And May Day in U.S. was supplanted by Law Day ("to celebrate the rule of law") but it didn't take off because it wasn't a public holiday.

Ya can't make this up any better.

As a US-ian I can tell you this propaganda works. I grew up not knowing shit about May Day (that's like flowers in a basket, right?) or Labor Day and I routinely confused Labor Day and Veterans Day. This coming from a solidly LIB-slash-Non-Political household of teacher parents.

  • albigu@lemmygrad.ml
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    1 year ago

    I legit only found out about this Unitedstadian quirk when a homeless man was murdered on the subway on May Day in New York [1], and my first thought while watching the footage was "why are there so many people on the subway on May Day?"

    Now look at this map:

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    • theother2020 [comrade/them, she/her]
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      1 year ago

      Jesus, always the same map.

      I’m thinking of those turning points of “when I became a leftist/communist/jokerfied” and like if you fully absorb this, how can you stay a lib. And there’s thousands more examples. Definitely the most propagandized people on the planet.