u/RightWindow5284

I have seen various of photos on this subreddit of people having their feets on the seats or sleeping on the seats like it is a pillow mattress.

I rarely see this behavior on the MNRR.

But why do LIRR riders feel too comfortable to be unclassly on their trains?

Don't even get me started with the trash and litter. This is supposed to be the suburbs, and yet suburban folks are disrespecting the trains their tax money contributed to.

Bacon’s Rebellion, occurring in 1676, served as a pivotal catalyst for the transformation of social and labor structures in colonial Virginia. Prior to the uprising, the labor force consisted of both white indentured servants and African laborers, who often worked side-by-side and shared similar social conditions.

The rebellion, led by Nathaniel Bacon, brought together these disparate groups in a rare, multiracial coalition against the colonial elite led by Governor William Berkeley. This alliance deeply alarmed the ruling class, who feared that the shared grievances of poor whites and enslaved or free Africans could lead to future, more successful uprisings against their authority.

In the aftermath of the rebellion, the Virginia elite deliberately implemented policies to dismantle this cross-racial solidarity. They institutionalized slavery as a permanent, hereditary condition tied specifically to African ancestry, effectively stripping Black people of their rights while simultaneously promoting "whiteness" as a privileged legal and social category.

By codifying these racial laws, culminating in the Virginia Slave Codes of 1705, the colonial government created a rigid racial hierarchy that incentivized poor whites to identify with the interests of the elite rather than their fellow laborers of African descent.

This systemic division was designed to prevent future class-based rebellions by ensuring that even the poorest white settlers held a superior social status over enslaved people, a dynamic that solidified the racial caste system of the American South and persisted as the foundation of the region's social and economic order until the end of the Civil War in 1865.

This wasn't always originally a "Black vs White" race war, we currently have in the USA. At a point, up until 1676, Blacks and Whites cooperated against the exploitative plantation class. It was only after 1676, when the racial hierarchy was established, and white indentured servants got some improvement in the hierarchy over Blacks, while chattel slavery hardened.

I think it is a miracle that the Chinese PLA was able to fight to attrition despite being outgunned and minimal anti aircraft weapons to fight against UN air dominance.

UN forces fired over 3,000,000 shells in total, while Chinese forces fired about 300,000 shells in return. How come Chinese forces kept up the morale despite the disadvantages?

Also, why was the CCP so confident to keep the fight going?

It strikes me as darkly ironic that some white southerners still perform a sense of racial superiority, telling Black people to “pick their cotton” while waving the Confederate flag, given how fragile their status has always been. In the 1850s, elite slaveholding planters openly despised so‑called “poor whites,” often viewing them as lazy, degenerate, and barely above the enslaved in social worth.

There has never been a real, stable “white unity,” past or present. Racial hierarchy has been used to keep poor and working‑class whites emotionally invested in a system that, in reality, treats them as expendable so long as they remain loyal. Many white elites then and now, have regarded lower‑status whites as a problem population to be managed, exploited, or ignored, even as those same people cling to the idea that at least they are “above” Black people.

In contemporary politics, you can see a version of this in the contempt some wealthy, influential white conservatives feel for the poorer white voters who reliably support them: they are useful as a bloc, but not respected as equals. So while the Civil War is usually framed as a conflict over slavery and the Union, it was also layered over a quieter class struggle among white Americans themselves, a struggle that has never really gone away.