Strikers were bombed back in the day by aircrafts. Unionization was won through enduring warfare yet we just gave it away. Shows how powerful unionization is that the elites are completely terrified of it, and that they have surpressed the history of it so few will know how much blood was shed to get it.
“Governments don't want a population capable of critical thinking, they want obedient workers, people just smart enough to run the machines and just dumb enough to passively accept their situation.”
― George Carlin
He wasn't wrong. During this time the parties although different and Republicans being shitter, were much closer together. They were both pro corporate with differences on social issues.
Today.. The Republicans have gone full batshit trying to overthrow democracy. I guarantee you, if George was alive he'd be saying VOTE and vote for Democrats until we've gotten rid of the dangerous fascists.
I love that there's always someone who brings this one thing up...
Nobody's right 100% of the time. But he was right far more often than not, and far more correct than most anyone else running their mouths about the same subjects.
I love this sentiment but I hope we can keep lemmy a nice place.
Like I'm sure we all agree that a good billionaire lynching would be awesome, but I also don't want to crow on about it day after day. Escalate or bust.
Revolutionaries aren't spontaneous creations. It takes decades of conflict between the population and the state to harden the people into what eventually becomes the revolutionary army.
Almost everybody here with their soft bodies and their soft minds is not capable of taking part in 6-48 months of revolutionary civil war tomorrow. You have to look at the conflicts of France over the last 10 years between its population and the state to understand what prolonged build up of radicals and radical forces looks like. Decades of a population actively doing battle with its state over various national things before ever reaching the point of "fuck it we ball".
But that means more people have a chance to get wealthy (provided taxes aren't raised to match). Why pay people more and have more wealthy people when you can pay less and have all the money?
Because all those CEOs will never think further than the next ten minutes. In short term that means only less money for them since for any extra unit of money they give to their worker it is not garantied they buy something from the own company. They only ever see what money they don't get right now, and not what they could get potentially in long term.
“Redress” is typically used when referring to correcting or remedying a wrong or injustice. It implies a sense of compensation or restitution for something that has gone awry. For example, if a customer receives a faulty product from a company, they may seek redress by asking for a refund or replacement.
“Address,” on the other hand, is a more general term that refers to dealing with or attending to a particular matter. It can be used in a variety of contexts, from addressing a letter to addressing a problem. It doesn’t necessarily imply any wrongdoing or injustice.
I keep blocking work reform pages but more keep popping up from different instances. Is there a way to globally block any instance that contains a specific word or phrase?
I mean, each to their own, but do you have a greivance with workers collectively backing themselves and their colleagues?
(In answer to your question, as far as I know you have to block communities one by one. The only other alternative would be to view only your subscribed communities)
I have no grievance with them, I just don't care for the grievances they share with their employers. It was easy on reddit since it was just one sub I had to filter but here they keep popping up.
It took a lot of blood and violence to get to the point where we all think blood and violence isn't required in some situations. Millions and millions of people struggle every single day while the rich look for ways to take away their rights. It's literally human nature to want to fight back against that.
It isn't a fantasy, it's history. It is how our comfortable world was built, and if you think it is eerie then you should reevaluate how you feel about the benefits it has brought you.
It's funny, I think they are all bark and no bite. When push comes to shove we often see their fantasies amount to nothing more than materialistic looting. They will never live out their dreams of lynching billionaires.
The tankies have been on lemmy longer than anyone else (and helped develop it I guess?) And they are still around. The normal instances have defederated from them and no one has to interact with them, but they still exist.
Whether you consider it a pro or a con, there are no advertisers terrified of negative brand association here, and the only way an instance gets shut down is if it gets caught hosting explicitly criminal content.
Lastly this isn't a tankie. Tankies are insanely pro-military, obsessed with nationalism (for places like china or russia usually), and one of their favorite pastimes is denying the negative history of their favorite "communists".
This is just a dark joke about the history of how workers rights were originally fought for, in america and elsewhere. Look up the coal wars.