• boonhet
      73·
      3 days ago

      Not every country celebrates the hangover day after drinking for Walpurgis night, I’d assume?

      Edit because it’s a very specific reference to my country:

      Here in Estonia we get May 1st off, but we can’t really call it International Workers’ Day because then we’d also be celebrating oppression and forced labor, as the soviet union was nominally socialist, but in reality quite oppressive. IWD was very important to the soviet union, they held huge military parades (to show you what would happen if some part of the union would cease to be good obedient workers of course).

      So instead we get May 1st off for what we call “Spring Day” AKA May Day in other countries. Incidentally it’s the day after Walpurgis night, the ancient celebration of witches and shit.

      Also the loser country that doesn’t celebrate may 1st has had a labor day for longer than IWD has existed, at least in some states (been a federal holiday for like a century too now). It’s just in September.

        • boonhet
          62·
          2 days ago

          No, it’s because may day military parades were forced upon us by the same entity that sent our people to labour camps.

          Great for you if your people have never been occupied by a dictatorship. Must be nice being on the side of imperialism that benefits from it and looking down on those who suffered.

            • boonhet
              51·
              2 days ago

              And what country is that?

              Btw, the nazis and rednazis were originally allies, you do realize that, right?

              And no, nazis are no friends of ours. They did wage war on our enemies, but they were also opressors, they never freed us when they conquered our land.

              If you’re saying that the hard working people of my country should’ve all been shot by the rednazis, perhaps your ancestors should’ve been shot as well because they’ve given birth to a nazi themselves.

                • humanamerican@lemmy.zip
                  31·
                  2 days ago

                  Bro straight up calling someone’s ancestors Nazis because of the country they live in without even knowing them or what their family went through - that makes you a Nazi. STFU

                • boonhet
                  22·
                  2 days ago

                  LMAO a Belgian lecturing me about nazis or oppression. Go ask the Congolese what Belgian oppression was like. Y’all surrendered your country to the nazis willingly. You can claim that Leo wasn’t representative of the people, but y’all kept him in power after WWII so clearly nobody actually disagreed with him. Your voluntary membership of Nazi germany was less than a decade. Most of Eastern Europe was under rednazi rule for half a century. And I’m sure the Walloon legion didn’t do any war crimes either.

                  You’re one of those people who are for genocide as long as it’s Russia or China doing it, aren’t you? Everyone else is a nazi for doing anything wrong, but if it’s the rednazis commiting genocide, that’s justified lmao.

                  Get your ass back to hexbear where your kind are so the rest of us can defederate from you and your rednazi opinions.

                  I will be blocking you because I don’t need such bigotry in my life. Good bye.

  • IninewCrow@lemmy.caEnglish
    52·
    3 days ago

    “Our capitalists are dead. Ancient human workers slew them centuries ago” … now I really know that this is a fictional universe

  • vga
    21·
    3 days ago

    You guys don’t have holiday on may day?

    • gnutrino@programming.devEnglish
      10·
      3 days ago

      In the UK we get the first Monday in May instead which has kind of a wink-wink nudge-nudge sort of relationship to IWD (it was added as a UK wide bank holiday by a Labour government back when Labour was more traditionally socialist but it was also an existing bank holiday in Scotland celebrating Beltane so there was some plausible deniability that it was just bringing bank holidays across the countries more into line with each other)

      • boonhet
        21·
        3 days ago

        Most of the rest of us don’t get Labor day off in September so it kinda evens out.

          • boonhet
            31·
            2 days ago

            Labor Day parade was first held in 1882. The Haymarket massacre was May 4th 1886 and the first time it was officially commemorated on May Day was 1890.

          • boonhet
            22·
            2 days ago

            Depends on the country you compare with and the employer because they have holidays like juneteenth that not all businesses observe in addition to the main ones that everyone does.

            The one thing they do better than some other countries is that for most holidays, if it falls on a weekend, you get Friday or Monday off. Not all countries do this so you can fall below the US in total amount of paid holidays even if you have more nominally.

            They get absolutely shafted with vacation days compared to everyone else though, no competition there.

  • marcos@lemmy.world
    13·
    3 days ago

    Hum… Isn’t tomorrow one of the 2 days that are internationally recognized as not a working day? (The other being Jan 1st)