In other words, "Bla bla bla, blablabla. Bla."

why is America so socialist and we don't even know it?

A slideshow? I thought today was a holiday from labor.

tortamus: A slideshow? I thought today was a holiday from labor.

tortamus: A slideshow? I thought today was a holiday from labor.

Yeah, because moving your finger is such hard work ;)

tortamus: A slideshow? I thought today was a holiday from labor.

I found the whole holiday quite ironic, that we celebrate LABOR Day by not working at all.

Wouldn't its name suggest we're all supposed to pull double shifts that day or something?

Can someone please tell me why everyone biatches about slideshows on fark?

False alarm everyone. It's a slide show. Not an actual article. Nothing to see here.

/refuses to click through slide shows.

Contrary to the articles headlines, I do not NEED to know these facts.

well that sounded like it'd be interesting, but its a slide show, so I only read one fact

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+1

ArkAngel: 1. Unions suck
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Thanks, Rockefeller, for your valuable input.

tortamus: A slideshow? I thought today was a holiday from labor.

True, that. I work hard enough during the week, I don't need the pain of a slideshow on my Labor Day Holiday.

sigh*

I was at work by 0410 today.

Need a Holiday/

tortamus: A slideshow? I thought today was a holiday from labor.

Orthodox Jews are not allowed to click on slideshows on the Sabbath. They have some goyim do it for them.

Boo slide show.... boo booo boooooooo slide show.

tortamus: A slideshow? I thought today was a holiday from labor.

Honest Bender: False alarm everyone. It's a slide show. Not an actual article. Nothing to see here.

/refuses to click through slide shows.

syndre: well that sounded like it'd be interesting, but its a slide show, so I only read one fact

Macular Degenerate: True, that. I work hard enough during the week, I don't need the pain of a slideshow on my Labor Day Holiday.

RandomExcess: Boo slide show.... boo booo boooooooo slide show.

Ok, I think I got it now. It gives people something to biatch about...and if your on fark, you have to biatch.

qrb912: sigh*

I was at work by 0410 today.

Need a Holiday/

With ya there. I got to work at 1830 last night and I dont get off here for another 2 hours yet.

lethargically frisky: tortamus: A slideshow? I thought today was a holiday from labor.

Honest Bender: False alarm everyone. It's a slide show. Not an actual article. Nothing to see here.

/refuses to click through slide shows.

syndre: well that sounded like it'd be interesting, but its a slide show, so I only read one fact

Macular Degenerate: True, that. I work hard enough during the week, I don't need the pain of a slideshow on my Labor Day Holiday.

RandomExcess: Boo slide show.... boo booo boooooooo slide show.

Ok, I think I got it now. It gives people something to biatch about...and if your on fark, you have to biatch.

The effect is amplified by having the attention span of a 3 year old freebasing Ritalin.

I LOVE slideshows. Now we can have a pointless internet argument while their moms get them more soda.

I've got you "Labor" day cake right here.

The first Labor Day in the United States was celebrated on September 5, 1882 in New York City. It became a federal holiday in 1894, when, following the deaths of a number of workers at the hands of the U.S. military and U.S. Marshals during the Pullman Strike, President Grover Cleveland put reconciliation with the labor movement as a top political priority. Fearing further conflict, legislation making Labor Day a national holiday was rushed through Congress unanimously and signed into law a mere six days after the end of the strike. The September date was chosen as Cleveland was concerned that aligning an American labor holiday with existing international May Day celebrations would stir up negative emotions linked to the Haymarket Affair. All 50 U.S. states have made Labor Day a state holiday.
(From Wikipedia, "Labor Day")

This just in, as much as conservatives/reactionaries/robber baron apologists love to decry "socialism" in America... all that socialism (workers' rights, benefits, safety laws and regulation of industry) is probably what saved your country from having a communist revolution, or at least a bloody attempt at one. It's hard to appreciate how ghastly the lower working class's life was back then, and how brutally attempts to organize for their rights were oppressed (often by police working almost explicitly for large companies). People were VERY angry that requests for basic improvements that would make their lives better were responded to with beatings and arrests.

Why do we have that eight hour day? Why do we have those mine safety laws? Why do we have all those laws busting the sweatshops? Were they benevolent gifts from an enlightened management? No, they were fought for, bled for, died for, by people lot like us. They died not on the battlefield to fight another dumb bosses war. They died on the picket line to give all of us a better future. - Utah Phillips

lethargically frisky: Can someone please tell me why everyone biatches about slideshows on fark?

Sure. You can put all that content on one page, not forcing the reader of the article to click X-times.

Or. You can be an ad-revenue whore, and split it up into tiny, digestible pieces requiring the user to navigate through X-pages to see the same content a bit of scrolling could serve nicely for.


If it were a list of the top 100 words used for being ignorant of slide-show pain, and you REALLY wanted to read it, which would you prefer?

WORD #100: OBLIVIOUS
Click NEXT to Continue to Word #99

Or would you rather just ... see the list?

Honoring all the billions that work every day, all day, for the rest of their lives so that very few can enjoy extravagant pleasures that only baffle the mind. You're all stupid monkeys.

lethargically frisky: tortamus: A slideshow? I thought today was a holiday from labor.

Honest Bender: False alarm everyone. It's a slide show. Not an actual article. Nothing to see here.

/refuses to click through slide shows.

Ok, I think I got it now. It gives people something to biatch about...and if your on fark, you have to biatch.

Ding ding!

Seacop: Contrary to the articles headlines, I do not NEED to know these facts.

Came to say this.

FTFSS - While most Americans likely consider Labor Day a uniquely American experience, but in all reality, Labor Day has its origins in Canada.

This sentence nearly caused brain hemorrhage.

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Sooo I take it you couldn't get in one?

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Hey, at least we got the ignorant bleating sheep out of the way early.

I would like to point out that Canada did not invent labor day. Historians often get this mixed up. In truth we invented Labour Day which is a vastly superior holiday in which we spread maple syrup on our Canadian Bacon and eat it in mass quantities while waiting for our finest sled dogs to deliver their whelps; this ensuring our continued existence. It is this, their labour, that we celebrate.

Workers rights are silly! If we didn't have unions demanding humane treatment of workers and protecting them against vastly more powerful and wealthier management, management would be free to let magical market fairies take everything, because everyone is always free to act out of nothing more than purely rational economic self-inter...

Fark it I can't finish that.

I love their citations.

Time magazine.... Some guy's blog. Some other guy's blog. Great sources.

I'm at work, but only 'cause I couldn't schedule time to re-run samples on the FACSCanto any other time.

told my boss this means I'm not coming in tomorrow though...

/who lets people stay with them for a holiday clearly designed to let you spend all weekend drunk and monday hungover?

hubiestubert: In other news: This Land is Your Land was written by a dirty Socialist, and celebrates the nation AND the proletariat dialectic...

This land is your land. This land is my land. So stay on your land and off my land. Got it?

I always hated that stupid "this land is you land" song even before I knew it was written by a dirty socialist.

Fact #12:
I thought it was Memorial Day

Day_Old_Dutchie: I've got you "Labor" day cake right here.

Funnest cake I've ever seen!
next time someone has a baby here at work, I'm bringing the cake.

No Such Agency:
This just in, as much as conservatives/reactionaries/robber baron apologists love to decry "socialism" in America... all that socialism is probably what saved your country from having a communist revolution, or at least a bloody attempt at one.
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People were VERY angry that requests for basic improvements that would make their lives better were responded to with beatings and arrests.

So what you are saying is that unions came about because rich people where buying politicians to write and enforce laws that kept the little people from improving their lives. Fast forward a few years to now and the rich unions goons are the ones buying the politicians to keep the little people in crappy jobs so they will be forced to pay their dues. Fight all you want for or against socialism it all comes out the same.
Powerful people will use the money (control of banks, energy supply), propaganda (control of TV/movies/news) and government (control of congress/cops/military) to keep that power. Forming a union and giving that union power over you is just bowing before a new powerful master. Don't pretend that the gifts you gain from your new master don't have a price of your freedom as well as the blood you spill in defending its power.

"Always on a Monday"

Really, Huffington Post?

REALLY?