• @witness_me@lemmy.ml
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    33 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.

  • @WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today
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    512 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.

  • @DegenerationIP@lemmy.world
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    2023 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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      55 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.

    • @doingthestuff@lemy.lol
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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.

    • JackbyDev
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      171 day 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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        71 day ago

        Afaik, what he does is called manufacturing consent.

  • @drhodl@lemmy.world
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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…

  • @Kalysta@lemm.ee
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    341 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.

  • @Nangijala@feddit.dk
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    902 days ago

    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?

    • @ECB@feddit.org
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      The worst part is… If you’ve ever had the pleasure of working with an American company you’ll notice just how unproductive they are.

      Obviously the two are closely connected, but it’s always fascinating to me

      • @SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca
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        Yeah there’s that myth that if you make people work more hours more work will be done. It all makes sense on the spreadsheet!

        Reality is the workers are human, humans get tired and you aren’t getting more work out of anyone by making them work more hours. You’re just making someone be at a place longer because you can.

      • @aabrams@lemm.ee
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        So true. True efficiency can only be achieved when human labour is finite. Look at the small countries of norther europe. /my first comment on lemmee :D

    • @Fabian@lemmy.zip
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      The problem is that in Germany, our Chancellor is currently on the same trip saying that ‘the people don’t work enough’ even though most people (who have a full time job) already work about 40 hours and many woman would like to work more but can’t because there are not enough daycare centres and retirement homes.

      • @EvilCartyen@feddit.dk
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        My wife worked for Siemens-Gamesa for a long time, and German managers were always surprised how the Danes would just straight up decline meetings after 16 and leave early if they had to pick up kids.

        They didn’t worry about that at all, of course, because their wives generally didn’t work full time.

    • @Bloomcole@lemmy.world
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      That’s what they get when you don’t fight for your rights.
      Look at it now, semi-fascist for half a year and they’re still basically singing Kumbaya.
      They get what they deserve.