If there is one thing the workers can’t stand, it is occasionally getting paid to go fishing or crack open a cold one and grill outdoors.
Interesting he’s mad on Juneteenth wonder why that could be
Surely just a coincidence
Cancelling holidays is incredibly risky behavior. This has played parts in past revolutions.
No Bread,
No Circuses.
Trump train going to derail harder than East Palestine, Ohio
When our SocDem-junta decided to cancel a 400 year old holiday, our incredibly cucked unions are began talking like Rosa Luxemberg for like 3 days. It was one of the strangest things I’ve ever seen, even if they ultimately backed down because the SocDems promised to let them be more racist against poles and romanians.
Cromwell trying to cancel Christmas was basically his worst move
Everyone here (or maybe it was Hasan, I can’t remember) always says not to think of the republican working class as just a bunch of braindead morons, just people who are misguided; Well this is the ultimate test on whether they really are stupid or not.
I mean alot of them are petty bourgeois small business owner tyrants and might even work during holidays so they probably want everyone at their level
The only holiday I don’t recognize is memorial day.
Memorial Day but you’re kicking back at the grill and occasionally chuckling about troops who got
Celebrating with fireworks near their homes
GIWTWM if only my friends were tankier
I was thinking of the grind culture fucks who brag about working 294 hours a week, but even they would refrain from supporting holiday cuts. Can’t think of anyone in the workplace who wants be known as that guy
The “Outlaw” biker clubs coming out to lick the cops boots in Portland isn’t a great sign
Actual one percenter clubs, not just larpers? Weird.
No the western working class is braindead morons
Comrade trump, welcome to the front of the war on christmas.
the us has like 6 holidays, chill out donald
Probably a quiet way to attack all the federal holidays directly affecting federal employees.
Oh yeah… and the racism of it being Junteenth.
He’s saying this on Juneteenth because IDK he couldn’t pick up a book of stamps or something. When it’s Fourth of July he’ll be all like “the hard working Americans earned this holiday.” It’s not so much the racism as it is “What do you mean I can’t buy stamps on a Wednesday, this is America!”
I lived in rural Tennessee when I was a child in the 90s. On MLK day the bank, THE BANK, changed their sign to read, “WE DON’T NEED ANOTHER N_R HOLIDAY”. They spelled it out fully. Not a digital sign. They did the lettering one by one.
This tweet has the same vibe.
Oh, and if anyone wants to know it was Waynesboro. Fuck that town.
Virginia changed it to Lee/Jackson/King Day, to honor Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson
My wife gets “confederate heroes day” off in Texas every January 19.
Oh…I didn’t even think of the racist angle, I thought it was a vile attack on the working class
definitely both
He did say this before - in addition to hating Juneteenth he also hates all paid holidays
Hates ending slavery… hates paying people… hmmm…
Knowing the hogs, they would think it’s a great insult that they have to be pried from their oh so precious boss even for the great satan’s birthday.
Hell, they’d be the types advocating they give their boss a “day off” from paying them.
In my country the government recently abolished a holiday in order to get more money to fund more military so they could fight Russia.
It was a huge success. Workers have been extatic about getting to work a day more instead of relaxing. The popularity of the government has skyrocketed ever since.
Didn’t you also get a rise to 70 years old in retirement age?
Yes we did. People were dancing in the streets and celebrating when they got the news that they would get to spend more of their old age at work and less of it with their grandchildren.
Europe deserves to burn ngl
Don’t worry, our leaders are working tirelessly to make it happen
Please tell me This is sarcasm
It is. People absolutely hated it.
For people who love to talk about how Republicans ended slavery, Republicans sure seem to hate Juneteenth…
I just hate that people buy the narrative that we need to penny pinch to the point where you cant take a day off otherwise the American economy is going to explode. Pretty sure if 100% of the bullshit jobs went away and people got paid the same as if they had them, our economy wouldnt be any different
Pretty sure if 100% of the bullshit jobs went away and people got paid the same as if they had them
Or more!
If that’s what it asked to keep the economy going then itd not a functioning economy
You could have Poland as an example. In 2000’ we had high unemployment in horrible conditions because of mass trashdeal faux employment that won’t give you anything like holidays, retirement, etc etc, you were entirely on the mercy of employer. Which was also illegal to employ people in full time on it, but no one ever was punished for it and we talk about millions of cases in long years.
Then a fucking PiS protofascist government noticed it’s also putting entire country budget in shambles and will soon evolve into multipronged social crisis (succdems were ok with it) and someone there actually had a functioning brain for once and instead of delegalising it any further, they just taxed the trashdeals exactly the same as normal codex jobs. Employers mafia of course screamed bloody murder, but were ignored as political support for this was overwhelming and even the anti-union solidarność didn’t sabotaged it, even if just because they are going on PiS leash for ages.
This caused the number of full-time trashdeals to drop dramatically, most of those people retained their jobs, but now were properly employed in codex deals (which clearly shows entire case to be just capitalist exploitation), unemployment dropped drastically and even economy improved.
leader of only country with 0 federally mandated holidays: we have too many holidays
trump is gonna make us tip our boss for the privilege of “providing us with a job” bro 😭 that’s why he said no taxes on tips
I read When Serfs Stood Up In Tbet recently, and found it to be a dark omen. Reading the descriptions of the omnipresent environment of predation and the myriad ways people were exploited, has me wondering when they’ll bust out the subscription fees for every flower pot.
reminds me of when he was talking in front of coal miners recently and said something like “look at these guys, all they do is mine coal, they love it, if we stop mining coal what will they do with themselves”
he wasn’t that wrong. a bunch of those fuckers reject any offer of retraining and definitely didn’t want to learn to code. fucking americans make their jobs their identity and if you say coal is bad that makes them bad.
reject any offer of retraining and definitely didn’t want to learn to code…
History kinda proved them right though.
Retraining to what jobs? Where?
reject any offer of retraining and definitely didn’t want to learn to code.
Because the idea of having 30-40 year old blue-collar men from Appalachia being asked to suddenly learn how to deeply and intimately use a computer while learning an entirely new language form is about the same as expecting them to learn Chinese and be foreign exchange traders. Retraining would make sense in other similar fields. Other forms of mining/extraction or another blue-collar trade.
On top of that, what would be the point in training them in code? So they can have their skill-set entirely useless in 2-3 years when AI starts doing the jobs for them?
this was like 10+ years ago, they could’ve even learned react and made good money and half of 'em retired before the post-covid bubble burst.
there were better options than teaching boomers to use computers they could’ve tried but the job-as-identity freaks wouldn’t go for it regardless
I think you’re misunderstanding how easy it is to translate those skills and just “make them learn it”. They are blue-collar tradesmen at heart and while their line of work directly harms the planet, trying to get them into a desk-job is just nearly impossible. Not entirely, but I guarantee you it’s a 1 out of 10 kind of thing with the people I’ve known whom are into coal-mining. Most of the time, it’s a generational family thing less of a “job-as-identity” thing.
“job-as-identity” isn’t exactly being a freak. Making it your whole personality, sure, but there are a lot of people who take pride in what they do and genuinely enjoy doing it. I know I enjoy the trade I am in and losing all access to it and getting told “just code lol” would justifiably make me pissed too.
Most of us don’t even get paid for them.
My current sales job is the only one I have ever had that gives holiday pay.
I worked in food service and retail for a long time before I stumbled my way into manufacturing, and federal holidays were actually the worst. Some of the busiest days of the year when we had to serve all these hogs. Some places at least paid time and a half, but many don’t even do that.
And they’re always saying shit like, “Can’t believe they’re making you work on [holiday name]!” Like, yeah, you’re the reason why
Yep. I hate and despise every. single. holiday. with every fiber of my soul. and i hate that i hate them.
my parents: “but the holiday party starts at 11 am don’t you want to see your sis!”
me: “i’ll be lucky to get off by 4 pm and still have to shower because i am a sweaty disgusting mess”
them: “it’s 5pm where are you? everyone is leaving!”
me, exhausted and driving an hour and a half to get to them hating the fucking holidays and they forget every time (my family works civil service)
I always feel really bad when I forget to buy something on a holiday.
Yep. I worked at 711 for 6 years and 4th of July/memorial day were the worst.
Yeah huge numbers of the worst off workers already don’t get shit for holidays and have to deal with everyone else’s privilege on those days. The rational part of my brain doesn’t want any working person to lose that benefit but part of me really couldn’t give a shit. Especially so because any time I say “maybe everything should be closed on holidays, not just your job” to a white collar worker they act like I said we should ritually sacrifice their dog.
My last job had holiday pay. And travel pay. And health insurance. On paper it paid less than my current job, but god damn did it pay so much more in practice.
Actually, I support a 4 day work week with 25 days annual leave.
I’m having a hard time getting a permanent job. Y’all need to save some work for the rest of us
Pretty sure just in March/April alone in Denmark we have Skærtorsdag (Thursday before Easter), Langfredag (Good Friday), then Anden påskedag (Monday after Easter), Kristi himmelfartsdag (Ascension day), birthday of Queen Margaret (April 16th), and International Workers Day (May 1st) as paid holidays
Funs fact, in the anglosphere Labour Day is on all different days (often celebrating something like the 8 hour day) because our governments were so shit scared of Communism they wouldn’t dare make it May 1
The queen’s birthday is not a holiday. May 1st is not a public holiday but in some collective agreements you get half the day off.
Quite a lot of childcare places have May 1st as a holiday, which means that it’s more like an unofficial holiday, especially among white collar workers who just “work from home” (like I did at my previous job) while they spend time with their kids, whom they can’t drop off anywhere, because most places are closed.
Did I ever mention that I fucking love how childcare in Denmark is structured?
I will lose it if this clown takes my holidays
