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.
  
  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".
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.

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