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Cake day: June 30th, 2023

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  • It was always about worker’s rights anyways:

    Malcolm L. Thomas argued in his 1970 history The Luddites that machine-breaking was one of the very few tactics that workers could use to increase pressure on employers, undermine lower-paid competing workers, and create solidarity among workers. “These attacks on machines did not imply any necessary hostility to machinery as such; machinery was just a conveniently exposed target against which an attack could be made.”[10] Historian Eric Hobsbawm has called their machine wrecking “collective bargaining by riot”, which had been a tactic used in Britain since the Restoration because manufactories were scattered throughout the country, and that made it impractical to hold large-scale strikes.[13][14] An agricultural variant of Luddism occurred during the widespread Swing Riots of 1830 in southern and eastern England, centring on breaking threshing machines.[15]

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luddite

    It was about making sure that as mechanization resulted in a lower need for labor, that workers compensation remained steady, and they worked less hours.

    People hating luddites is just the result of centuries old propaganda from the wealthy



  • The Nazis had a draft… With damn near 100% draft rate

    Do you think that made it ok because under German law they had to?

    Because during much of the war, if they objected they were just shot.

    So surely, if jail is an excuse, your logic dictates that you also excuse every Nazi from what they did and you don’t judge any of them…

    Unless there’s an inconsistency with your logic for some reason

    Most people tho, think jail for a couple months is better than participating in a genocide. But everyone’s personal values are different.





  • Yeah, but people expect it to look like what’s supposed to be a picture of someone else’s…

    That was literally the whole point of user uploaded pics, to see what you actually get

    Now peoples expectations will be higher, and initially they’ll order when they wouldn’t have. But it won’t take many orders for someone to always feel disappointed and associate that with the app.

    This is a very short term focused change, and it’s not gonna work out well