Eugene Victor Debs (November 5, 1855 – October 20, 1926) was an American socialist, political activist, trade unionist, one of the founding members of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), and five-time candidate of the Socialist Party of America for President of the United States. Through his presidential candidacies as well as his work with labor movements, Debs eventually became one of the best-known socialists living in the United States.

Early in his political career, Debs was a member of the Democratic Party. He was elected as a Democrat to the Indiana General Assembly in 1884. After working with several smaller unions, including the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen, Debs led his union in a major ten-month strike against the CB&Q Railroad in 1888. Debs was instrumental in the founding of the American Railway Union (ARU), one of the nation’s first industrial unions. After workers at the Pullman Palace Car Company organized a wildcat strike over pay cuts in the summer of 1894, Debs signed many into the ARU. He led a boycott by the ARU against handling trains with Pullman cars in what became the nationwide Pullman Strike, affecting most lines west of Detroit and more than 250,000 workers in 27 states. Purportedly to keep the mail running, President Grover Cleveland used the United States Army to break the strike. As a leader of the ARU, Debs was convicted of federal charges for defying a court injunction against the strike and served six months in prison.

In prison, Debs read various works of socialist theory and emerged six months later as a committed adherent of the international socialist movement. Debs was a founding member of the Social Democracy of America (1897), the Social Democratic Party of America (1898) and the Socialist Party of America (1901). Debs ran as a Socialist candidate for President of the United States five times: 1900 (earning 0.6 percent of the popular vote), 1904 (3.0 percent), 1908 (2.8 percent), 1912 (6.0 percent), and 1920 (3.4 percent), the last time from a prison cell. He was also a candidate for United States Congress from his native state Indiana in 1916.

Debs was noted for his oratorical skills, and his speech denouncing American participation in World War I led to his second arrest in 1918. He was convicted under the Sedition Act of 1918 and sentenced to a 10-year term. President Warren G. Harding commuted his sentence in December 1921. Debs died in 1926, not long after being admitted to a sanatorium due to cardiovascular problems that developed during his time in prison.

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  • dumpster_dove [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    10 days ago

    Did Windows 11 try to force online login for anyone else after a recent update? It didn’t even allow me to skip past it, but went away with a reboot.

    One of these days I will cut my losses and accept that I don’t get to play the games that won’t work on Linux

    • hello_hello [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
      4·
      10 days ago

      that I don’t get to play the games that won’t work on Linux

      Which you can count on your hand at this point. For me, if a game doesn’t work under proton then it’s the weird one.

      The larger issue of course is migrating which will always be difficult and the most painful part of the process.

      • dumpster_dove [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
        2·
        10 days ago

        I’m actually having more problems with games that are supposed to run native. For example, in CS2 I get microstutters and the game freezes completely every ~15 min or so.

        • hello_hello [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
          3·
          10 days ago

          The only native GNU/Linux games that I trust to work are those you can compile from source.

          CS2 seems to just be its own skill issue with how it handles shaders, does forcing proton resolve anything (or does Valve just block you from online play like they do if you force TF2 to run under proton?) I doubt it does though.

          • FunkyStuff [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
            3·
            10 days ago

            Out of curiosity, are you manually packaging your Linux native games into a Nix package? Or did you enable dynamically linking binaries?

            Currently I don’t fully understand how to do the former, and am hesitant to do the latter, so I’m using a weird setup where I run my Linux native games (the ones that aren’t on Nixpkgs, at least) via Heroic which I run with steam-run because that makes it all work nicely.