• DegenerationIP@lemmy.world
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    Happens in Germany too right now. People really need to find back to Unions and take more Power over their rights, before they just Cut it off

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      Happening all over the globe. The capitalist hegemony is getting scared because their system is collapsing in on itself and, through the imperial boomerang, are beginning to employ practices only performed abroad on the interior in order to maintain their power. The US is just far ahead of the curve due to its lack of a functioning political leftwing keeping things in check.

      Now is most certainly the time for people to unionize and start relearning why unions formed in the first place: so workers can band together to exert their political will and take ownership over their workplace from a parasitic class that has only ever existed to exploit our labor.

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    Says the obese pig to whom EVERY day is a holiday and a reason to golf. I never knew that POTUS was a part time position. America is fucked if there’s ever a crisis before 11:00am, on a week end, or on a golfing day…

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      11 am? Hey he gets up daily at 4 am and “truths” on his website for a couple hours while on the toilet

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    Don’t these holidays cost owners rather than workers, though?

    I used to love working holidays as a single guy for that double pay. 🤑

    No holidays means only 1x pay 👎 nevermind if you just wanted to take the day off without getting docked.

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      Yeah, it’s hilarious to hear “workers want less” when what they really mean is less forced unpaid time off, obviously if they want money they’d want to work. I’m sure those people would prefer paid time off to having to work.

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    Translation: we shouldn’t give black people in america a federal holiday because i am a racist and demented old man who is increasingly irrelevant in society.

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    Technically, there is no law requiring a company to provide PTO or close on Holidays. Its up to the company, not this stupid bastard.

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      The government is however required to give most employees several days off throughout the year which might be what he’s bitching about

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    Biggest problem with non-working “holidays” is that they only apply to certain more privileged people who also get paid to not work. Everyone else either sits at home unpaid for the day, or has to work (most often without any additional compensation) to support those who do get the paid day off.

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    “The workers don’t want it”. He had about as much sense of this as he does of a concept of health care plan.

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      Workers. Hate. Paid. Holidays.

      We’ve been saying it for years, but nobody listens. The liberal nanny state keeps forcing me to stay home, spend time with my family, or even go on vacation, when all I really want to do is stare at spreadsheets for another eight hours.

      Enough is enough!

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        Before resting, I go to work tired tomorrow. After resting, I go to work angry tomorrow.

        Without tasting freedom for a day or two I would not be angry about losing it.

        Defund weekends, they are some DEI bullshit!

        /sarcasm

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          “Do not, my friends, become addicted to water. It will take hold of you, and you will resent its absence.” — Immortan Joe

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        I know right? ALL I want is to make money and not for me but for some idiot who has control of the market and that means that if my labor is worth $200 an hours all I want is to work work work and especially for a fraction of that.

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      In all fairness, Trump is just a moldy, hollowed-out Golem. Every Juneteenth, Stephen Miller shmooshes his shiny dome straight into Trump’s rear end and starts flicking and vibrating his tongue across Donnie’s prostate like it’s a musical instrument carved from rotting cheese, inducing a flurry of nerve impulses that spread through Trump’s spine and into his abnormally short, sticky sausage fingers, where they smear out the latest batch of vile racist garbage.

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      Like everything he says/does there is a slight truth buried deep in there.

      Some ‘workers’ really don’t want it. They are called corporate middle management. They don’t want the wage slaves to disrupt profit or crowd the spaces that they will be using because management will still take the day off.

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        Nah, the people who don’t want it are hourly workers who are living paycheck to paycheck, which is tens of millions of workers.

        The sad truth is he’s right, but the reason is that for these people, missing out on $80 could be the difference between paying the water bill or not this month.

        It’s not that people love to work so much that they hate missing a day, it’s that they can’t afford to not work a day.

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          There’s a big difference between “want” and “have to”… No-one "wants’ to work more, but many people “have to”.

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      The workers don’t want it. What workers actually want is an end to holidays, weekends, and time off in general. I mean, what good is being a “worker” if you’re not working every waking minute of your life? /s

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        I know several, they’re type that base their whole identity around their job, and the type to die very quickly after retirement. They also vote conservative.

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    And here we see this buffoon once again viciously attacking his political enemies…(Flips papers)…

    …“Anyone with half a brain who works for a living.”

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    And here I thought I would get away without seeing trump bitch about juneteenth…

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    Ah yes. The obligatory racist whinging on Juneteenth. Fat lazy bastard who doesn’t get to work before 11 am because he requires “executive time” (tv time).