May 1st is also "Loyalty Day" apparently.

[ВАЛТЕР]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loyalty_Day

Wow, I had no idea about this. It was apparently made to counterbalance the whole May Day movement.

[Conscript]

All I can say is: wow. Just wow

I knew america made a separate labor day, but this is just pathetic. 'Loyalty day', what a fucking joke.

[ColonelCossack]

That's almost like something you'd read about in 1984 or something.

[Zav]

That's almost like something you'd read about in 1984 or something.
Or North Korea.

[Sixiang]

It's also the feast day of St. Joseph. Pope John Paul II decided to make "St. Joseph the worker" have his feast day on May 1 to also instill a reactionary image for the day. He is pantron saint of workers and anti-communism because his "patience, obedience, and diligence" are examples of how a good worker should behave according to Catholic theology. The whole thing is disgusting, really.

[Krano]

Creepy.

[RedHal]

Or North Korea.

yeah cuz only crude propaganda happens in backwards North Korea, it doesn't happen in the sophisticated advanced USA, oh wait....

[Vyacheslav Brolotov]

I just love my country so much.

May Day originated from here=not only don't we celebrate it, but our government comes comes up with bullshit holidays just to distract the working class from it. Wonderful!!!

(Actually, most Americans don't even know about Loyalty Day and the few who do know about it don't really give a shit).

[Zav]

yeah cuz only crude propaganda happens in backwards North Korea, it doesn't happen in the sophisticated advanced USA, oh wait....
So where was I supporting the U.S.? All states have their propaganda. North Korea's is stereotypically bad, so I trolled a bit.