9mo ago

Merry Christmas in solidarity comrades.

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I can't even imagine growing up in coal mines.
- My asthma winces at the very idea. I saw a bumper sticker in the US some years ago that said "Coal keeps the lights on", well, I guess, but so do other things that aren't carcinogenic.
  
  Hmm. Sun, oil, nuclear, um… maybe wind isn’t carcinogenic.
  
  I live in West Virginia dude. The DMV sells black license plates that say "Friends of Coal". There aren't half as many as I saw in my youth though.
  
  Unfortunately we have a dependency on products like steel and cement as well.
  
  That would be a Kentucky plate. I prefer the other option, "unbridled spirit."
  
  I think you totally missed the point. No one "grows up in a coal mine".
Thinking how we raised Americans up in the past vs. now makes me want to cry.
🎶🎵
Cotton on the roadside, cotton in the ditch
We all picked the cotton, but we never got rich
Daddy was a veteran, a Southern Democrat
They ought to get a rich man to vote like that
Sing it
Song, song of the south
Sweet potato pie and I shut my mouth
Gone, gone with the wind
There ain't nobody lookin' back again
Well, somebody told us Wall Street fell
But we were so poor that we couldn't tell
Cotton was short and the weeds were tall
But Mr. Roosevelt's a-gonna save us all
Well, Mama got sick and Daddy got down
The county got the farm and we moved to town
Papa got a job with the TVA
He bought a washin' machine and then a Chevrolet
~ Alabama
And while we're at it, country music used to be fucking awesome.
- what a fucking great song. that music totally rocks. i wish there was still music like that, i can't find any. it's all washed down pop now
  
  Is it’s Maroon 5 with a country accent.
If you want to know what it was like for coal miners to fight for their right to unionize, watch Harlan County, USA.
- https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=B-2qrFlwYlY
  The full documentary for those that wanted to see it, like me.
And everybody clapped.

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