• Perhapsjustsniffit@lemmy.ca
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    25 days ago

    A hundred years ago coal miners were facing down machine guns and disappearing mysteriously then ending up dead in burlap sacks on the train tracks where I am from. The company was taking everything they earned for rent and groceries at the company housing departments and company store and people couldn’t feed their families after working all week in the mines. They fought the labor wars for 4 years to get unions instituted. They’d openly fight any blue collar/labor type worker now with their unions are pointless, back the blue and the ones that treat us the worst should govern.

  • Kyrgizion@lemmy.world
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    25 days ago

    They would be incredibly chuffed that we basically got what they were fighting for after WWII, and incredulous at the notion we lost it all again and are still backsliding to this day. Especially since they laid the groundwork for it all; it would be confirmation that your life’s work amounts to nothing and that evil always wins in the end, sort of like the opposite of a Disney movie.