The Thibodaux Massacre was an incident of violent suppression by white paramilitary forces of the unionizing efforts of 10,000 black sugar cane workers that took place on this day in 1887, in Thibodaux, Louisiana.
The sugar cane workers, determined to unionize for a living wage, had chosen to strike during the crucial harvest season, during which there was a narrow window of time to harvest the cane and the planters would be unlikely to find strikebreakers.
Judge Taylor Beattie, an ex-Confederate soldier and slaveowner, declared martial law and gathered up hundreds of white men to form a paramilitary group to suppress the strikers, close the borders to the city, and monitor all movement of black people in the area. Not wanting to be boxed in, black strikers fired on the city border guards. In retaliation, the paramilitary forces initiated three days of violence against mostly unarmed black workers and their families.
Estimates of the total number of dead range from 35-60, making it one of the deadliest strikes in American labor history. Despite the women and children killed, the Southern press heralded the white perpetrators of the violence.
One participant, Andrew Price, went on to be elected to Congress. One participant, Andrew Price, went on to be elected to Congress. Black farmworkers in the region did not make another large effort to unionize until the 1940s.
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Chuds being giddy over the Colorado Springs shooting is so fucked up man.
Chuds: Get giddy over working class lgbtq people being shot.
Leftists: Get giddy over Steve Scalise getting got.
Libs: Whoa they're both the same!
I hope Tim Pool has an axe embedded in his skull straight through his stupid beanie. Make that meme about it growing into his brain true.
I hope he survives the axe wound but dies agonizingly of an inflammatory brain infection brought on by septic beanie fibers lodged in his grey matter.
I hope he barely survives the agonizing fight with the inflammatory brain infection but dies somehow in a small fender bender on the way home from the hospital
Thanksgiving is tomorrow. They're serving alcohol and I have to sit around my cracker family without getting drunk and calling them all barbaric genocide celebrators :doomer:
Get drunk and tell them that Trump is going to beat DeSantis and win in 24 because he will run on a platform celebrating Shenmue and Sonic Adventure 2.
My family are all teetotalers but ima get high at the very least lol
Probably need to log off still. Death to America.
Arm queer people. Build community in real life to help keep you safe.
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If I have literally anything to drink I will get into a political argument with my gfs parents and ruin Thanksgiving
My step dad who has been a biiiiiig trump Stan since 2015 just told me trump is a “megalomaniac” that “should just bow out” bc he’s “basically guaranteeing 4 more years of biden.”
I want to ask who he thinks should run but I do not want to hear him say desantis
I feel like the future of the Republican party will depend on the public's reaction to a Trump-Desantis debate. If Trump suddenly isn't "electable" then I guess he can be discarded, but if a suitable replacement can't be found theyll just stick with the devil they know, like what happened with Biden in the primary
So they are just going to keep kicking the student loan resuming down the road I guess. At least until some court says it is illegal to pause loans.
ive basically pavloved myself into becoming horny when im hungover by doing horny things as treatment for the headache too many times :sicko-wistful:
Mark Hamill is such a lib lmao. Idk how I ended up on his twitter account, but his thank you madam speaker tweet made me close that tab immediately
He really is. He seems like a genuinely nice guy, but oh my god what no theory does to a motherfucker.
Putin holds event unveiling statue of Fidel Castro
:chris-rocked:
Keep his name out of your god damned mouth!He seems to go back and forth on how much he hates Communist on any given day.
been away having a mental health crisis, what did I miss
This sounds like a Cum Town bit lmao, a nonbinary chud who hates gay people.
Milo what's his ass, Blair White, Caitlyn Jenner, the Miller woman who runs "Gays Against Groomers". Plenty of queer fascists trying to speedrun Ernst Rohm.
Is that the high-ranking Nazi who was gay and got Night-Of-The-Long-Knives’ed?
Yeah. Rohm was the head of the SA and had like 2 million street fighters he could call up at one time. He was easily the second most powerful man in the Nazi Party after Hitler. And by all accounts he and Hitler were genuinely close friends. But as the Nazis were gaining more political legitimacy there was a lot of pressure both from the existing state organs and other high-ranking Nazis to remove the SA as a power bloc. From what I remember Rohm was more sincere about the revolutionary and populist rhetoric and a lot of people didn't like that. Hitler was reluctant to order the purge and put it off for quite a while but eventually he succumbed to pressure and the Night of the Long Knives was initiated. All the gay Nazis were purged, starting with Rohm. Hitler publicly said that the purge was to remove homosexuals and other morally undesirable elements from the Nazis. I honestly don't know if he actually cared about homosexuality or if it was just a cover to appeal to the conservative German population. At any rate, Rohm was purged, all of his loyalists were purged, and that was the end of openly gay Nazis.
The only source I've seen is them using "Mx." on some court filings. Consensus is that they're trolling or attempting to get out of the hate crimes charge.
Sounds like a poor attempt to get out of the hate crimes charge.
We watched a documentary about the Spanish civil war in one of my history courses yesterday and it was so fucking depressing. It was made in the late 60s so Spain would've still been fascist at the time. The international brigade vets that narrarate it would've been doing it with the knowledge that Spain was still the fascist dictatorship that they fought against :deeper-sadness:
Edit: my prof is a Marxist tho so that's cool at least
Update: We cuddled in her bed and watched all of Chainsaw Man and kissed goodnight before I went back to my room to sleep in my own bed :meow-melt:
And that was after I had already gone to bed after I made tacos and we watched a cute movie, and she texted me to come back out