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iugtmkbdfil834 5 days ago | parent | next [-]

<< Do I understand why it's happening?

I think most of us understand the why. That part is not exactly a secret. Naturally, it does not help that the why is a list of multiple factors playing into it and most pick the favorites and I am sure each power center will spin this to their particular benefit further polarizing society.

What I am really saying is:

We should try to cool things down.

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bell-cot 5 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> Violence is very, very often the answer because power only understands greater power.

Unfortunately, power's usual counter-move to that "answer" is a vastly-more-violent rebuttal. With minimal concern for "collateral damage", or other euphemisms for innocents being maimed and killed at scale.

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cbeach 5 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Violence didn’t bring us the weekend.

The arch-capitalist Henry Ford created the precedent for the weekend because he wanted people to have leisure time to be able to use his cars.

	▲	ceejayoz 5 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		> Violence didn’t bring us the weekend. Violence definitely happened in the US labor movement. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorado_Coalfield_War https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Blair_Mountain https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homestead_strike https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Overpass Ford hardly invented the weekend, either. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workweek_and_weekend#History "The present-day concept of the relatively longer "week-end" first arose in the industrial north of Britain in the early 19th century... In 1884, the Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions, a predecessor of today’s AFL-CIO, called for all workers to have eight-hour days by May 1, 1886, playing a crucial role in the push for a five-day workweek."
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