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[–] [email protected] 249 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (4 children)

I read this somewhere else on Lemmy recently (sorry for comment steal):

American companies that are trying to dismantle unions need to understand that unions were a compromise to protect the companies. Because this is the alternative.

[–] [email protected] 66 points 8 months ago (2 children)

This issue extends to politicians as well. If you replace "Ancien Régime" with "Oligarchy-flavored Republic" it's almost like we're living the beginning script of the French Revolution here in America. That should induce quite the pandemic of sweaty palms in D.C. If that Oaf gets reelected, we're gonna have a Louis XVI on our hands... and we all know how that went down...

[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago (4 children)

So who will be Napoleon this time?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I’m on it. We will defeat the Russians avec mes waterslides.

Triomphe Napoleon.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago
[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago

Some obscure Puerto Rican who is alive today but nobody has heard of yet.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Step 1 find a land surveyor student with micropenis

There should be at least one in the entire world.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 8 months ago (1 children)

There's a quote I can't seem to find about unions being the compromise because the alternative is showing up at the factory owner's house.

The Battle of the Overpass wasn't that long ago.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

Found the one I was thinking of:

Someone should probably tell the rich that workers banding together to present formal address of grievances is the alternative we worked out a long time ago to breaking down the factory owner's front door and beating him to death in front of his family? I feel like they forgot.

It was on Twitter, no idea the origin.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago
[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago

Yeah but now they have tools like TikTok to cook our brains and microwave cannon to cook protesting bodies.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The great part about history is sometimes there's no need to find a quote when there's tons of evidence! Here's a few:

France, George Besse killed in 85' due to his "revolutionary" turnaround of a company that included mass layoffs.

United States Labor Wars which spanned a century of bloodshed and violence. The Labor Wars included the Battle of Blair Mountain where the largest private army in US history was formed and approximately one million rounds were fired.

There's a reason your history classes were boring, there's a reason they opt for American propaganda instead of facts, and there is a reason companies are shitting themselves over union talks. Both the best and worst part about being a history buff is knowing the facts they don't want you to hear. Be a History Buff with me Limmings! We never meet up, there are no dues, you have no deadlines or tests, and you get to earn dark secrets you can use to torture your friends and family with. It's great!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago

If I could carry around a Limmings History Buff Fellowship member card with qr code links to sites like these, it'd be just handy dandy for the torturing-friends-and-family part.