On this day in 1877, the demand of train workers in East St. Louis, Illinois for higher wages was rejected, marking the beginning of a general strike in which workers seized and destroyed property, dismantling over forty factories.
The 1877 St. Louis General Strike was one of the first general strikes in the United States, growing out of the Great Railroad Strike of 1877, a national period of strikes and rioting due to economic depression. The St. Louis strike was largely organized by the Knights of Labor and the Marxist-leaning Workingmen's Party, the main radical political party of the era.
On this day in 1877, in East St. Louis, Illinois, train workers held a secret meeting, resolving to call for an increase in wages and to strike if their demands were not met. The demand was made and rejected that same night, and so, effective at midnight, the strike began.
Within hours, strikers virtually controlled the city. Although the strike was mostly bloodless, the protesters seized the city's Union Depot, stopped freight and some passenger trains from passing through the city.
Workers attacked productive capital, including flour mills and sugar refineries, dismantling over forty factories in total. The strike ended when the National Guard and U.S. Marshals began to break up demonstrations by force five days later.
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god i wanted to like oppenheimer so bad but it was just sooooooooo boring. there’s a lot of interesting things happening at a textual level and nolan’s operating at his highest form (and i don’t like nolan at all) but i was trying to fight off sleep and even considering leaving at some points. i even like some slow cinema like tarkovsky it’s just that this is that boring
I fell asleep in Batman so I believe you. Wish I understood the Nolan hype
i liked him a lot when i was 15 but he definitely lost my interest. i feel like half of the movie is just “are you a communist” “no” “are you loyal to the american government” “yes” on a loop
Nolan movies are basically just a step up from the marvel shit general audiences are used to. They're not "good" but they look better in comparison
100%, the only nolan movie i’d call good is memento
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besson and lynch are blind spots for me tbh. the only lynch i’ve seen is inland empire and i adore it, don’t really know why i haven’t taken the time to watch the rest of his work
I did wanted to leave too, the last 30 minutes where a petty little guy barely relevant to the plot suddenly pulls a plot twist is completely unecessary. i felt condescended towards where the entire anti-communist apparatus was condensed to that guy and I felt insulted that the movie kept trying to make me cheer his ultimate downfall (which is him failing to become some sort of cabinet member or whatever which i truly gave no shits about) fuck that movie and fuck nolan for not respecting my time.
yeah i thought the movie was gonna end and then i went on for another 45 minutes lmao