Leftists demand that everyone use a demanded personal pronoun. What next, changing the week to five days? Wait...
The shrill demands by so-called "progressive" snowflakes that all of us must use whatever pronouns the snowflakes demand--replacing he/she with the demanded one from a choice that's now up to about 30--have become a standing joke among rational adults (those who aren't snowflakes).
It's a joke because rational adults can't imagine that any government could ram anything that crazy down the throats of the entire population.
If you believe changing the week to five days is something too nutty even for dictators, you won't believe something just as crazy that the communists who ran the Soviet Union already tried: They tried eliminating the seven-day week.
Really. In 1929 the USSR's dictatorial regime declared that from then on, week would have just five days--a policy called "nepreryvka." The new days didn't even have names, but were identified by colors or symbols. Saturday and Sunday vanished.
The ostensible reason given by the regime was that when everyone had Sundays off, machinery was idle that day. Production was lost. The faabulous new five-day week allowed the means of production to run non-stop. Workers got one of the five days off each week.
But the real motive is thought to have been to undermine religion: Without Sundays it would be hard to hold services. Also, the regime made it a state crime to miss a day’s work or be over 20 minutes late, with mandatory prison sentences, so no matter what day a church held a service, only 20% of the congregation could attend.
The system also made it harder on families, since a husband and wife rarely had the same day off. This may also have been one of the regime's planned outcomes, since abolishing the nuclear family always makes it easier to control a population.
But within two years it became clear that having different workers hold the same job (the regime called it "shared responsibilities") meant it was harder to hold workers accountable for mistakes. No one was responsible for anything. Sound familiar?
Despite the well-known problems, the faaabulous five-day-week system lasted for 11 years before finally being abolished on June 26, 1940.
One wag noted that the most likely reason for the regime giving up wasn't popular resentment or reduced accountability for mistakes, but simply that someone in the Politburo finally did the basic math: With just Sundays off, workers got 52 days off per year...but with the new, improved! five-day week, and one day off out of five, workers averaged 72 days off per year.
Rumors persist that some 8th-grade student pointed this out in 1929, but the regime's leaders simply refused to listen. "Nonsense," they said. "We're experts."
Sounds like our Democrat pols and open borders.
It's a joke because rational adults can't imagine that any government could ram anything that crazy down the throats of the entire population.
If you believe changing the week to five days is something too nutty even for dictators, you won't believe something just as crazy that the communists who ran the Soviet Union already tried: They tried eliminating the seven-day week.
Really. In 1929 the USSR's dictatorial regime declared that from then on, week would have just five days--a policy called "nepreryvka." The new days didn't even have names, but were identified by colors or symbols. Saturday and Sunday vanished.
The ostensible reason given by the regime was that when everyone had Sundays off, machinery was idle that day. Production was lost. The faabulous new five-day week allowed the means of production to run non-stop. Workers got one of the five days off each week.
But the real motive is thought to have been to undermine religion: Without Sundays it would be hard to hold services. Also, the regime made it a state crime to miss a day’s work or be over 20 minutes late, with mandatory prison sentences, so no matter what day a church held a service, only 20% of the congregation could attend.
The system also made it harder on families, since a husband and wife rarely had the same day off. This may also have been one of the regime's planned outcomes, since abolishing the nuclear family always makes it easier to control a population.
But within two years it became clear that having different workers hold the same job (the regime called it "shared responsibilities") meant it was harder to hold workers accountable for mistakes. No one was responsible for anything. Sound familiar?
Despite the well-known problems, the faaabulous five-day-week system lasted for 11 years before finally being abolished on June 26, 1940.
One wag noted that the most likely reason for the regime giving up wasn't popular resentment or reduced accountability for mistakes, but simply that someone in the Politburo finally did the basic math: With just Sundays off, workers got 52 days off per year...but with the new, improved! five-day week, and one day off out of five, workers averaged 72 days off per year.
Rumors persist that some 8th-grade student pointed this out in 1929, but the regime's leaders simply refused to listen. "Nonsense," they said. "We're experts."
Sounds like our Democrat pols and open borders.
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