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This is what they want for me, you, and our children and wouldn't hesitate a second to do it again provided the line goes up
There’s pictures of children in the Coal Breakers. Missing hands. That worked back breaking labor sorting coal from my home town. It’s disgusting what people did to their children for money. Coal fields buried many children.
https://thetruepanopticon.bandcamp.com/track/kentucky
This whole album is about that. It's totally fucked
I would rather mine Kentucky coal instead of Anthracite coal from my region in Pennsylvania. Anthracite mines are an entirely different way of mining. There’s a documentary I’ll look for on YouTube where the mine operator kills hi self after his cousin and nephews die in a collapse.
They kind of had to otherwise the entire family would starve. It's fucked up, but right now the only reason I am stay afloat is because I live alone in a one room studio apartment with a communal bathroom. My mental health is kind of going to shit, but at least I get to eat.
Charles Bronson grew up in a coal mining town. Even though everyone worked their asses off, still so poor he sometimes had to wear his sister's dress to school!
MAGA would have him arrested for that!
They would make dresses and clothing from flour bags. Flour companies recognized this and started shipping colorful bags for mothers to use.
Capitalism Demands Your Sacrifice!
What sphinx of cement and aluminum bashed open their skulls and ate up their brains and imagination? Moloch! Solitude! Filth! Ugliness! Ashcans and unobtainable dollars! Children screaming under the stairways! Boys sobbing in armies! Old men weeping in the parks! Moloch! Moloch! Nightmare of Moloch! Moloch the loveless! Mental Moloch! Moloch the heavy judger of men! Moloch the incomprehensible prison! Moloch the crossbone soulless jailhouse and Congress of sorrows! Moloch whose buildings are judgment! Moloch the vast stone of war! Moloch the stunned governments! Moloch whose mind is pure machinery! Moloch whose blood is running money! Moloch whose fingers are ten armies! Moloch whose breast is a cannibal dynamo! Moloch whose ear is a smoking tomb! Moloch whose eyes are a thousand blind windows! Moloch whose skyscrapers stand in the long streets like endless Jehovahs! Moloch whose factories dream and croak in the fog! Moloch whose smoke-stacks and antennae crown the cities! Moloch whose love is endless oil and stone! Moloch whose soul is electricity and banks! Moloch whose poverty is the specter of genius! Moloch whose fate is a cloud of sexless hydrogen! Moloch whose name is the Mind! Moloch in whom I sit lonely! Moloch in whom I dream Angels! Crazy in Moloch! Cocksucker in Moloch! Lacklove and manless in Moloch! Moloch who entered my soul early! Moloch in whom I am a consciousness without a body! Moloch who frightened me out of my natural ecstasy! Moloch whom I abandon! Wake up in Moloch! Light streaming out of the sky! Moloch! Moloch! Robot apartments! invisible suburbs! skeleton treasuries! blind capitals! demonic industries! spectral nations! invincible madhouses! granite cocks! monstrous bombs! They broke their backs lifting Moloch to Heaven! Pavements, trees, radios, tons! lifting the city to Heaven which exists and is everywhere about us! Visions! omens! hallucinations! miracles! ecstasies! gone down the American river! Dreams! adorations! illuminations! religions! the whole boatload of sensitive bullshit! Breakthroughs! over the river! flips and crucifixions! gone down the flood! Highs! Epiphanies! Despairs! Ten years’ animal screams and suicides! Minds! New loves! Mad generation! down on the rocks of Time! Real holy laughter in the river! They saw it all! the wild eyes! the holy yells! They bade farewell! They jumped off the roof! to solitude! waving! carrying flowers! Down to the river! into the street!
make america great again, I guess.
This is the “great” MAGA wants again.
Stop showing this shit, Republicans can only get so hard...
Sorry, couldn't tell...
If the parents are made poor enough, this will come back. Just in case you don't know why they kill social security.
When I was a kid, my parents would wax poetically about their summers spent picking strawberries and green beans earning 25 cents a day in California Central Valley. They loved it, apparently.
Good, honest work they told me. Then as I got older they demanded I attend college and get a white collar career established, lol.
Let me wax in: I picked cherries as a kid. Not for poetry, though, but to make some money for myself.
This is why I get so fucking mad at the tradwife Tiktok people, who go "Oh feminists are forcing you to go to work, I miss the good old days!"
Like no you fucking don't, in the "good old days" since the industrial revolution anyone who wasn't rich had to work their ass off in shit conditions, including women and children. These people never read The Jungle (that shit was horrifying in middle school, and I only read an excerpt), or saw the pictures of coal kids, or the Triangle Shirtwaist factory fire back in 1911 that killed 100+ women and girls.
You get to pose for the camera with a full face of makeup and hold your soccer team of kids because your husband is rich and thinks you're hot. Full stop.
Worst part about the Triangle Waistshirt factory fire is that the owners actually chained the exits and many of the fire exits were so poorly maintained that when the workers tried to escape using them, they collapsed and many fell to their deaths... and when a lawsuit was filed, somehow the judge believed that the whole thing was a whiny conspiracy and they ruled in favor of the owners.
Too many people don't understand that politics decides whether or not they'd be a bonafide slave.
Without laws in place there would be slaveowners today. Jeff Bezos? Elon Musk? They'd own slaves if they could.
Musk and his family owned slaves in South Africa before the apartheid government was overthrown. They fled to Canada.
don't use tiktok
I'm right there with you. Women have always worked and the 50's housewife in the US is a historical blip that women fought to escape.
No, you are wrong and need to understand why.
The ability to have that 50's housewife was due to a single earner economy. You could be a bagboy at a supermarket and support a family of three ... possibly even own your own home.
This was taken away. Perspective
You're not responding to my comment, just throwing in your extremely simplistic agenda. Your suburban american 50's dream was a blip in time and space that is meaningless to most people.
Edited to add: The labor force participation rate for women in the US in 1955 was 34.5%. Women even worked in the 50's. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LNS11300002
Most of human history was like this. The 50 year period after WWII is the aberration. If we don't fight the oligarchs this is what they will reduce us to.
Most of human history...hmm checks notes... since the invention of capitalism about 400 years ago, yes.
Even serfs under feudal lords had significantly more free time and while basic child labor was common, it was mostly in family run farms.
Pre-industrial societies still expected children to work from young ages. And they would often switch to adult labour in their early teens.
Ya preindustrial society was all kinds of fucked up. That comment was unhinged.
Instructions unclear, reverted to feudalism, defended literal, inherited pile of manure with violence
I'd rather burn every city to the fucking ground than rob any of our children of their childhood. Catch my kids standing outside with the molotovs.
This but also stop them from robbing our adulthoods
Catch my kids standing outside with the molotovs.
I can assure you they were doing no such thing. They were dogsitting for me. And reading white-Jesus books.
And this photo shows a group of child laborers going in for a 12-hour night shift at a meat packing plant in Kansas, 2025. Just kidding, they will not make the mistake of allowing photography this time around.
Orphan grinding machine goes brrrr....
Conservatives: Won't somebody think of the children?!
Subtext: as slave labor or sex objects or ideological battlefields or...
And just like the guard on a a meat grinding machine at a packing plant, the law doesn't stop them from sucking in minors
First quarter over quarter GDP gains have been less than expected. We have to look to out of the box solutions, and this blue sky strategy looks like it may show promise. I'll forward this memo up to corporate.
Photographer: Hine, Lewis Wickes
Flashlight photo of children on night shift going to work at 6 PM on a cold dark December night.
Work shift lasts all night, 12 hours.
They do not come out again until 6:00 AM
Child workers on their way to a night shift at Whitnel Cottton Mills. North Carolina, USA 1908.
