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return2ozma@lemmy.world to Work Reform@lemmy.world · 2 years ago

I think the rich need a reminder...

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return2ozma@lemmy.world to Work Reform@lemmy.world · 2 years ago
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  • Bobby Bandwidth@lemmy.world
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    Why do you think the cops have tanks now

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      I was gonna say, we get shot for protesting now…probably gotta change that part first.

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        People got shot before too. Lots of people. The fight for worker’s rights was long and bloody.

        https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-union_violence_in_the_United_States

        https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_violence_in_the_United_States

        https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/theminewars-labor-wars-us/

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          I misspoke…er…typed, we get shot and have no real way to defend ourselves being wildly outgunned by police. Thanks for that PBS article btw. I hadn’t heard of a lot of these happenings, and I’m still reading through it.

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            You think we are outgunned? Really? That’s awful silly of you.

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              Bruh, there’s no way you can take on the greatest military machine in history.

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                💀

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                You forget that every part of that machine is a person. No soldier is going to attack his fellow citizens. The cops are not people, but we outnumber and outgun them by orders of magnitude. Either way I am willing to die trying. You can stand with us if the time comes or you can enjoy that boot you’re currently deep throating. The choice is yours.

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          Was?

          Is.

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        Now? The pinkertons never left, and they started ages ago. Protesters got shot then too.

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          https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Blair_Mountain

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      Strikers were bombed back in the day by aircrafts. Unionization was won through enduring warfare yet we just gave it away. Shows how powerful unionization is that the elites are completely terrified of it, and that they have surpressed the history of it so few will know how much blood was shed to get it.

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