frankenfreak posted:

For everyone else who looks at that t-shirt and wonders what it says about conservatism:

Rand alPaul posted:

Let's make Labor Day about the guys who usually come out and shoot the workers when they strike.

Rand alPaul posted:

Let's make Labor Day about the guys who usually come out and shoot the workers when they strike.

Rand alPaul posted:

Let's make Labor Day about the guys who usually come out and shoot the workers when they strike.

Rand alPaul posted:

Let's make Labor Day about the guys who usually come out and shoot the workers when they strike.

mlmp08 posted:

That image is about as dumb as your statement. Seriously, when was the last time the US military ever shot striking workers in this country? Ludlow Massacre, involving state national guardsmen, from over 100 years ago?

Mystic_Shadow posted:

Reagan told 13,000 air traffic controllers to go gently caress themselves some 34 years and 1 month ago. It took almost a decade for the occupation to recover in the United states.

mlmp08 posted:

I know, but that has nothing to do with what I brought up, and lol, how would you think that's news to me when I linked an image of that strike?

mlmp08 posted:

I know, but that has nothing to do with what I brought up, and lol, how would you think that's news to me when I linked an image of that strike?

mlmp08 posted:

That image is about as dumb as your statement. Seriously, when was the last time the US military ever shot striking workers in this country? Ludlow Massacre, involving state national guardsmen, from over 100 years ago?

Lassitude posted:

"The Bonus Army was the popular name of an assemblage of some 43,000 marchers—17,000 World War I veterans, their families, and affiliated groups—who gathered in Washington, D.C., in the spring and summer of 1932 to demand cash-payment redemption of their service certificates. Its organizers called it the Bonus Expeditionary Force to echo the name of World War I's American Expeditionary Forces, while the media called it the Bonus March. It was led by Walter W. Waters, a former army sergeant. [...] On July 28, U.S. Attorney General William D. Mitchell ordered the veterans removed from all government property. Washington police met with resistance, shots were fired and two veterans were wounded and later died. President Herbert Hoover then ordered the army to clear the veterans' campsite. Army Chief of Staff General Douglas MacArthur commanded the infantry and cavalry supported by six tanks. The Bonus Army marchers with their wives and children were driven out, and their shelters and belongings burned."


They're wearing gas masks because the US Army gassed its own WW1 veterans.



"The Battle of Blair Mountain was the largest labor uprising in United States history and the largest organized armed uprising since the American Civil War.[1] For five days in late August and early September 1921, in Logan County, West Virginia, some 10,000 armed coal miners confronted 3,000 lawmen and strikebreakers, called the Logan Defenders,[2] who were backed by coal mine operators during an attempt by the miners to unionize the southwestern West Virginia coalfields. The battle ended after approximately one million rounds were fired,[3] and the United States Army intervened by presidential order."

Exclamation Marx posted:

dinoputz posted:

When I see this, it makes me immediately think this is astroturfed. Obviously the parties were different coalitions immediately after WW2, and if I remember right a couple unions (besides police/firefighters) did support Republicans--especially ones like George Romney. But this is so ridiculous when looked at with a modern eye that I can't even process it. Was Republican support among some unions genuine, or were they just captured or lulled into a false sense of security? I mean, 1956, that's contemporary with the John Birch Society, when they still held not-insignificant power within the Republican party, no?

Armyman25 posted:

Again, things that happened nearly a century ago.

Sair posted:

Your math isn't very good.

Slavvy posted:

Is that a T34/85 at the top of the row of tanks

darthbob88 posted:

Yeah, but that's still too long ago to say that the military are "the guys who usually come out and shoot the workers when they strike". Although, apart from the labor wars and the Bonus Army, when was the last time a strike was shut down violently at all, by private citizens or the military? I'm guessing it's still going to be pre-Eisenhower.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwbzxemJZIc

C.M. Kruger posted:

Yes.



Other notables:
A French Panhard AML-90 in the lower right, a armored car with a 90mm cannon.
A Tunguska anti-air system in the upper left.
What looks like a Pantsir-S1 (Tunguska turret on a flatbed trailer basically) next to the Panhard.
A SA-11 (Buk) launcher in the upper right.

Lassitude posted:

"The Bonus Army was the popular name of an assemblage of some 43,000 marchers—17,000 World War I veterans, their families, and affiliated groups—who gathered in Washington, D.C., in the spring and summer of 1932 to demand cash-payment redemption of their service certificates. Its organizers called it the Bonus Expeditionary Force to echo the name of World War I's American Expeditionary Forces, while the media called it the Bonus March. It was led by Walter W. Waters, a former army sergeant. [...] On July 28, U.S. Attorney General William D. Mitchell ordered the veterans removed from all government property. Washington police met with resistance, shots were fired and two veterans were wounded and later died. President Herbert Hoover then ordered the army to clear the veterans' campsite. Army Chief of Staff General Douglas MacArthur commanded the infantry and cavalry supported by six tanks. The Bonus Army marchers with their wives and children were driven out, and their shelters and belongings burned."


They're wearing gas masks because the US Army gassed its own WW1 veterans.



"The Battle of Blair Mountain was the largest labor uprising in United States history and the largest organized armed uprising since the American Civil War.[1] For five days in late August and early September 1921, in Logan County, West Virginia, some 10,000 armed coal miners confronted 3,000 lawmen and strikebreakers, called the Logan Defenders,[2] who were backed by coal mine operators during an attempt by the miners to unionize the southwestern West Virginia coalfields. The battle ended after approximately one million rounds were fired,[3] and the United States Army intervened by presidential order."

double nine posted:

Not sure I understand the purpose, is it a targeting range (bombing with duds or sthing?) or simply "learn what these things look like from above"?

dinoputz posted:

A different type of astroturf operation, 44 years into the future:

C.M. Kruger posted:

Exclamation Marx posted:

quote:

Parliament is expected to pass a second raft of refugee laws by next week, giving greater authority to the police and the military, including the right to enter any home to search for migrants who might be hiding there.

goose fleet posted:

spacetoaster posted:

Zeroisanumber posted:

He flubbed a line one time six years ago and the right still makes lame jokes about it.

Zeroisanumber posted:

He flubbed a line one time six years ago and the right still makes lame jokes about it.