On this day in 1912, the Paint Creek Mine War began when West Virginia miners struck, demanding formal union recognition and fairer labor practices. The incident quickly escalated into one of the worst labor conflicts in U.S. history.

The event, also known as the Paint Creek-Cabin Creek Strike, centered on the area enclosed by two streams, Paint Creek and Cabin Creek. It is considered part of the “Coal Wars”, a series of armed conflicts between workers and coal companies from the 1890s - 1930s in the United States.

The strike lasted for fourteen months, and over 5,000 workers participated. Notable labor organizer Mother Jones (shown) came to West Virginia to support the workers, organizing a secret march of 3,000 armed miners to the steps of the state capitol in Charleston to read a declaration of war to Governor William E. Glasscock.

The confrontation directly caused approximately fifty violent deaths from armed conflicts between miners and strike-breaking forces, as well as many more deaths indirectly caused by starvation and malnutrition among the striking miners. In terms of casualties, it was among the worst conflicts in American labor history.

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    • Commiejones [comrade/them, he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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      3 months ago

      So that didn’t happen in the book and Villeneuve fucked around with the story a bunch of other ways so trying to understand the movies is kinda hard but…

      In the dune books prescience isn’t actually seeing the future. Its having such a long memory that you can make a educated guess at what will happen. Its very much like Asimov’s “Psychohistory” but instead of it being societal and based on paper data it is individualized and based on anecdotal data. With enough data you can predict anything.

      The water of life doesn’t just connect you to your own genetic lineage it also connects you to the reverend mother that helps you through the agony. So Jessica got all the memory of the fremen when she did her spice agony and then Paul got all that from Jessica when she showed up and communed with him. So if Jessica was around he could just have tapped into her memory but also maybe its possible that he was able to commune with the others in the cave to obe cuz hes a fucking Kwisatz Haderach.

      Then there is the spice orgy that Fremen do which doesn’t get a lot of explanation but the little it does give is that all the Fremen in a sietch have an advanced form of empathy for each other. Because they all take the water of life together and live together, every one knows what everyone else’s life consists of and they form a sort of hive mind. This is explained when coffee arrives for Jessica without her asking for it and just thinking about it. So you could make the case that Paul picked this up through the spice orgy and because of his attunement to spice he was able to understand it consciously instead of subconsciously.

      TLDR: Villeneuve made-it-the-fuck-up

    • GeorgeZBush [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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      3 months ago
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      Yeah this is something that kind of puzzled me for a bit too. I think it’s sort of both - he must be seeing every timeline and that’s just the specific phrases that worked on him. Maybe he had visions of him like he did of befriending Jamis. A narrow way through.

      I like these ideas because it shows just how overwhelming the prescience must be. He can see EVERY possibility.