fucking seriously? google the homestead strike for crying out loud. omg i cannot with this - ThreadSky

angryblacklady.bsky.social • 2 days ago

fucking seriously? google the homestead strike for crying out loud.

omg i cannot with this

Reposted from The Democratic Coalition

It's never good when the richest person in the world and the worst person in the world are the same person.

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nikkipotnick.bsky.social•2 days ago

Wasn't Carnegie one of the OG robber barons?

oldandcranky.bsky.social•2 days ago

Oh yes.

gorrlexa.bsky.social•2 days ago

The “Benevolent Robber Barons.”

formergregsamsa.bsky.social•2 days ago

People forget the only reason those rich fuckers in the 1900s did shit like building libraries and museums was so they wouldn't be murdered in the street.

anastacya.bsky.social•2 days ago

Or what their "Health" corps did in South America to help reinforce American interests.

anastacya.bsky.social•2 days ago

Sorry, this was Rockefeller, not Carnegie. Still, same ilk.

retro-faerie-tiff.bsky.social•2 days ago

Robber Barons be doing what they do. And it’s happening again.

pantslessendeavor.bsky.social•2 days ago

Cannot wait for the DNC to talk about Monty Burns from the Simpsons as a green job creator furthering the cause of reducing our carbon footprint and bringing up his plan to block out the sun as a 'unique and intriguing idea to address the threat of climate change'.

angryblacklady.bsky.social•2 days ago

Hahaha

pantslessendeavor.bsky.social•2 days ago

^_^

ringoosu.bsky.social•2 days ago

dude was trying to get into heaven

reclaimmi.bsky.social•2 days ago

This is why they keep losing elections

adamrenfro.bsky.social•2 days ago

Yeah, Rockefeller, Vanderbilt, Carnegie, Astor . . . all the robber barons tried to rehabilitate their legacies at the end of their lives by building mammoth structures . . . which, of course, had their names on them.

theactualtodd.bsky.social•2 days ago

*stares in Johnstown*

babewiththepower.bsky.social•2 days ago

Me, every time I see people saying this. Ultra rich people like that have never gotten that way through good means nor because of their good hearts.

caramandart.bsky.social•1 day ago

Wow. Homestead Strike Battle. Where people were deputized and armed to attack the union.

Outrage is only allowed in what rich people think should be. Working people will be blamed for the fallout of what the oligarchs start…

jensplaining.bsky.social•2 days ago

Did Mark Cuban write that?

j8ed.bsky.social•2 days ago

Underrated skeet

hpsc24.bsky.social•1 day ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xkgoRkC3pc

sadiebess.bsky.social•2 days ago

This is the second take I've seen in the last 24 hours that makes Carnegie out to be some kind of saint. FFS

richmahogany.bsky.social•2 days ago

We had a Carnegie library in my tiny hometown. And my father, an elementary school teacher, once remarked, “Every time I see it I think of how many people Carnegie crushed in order to be able to afford to some day give this town a library with his name on it.”

No wonder I ended up who I am lol.

algerianhiss.bsky.social•2 days ago

Deifying the Captains of Industry is like sayin Satan has a good heart

snarkysteff.bsky.social•2 days ago

I HAD NO IDEA ABOUT THAT! Oof. Thanks for the edumacatin'.

gregreedee.bsky.social•2 days ago

Just did 🤯

smadin.net•2 days ago

you do not under any circumstances "gotta hand it to" Andrew Carnegie just to make the point that Elon Musk is world-historically terrible

angryblacklady.bsky.social•2 days ago

seriously!

riotpoof1120.bsky.social•2 days ago

You really don't "have to hand it to" murderous strike-breakers.

majeff.bsky.social•2 days ago

https://bsky.app/profile/majeff.bsky.social/post/3liu6aftj2k2x

daviddaniel.bsky.social•2 days ago

I learned about the Homestead Strike in Howard Zinn's People's History, definitely not in school.

oldandcranky.bsky.social•2 days ago

Which everyone should read.

seentoomuch.bsky.social•2 days ago

Angry Goose Meme:

"Why did he build those museums, mother fucker?"

Oh, it's because everyone hated him and he needed some good PR.

feminazghul.bsky.social•1 day ago

And if Skum threw a few billion dollars at a Good Cause would that make him cool? Is there an acceptable misery:charity ratio the increasing numbers of boot-licking Carnegie-stan weirdos have dreamed up?

janhamcam.bsky.social•2 days ago

the "progressive coalition" apparently has no knowledge of the history of labor unions in the U.S.
that i am a member of a union and unsurprised by this explains a lot
jfc

narr8iv.bsky.social•2 days ago

If I stared into the middle distance any harder, it would light on fire. Tf?

hmullphoto.bsky.social•2 days ago

"The Sacklers: accountable for the destruction of millions of American lives and families for creating the opioid crisis, but they also created a lot of nice museum wings, like at The Guggenhiem, amirite?!" 🤣