series of armed conflicts between workers and coal companies from the 1890s - 1930s in the United States.
The strike lasted for fourteen months, and over 5,000 workers participated. Notable labor organizer Mother Jones (shown) came to West Virginia to support the workers, organizing a secret march of 3,000 armed miners to the steps of the state capitol in Charleston to read a declaration of war to Governor William E. Glasscock.
The confrontation directly caused approximately fifty violent deaths from armed conflicts between miners and strike-breaking forces, as well as many more deaths indirectly caused by starvation and malnutrition among the striking miners. In terms of casualties, it was among the worst conflicts in American labor history.
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Apparently Warhammer 40k put women in their game and chuds are extremely mad. I got recommended an Asmongold clip and because I like to gaze into the abyss sometimes I looked at the comments:
but you don't understand I HAVE TO BUY THESE TREATS
Daily reminder that Roguetrader era 40k had female Spess Mehrin minis and they were just nixed due to poor sales.
Collecting 100 crappy badly molded forty year old minis made of radioactive cadmium just so i can walk in to a gw tourney and play canonical girl marines.
Now that's a good bit! They don't let you play Squats though iirc so they might get sniffy about those too?
the madlads finally did it, godspeed mr james workshop and good luck with the chuds
What's the new lore? Guarantee these motherfuckers are fake ass fans
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Women custodes is the most innocuous and tame "retcon" in the history of 40k, ironically it plays into the differentiation between custodes and space marines that both the lore and these incel dipshits constantly harp on about, "the custodes are cool cause they're literally built different"......."wait NO NOT LIKE THAT, FEEEEEMALLES"
What a bunch of crybabies
Each one is basically an art piece created to be peak superhuman. No shit the individuals meant to represent our apex would have women.
Not serious: this really bums out the alfabrusa take of them all being oiled up jojo protags.
There were woen space marines in the original Rogue Trader line up.
Also, as is often pointed out, if you're a roided out eight foot tall quasi-immortal transgenic slab of bigotry and hate then your secondary sex characteristics probably weren't very pronounced before all your skin was cut off to install the parasitic interface system for your power armor.
It's been a pretty miserable week watching people go mask off