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Resist: It's Time

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We are still in this together, but "this" is going to be real different in the very near future. This demands a different kind of "we."

The French Resistance during Nazi occupation played important roles delivering downed Allied airmen back to safety, supplying military intelligence, and acts of sabotage.

The Underground Railroad is estimated to have brought 100,000 freedom seekers to safety between 1810 and 1850.

It's time.

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[–] clickyello 11 points 4 days ago (1 children)

EVERY WORKER A MEMBER OF THE BOARD

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (5 children)

This sounds like a terrible idea honestly. Also not within the realm of possibility.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Somehow I'm getting the sense that your very narrow view of the "realm of possibility" doesn't match, you know, the reality of things.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Sure ok. When every employee begins a board member I'll know I was wrong.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Someone already linked you to the concept. Maybe try this thing called "reading" sometime before this thing you do called "babbling".

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (3 children)

The links are all about employee share holdings and elected representatives. There are no links regarding employee board membership, probably because it's an absurdity. One of us really does need to do some reading.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

The horse is dead. Leave it.


[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Aren’t there some Australians for you to discourage?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

In sorry you find my views discouraging.

If your demands can't withstand some healthy criticism on lemmy then you're destined for failure.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Criticism is fine when paired with suggestions. Do you have any of the latter?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Sure. My suggestion is to strategically select appropriate demands, rather than just latching on to edgy sounding phrases like "make every employee a board member".

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I think you're taking that all caps comment a bit too seriously.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

Perhaps, although it looks like a significant portion of users think its a serious suggestion, and are conflating board membership with representation.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I can't be bothered reading every link.

The first one describes employees electing board members, which is not the same as being a board member.

Do you really believe that mandatory representation like this is a possible outcome of these protests? I think you'd need overwhelming public support to make it mandatory.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

yeah, maybe read the links. Why the fuck would I bother addressing anything you ask in your comment if you straight up refuse to even try to understand the point I made?

Fuck off.

[–] clickyello 1 points 2 days ago

The funny part about you arguing the validity of this is that it's a prominent quote from Disco Elysium.

The point being that it's an impossible demand meant to shut down any negotiations to seize the means of production for the union.

The people explaining every other worker owned structure are substantially more valid than you pointing back at my silly strawman tho.

[–] PriorityMotif 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

The comment I replied to suggests making every employee a board member. That's not the same as an employee owned company. You might want to do some research.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

Pizza for some, small American flags for others!