Murder cases, freak accidents or articles triggering just good old existential crisis. Give me your worst.

  • LostCause@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_worker_deaths_in_United_States_labor_disputes

    I‘m from the EU, but it unsettles me to know about how willing the US government and other interest groups there are to do violence to the workers to keep them in line. Whenever anyone from here brings up “why don‘t they strike for healthcare” etc, I think of this. We got a government and companies which are less willing to straight up shoot us to force the rest back to work. That helped I imagine.

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      Europe had similar battles in Glasgow, the boat attack in Sweden, etc.

      The failure of fascism and threat of communism helped a lot. I.e. in Sweden many aristocrats lost investments in Germany, and there was a bigger push for compromise after the war. Meanwhile the Marshall Plan poured a lot of money into Europe (in return for ousting Communists from government in Italy and France).

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        Sweden also had Ådalen In short 5 people got killed by the military during a protest, and afterwards we shaped up the country big time, to ensure it never happened again.