• too_high_for_this@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    I used to hang out with a few rednecks. Good people, but absolutely indoctrinated. Union workers who didn’t know the history of unions.

    We got drunk around a bonfire one night and I started talking about solidarity, unions, workers rights, labor value, personal / private / public property, etc, etc.

    By 3am, we were talking about seizing the means of production. If we’d had a few cases of s’mores schnapps, we could’ve changed history

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      12 hours ago

      It’s like that all around people mostly agree on things or at least want to work together. The problem is our “Leaders” don’t want any part of that.

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      12 hours ago

      I hung out with the warehouse guys at my job and one of them talked about how good his wife’s nurses union was. I agreed with him, and made a joke about the warehouse guys unionizing.

      A few of them got really upset, and couldn’t explain why they were upset. They just kept saying “We didn’t understand”. Like brother, right now - there’s nothing stopping the company from firing you… I think you don’t understand.