Have to go to work, but I'm very excited to listen to this later on! This is a vitally important chapter of American history because it reveals the true nature of capitalism and the state.
Just to add I need to confirm that note about the miner's unions. I got conflicting info, and that could be incorrect. It appears that United Mine Workers of America is still going. I kept that top comment of mine because I don't endorse dirty deleting, and felt it was best to correct it in a new comment.
@@athomeinmyhead Ah that's good to hear. Or is it? I like unions, but sort of wish we didn't have to mine and that people didn't have to be miners. I'm sure the working conditions are a lot better than they used to be - because of unions - but still. I also really liked your point about the benefit of adversaries. It almost makes one wish the USSR were still around to shame us into being better. Anyway, it was a very interesting and engaging video! It shows once again that as a society we always have the money for what we want to do. The money is never the issue. Claiming to "not have it" is always a pretense.
Most of what I've learned via my limited public school education about these times in history has been glossed over or left out entirely. I definitely had no idea that Volcan existed or most of the other "actors" mentioned in this piece from that time.
One of the resources that isn't listed, but that I looked at, was titled something like "The biggest war you've never heard of." We really don't teach it. And my go-to AI chat, knew about the Vulcan Bridge, but knew nothing about Russian involvement, and didn't know who Iona Andronov was. I found that super sus, because without the Soviet angle, that story is just a local infrastructure issue, and not newsworthy.
Thank you! Someone on another platform also alerted me--and it was a lot of the links, unfortunatetly. They should all be fixed now. If they don't work, try refreshing. And thanks again for alerting me.
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Fascinating!!! Yup, I never heard of any of this
Yeah, I think I'm learning as much or more than I put out online. It's stunning.
Have to go to work, but I'm very excited to listen to this later on! This is a vitally important chapter of American history because it reveals the true nature of capitalism and the state.
Yeah, it's horrifying. The scale of it is what got me. And a sad fact I learned as well is that there are no longer any miner unions left in the US.
Just to add I need to confirm that note about the miner's unions. I got conflicting info, and that could be incorrect. It appears that United Mine Workers of America
is still going. I kept that top comment of mine because I don't endorse dirty deleting, and felt it was best to correct it in a new comment.
@@athomeinmyhead Ah that's good to hear. Or is it? I like unions, but sort of wish we didn't have to mine and that people didn't have to be miners. I'm sure the working conditions are a lot better than they used to be - because of unions - but still. I also really liked your point about the benefit of adversaries. It almost makes one wish the USSR were still around to shame us into being better. Anyway, it was a very interesting and engaging video! It shows once again that as a society we always have the money for what we want to do. The money is never the issue. Claiming to "not have it" is always a pretense.
Most of what I've learned via my limited public school education about these times in history has been glossed over or left out entirely. I definitely had no idea that Volcan existed or most of the other "actors" mentioned in this piece from that time.
One of the resources that isn't listed, but that I looked at, was titled something like "The biggest war you've never heard of." We really don't teach it. And my go-to AI chat, knew about the Vulcan Bridge, but knew nothing about Russian involvement, and didn't know who Iona Andronov was. I found that super sus, because without the Soviet angle, that story is just a local infrastructure issue, and not newsworthy.
The link to wiki for Vulcan errors out.
Thank you! Someone on another platform also alerted me--and it was a lot of the links, unfortunatetly. They should all be fixed now. If they don't work, try refreshing. And thanks again for alerting me.