Well this is kind of scary, hitler had better taste:
I hope they realize just exactly why in the 1900s-1930s the government allowed for busting monopolies, strong unions, and workers’ rights.
The reason is that from ~1880 to 1930 there were hundreds of violent riots and revolts, assassinations of CEOs, literal wars (Coal Wars, check out the movie Matewan) fought between workers and capital owners, etc. So to stop all the violence and assassinations of executives, they finally realized they should give at least something to the workers.
We’re quickly approaching this dynamic again, and hey if they want to lean into it, just expect the same response from the people.
They are expecting it that’s why they’re investing so much in surveillance and snitch-tech(LLMs). They think they’ll get away with it this time. And they might. We won’t know until the bodies hit the floor.
The number of “rednecks”, “southerners”, “hillbillies” etc that don’t know about the Battle of Blair Mountain and what it was over… just sad. For a culture that loves to talk about their “heritage” they sure seem to be oblivious to a lot of it.
Putting “thin blue line” stickers on their trucks and insulting unions and union workers…
They just love their “culture” of owning other humans. That’s literally it.
Propaganda is a hell of a drug
The education in those places is a huge part of the problem. They have probably never heard the ideas of these uprisings and massacres, and they were never taught to be intellectually curious enough to look into it themselves. It might’ve had a paragraph in the textbook about “labor rights” movement.
Gotta remember that the textbooks for basically the entire US are determined by an extremely conservative group based in Texas.
Let’s just finish the job this time no matter what they give to make it stop
Yes. When they concede, they show we are close to victory. No half measures. Drive them into the sea.
Strong French Revolution vibes here
Liberace is the only person I can think of with similar taste. You would think someone would point that out
