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[–] 68 points 6 months ago (4 children)

Don't forget to call in sick for May Day tomorrow!

Why should I?

(silently snickers in German national holiday)

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  • [–] 49 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    "Our capitalists are dead. Ancient human workers slew them centuries ago" .... now I really know that this is a fictional universe

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  • [–] 28 points 6 months ago (3 children)
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  • [–] 17 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

    1st of May is a holiday here ✊ 1989 version

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  • [–] 16 points 6 months ago (8 children)

    Yeah lol, IWD is a day off in Spain

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago* (6 children)

    Every normal country has a day off.
    Just shows how pathetic americans are

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (5 children)

    Most of the rest of us don't get Labor day off in September so it kinda evens out.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Labor day was invented to take away Americans away from MayDay

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    OK, but it certainly doesn't even out the total of paid holidays.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago

    Depends on the country you compare with and the employer because they have holidays like juneteenth that not all businesses observe in addition to the main ones that everyone does.

    The one thing they do better than some other countries is that for most holidays, if it falls on a weekend, you get Friday or Monday off. Not all countries do this so you can fall below the US in total amount of paid holidays even if you have more nominally.

    They get absolutely shafted with vacation days compared to everyone else though, no competition there.

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  • [–] 21 points 6 months ago (2 children)
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    I feel like not going to work as a Florida teacher would actually be a win for the capitalists.

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  • [–] 19 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    You guys don't have holiday on may day?

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  • [–] 10 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    In the UK we get the first Monday in May instead which has kind of a wink-wink nudge-nudge sort of relationship to IWD (it was added as a UK wide bank holiday by a Labour government back when Labour was more traditionally socialist but it was also an existing bank holiday in Scotland celebrating Beltane so there was some plausible deniability that it was just bringing bank holidays across the countries more into line with each other)

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  • [–] 8 points 6 months ago

    That's originally about Klingon gods as I'm sure most of you already know.

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  • [–] 15 points 6 months ago (15 children)

    LOL
    What loser country works on 1 May?

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (14 children)

    Not every country celebrates the hangover day after drinking for Walpurgis night, I'd assume?

    Edit because it's a very specific reference to my country:

    Here in Estonia we get May 1st off, but we can't really call it International Workers' Day because then we'd also be celebrating oppression and forced labor, as the soviet union was nominally socialist, but in reality quite oppressive. IWD was very important to the soviet union, they held huge military parades (to show you what would happen if some part of the union would cease to be good obedient workers of course).

    So instead we get May 1st off for what we call "Spring Day" AKA May Day in other countries. Incidentally it's the day after Walpurgis night, the ancient celebration of witches and shit.

    Also the loser country that doesn't celebrate may 1st has had a labor day for longer than IWD has existed, at least in some states (been a federal holiday for like a century too now). It's just in September.

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  • [–] -5 points 6 months ago (13 children)

    It's because you have been fascists, I know.
    And certainly still are in many cases.

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (12 children)

    No, it's because may day military parades were forced upon us by the same entity that sent our people to labour camps.

    Great for you if your people have never been occupied by a dictatorship. Must be nice being on the side of imperialism that benefits from it and looking down on those who suffered.

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago (11 children)

    And what country is that?

    Btw, the nazis and rednazis were originally allies, you do realize that, right?

    And no, nazis are no friends of ours. They did wage war on our enemies, but they were also opressors, they never freed us when they conquered our land.

    If you're saying that the hard working people of my country should've all been shot by the rednazis, perhaps your ancestors should've been shot as well because they've given birth to a nazi themselves.

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  • [–] -4 points 6 months ago (10 children)

    Belgium

    Btw, the nazis and rednazis were originally allies, you do realize that, right?

    That's some infantile nazi revisionism from a country that's still butthurt from losing the war and getting its karma.
    Please say Molotov- Ribbentropp so I can laugh some more.
    And your ancestors definitely were nazis, already from the early 30's right up to their SS Estonia war crimes in WW2.
    So keep your BS for your own nazi country, it doesn't work with people who know history.
    Bye now

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago (8 children)

    Bro straight up calling someone's ancestors Nazis because of the country they live in without even knowing them or what their family went through - that makes you a Nazi. STFU

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 child)

    I don't get why the Nazis are still so relevant. They have been gone for about a century. There was nothing special about Nazi Germany; all humans kill or support killers when their base needs aren't met and it's in their financial self-interest.

    This doesn't just apply to humans. It's an immutable law of being an animal.

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  • [–] -2 points 6 months ago (5 children)

    lol you have to be american dumb to write such nonsense

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (4 children)

    Are you a bad person or just having a bad day?

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  • [–] -2 points 6 months ago* (3 children)

    go away dummy.
    I know your shithole likes nazis too but IDC about your opinions

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (2 children)

    You don't care about anyone, clearly.

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  • [–] -2 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    LOL
    not nazi revisionists or dummies from the USSA imperialist baby killer shithole spouting their uninformed opinions.
    I care about their victims.
    You can go cry about that somewhere else with your nazi friends and fuck off.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago

    LMAO a Belgian lecturing me about nazis or oppression. Go ask the Congolese what Belgian oppression was like. Y'all surrendered your country to the nazis willingly. You can claim that Leo wasn't representative of the people, but y'all kept him in power after WWII so clearly nobody actually disagreed with him. Your voluntary membership of Nazi germany was less than a decade. Most of Eastern Europe was under rednazi rule for half a century. And I'm sure the Walloon legion didn't do any war crimes either.

    You're one of those people who are for genocide as long as it's Russia or China doing it, aren't you? Everyone else is a nazi for doing anything wrong, but if it's the rednazis commiting genocide, that's justified lmao.

    Get your ass back to hexbear where your kind are so the rest of us can defederate from you and your rednazi opinions.

    I will be blocking you because I don't need such bigotry in my life. Good bye.

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    Lstop I can only love O'Brien so much!

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  • [–] 10 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (24 children)

    Hum... Isn't tomorrow one of the 2 days that are internationally recognized as not a working day? (The other being Jan 1st)

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  • [–] [S] 33 points 6 months ago (8 children)

    It's often recognized as International Worker's Day, but I don't know of many places where it's a public holiday. Here in the US, Labor Day is celebrated on Sept. 1, explicitly to separate the labor movement from it's radical origins

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  • [–] 15 points 6 months ago (5 children)

    Being the US, the vast majority of laborers don't get it off!

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    Since I was wrong about actual days off, do you know if the majority of US laborers who are off on Labor day get holiday pay?

    If it was in the doc you linked I didn't see it.

    Edit: I see it and can't wrap my head around 80%+ of laborers getting holiday pay. Does this cover gig workers, waitstsff and other fully tipped positions, etc.?

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    Also not in the US. We have Labor Day in September and most laborers don't get it off.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    We always get the first Monday in May off in the UK. Four day weekend for me...

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    May Day isn't a global observance though. The first Monday of May is a hangover from religious observance; having spent a large part of my working life in retail environments bank holidays were always a bit of a mixed blessing - I feel like if it was May Day as a workers' holiday then the workers should get a day off!

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (2 children)

    Workers do get the day off in most of Western Europe.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago

    IDK... The guy who wanted to take Data apart and see how he works so he could replicate him in Measure of a Man seemed like a capitalist to me.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (2 children)

    Who's the big ear dude and why is he always saying some stupid shit in these macros?

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