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Shiv Ramdas@nameshiv.bsky.social |
every time I see someone complain about unions I think about how unions were the consensus alternative to the previous system of burning the factory owner alive inside his house
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Archer in Exile
@400trix.bsky.social
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Clearly unions were a bad idea, then.
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Silly B Man
@lawnerd.bsky.social
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Guillotines are bad but fear of guillotines among elites is healthy and good.
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Dallas Swoager
@untenablewhale.bsky.social
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Sigh. Ok, if we have to.
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Jessica Sietsema
@jmstsm.bsky.social
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To be fair, back then they didn't have a panopticon box in every person's pocket/purse.
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Michael Maris
@edrobot.bsky.social
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How many times did that actually happen?
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D. Paul Angel
@dpaulangel.com
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They really juat don't teach labor history here at all. Nothing about armed standoff between Union members and armed "security," nothing about the beatings, and certainly nothing that might give anyone ideas on how to deal with rich assholes who think they're above consequences. 🤷♂️
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@jojosbizarrelife.bsky.social
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My wife works at a hospital and let me tell you... her union rep seems blissfully unaware that the history of his position in those negotiations consists of, "Listen up fuckstick. You negotiate in good faith or you'll be happy you're already in a hospital."
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Deerlady83
@deerlady83.bsky.social
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Or having mini civil wars.
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Stephen Cox Author only more so
@stephencoxauthor.bsky.social
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Yes. Also, can we understand that some taxes are GAT Guillotine Avoidance Tax
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marythetrainer🦋🐢🤷🏻♀️😏🌎
@marythetrainer.bsky.social
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The Homestead Strike happened just 3 years after the Johnstown Flood, and it targeted the companies of owners involved in the flood. After the flood, none of the wealthy industrialists were held accountable. The two events may not have been explicitly linked, but people remember injustice.
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Arcturus SaDiablo
@asadiablo.bsky.social
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Given how some current day "factory owners" are behaving, bringing back that practice is very tantalizing.
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Bad Carl Rodgers
@xcarlxrogersx.bsky.social
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Hey cmon now, unions aren't necessary anymore, after all, my boss thinks I have a cool truck
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TeeJay Ach
@pragmaticleftist.bsky.social
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Shomer Shabbat R211
@reallyliketrains.bsky.social
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The NLRA contained labor conflict and now people are prying open the big "labor conflict" box with crowbars
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Liz 🧡 🇺🇦🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇵🇸
@circaliz.bsky.social
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🍽
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Tony from Welly
@tonywelly.bsky.social
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Who is the factory owner of Tesla? Elon?
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@hope-post.bsky.social
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Sadly the tyranny of fascistic oppression is usually endured for decades or more before the guillotine comes down! Can we skip that part and go straight to the beheading now pls😂🙏😡
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Ƭყթօ
@typocelchu.bsky.social
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Slowly morphing into Ron Perlman during the writer’s strike
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Mors Admendacium - Not Mordechai
@followevidence.bsky.social
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Shiv, the French had an alternative
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Tucker Drake
@tuckerdrake.bsky.social
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Colin McMillen
@mcmillen.dev
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I think an unfortunate development in modern times is that the factory owner is much more likely to live halfway across the world, and have multiple homes with significant internal security presence and militarized police on call.
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artisanrox
@artisanrox.bsky.social
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In conservative areas looooots of people (even older people) absolutely do not know that locking people inside a burning factory was absolutely a real thing and that's what prompted unionization as self-defense measure.
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Becca's Mullet
@beccasmullet.bsky.social
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Sadly, I think the heavily armed (with automatic weapons) rich people who get to act with impunity ( see Trump, Donald) are a tremendous deterrent. I know facing down hired goons with AR-15s is deterrent for me.
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Joyce Reynolds-Ward
@joycereynoldsward.bsky.social
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Former union organizer here. Yep.
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Cadbury Crème Negs
@itshard.bsky.social
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“Instead of striking, why don’t they compromise?” Striking is the compromise. Too many people have forgotten how it used to work.
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Il gatto infuriato
@ptorelli.bsky.social
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The factory owner doesn't patrol the factory on foot anymore. Private Equity owns the factories, and investors own the Private Equity. Good luck finding the owner. It's like the film CUBE...
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Craig Walmsley
@craigwalmsley.bsky.social
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Yeah, well, let’s get the pitchforks and burning torches out.
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JonS253
@jons253.bsky.social
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Maybe it's time to revive old traditions.
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Evo Daily
@evodaily.bsky.social
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In the last 100+ years so many battles for better and safer working conditions have been won. The wealthy elite have been union busting ever since.
www.history.com/topics/early...
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AndyK250.gb
@andyk250.bsky.social
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RETVRN
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Chris Curtis
@curtosis.bsky.social
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Usurious wealth tax rates are, historically-speaking, the *best* case end for the gilded class.
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@rage1313.bsky.social
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Ah the good old days
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Kip Williams sort of
@kipwilliams.bsky.social
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Somebody tell these rich guys to go out and touch Titanic.
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Dave Karpf
@davekarpf.bsky.social
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RETVRN.
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Dead Weirdo Studios
@deadweirdostudios.bsky.social
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Make Americans drag mine owners out of their houses at the end of a shotgun again.
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Lamentably Awake
@lamentablyawake.bsky.social
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Across the developed world the political consensus is removing each and every pressure valve and assuming the pressure will continue to dissipate as usual.
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GreenEngineer
@greenengineer.bsky.social
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Gom Jabbarbarienne
@thebarbarienne.bsky.social
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I'm very pro-union, but in some specific, select cases, a return to the Old Ways might be more useful.
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Myrna
@bigbunnymomma.bsky.social
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Took me a bit but I’m 💯 pro-union. Being let go from two jobs with no solid reason (other than bosses didn’t like me) will do that to you.
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Ken Burnside
@kenburnside.bsky.social
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Maybe the conservatives are on to something and we should burn about 30 billionaires on their yachts out in international waters, while shooting down anyone who tries to rescue them. Since they died in international waters, their probate gets more complex...
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David Waldman
@kagrox.bsky.social
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The marginal tax rate at the end of a pitchfork is 100%.™️
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'Swas
@sbeen.bsky.social
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It was a real close vote, too!
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McNutcase
@mcnutcase.bsky.social
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And even then, I'm thinking about old British songs that are basically "join the union or we'll straight murder your scab ass"...
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Beth
@thisbethlife.bsky.social
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99% of the tv I consume takes place between 1700 and 1950 and yeah, I feel as though I’m watching a working class uprising build, the way a tsunami does.
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@crowsley.bsky.social
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Like bringing in cops or National Guard to forcefully disperse protests. The historical alternative to protests isn't "no protests".
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Rev. Poppy Haze (ITAR compliant)
@poppyhaze.bsky.social
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a common form of protest in colonial America was to get so riled up, you go to the local governor’s house and rip it down. In one case, they literally threw his house in a river so he couldn’t just put it back up
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Brendan O'Toole
@brendanotoole.bsky.social
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Right, this is the labor equivalent of poisonings went down by more than half after no-fault divorce became the law
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Steve Zorowitz
@stevezorowitz.bsky.social
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The super-rich are convinced they can pay half the poor to fight off the other half if necessary. I’m not sure they’re wrong.
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Kagami's Mirror 🏳️⚧️ 🇪🇺
@redkagami.bsky.social
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The second alternative needs to be reconsidered
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ASMEH
@asmeh.bsky.social
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This actually sounds like a complaint about unions!
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