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Labor Day Neutralized (hexbear.net)
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And May Day in U.S. was supplanted by Law Day ("to celebrate the rule of law") but it didn't take off because it wasn't a public holiday.

Ya can't make this up any better.

As a US-ian I can tell you this propaganda works. I grew up not knowing shit about May Day (that's like flowers in a basket, right?) or Labor Day and I routinely confused Labor Day and Veterans Day. This coming from a solidly LIB-slash-Non-Political household of teacher parents.

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[-] Dolores@hexbear.net 11 points 1 year ago

wait, i can't actually believe this. May 1 was specifically adopted for the Haymarket affair? and every country except the US has it as labor day? the USSR commemorated yankee labor martyrs more than the yankees

[-] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago

And the US straight-up replaced it with Bootlicker Day, and it's not even a national holiday. This country is so cool

[-] joseph@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago

my brainwormed parents told me that May Day was some sexually deviant holiday ?? No idea where that came from

[-] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

May Day is when everyone dances around a maypole and then does butt stuff

[-] AlbigensianGhoul@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 1 year ago

I legit only found out about this Unitedstadian quirk when a homeless man was murdered on the subway on May Day in New York [1], and my first thought while watching the footage was "why are there so many people on the subway on May Day?"

Now look at this map:

[-] theother2020@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago

Jesus, always the same map.

I’m thinking of those turning points of “when I became a leftist/communist/jokerfied” and like if you fully absorb this, how can you stay a lib. And there’s thousands more examples. Definitely the most propagandized people on the planet.

[-] GVAGUY3@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago

I'll take the day off tho*

[-] sovietknuckles@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago

Same, I intend to celebrate this year's Anticommunism Day by spreading communism

[-] AcidMarxist@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago

I actually got fired this year on the actual Labor Day

[-] Southloop@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago

I’m sorry, all I hear is that America gave the world two Labor Days. You’re welcome.

[-] emizeko@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago

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

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