Elizabeth Gurley Flynn was born in 1890 in Concord, New Hampshire, to a radical, activist working-class family. When she was 10, the family moved to the South Bronx, where she attended public school. By the time she was 15, Flynn was active in socialist groups. At 15, she gave her first public speech, and the next year she was expelled from high school. She became a full-time organizer for the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW).
In the years leading up to World War I, Flynn was active on women's rights, free speech for IWW speakers and organizing textile strikes in places like Lawrence, Massachusetts, and Paterson, New Jersey. She also worked to organize garment workers in Pennsylvania, silk weavers in New Jersey, restaurant workers in New York City and miners in Minnesota.
Flynn opposed the war when it broke out, and like many war opponents, she was charged with espionage. The charges were dropped and Flynn began working to defend immigrants threatened with deportation for their opposition to the war.
In 1920, Flynn helped found the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and was elected to the national board. From 1927-1930, she chaired International Labor Defense. During that time she was active in trying to free jailed labor organizers Thomas J. Mooney and Warren K. Billings. For the first half of the 1930s, she withdrew from public life because of bad health, but she returned to public life in 1939 and was re-elected to the ACLU board. When Adolf Hitler and Josef Stalin signed a nonagression pact, the ACLU expelled all Communist Party members from its ranks, including Flynn.
Flynn ran for the Communist Party of America's Central Committee successfully, and ran for a seat in Congress unsuccessfully. During World War II, Flynn fought for women's economic equality. After the war, as communism grew more unpopular in the United States, Flynn shifted back to defending free speech rights for radicals. In 1951, she was arrested for conspiracy to overthrow the government based on the Smith Act of 1940. She spent more than two years in prison.
She returned to political action once she was out of prison, and in 1961, she became the first woman elected national chair of the Communist Pary. A critic of the Soviet Union, Flynn traveled behind the Iron Curtain and was stricken ill. She died in the USSR and was given a state funeral in Red Square.
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Does anybody have experience running pirated games through steam? I've never paid for a paradox game but i'm kinda getting the itch and proton works really good, so I think thats the way to go. But is Steam going to see that and be like, 'hold up we have that game you should pay us for the real copy'
I don't think this is/can be monitored in any way, I've put all sorts of not-even-game applications thru Proton and it seems to be an entirely offline process, and like they can't cross check if I got the game off of GOG or something
If the game is cracked (or DRM free) already you should be fine just adding it as a non-Steam game. Worst case scenario itโll give you a message saying you need to buy the game.
I know youโve gotten other suggestions for avoiding Steam itself for Proton but I figured Iโd throw in my recommendation for umu-launcher. This is my preferred way to run games through Proton without Steam. You just open a terminal and run
umu-run [insert-game-executable-here].exe, optionally you can provide environment variables if you want to specify a prefix or Proton version or something. Your game should just run after that, no need to ever start/connect to Steam or even have Steam installed in the first place.I think Valve either can't tell or doesn't care, a lot of pirated games with online play will pretend to be a game called spacewar to access steam api. If they haven't bothered to stop that for the last decade there's no way they're monitoring what you're adding as a nonsteam game to run under proton
You can also use Lutris, ~~which seems to also allow for using proton~~ (through the "wine" runner). Maybe not, maybe just use steam.
idrk know since I mostly just use wine staging installed through my distro, and lutris is in charge of the rest of the stack (dxvk, vkd3d, etc), exactly the same stuff that proton uses actually!
i've heard you can run the proton forks outside steam but i'd rather not have to figure it all out when steam is so plug-and-play these days yknow. and if Gaben ain't gonna slap me for pirated content i am okay having steam lord over my gaming library lol
it used to be pretty complicated, but there's tools for it now for lutris and heroic
though tbh what launcher you want to use is pretty much personal preference
I prefer Heroic because it makes running setup executables pretty easy.
It's works pretty easily for me in lutris too. Choosing the "Install a Windows game from an executable" in the add game pop-up.
Wait, yeah you're completely right that's how I used to do it too. I can't remember why I switched to Heroic, then.
I've never had any problems doing this, but depending on which distro you use, it may also be worth trying WINE (or in my case, Gentoo packages Proton separately from Steam also).