• I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.ml
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    A workday was also like 4 hours or less in biblical times though.

    The idea that people in the past worked long, grueling hours due to lack of technology is a myth. People had way more free time in those days.

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      I’ve heard this a few times and wholeheartedly believe it. But I don’t know any sources, when I’m asked. Do you happen to know any?

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      Start talking to your coworkers!

      Even if you don’t convince your workplace to unionize, you’re laying the groundwork for the next person who tries.

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        That’s true, but it’s easier said than done. As someone who already experienced job loss once this year, I’m not looking to go through with it again. I have to look out for myself and my family first, unfortunately.

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          you can always have it in the back of your head and prepare for a future optimised rollout / means to be anonymous

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    I like the facts, but know nothing about Dale Earnhardt. Was he not a typical Republican?

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      It’s hard to say, while he did grow up stuck in a western town, outside of racing there’s not much else known about his life outside of what’s been show by him and his son.

      You can’t make assumptions based on the stereotypes.

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        I know, that’s why I’m asking, for all I know he was very liberal. I’m not a NASCAR guy by any stretch and don’t know anything about these guys, but I know what the fans tend to be like.

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      Dale Sr. never really spoke about politics one way or the other, but it’s worth noting that his son is an open progressive in an industry that appeals almost entirely to the Conservative crowd. Is there any reason in particular you think Dale Earnhardt was a typical republican?

      Edit: after a little more research it seems that Dale was probably a traditional Southern conservative but not what we would call today as a MAGA conservative. An expert from this article reads:

      Dale’s daughter Kelley recalled an incident that occurred in her childhood, when her father placed a bumper sticker reading “American By Birth / Southern By The Grace Of God” on the rear of his truck. The family’s black housekeeper mentioned that the sticker, which featured the Confederate flag, made her uncomfortable. Dale immediately took a pen knife and slashed the flag off his truck, leaving the expression of Southern pride while divorcing it from the region’s sour history.

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    Come in on saturday? Come in on saturday? I think the fuck not, my clipboard-carrying friend. People didn’t die at Blair Mountain, Virginian coal miners and their families didn’t walk through chlorine gas and machine gun fire, so that your ironed shirt ass could ask me to come in on a saturday. In fact, you know what, pass me that Springfield rifle, I need to talk to the boss.

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        that’s not remotely true. The union movement is quite robust and actively serves a real need. The only thing that could actually kill the union movement would be a fully communist society and unions subsequently becoming redundant

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          Sorry if this is a stupid question.

          What do we do about goverments simply shutting them down? In my country the rail workers needed to strike, and then congress said no.

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            The government shutting down a strike only worked because the union capitulated. It worked because when the government said no, they listened.

            The rail workers could have held a strike anyway, legal consequences be damned. The government would likely escalate in retaliation: strikers would be jailed and potentially forced back into that labor while incarcerated. Strikers could then give in to the government’s demands or further escalate on their own end. This could take the form of sabotage, armed conflict, or other methods of dissent. This is the history of labor struggles and it has often been a bloody history.

            At the end of the day, it becomes a matter of how desperate each group is. If the risk posed by the government retaliating is greater than your desperation to improve conditions, then workers are more likely to back down. This doesn’t address the consciousness of the workers though. They hold the true source of power (labor) in this neverending struggle and have the most to gain by taking action to exert that power over those who wish to exploit them.

            Part of the problem is that taking revolutionary action isn’t easy and it’s much more comfortable to capitulate anywhere along the road to changing these dynamics.

            What is to be done? Educate yourself and those around you. Organize yourselves against your oppressors and prepare for the fight ahead. Take action and persevere by supporting one another in this struggle.

            The only thing that authority respects is a greater authority. The ones in power maintain their authority because we allow them to maintain that authority. Nothing happens without the labor of the masses and when they act in solidarity, nothing has the power to stop them.

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          The only thing that communists hate more than the West is the idea that people can obey a higher power than the state. Is it really much of a shock?

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            It is not a shock whatsoever. Religion isn’t called the Opiods of the masses because it serves no purpose. Surgery before Opiod derived medicines was insanely painful, and Opoids completely changed that and revolutionized surgical practices. While at the same time destroying countless lifes due to its addictive qualities. The analogy isnt dismissing the power of Religion or God. More so contextualizing its place in society and trying to find a healthy relationship in stead of a toxic one.

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            Can you and the tankies just have a cage match on another instance the rest of us can defederate from? Pretty please?

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    And god put the weekend on saturday

    So, you can still thank god it’s friday

    (Also Henry Ford, not the unions, made the 5 day work week)

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      In Germany, it was the unions who made the 5 day work week. So we can still tell God to fuck off and thank our unions like OP intended

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      I also believe that he wanted to use the extra profits that Ford made to invest into better processes to make the cars cheaper and to increase the wages and conditions of the workers.

      Then the share holders sued him saying that he had an obligation to give them their share of the profits and won…

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      But which god? Not the Christian one, because Friday is named after Freya, a Norse god. And Saturday was named after Saturn, a Roman god.

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    I thank Pope Gregory XIII who introduced calendar according to which today is Friday.