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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Nerds, some zionist from lemmee got mad at the “shoot the boer” post
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?
Public relations and advertising are always propaganda. Anglos just reserve the scary P word for nations or people they want you to villify.
I went to a big public sporting event recently and I gotta say, it was very funny hearing chuds say “can you tell me what oil the fries are cooked in?” at the crappy refreshment stall. The seed oil brain worms are doing their thing
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…
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
I have to fill in a single line on a production sheet for whatever main course Im making that day and it’s really minor work, literally just, time and temp it went out, how much i made and how much i saved
but literally nobody reads it or uses that information for ANYTHING, except the dining director who only audits it when his boss is auditing him
In theory this could be useful info that could be used to estimate how much food to prep next time, but that would require like, so much data entry and analysis (i.e. “was this day busier because of holidays or school schedule?” At least) to be useful. Instead it’s just written on a sheet and ignored until someone who doesn’t use it for anything goes to look for it
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
i don’t think Flea was in the Beatles
Every time I want to know something about a topic the results are 7 AI slop “articles” with incorrect information, 2 forums posts from the 2000s, 5 Reddit posts with incorrect answers because Redditors think they know everything even when they’re just making things up, and 1 authoritative and correct result from a company website.
Fuck, now I wanna know
i’m not gonna cross-check but wikipedia has a sidebar of phylogeny on the flea article that’s probably accurate.
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but you would have asked google a question five years ago. ai slop has made it unusable
AI slop on Google is so annoying.
Like, what the fuck do you mean there’s no “turn-off AI” option? I don’t fucking want it.
If I wanted to talk to Google’s AI I’d just use gemini.
There is a way to omit the ai summary, just add “-ai” to every search. Super convenient, thanks google!
what is this redditor-ass
reply lmaoI’ve been using google since it has existed, are you really coming at me like I don’t know how to get the results I expect?
I think 3 words that all easily could be keywords would be a reasonable search, even though it is in the form of a question. The alternative would be searching for a source about fleas’ taxonomy and then some source about what is and isn’t considered a beatle.
I wish there was a way to request a communist therapist.
Just feels like it would save a lot of the finite time afforded by an appointment if I didn’t have to explain at length how exploitation as the primary motivator for society sucks eggs, and could instead get right to the specifics.
FUCK THE TROOPS
that’s all 👉👈
never felt embarrassed about where i lived before but i was in a rideshare and the other rider winced when we went into my complex
new robot vacuum is here!!
despite having 2x the battery run time of the shitty black and decker one i tried, it’s charging 3x faster
The chinese don’t fuckin around
My partner is outta town, gonna watch sooo much anime
I just graduated from one of Canada’s top business schools with very good grades, what should I do with my life?
it is may 27 and stalin saved the world from fascism
My fatal flaw is incorrectly assuming that everyone has the (correct) take on advertising that I do.
Genuinely thought with the way people complain about advertising on their favorite sites/platforms, they’d stop fucking using them. Not a chance in hell
Soldered in a battery holder and installed a new battery for my Dreamcast for the system clock. That went well and it’s still holding a charge and the clock’s working still hours later. Then I did the same for 6 Pokemon games: G/S/C, Green, R/E (no sapphire sadly). The Pokemon ones were trickier. GBA carts have less room for clearance and also I couldn’t solder the battery holder feet to the pads as easily for some reason. But now I’m done so I should be good for Pokemoning in the near-future, yay.
