• Cryophilia@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    You’ve never heard of strike breakers? Pinkertons? Battle of Blair Mountain?

    I mean that’s just your own ignorance at this point

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      9 months ago

      “You’ve never heard of water? Why would you start a fire?”

      What kind of logic is that?

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        9 months ago

        I’m not saying he’s right, I’m saying it’s absurd that you’ve never heard of the battles against unions in the US.

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          9 months ago

          lol why would that matter if you didn’t agree with him? What’s your point?

          And FYI, I read a book called “Inventing the Pinkertons,” aaallll about the company since their inception, from the Allen who chased outlaws and fabricated an assassination plot against Lincoln to boost his company, through to his sons who took over and became the supreme anti-labor army.

          How did you not know about Allen Pinkerton actually being pro labor and fleeing Scotland for his involvement in a labor movement there?

          Now—I don’t know if you knew this. But this is to give an example of how stupid your comment has been because you have no idea what I know about the pinkertons and the history of labor conflict and nothing I said would give you any reason to think I don’t know what you’re referencing.