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Cake day: June 11th, 2024

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  • I did not make that original comment, did I? Maybe you interpreted it as a call for violence, but my interpretation was using hyperbole to make a point. Though I would not have made it that way.

    I named several holidays that exist to commemorate various worker’s rights movements (all of which have bloody histories). I’m not going to do the work for you and explain every single one of them, but you can easily go to the wiki pages and learn a ton of shit about it.

    It is not the job of internet strangers to educate people. But if someone who wasn’t aware of the history of Labor Day decides to check out the wiki because I mentioned it in a comment, then that’s a win in my book.





  • Do you get off work for Labor Day?

    If you do… Maybe next year you should take that time to read up on the history of all of those luxuries (yes, luxuries. And when they’re gone you’ll realize how many you did have), and how we were able to obtain them.

    Do you like weekends? Do you like the concept of the 8 hour work day? The concept of a minimum wage? People literally died for us to have these things enshrined in law.

    If you don’t get off Labor Day, well…

    If you want to look outside the US, have you heard of May Day (AKA International Workers Day)? Or even fucking Bastille Day if you want to really go back? Take a look at the bloody histories of these holidays when you have a chance.

    This was literally the only way we got to where we are. And now those things people literally died for are being stripped away from us and we are doing nothing.