“Happy Labor Day! Support the troops!”
“Read a book you fucking twerp.”
Jesus Christ you guys.
Labor Day is neither Memorial Day 2 or a second 4th of July.
Read about what it **actually** is and realize that all the conservative people you know that kneejerkingly worship cops and soldiers
(who Labor Day isn’t about either, sorry)
would have angrily and vehemently opposed all the words, thoughts, and actions that led to it, in spite of directly benefitting from it.
That we have a Labor Day at all – let alone a 5‑day, 40-hour workweek – is the result of sweat and spilt blood by ancestors who fought hard for it.
Our idiot uncle that hates people that want a $15 minimum wage is part of the problem.
People didn’t think mine workers deserved a livable wage either.
Ancestors who would have been pilloried by Fox News had it existed in their day and certainly were by its contemporary analogues.
—jason malmberg
Flommist Jason Malmberg is a simple man who believes in brown liquor and small dogs. He also makes art sometimes. Copyright © 2017 Jason Malmberg.
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