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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Instead of being smug Europeans could try to help foster solidarity amongst the workers of the world and help Americans fight for their labor rights

[–] [email protected] 74 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks for your comment. I'm currently out of office on annual summer vacation until 30th sep 2023.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Ok, how do I, as an individual, do that?

[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (39 children)

By posting memes on Lemmy to piss off Americans, so they start to take formative action after they research the memes context and realise they don't have free health care, cheap/free post secondary education, and mandatory holidays like the EU bros.

Tldr: Post them memes buddy!

Edit: guys... this is c/memes. Y'all are taking this way too literally lmao. Lighten up a bit ffs.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

We are very aware of the shittiness of our labor laws

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Motivation to even want to have some solidarity instead of smugness is the first step honey.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I would recommend you start by joining the Industrial Workers of the World and paying monthly dues to empower the union to fight the fight necessary. https://www.iww.org/membership/

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

I'm in a union here in Germany. Why am I supposed to pay up for the folks in the US who still act against their interests and refuse to unionize or vote for worker's rights?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Establish more labor unions! This is the only solution.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

OP being smug also increases the reach of the post by a lot compared to a dry post about solidarity.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

That fight is on your own.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

maybe stop calling everybody on this side a "sOcIaLiSt" and we might feel like it

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Imagine thinking that the American posting asking for worker's solidarity is somehow not left of the socialists

[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 year ago

Who cares about Americans?