Fuck the military with a chainsaw
May. 27th, 2024 08:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alex_antoninHey so here's an idea: How about we merge Memorial Day and Veteran's Day into one holiday, call it National Military Asshole Day or National Storm Trooper Day or something, or okay, Veterans / Memorial Day, then reassign it to July 5th so we can quarantine two shitty holidays together into the same time block, get all the fascist "yay Murrica! yay capitalism and murdering foreign people for the state!" out of the way in one block of time so it doesn't annoy me as much anymore.
Hell, while we're at it, let's put President's Day and any other Murrica centric holidays in that same time block as well. Give people a week long holiday. Independence Presidents Military Yay Murrica Day? IndePresiMiliMurrica Day? National Yay Murrica Day?
A work in progress, sure, but I like this idea in general. Fewer holidays I have to tolerate, lump the aggravation into one uber-holiday.
I have other notes about holidays. Make it so on Labor Day, employers are forced to give paid time off to anyone who doesn't work on Labor Day, and they're also forced to pay the people who do work on Labor Day five times what they would normally pay them. Also while we're at it let's make the minimum wage $30 an hour across the board. By which I mean no more paying restaurant staff two measley dollars an hour and have to subsidize their survival with tips. In fact let's ban tipping altogether. If the capitalists don't like it, we'll threaten to force them to profit share with all their employees instead.
My other notes mainly consist of "every holiday needs a feast," "let's hire people who don't celebrate these holidays to work on them so we don't have to worry about holiday hours at stores and public transit anymore," and "let's take the Christ out of Christmas, those Christian assholes stole Yule/Saturnalia/etc from the pagans anyway."
(Like seriously, why do weekend bus schedules exist? Don't people who have the day off also go places on the weekends? And why do I have to put up with holiday hours for public transit when you could just assign Hindus and Jews and atheists to work on Christmas or Easter or whatnot?)
Actually my notes on all holidays more or less boil down to "I should not be inconvenienced or annoyed by the existence of this holiday."
Hell, while we're at it, let's put President's Day and any other Murrica centric holidays in that same time block as well. Give people a week long holiday. Independence Presidents Military Yay Murrica Day? IndePresiMiliMurrica Day? National Yay Murrica Day?
A work in progress, sure, but I like this idea in general. Fewer holidays I have to tolerate, lump the aggravation into one uber-holiday.
I have other notes about holidays. Make it so on Labor Day, employers are forced to give paid time off to anyone who doesn't work on Labor Day, and they're also forced to pay the people who do work on Labor Day five times what they would normally pay them. Also while we're at it let's make the minimum wage $30 an hour across the board. By which I mean no more paying restaurant staff two measley dollars an hour and have to subsidize their survival with tips. In fact let's ban tipping altogether. If the capitalists don't like it, we'll threaten to force them to profit share with all their employees instead.
My other notes mainly consist of "every holiday needs a feast," "let's hire people who don't celebrate these holidays to work on them so we don't have to worry about holiday hours at stores and public transit anymore," and "let's take the Christ out of Christmas, those Christian assholes stole Yule/Saturnalia/etc from the pagans anyway."
(Like seriously, why do weekend bus schedules exist? Don't people who have the day off also go places on the weekends? And why do I have to put up with holiday hours for public transit when you could just assign Hindus and Jews and atheists to work on Christmas or Easter or whatnot?)
Actually my notes on all holidays more or less boil down to "I should not be inconvenienced or annoyed by the existence of this holiday."