On this day in 1897, the Lattimer Massacre occurred near Hazelton, Pennsylvania when a Sheriff's posse fired into a crowd of unarmed, striking miners, killing 19. Miners, mostly Eastern European immigrants, had been protesting for better pay and union recognition.
A week prior, over 3,000 miners had gone on strike, demanding better pay and an end to the forced use of the company store. On the morning of September 10th, approximately 400 miners peacefully marched to a newly opened coal mine in Lattimer to support a new United Mine Workers (UMW) union there.
After refusing an order to disperse by a Luzerne County sheriff's posse, the posse fired into the crowd. Nineteen miners were killed and several dozen were wounded.
Despite the fact that sheriffs had been overhead joking about how many strikers they would kill that morning, as well as medical evidence that demonstrated miners were mostly shot in the back, the sheriff and seventy-three deputies were acquitted at trial, insisting that they were charged by the crowd.
The massacre was a turning point in the history of the United Mine Workers (UMW), who received more than 10,000 new members in the aftermath of the massacre.
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Have you tried Bioshock, Doom, or Wolfenstein? I think you could probably get all of them working on a terrible PC.
Bioshock 1 is about how libertarianism is bad, and Bioshock Infinite (3) is about how Christian theocracies are bad. There are some funky politics in 3 but it’s a fun game. The newest one came out over ten years ago so it should run ok.
Doom is about a guy who has to undo a bunch of corporate malfeasance by sending everyone back to Hell. One of the core mechanics is that you recover health and ammo by getting yourself into the action instead of hiding or waiting around. I think this one might be ok as well, at least the first one, because it runs pretty well on the Switch with all the graphics downgraded a bit.
Wolfenstein is about an alternate reality where the Nazis won and have lots of advanced tech. You have to kill Nazis. The story is really good.
Apologies if you’ve played these before but they’re all worth a shot if you haven’t.
And obligatory “What if the Nazis won? Cringe counterfactual. First of all, they couldn’t have. Second of all, they did.”
Note: This game will hit you with the absolute biggest "both sides bad" hammer in the shape of a horseshoe you've ever seen in your life. I highly recommend playing the first 5 hours and pretending that's where the game ends