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[-] Maeve@kbin.earth 52 points 6 months ago

Yes. People suffered and died to give us things we willingly gave away.

[-] Kyrgizion@lemmy.world 28 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I suppose we could wire up their corpses to a turbine for free energy, since they'll be spinning in their graves at around 15000 rpm.

[-] Maeve@kbin.earth 4 points 6 months ago

I haven't been feeling my best last two days, but this actually gave me enough energy to laugh aloud. Thanks!

[-] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 11 points 6 months ago

We didn't willingly give it away. The conservatives have been committing voter fraud and voting fraud my entire life. They've been illegally removing registers voters from the roles, and gerrymandering to hell and gone, for over 50 years.

I've personally seen my family fight tooth and nail to try to slow down the right wing authoritarian brain rot for over 40 years, and I'm unable to say that we were very successful.

We are fighting the richest, most powerful people on the planet. I'm afraid it may take multiple people successfully assassinating authoritarian billionaire media moguls before the ultra-rich even bother to take notice of the rest of us.

[-] tehsYs@discuss.tchncs.de 37 points 6 months ago
[-] Dasus@lemmy.world 32 points 6 months ago

The Battle of Blair Mountain was the largest labor uprising in United States history

And I had never heard of it. Although I'm not American.

[-] Infynis@midwest.social 29 points 6 months ago

And don't think for a moment that the companies have changed

[-] PugJesus@lemmy.world 20 points 6 months ago

If they thought they could get away with it now, they would. And if they had the opportunity to shift the balance of power so that they could murder strikers like the 'good old days', they wouldn't hesitate a moment. Vigilance and a revival of labor organization in this country is all that will prevent another Gilded Age.

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