• witness_me@lemmy.ml
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    More context, he said this on June 19th, the day Juneteenth is celebrated across America.
    It’s a holiday to commemorate the end of slavery in America.
    He obviously doesn’t want any holidays related to black people to be celebrated.

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    Why do we use the fall of civilization period known as the middle ages as a standard? Most of human history was hunter-gatherers. One of the better moments was during the age of Rome.

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    Thinly veiled attempt to get rid of juneteenth. So just the usual rightwing racism.

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    Happens in Germany too right now. People really need to find back to Unions and take more Power over their rights, before they just Cut it off

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      Same in Denmark. This is our first year without “Store Bededag” (single day holiday), which our useless fucking government decided to remove, as part of their war-consent-manufacturing.

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      Happening all over the globe. The capitalist hegemony is getting scared because their system is collapsing in on itself and, through the imperial boomerang, are beginning to employ practices only performed abroad on the interior in order to maintain their power. The US is just far ahead of the curve due to its lack of a functioning political leftwing keeping things in check.

      Now is most certainly the time for people to unionize and start relearning why unions formed in the first place: so workers can band together to exert their political will and take ownership over their workplace from a parasitic class that has only ever existed to exploit our labor.

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      They mostly don’t get any of those “holidays” paid anyway which is why they don’t like them. You’re lucky if you get Christmas and Thanksgiving paid on top of your two weeks of PTO. The rest are days the banks close and some other places give their people unpaid days off.

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      Yeah, it’s hilarious to hear “workers want less” when what they really mean is less forced unpaid time off, obviously if they want money they’d want to work. I’m sure those people would prefer paid time off to having to work.

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    Says the obese pig to whom EVERY day is a holiday and a reason to golf. I never knew that POTUS was a part time position. America is fucked if there’s ever a crisis before 11:00am, on a week end, or on a golfing day…

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      11 am? Hey he gets up daily at 4 am and “truths” on his website for a couple hours while on the toilet

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    Translation: we shouldn’t give black people in america a federal holiday because i am a racist and demented old man who is increasingly irrelevant in society.

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    This guy LITERALLY raped a 13 year old back in the day, and only golfs.

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    “The workers don’t want it”. He had about as much sense of this as he does of a concept of health care plan.

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      Workers. Hate. Paid. Holidays.

      We’ve been saying it for years, but nobody listens. The liberal nanny state keeps forcing me to stay home, spend time with my family, or even go on vacation, when all I really want to do is stare at spreadsheets for another eight hours.

      Enough is enough!

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        Before resting, I go to work tired tomorrow. After resting, I go to work angry tomorrow.

        Without tasting freedom for a day or two I would not be angry about losing it.

        Defund weekends, they are some DEI bullshit!

        /sarcasm

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          “Do not, my friends, become addicted to water. It will take hold of you, and you will resent its absence.” — Immortan Joe

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        I know right? ALL I want is to make money and not for me but for some idiot who has control of the market and that means that if my labor is worth $200 an hours all I want is to work work work and especially for a fraction of that.

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      The workers don’t want it. What workers actually want is an end to holidays, weekends, and time off in general. I mean, what good is being a “worker” if you’re not working every waking minute of your life? /s

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        I know several, they’re type that base their whole identity around their job, and the type to die very quickly after retirement. They also vote conservative.

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      In all fairness, Trump is just a moldy, hollowed-out Golem. Every Juneteenth, Stephen Miller shmooshes his shiny dome straight into Trump’s rear end and starts flicking and vibrating his tongue across Donnie’s prostate like it’s a musical instrument carved from rotting cheese, inducing a flurry of nerve impulses that spread through Trump’s spine and into his abnormally short, sticky sausage fingers, where they smear out the latest batch of vile racist garbage.

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      Like everything he says/does there is a slight truth buried deep in there.

      Some ‘workers’ really don’t want it. They are called corporate middle management. They don’t want the wage slaves to disrupt profit or crowd the spaces that they will be using because management will still take the day off.

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        I don’t think you are seeing the issue clearly. If you don’t want a day off it’s because your wages are not high enough.

        You are wrong. There is zero truth in this post.

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        Nah, the people who don’t want it are hourly workers who are living paycheck to paycheck, which is tens of millions of workers.

        The sad truth is he’s right, but the reason is that for these people, missing out on $80 could be the difference between paying the water bill or not this month.

        It’s not that people love to work so much that they hate missing a day, it’s that they can’t afford to not work a day.

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          There’s a big difference between “want” and “have to”… No-one "wants’ to work more, but many people “have to”.

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            Yes people don’t want to work more, they need more money. This does not translate to they want less time off…

            It’s a completely backwards way of seeing the problem.

            And it is completely invalid.