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[–] polyamorypagan69@lemm.ee 2 points 3 hours ago

We are all getting fucked by captaitalism

[–] witness_me@lemmy.ml 4 points 8 hours ago

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.

[–] NutWrench@lemmy.ml 6 points 10 hours ago

"STFU, Donnie. You're out of your element. "

[–] UnsavoryMollusk@lemmy.world 9 points 18 hours ago

Is that in project 2025 ? I dont remember but they are on track for sure.

[–] WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 5 points 17 hours ago

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.

[–] polyamorypagan69@lemm.ee 17 points 1 day ago (3 children)
[–] cook_pass_babtridge@feddit.uk 22 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

This isn't entirely true - someone calculated that, on a good year, a peasant could only work 150 days a year towards the rent of their own farmland. Then they have to actually work that land, take care of their animals, and manually do basically every industrial process we take for granted to get food in their belly. They didn't work 150 days a year then go off with a cheque that will sort them out for the rest of the year.

Source: https://www.adamsmith.org/blog/regulation-industry/medieval-peasants-really-did-not-work-only-150-days-a-year/

[–] polyamorypagan69@lemm.ee 1 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

OPINION PIECE no reasearch to backup clames either, boot locker and calibrator of your oppressors back then you had community and town to also help under β€œrugged individual” facasium capitalismylur forced into a schedule that disbands family and community.

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 1 points 9 hours ago (3 children)

Yeah, sure, good luck only working 150 days, or even taking a whole day off, when you're supposed to tend to farmland and animals. That's like having a holiday from being a parent

[–] polyamorypagan69@lemm.ee 0 points 3 hours ago

Ok bootlicker defender of your oppressors

And? They also had communal+generational help with that.

There was bad stuff too, but we are getting fucked here

[–] NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 2 points 8 hours ago

Assuming communal farming, you just rotate who works each day.

[–] ComicalMayhem@lemmy.world 9 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

wasn't this confirmed false?

[–] CalipherJones@lemmy.world 6 points 11 hours ago

It absolutely is false and it's very misleading. Living as a peasant would suck complete ass.

[–] NoMadLadNZ@lemmy.nz 27 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Get off the golf course yourself then you orange turd

[–] GladiusB@lemmy.world 2 points 12 hours ago

He sucks at it too apparently

[–] kreskin@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I dont know, seems like the golf course is the absolute best place for him to be.

[–] NoMadLadNZ@lemmy.nz 1 points 5 hours ago

Sadly all his cronies would still be at the wheel back at the office.

[–] FreeAZ@sopuli.xyz 10 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

That would be under the golf course.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 4 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

Pretty sure his body would work as anti-fertilizer.

And we need fewer golf courses so that's a double win.

[–] oo1@lemmings.world 2 points 18 hours ago

Then put him under the bunker. IIRC a bunker was one of the best places for adolf too.

[–] kreskin@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day ago

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

[–] DegenerationIP@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day ago (3 children)

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

[–] Muffi@programming.dev 5 points 10 hours ago

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.

[–] SL3wvmnas@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 12 hours ago

Since both heads of state were heavily "sponsored" by blackrock et al., similiar policies are to be expected.

[–] Crankenstein@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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.

[–] MetalMachine@feddit.nl 37 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Nah F that, most Americans barley get any paid time off if any. If anything we need MORE.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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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[–] doingthestuff@lemy.lol 4 points 1 day ago

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.

[–] Kalysta@lemm.ee 34 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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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[–] trumpetmouth@lemmy.world 28 points 1 day ago

maybe there are too many non-working presidents right now?

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[–] drhodl@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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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[–] Buske@lemmy.world 34 points 1 day ago

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

[–] Nangijala@feddit.dk 90 points 1 day ago (12 children)

As a Dane, I have always been fucking shocked at the slave-like working conditions Americans work under. They barely get any time off as it is. What do you mean too many holidays?

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[–] QuantumToast@lemmy.zip 3 points 22 hours ago

The mans an idiot

[–] bieren@lemmy.zip 48 points 1 day ago (11 children)

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

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 52 points 1 day ago (3 children)

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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[–] Lucky_777@lemmy.world 21 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Technically, there is no law requiring a company to provide PTO or close on Holidays. Its up to the company, not this stupid bastard.

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[–] EighteenthNerd@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Biggest problem with non-working "holidays" is that they only apply to certain more privileged people who also get paid to not work. Everyone else either sits at home unpaid for the day, or has to work (most often without any additional compensation) to support those who do get the paid day off.

It’s not actually a privilege to have paid time off and paid holidays, it’s the norm across the developed world. United States is just creepy

[–] 96VXb9ktTjFnRi@feddit.nl 36 points 1 day ago

Meanwhile the US have the fewest paid leave days of any country on the planet (source).

[–] Lucelu2@lemmy.zip 32 points 1 day ago

Ah yes. The obligatory racist whinging on Juneteenth. Fat lazy bastard who doesn't get to work before 11 am because he requires "executive time" (tv time).

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