1247
(page 2) 50 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[-] Juice@midwest.social 6 points 20 hours ago

You can't tell me you don't understand why this is

[-] ntma@lemm.ee 33 points 1 day ago

Even if you made it a federal holiday, the wage slaves would still have to work.

[-] pyre@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

how are federal holidays not mandatory time off dude there's a reason they exist. what a backwards country.

edit: apparently the concept is so foreign that people don't understand how these things work. of course there will be exceptions but of you work on a holiday you get a full day's salary as overtime. this usually assures employers only force work when necessary because most would rather not pay extra. and of course further exceptions can be made into the law. no one said life should stop when there's a holiday.

load more comments (3 replies)
load more comments (5 replies)
[-] Hikermick@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago

Like 95% of the US get neither off

load more comments (1 replies)
[-] CyberEgg@discuss.tchncs.de 42 points 1 day ago

Because only people who are able to afford a day off are supposed to vote. That's also why republicans agitate against postal voting and why early vote ballot drop-offs are burning.

[-] StopTouchingYourPhone@lemmy.world 3 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

early vote ballot drop-offs are burning

omfjc... Thanks for the heads up. Link for anyone else who blinked and missed this on Monday.

Authorities, including the FBI, were investigating Monday after early morning fires were set in U.S. ballot drop boxes in Portland, Ore., and in nearby Vancouver, Wash., where hundreds of ballots were destroyed.

[-] bamfic@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago

Why is it election day anyway, why not election month. California and Oregon have vote by mail; every state should

[-] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Washington State too. You're right, the election isn't just a day anymore - I voted more than a week ago.

load more comments (2 replies)
[-] robocall@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

Service workers work on both of those days, so the working class lose either way.

[-] Annoyed_Crabby 2 points 19 hours ago

We have it in Malaysia if the polling date is in weekdays, and we usually have general election on Saturday so most people have no reason not to vote. And even then, we have law that said employer cannot stop employees from going to vote and this is heavily enforced. Though our election is only one day, and once the polling station close, anything or anyone that arrive afterward is not counted

[-] stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

why the fuck is election day not on a Sunday like any normal fucking country?

[-] Qwazpoi@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

Bus doesn't even run on Sundays where I live in large areas (one of the top 10 largest cities in the US)

load more comments (1 replies)
[-] apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago

The poor and desperate will vote less under the current conditions. It is all baked into the US cake. Wait until you realize that the US never passed the Equal Rights Amendment. Still waiting on those bastard laggard states to ratify it for nearly 50 years.

[-] darthelmet@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago

Because President's Day is for buying stuff. Clearly what we need is to allow stores to set up in polling places to get it to be a holiday. /s

[-] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago

It gives employers the ability to suppress votes.

[-] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 2 points 20 hours ago

Bcs the few are important & worshipped, the many are expendable and barely deserving of human-level acknowledgment.

/s
(or at least I wish it was sarcasm)

[-] TargaryenTKE@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago
[-] Empricorn@feddit.nl 26 points 1 day ago
  • pancakes
  • adamantium
  • squirrels

(I'm bad at guessing)

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago

You got 2 out of 3 correct.

[-] Empricorn@feddit.nl 2 points 21 hours ago
load more comments (1 replies)
[-] unemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 day ago

I used to agree that election day should be a bank holiday, but many many still have to work on bank holidays. Now I'm in a populous red state and in-person early voting has been available for years.

I voted early in 22 and in 20. Not sure how old the law is. I think I can vote early all the way up to Saturday, maybe Sunday. too lazy to check.

I think this is a better solution, mail voting notwithstanding. Voting doesn't have to go on for a whole month, but a week or two early makes sense.

Anyways I'll be voting sometime between now and Tuesday.

The ruling class wants you to celebrate them more than it wants you to have any influence in their decisions. It's frighteningly close to HR pizza party logic.

[-] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 day ago

Because the oligarchy supports the leadership they helped to create .... not in the process of how that leadership was created.

load more comments
view more: ‹ prev next ›
this post was submitted on 30 Oct 2024
1247 points (99.1% liked)

memes

10094 readers
1872 users here now

Community rules

1. Be civilNo trolling, bigotry or other insulting / annoying behaviour

2. No politicsThis is non-politics community. For political memes please go to !politicalmemes@lemmy.world

3. No recent repostsCheck for reposts when posting a meme, you can only repost after 1 month

4. No botsNo bots without the express approval of the mods or the admins

5. No Spam/AdsNo advertisements or spam. This is an instance rule and the only way to live.

Sister communities

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS