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JCC International Workers Day

Discussion in 'Community' started by Lord Vivec, May 1, 2016.

  1. Lord Vivec

    Lord Vivec Chosen One star 9

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    A happy International Workers Day! A day for us to appreciate the workers, labor movements, and lower classes of our world. I know here in the US they tried to bastardize the labor movement and move the holiday to Labor Day in September, but we know better and we're not going to fall for that.

    So let's show our solidarity with the worker, discuss ways of getting a viable social democratic movement to replace the Democratic party, and post our best anti-capitalist pictures.

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    Try not to Tankie though (looking at you, Rogue Ten)

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  2. Rogue_Ten

    Rogue_Ten Chosen One star 7

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    im a 2. like, not even in a funny way. ukraine had just as bad cyclical famines under imperial russian mismanagement/apathy and yet since imperial russia is so utterly erased as to be truly irrelevant, those famines dont get to have fancy names and be trotted out every five minutes in lieu of actual debate about the merits of the political climate in question

    the real story of ukranian famines is that stalin's rapid modernization programme broke the cycle. they havent had one as bad since, even during the WWII and the subsequent famines of 1947 that the entire soviet union suffered through (also as a result of the war)

    in any case, i feel like you've kind of poisoned the well of your own international working person's thread by bringing up divisions in the left in the op. seems like a bit of a misstep to me

    comradely greetings, all the same
     
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  3. dp4m

    dp4m Chosen One star 10

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    So, was I reading this right: at the protests in France, the college students have a union?
     
  4. Rogue_Ten

    Rogue_Ten Chosen One star 7

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    that's common

    student movements in the united states in the 60s might have led to the same if they had been more successful.

    on the topic of student radicalism and the university as a locus of work, here's mario savio in one of the GOAT speeches

     
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  5. Jabba-wocky

    Jabba-wocky Chosen One star 10

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    Frankly, I'd say the OP was poisoned by that weird political cartoon? It's on par with Angry Gazebo.
     
  6. Rogue_Ten

    Rogue_Ten Chosen One star 7

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    its p tru fact actually tho
     
  7. FatBurt

    FatBurt Sex Scarecrow Vanquisher star 6

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    Workers unite



    bootstraps etc...
     
  8. Lord Vivec

    Lord Vivec Chosen One star 9

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    Wow wocky i don't bring up embarrassing moments from your past.
     
  9. Jabba-wocky

    Jabba-wocky Chosen One star 10

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    I'm just saying, that picture is trying to do way too much at once.
     
  10. Obi Anne

    Obi Anne Celebration Mistress of Ceremonies star 8 Staff Member Manager

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    My grandfath had as tradition to always put on his working clothes and go out and work in the garde, according to my mother it was mainly to tease their neighbour who was a proper old fashioned social democrat and spent the day in his Sunday suit after he had been out protesting. I followed my grandfather's example and spent the day cleaning, even if I was thinking about joining the non-party affiliated anti-racism demonstration this year.

    I'm mostly annoyed that it's Sunday this year though so we didn't get an extra holiday or three day weekend.

    And membership in the student union was compulsory in Sweden until my last year or so at university.

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  11. GrandAdmiralJello

    GrandAdmiralJello Comms Admin ❉ Moderator Communitatis Litterarumque star 10 Staff Member Administrator

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    Just letting everyone know I'm keeping an eye on this thread.
     
  12. Rogue_Ten

    Rogue_Ten Chosen One star 7

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    oh wait were you talking about the tankie cartoon? yes, that's what i was saying it was poisoned by too
     
  13. Ender Sai

    Ender Sai Chosen One star 10

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    Do yours not?

    So to fake blue collar solidarity from a transparently white collar perch what do I need to do?
     
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  14. Jabba-wocky

    Jabba-wocky Chosen One star 10

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    No. I meant that things with tanks and guys in suits and people in loco-regional dress, and electronic voting booths or something.
     
  15. Ramza

    Ramza Administrator Emeritus star 9 VIP - Former Mod/RSA

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    You should really only be surprised when some group in 'Murica does have a union.
     
  16. Lord Vivec

    Lord Vivec Chosen One star 9

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  17. JoinTheSchwarz

    JoinTheSchwarz Former Head Admin star 9 VIP - Former Mod/RSA

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    R10 = lumpenproletariat scum

    *runs*

    But yeah, happy May 1st all the same. Third year in a row that I don't march to celebrate, for obvious reasons.
     
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  18. Rogue_Ten

    Rogue_Ten Chosen One star 7

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    its a fair accusation
     
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  19. Luigi

    Luigi Jedi Master star 4

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    You spent the day at the beach instead, bourgeois scum!
     
  20. JoinTheSchwarz

    JoinTheSchwarz Former Head Admin star 9 VIP - Former Mod/RSA

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    Weekends are one of the few rights we have under the American Fist, yes.

    For now.
     
  21. slidewhistle

    slidewhistle Jedi Knight star 3

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    Whoa they should of put it in March
     
  22. Rogue_Ten

    Rogue_Ten Chosen One star 7

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    educate yourself about fred hampton this international workers day plz
     
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  23. JoinTheSchwarz

    JoinTheSchwarz Former Head Admin star 9 VIP - Former Mod/RSA

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    dem shud of dun it, yas
     
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  24. slidewhistle

    slidewhistle Jedi Knight star 3

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    what we need is a viable social dem shud of dun it movement
     
  25. Ender Sai

    Ender Sai Chosen One star 10

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    Yeah after I left we got the unholy right to elect to join student unions or not.