▲ 57 ▼ Blue Maga y'all (lemmy.world) submitted 6 days ago by RockBottom@feddit.org to c/politicalmemes@lemmy.world 51 comments fedilink hide all child comments cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/49701814
[–] Simon_Shitewood@lemmy.ml 1 point 6 days ago (2 children) Persistent incremental efforts directly resulted in wages increasing, expanded civil rights, vacation time increasing, labor laws. Half of those were won through a literal war permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] imeansurewhynot@sh.itjust.works 17 points 5 days ago* That "war" that lasted one week and resulted in less than 200 deaths was not a spontaneous giant event that came from nothing, it was a culmination of incremental steps and afterwards was a step leading to further steps. unionizing, employment contracts and organized resistance are the results of persistent, organized effort. Yes, the idea of violent riots is exciting to people who haven't experienced violence. No, riots are not spontaneous, guaranteed policymaking events. permalink fedilink source parent [–] socsa@piefed.social 3 points 4 days ago And that war. Did it solve all the problems, or do we require traversing additional increments? permalink fedilink source parent
[–] imeansurewhynot@sh.itjust.works 17 points 5 days ago* That "war" that lasted one week and resulted in less than 200 deaths was not a spontaneous giant event that came from nothing, it was a culmination of incremental steps and afterwards was a step leading to further steps. unionizing, employment contracts and organized resistance are the results of persistent, organized effort. Yes, the idea of violent riots is exciting to people who haven't experienced violence. No, riots are not spontaneous, guaranteed policymaking events. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] socsa@piefed.social 3 points 4 days ago And that war. Did it solve all the problems, or do we require traversing additional increments? permalink fedilink source parent
