We're not going to have coal mines, but if the local Worker's Council and Party Cadre want me to move the heavy drill equipment as part of the project to convert fossil fuel power plants into geothermal plants, or mop the floors at the nuclear power plant or whatever, that's cool.

  • sempersigh [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    I've never met a self described communist with an earnest belief in astrology. It's almost always radlibs

  • Leon_Grotsky [comrade/them]
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    3 years ago

    Reactionaries will post this as an own, but like I would think it is a cool and good thing if someone walked up to me and said "You have a bullshit job, it would be a service to your community to train as an [XYZ Occupation]."

    • HumanBehaviorByBjork [any, undecided]
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      3 years ago

      yeah like, coal extraction is evil, but there are large parts of the country that are mired in poverty because the coal jobs they previously relied on just disappeared decades ago and nothing replaced them. how anyone could look at that and think "this is why central planning is bad" is beyond me

      • invalidusernamelol [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        The same people will believe all the propaganda about coal miner jobs pushed by the energy lobby.

      • Dangitbobby [none/use name]
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        3 years ago

        Money was allocated for retraining the unemployed coal miners a long time ago.

        None of it ever reached them.

  • bigbologna [she/her]
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    3 years ago

    Wow I would hate to be forced to undertake a shitty job that sucks, anyway my rent is due and all but one of my job applications got rejected

  • hexaflexagonbear [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Why is it always coal miners? Lol. There are 3 times as many college professors as there are coal miners in the US. 30 times as many software engineers as coal miners. Like even assuming a completely random assignment of jobs, the chances of a person becoming a coal miners is miniscule.

  • Des [she/her, they/them]
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    3 years ago

    i literally became a communist because of backbreaking blue collar labor, which i still do

  • Huldra [they/them, it/its]
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    3 years ago

    communists when they pee pee poo poo instead of being put in the infinite cum machine they all believe in

    • buh [she/her]
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      3 years ago

      communism is what we have now, but every street corner has an infinite cum machine

  • kristina [she/her]
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    3 years ago

    they act like there arent communists that already do that shit

  • jabrd [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    I would love to do manual labor under a political regime that actually regulated economic activity for my safety and end benefit. Like fuck all I want to do is farm work but not die from it because the hours are so shit and healthcare is unattainable

  • PZK [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Does the coal mine come with a fantastic pension? profit sharing? All expenses paid healthcare? Safe working conditions? Immense amounts of time off and work life balance? ...you know, things that they say are communist?

    Doesn't sound so bad to me.