• FireTower@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    They don’t call him Warren ““I am not fit for this office and should never have been here.” -Warren G Harding” Harding for nothing.

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      2 months ago

      He was less racist than your average fellow at the time is just about all I’ll give him. And giving us Coolidge is a little based, even if Coolidge did nothing to prevent the upcoming depression. Otherwise, he gets a “F - see me after presidency” rating. Probably died to get out of that awkward meeting.

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      2 months ago

      Yet the vast majority of modern rednecks support anti-union and anti-worker candidates because at least they aren’t Democrats.

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        2 months ago

        There’s a deep and sick irony to it. Like seeing Confederate flags flying in West Virginia.

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          2 months ago

          I saw a rebel flag popup stand in Jefferson county that I found deeply offensive. They were selling stars and bars and trump flags. I was like “motherfucker, what the fuck do you think this state was founded as an act of resistance against?”

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    2 months ago

    as a sidepoint it’s insane how people demonize unions so much. I saw an Australian documentary about how “greedy boat employees are stealing vital medical supplies and are destroying this country” when it was literally just them not being paid for overtime so they stopped working overtime

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      Guess who has the money to fund shit tons of anti-union rhetoric? Guess who also owns almost all the media? Guess who also owns all the companies that produce school books?

      I could go on, but I think you probably see my point. If you do, congratulate yourself, you’re smarter than the average blue collar American worker.