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[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 232 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (5 children)

The next slogan dropping from the Department of Labor:
work makes you free

[–] ramble81@lemmy.zip 60 points 4 weeks ago

I’m honestly surprised it hasn’t.

[–] LemmyPlaceDN@europe.pub 27 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Very fitting when half the country is already like a forced labor camp

[–] nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

It’s way more than half. Between just Amazon and Walmart they employ 3.5 million.

And there are plenty of other shitty jobs besides those two.

[–] Malica@lemmy.zip 10 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

"We've always been at war with Canada"

[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 6 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Oh, shit! Are they renaming the DoD “The Department of Peace” now?

[–] DakRalter@thelemmy.club 2 points 4 weeks ago

Nah, that's too sissy and woke for Real Men™.

[–] Rooster326@programming.dev 3 points 4 weeks ago

There is no war in ~~Ba Sing Se~~ the Strait of Hormiz

[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 6 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Naw, that sounds too communist.

[–] boonhet@lemmy.zip 11 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

It does but arbeit macht frei was a nazi slogan and tbh it goes well for the bootstraps folks: "you just need to work harder for a better life" essentially.

[–] Tiresia@slrpnk.net 4 points 4 weeks ago

"Freedom takes work"

[–] SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 3 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Annoyingly, Nazis stole each one of their slogans. “Arbeit macht frei” is from the 1873 novel by Lorenz Diefenbach, in which gamblers and fraudsters find the path to virtue through labour, alluding to John 8:31–32.

[–] boonhet@lemmy.zip 2 points 4 weeks ago

Yeah they don't exactly have a lot of creativity of their own. But much like the swastika and certain tunes, it's now associated with nazis rather than its original source

[–] Sirdubdee@piefed.social 3 points 4 weeks ago

In corporate HR culture jargon, teamwork brings opportunities.