NationStates Jolt Archive

Im going this year. Im gonna show support for my comrades.

What do you think about them?

I dont suppor this war.
I would go though tho support our innocent troops going to fight a war that is going know where exept down to the tombstones!
If you know what I mean

I dont suppor this war.

What does that have to do with May 1?

Anyway, it's a public holiday here. I'll probably get pissed the night before and be annoyed at the marching bands waking me up at 9 am in my hung over state.

May Day pwns. If I was any good at composing, I would compose May Day carols.

May Day pwns. If I was any good at composing, I would compose May Day carols.
Too right. lets smash up Mcdonalds together.

Best holiday ever.

IIRC, May 1st, aka Mayday is the International Worker's Day. Hmm.

I'm a socialist, but I live in the US(where it's Labor day), so there's not much for me to do in terms of celebration. My heart will be with my ideological brothers though.

May day?
Isnt that just the first of May?
Why are there marches?

And how is it the best holiday ever?

May day?
Isnt that just the first of May?
Why are there marches?

And how is it the best holiday ever?
International workers day.

Greens,Reds and Anarchists take to the streets and smash shit up. Its a great holiday cos unless your self-employed you know your boss is sweating like a pregnant nun in case his bently gets analized by the horde.

When I lived in England, we at the primary school would practice for a month or something to learn how to dance in a specific way around a mayday pole while holding attached ribbons so it would form patterns. The younger children would be in a procession and the whole village came out to watch and there was a carnival. What does that have to do with the workers?

And how is it the best holiday ever?

It's one of those rare holidays where you're actually remembering and celebrating something worth while: solidarity.

International workers day.

Greens,Reds and Anarchists take to the streets and smash shit up. Its a great holiday cos unless your self-employed you know your boss is sweating like a pregnant nun in case his bently gets analized by the horde.

k, just one more thing, you are aware March only started a coupla days ago, it's quite a while till May

And you are:
social democratic?
marxist?
anarchist?
syndicalist?
national-bolshevik?

Hell, even the Nazis celebrated May Day. In other words: who are your comrades?

It's one of those rare holidays where you're actually remembering and celebrating something worth while: solidarity.

Pffft, St. Patricks day>Mayday

Pffft, St. Patricks day>Mayday

Anything > A bunch of drunken Irish people

Anything > A bunch of drunken Irish people

What do you have against the Irish you racist prick. :upyours:

What do you have against the Irish you racist prick. :upyours:

Irish is a race all of a sudden? Anyway, they're Irish. 'Nuff said.

May Day's the worst holiday ever. It should be called International Hoodlum Day.

May Day's the worst holiday ever. It should be called International Hoodlum Day.

Why? Tends to be quite peaceful here.

May Day's the worst holiday ever. It should be called International Hoodlum Day.

:eek: My birthday is Mayday!

Mmmm...labor day. If they only gave the day off to college students, then I'd partake in that ancient and tried tradition of college students: Drinking.

Why? Tends to be quite peaceful here.

A lot of dictatorships and gangsters celebrate May Day.

A lot of dictatorships and gangsters celebrate May Day.

As they no doubt do Christmas or the Fourth of July.

May Day is a celebration of evil.

It's the day when communists and their criminal supporters seek to display their hatred for the natural order of humanity.

I personally would ban the event and I only wish that somewhere, we could see on our TV screens, tanks and APCs gunning down the communist barbarians who go to the streets on the 1st of May.

Communism is the most evil of ALL political ideologies, the only good communist/anarchist/socialist is a dead one.

Mayday is convientantly my birthday so I always celebrate it.

*snip*

I'm no fan of communism, but that's serious flamebait/flaming there. Might want to edit it.

k, just one more thing, you are aware March only started a coupla days ago, it's quite a while till May
People are selling Hot Cross Buns and were advertisig them in Febuarary?.

May Day is a celebration of evil.

It's the day when communists and their criminal supporters seek to display their hatred for the natural order of humanity.

I personally would ban the event and I only wish that somewhere, we could see on our TV screens, tanks and APCs gunning down the communist barbarians who go to the streets on the 1st of May.

Communism is the most evil of ALL political ideologies, the only good communist/anarchist/socialist is a dead one.
And you are a mediocretin.

And you are a mediocretin.

You are Romanian are you not?

Well for someone who grew up under the Romanian Communist tyranny-regime, Im really suprised that you would even allow these animals (communists) to have a national holiday, by which they can parade on the streets to display their filthy ideology.

Don't be fooled when those supporters of communism talk of 'freedom to protest/free speech' they only seek to exploit that for their own twisted ends.

Well isn't somebody a little bigotist today...:rolleyes:

You are Romanian are you not?

Well for someone who grew up under the Romanian Communist tyranny-regime, Im really suprised that you would even allow these animals (communists) to have a national holiday, by which they can parade on the streets to display their filthy ideology.

Don't be fooled when those supporters of communism talk of 'freedom to protest/free speech' they only seek to exploit that for their own twisted ends.
The talk about whether communism is a unitary phenomenon has been done to death. I think it is not, and much of what happened inside my country is proof of that.
I am not any kind of communist on principle. This does not mean that I feel a need to ban communism, especially Eurocommunism and Left Communism (both of which I mostly consider benign - ridiculous and certainly not my cup of tea, but benign).
I am, however, an advocate of Social Democracy. Not only have you included this into your diatribe against communism, which would also be factually wrong from 1,000 different point of views, you have also extended your terms to implicate that anyone advocating social concern is a traitor to mankind (and, supposedly, your country).

What do you have against the Irish you racist prick. :upyours:

Cooool.. off... Fass isn't much of a racist to my knowledge.

Igås Fass?

You are Romanian are you not?

Well for someone who grew up under the Romanian Communist tyranny-regime, Im really suprised that you would even allow these animals (communists) to have a national holiday, by which they can parade on the streets to display their filthy ideology.

Don't be fooled when those supporters of communism talk of 'freedom to protest/free speech' they only seek to exploit that for their own twisted ends.

FYI, mayday isn't a communist holiday. It's a very general workers holiday. For any worker pretty much. Yes, ANY worker.

And for some of you students :P Hah! I have free on mayday! (Go EU!)

not to mention that your view on communism seems to be heavily baised. I think you need a dose of socialism to cheer you up.

I'm sure that millions of people who suffered under communism would be THRILLED about the Mayday.

Seriously, I think it's one of those rare occations where police should be given permission to blow away anyone who steps out of line.

I'm sure that millions of people who suffered under communism would be THRILLED about the Mayday.

Seriously, I think it's one of those rare occations where police should be given permission to blow away anyone who steps out of line.

It's a holiday. Go out and have a drink. Stay at home and relax.

Make it what you want it to be.

I'm sure that millions of people who suffered under communism would be THRILLED about the Mayday.

Seriously, I think it's one of those rare occations where police should be given permission to blow away anyone who steps out of line.
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Note that Mayday wasn't just a generic workers' holiday, and especially popular with the Social-Democrats, it was also celebrated by the Nazis (without the socialist symbolism, that is). In itself, the word does not even spell Marxism, let alone communism.

May Day was created in solidarity with the US working class, and it is rather irritating that it is totally ignored in this country.

If we had an actual left in this country that sponsored May Day marches, I would most definitely participate.

Cooool.. off... Fass isn't much of a racist to my knowledge.
Igås Fass?

"Igås" is not a word in Swedish, so I don't know what you're trying to ask me.

Oook. well lots of communist flamers here. may your ass'es grow nipples that arouse your partners :)

Mayday marches show that communism COULD work if we all just tried. If most of the people who attended mayday marches suddenly we're dropped in the middle of an island, they'd make communism work so nerr.

Presumably, my local GMB of the IWW will be doing something, as we were chartered on May Day. There will also be a march downtown.

Oook. well lots of communist flamers here. may your ass'es grow nipples that arouse your partners :)

Mayday marches show that communism COULD work if we all just tried. If most of the people who attended mayday marches suddenly we're dropped in the middle of an island, they'd make communism work so nerr.
Can't you read?

May Day - it's been hijacked by recent political thinking.

It was originally a Celtic (pagan) holiday.

From
http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/5202/mayday.htm

May Day - it's been hijacked by recent political thinking.

It was originally a Celtic (pagan) holiday.

From
http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/5202/mayday.htm
Hijacked? That's not the word I'd use. Re-invented perhaps.

Anyway, I'm wondering about something. Do the fascist scum here think it's nice to live in our current societies?

Because if you don't, imagine how 99% of everyone would feel under the regimes you long for. Don't you think you might be better off buying an island somewhere & doing your own thing?

It's an excuse to get pissed. That is a good enough reason for me to celebrate it.

Of course the whole Communism thing is an added bonus.

As they no doubt do Christmas or the Fourth of July.
As the Fourth of July is one of those "regional American" things, I highly doubt that dictatorships get into it all that much.

"Igås" is not a word in Swedish, so I don't know what you're trying to ask me.

I am perfectly aware that it is not a word in swedish. I was testing to see if it would be understood however. It seems that is not the case.

For a translation: Right Fass?

As the Fourth of July is one of those "regional American" things, I highly doubt that dictatorships get into it all that much.

Oh, they do when they have been propped up by the US.

I am perfectly aware that it is not a word in swedish. I was testing to see if it would be understood however. It seems that is not the case.

For a translation: Right Fass?

If you mean to ask me that it is true that I am not a racist, then, well, what do you expect me to answer?

Oh, they do when they have been propped up by the US.Heh, I never knew that. And there's so few of the good ole indy dictators left in this world...

Oh, they do when they have been propped up by the US.
No, they still tend to avoid being overtly adoring of the US to their people.

Heh, I never knew that. And there's so few of the good ole indy dictators left in this world...

Yeah, sellouts the lot of them. Except maybe Castro, but he has been sniffing up the EU skirt lately...

No, they still tend to avoid being overtly adoring of the US to their people.

Overtness has very little do to with it - the CIA tries, although often fails, to make sure of that.

I'm not even leftist, but since I am a student of technology in a Finnish university, May Day is automatically kind of a big deal to me. Especially next one, because I'm a first year student, and it's then that I'll receive the teekkaribaptism, the teekkaricap, and most importantly, the right to refer to myself with the esteemed title of Teekkari.

"Wappu on teekkarin joulu". May Day is teekkari's Christmas.

May Day was created in solidarity with the US working class, and it is rather irritating that it is totally ignored in this country.

If we had an actual left in this country that sponsored May Day marches, I would most definitely participate.

There was a May Day march in New York last year organized by United For Peace and Justice. And there's the Million Worker March, but that's not in May.

Irish is a race all of a sudden? Anyway, they're Irish. 'Nuff said.
Good point. You're really more of a xenophobe.

May Day is a celebration of evil.

It's the day when communists and their criminal supporters seek to display their hatred for the natural order of humanity.
Capitalism is not natural. It is a human construct just like every other ideology.

I'm sure that millions of people who suffered under communism would be THRILLED about the Mayday.
Again, it's a worker's holiday, not a communist holiday.

Good point. You're really more of a xenophobe.

Yes, that's exactly what I am. Because I was so fully serious there. You know.

Capitalism is not natural. It is a human construct just like every other ideology.

Capitalism is powered by greed, and the desire to improve your own position in order to increase your chances to survive and spread your genes. The strong prosper, the weak suffer.

Certainly sounds more natural to me than sacrifing what's yours for the sake of those, who, in this great race of life, are ultimately your competitors. But you might argue if "more natural" always means "better".