what are some left wing dog-whistles that would fly over a lib’s head but a fellow comrade would pick up on

my personal favorite is the Marx gun quote

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“There’s a specter haunting [insert place]”

“Political power grows from the barrel of a gun”

“I wonder how much ten yards of linen costs”

"What if we fire the boss and split their ‘salary’ "

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I don’t know that last one?

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Given the boss is the surplus value stealer and not just a intermediate manager. You know a funny way of saying, “fuck them let’s be a co-op, haha jk jk, unless…”

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Oh, I thought it was a specific reference that I was missing.

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38 points

What is to be done?

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“Look, Stalin wasn’t perfect, but…”

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“…lol kidding, he was”

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He shouldn’ta stopped at Berlin :(

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5 points

Beria. Shoulda purged Beria.

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Should’ve thrown Beria in a very deep hole, never to be seen again.

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Feel like anything about worker ownership works well. When talking to coworkers during the pandemic I pointed out “our bonuses got slashed this year, but executives get paid in stock and the stock went up this year. Why are we tightening the belt when we’re making their money?”

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i like to break down to co-workers how much of a check we’d get a week if even a fraction of our gross profit was just paid directly to us (it typically blows our hourly wages out of the water).

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I saw a tweet where a pizza place did that for a day to “show appreciation” and they were making like 78 dollars an hour.

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just saw that myself! i think our math worked out to about $1000 each extra a week if we split it evenly in my department. i have access to the financials so that’s minus costs. so +$25 an hour for each one of us.

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This is really eye opening in jobs where your labor is directly billed out to customers. As a mechanic my time was billed at $100/hr, and my latest job bills me at $150, this is just “labor” and I don’t even see a sixth of it!

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That sort of talk is the easiest way to initially get through to the trade profession types. Most of them are for the rewarding of hard work, and love to dump on management and the ultra rich

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