• @witness_me@lemmy.ml
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    219 minutes 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.

  • 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.

  • @DegenerationIP@lemmy.world
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    2020 hours ago

    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
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      42 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.

    • @Crankenstein@lemmy.world
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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.

  • @drhodl@lemmy.world
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    1020 hours ago

    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…

    • @doingthestuff@lemy.lol
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      417 hours 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.

    • JackbyDev
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      1724 hours ago

      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.

      • haui
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        722 hours ago

        Afaik, what he does is called manufacturing consent.

  • @Kalysta@lemm.ee
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    331 day ago

    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.

  • @Lucky_777@lemmy.world
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    211 day ago

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

    • @Zenith@lemm.ee
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      621 hours ago

      The government is however required to give most employees several days off throughout the year which might be what he’s bitching about