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  • MrNobody@quokk.autoCommunism@lemmy.mlProtestation
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    8 days ago

    What?

    It’s an official holiday, that’s state recognition of it to celebrate it, not make it unamerican.

    And it was first made an official holiday before Europe made May Day a holiday. Based on a date chosen by unions.

    You’re complaining that workers celebrated an event before Europe and didn’t retroactively follow your date. What eurocentric anti-worker shit is that?


  • MrNobody@quokk.autoCommunism@lemmy.mlProtestation
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    8 days ago

    Beginning in the late 19th century, as the trade union and labor movements grew, trade unionists proposed that a day be set aside to celebrate labor. “Labor Day” was promoted by the Central Labor Union and the Knights of Labor, which organized the first parade in New York City. By the time it became an official federal holiday in 1894, thirty states in the U.S. officially celebrated Labor Day.

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

    The unions chose the date, the state followed years and years later.






  • MrNobody@quokk.autoCommunism@lemmy.mlProtestation
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    8 days ago

    This is just wrong. Multiple countries don’t celebrate May Day.

    For example we celebrate Labour Day in Australia on a different date because we got the 8 hour work day decades before the rest of the world. It makes no sense for us to follow a later date based on a US strike.

    And America celebrates Labor Day on the first Monday of September and this also predates the meeting of the Second International who chose the first of May.

    So as far as your meme goes, it’s inaccurate and America was ahead of everyone celebrating May Day…


  • MrNobody@quokk.auMto"Quotes"@quokk.auWork.
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    10 days ago

    I have thought about that as well. So far my idea was to get normal quotes by browsing reddit and aiming for a mix of both types, also trying to get some motivational quotes into the mix. Funny quotes are some of the harder ones to find.